PREDESTINATION
(from the Greek “proorizõ”, “mark in advance, predetermine”). In Ro. 8:29, 30 forms a link in the chain that connects God’s foreknowledge in the past with glory in the future.
Election is God’s appointment of individuals; predestination is a blessing (cf. Eph. 1:5, 11, where believers are predestined to be adopted children, according to God’s purpose).
Predestination does not imply that God has marked some for wrath. In reality, God’s desire is “that all men may be saved and come to the knowledge of the truth” (1 Tim. 2:4).
To ensure that some are, He predestined, called, justified, and glorified them in His sovereign counsel (cf. Rom. 8:29, 30).