[annalex]

predestination and free will are not mutually exclusive

Of course not. God's predestination is based on the foreknowledge of our freely willed acts.

[Alamo-Girl]

God's predestination is based on the foreknowledge of our freely willed acts.

In my view, we mortals have a persistent tendency to see things on an arrow of time, i.e. past>present>future.

That is probably because as mortals we are merely observers "in" space/time, traveling along a short worldline from our physical birth to our physical death.

That is our observer problem as mortals.

But of a truth, God has no such limitation.

And there may be more than one dimension of time. What we consider as a line could be a plane or volume.

The moment may be far more than we could guess.

To God be the glory, not man, never man.