Late yet again but still wanted to contribute my thoughts;
In chapter 7 the last couple of pages stood out to me. “What God does in time, he planned from eternity. And all that he planned in eternity he carries out in time.” This is then followed by the idea of God repenting in scripture. I was amazed and fascinated by the idea that God’s repentance doesn’t mean that he hadn’t foreseen the reaction, that the event took him by surprise, and that it was not accounted for in his eternal plan. His eternal purpose remains the same, and this is so different to the repentance we know as humans.
Chapter 8 might be my favorite so far. I love how he used Isaiah 40 to walk us through God’s majesty. It’s beautiful how well Isaiah laid it out, and I would’ve never analyzed it in this way without Packer laying it out as such.
