extending back to the birth of Christ, as though he were an afterthought to all the history of Israel from which he sprang. Rather, they see Jesus and his mystical Body the Church as being in the Plan of God from the very start since he is God and was God from all eternity and he therefore orchestrated it all from “before the foundation of the world” (John 1:1; Ephesians 1:4). This fact of Jesus’ eternal divine existence from before all worlds is The Thing that throws a completely new light on the