PREDESTINATION, what it means?

To understand what it means, we have to look first at the reason why the ancient world had an inherent interest in the cosmic language. First of all they understood the balance that coexisted in the forces or entities governing the laws of energies and the consequences in the event that chaos, personified in the forces of darkness, were in control. One of the first things that ancient civilizations wanted to do was to ensure a coherent society, and the harvesting and planting of crops, through the establishment of an accurate calendar of cosmic events.
Most of the early calendars were lunar "monthly" calendars, but slipped the seasonal "planting" year by 11 days. It means that any unbalance produced in that braked of time were against the ancient rulers who had a clear control and understanding how this cosmic language worked. It sounded like the end of a civilization, or the end of a kingdom, and so on. No land to continue 'planting' the seeds of their rule.
Predestination is the teaching that GOD has, from all eternity, freely determined whatsoever shall come to pass. We find this in the Scriptures in the Book of Ephesians, chapter 1, ".... having been predestined according to His purpose ..."
We can see His plan when on May 28, 585 BC, the earliest sun eclipse recorded as being known in advance of its occurrence, happened at the Battle of Halys.
The civilizations involved in the conflict were the Hittites and the Medes. The two were crucial in the development of Israel.
The Kizilirmak (Turkish for "Red River") or Halys (name in Ancient Greek), is the longest River in Turkey among the Rivers which originate and end in Turkey. Generally speaking it symbolizes the world power that come and goes between civilizations. This was the place where the solar eclipse took place. The conflict was interfering with the predestination of events that had to take place in order to continue GOD's plan. Hittites and Medes, who were God fearers, immediately stopped the war and agreed to marry the forces of destiny through their own children. Cyrus the Great, ruler of Persia's Achaemenid Empire came as a descendand of that specific union of powers.
GOD showed his immense power through the solar eclipse to these powerful civilizations and they understood the meaning, they, instead of continue the war and blocking the power, they resolved in letting peace to work the destiny.

What you need to know about THE BIBLE.

It is the sacred text of the Judaism, Christianity and Islam. The sacred text consists of two portions : the TANAKH, which is the original three-part of the sacred book known to Christians as the Old Testament, and the NEW TESTAMENT.
TANAKH, or Old Testament, consists of 24 BOOKS, divided into three parts : the Torah, the Nevi'im (or Prophets), and the Ketuvim (or writings). The majority of this part  of the sacred book was first written in Hebrew, and originated in Mesopotamia between the twelfth and second centuries BCE.
The Torah, which means "Instruction" or "Law," consists of Five Books : Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy.
The Nevi'im, which means "Prophets," is an historical account of the Jewish history, including the stories of the Prophets important to Judaism. It consists of Eight Books : Joshua, Judges, Samuel, Kings, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and Twelve.
The Ketuvim consists of later "writings," some of which are attributed to King David, King Solomon, and the Prophet Jeremiah. There are Eleven Books : Psalms, Proverbs, Job, Song of Songs, Ruth, Lamentations, Ecclesiastes, Esther, Daniel, Ezra, and Chronicles.

In the Christian version, the TANAKH represents the OLD TESTAMENT. It is the first of the two main sections of the Bible. In the second par, the NEW TESTAMENT, the writings are almost exclusive to the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.  Jesus makes reference to the stories of the Old Testament and to its Laws.
The Old Testament contains the same writings as the TANAKH, though it is ordered differently and merges some Books together, while dividing others.
The New Testament consists of 27 BOOKS, though some divisions within the body of Christianity have a disagreement on which Books should be included. The majority of the writings were written in Koine Greek, and was composed during the First Century CE.
The New Testament consists of Five main parts : the Gospels, the Acts of the Apostles (the Early Church), the Letters of Paul (the Epistles), other Letters, and the Prophetic Book (the Revelation).
A sixth part, called the Apocrypha, consists of writings that were once valued, but are no longer considered to be a part of the New Testament given to the fact of disagreement between groups of fellow Christians who didn't want to include the Apocrypha in their cannon.
In Islam, the sacred writings of the Scripture is believed to have originated as revelation from GOD and has significant value. Muslims believe that the Sacred Writings has become so distorted over time that it no longer effectively conveys DIVINE REVELATIONS and is subject to misinterpretations.

INTUITION and MEDITATION

Intuition often called our sixth sense is the gut feeling that guides our perceptions. It is the basic of our nature that lies within us all. It is the hunches and insight we gain not from information but from the feel of a situation.
Intuition comes from a place very deep inside that is connected somehow to our own consciousness. It is compared like a tree of very deep root connected to levels way far from the ground and at the same time connected to the surface through its trunk and leaves.
Intuition requires a focused, receptive, non-judging state of mind in order to act and connect to our consciousness.

Meditation is a practice of quieting the mind and shifting from our normal state of awareness to a more focused and internal state of awareness. The changing levels of awareness corresponds to the different wave frequencies of the brain that act with it. We define these changes in frequencies as  brain states.
There are four basic states, which we all experience everyday:
- Beta is the brain state we are in during our typical daily activities.
- Alpha is the sate that occurs when our body is deeply relaxed but our brain still maintains a sharp and
   focused awareness.
- Theta states are deeper, more relaxed, where we lose our sense of being in a physical body and our          
   brain produces visions that seem as if we are living them.
   We naturally experience Theta states every day just before falling asleep and just before waking from
   sleep. It also can be induced through meditation.
- Delta state is our typical sleep state.

The ACACIA tree, why it was chosen as a building material for the ARK of COVENANT?

The civilization of EGYPT spans back thousands of years to the days when the last great glaciers in the world were melting (10,000 BC). Hebrews were the ones who were exploited by them.
At that time spirituality played a huge role in the lives of both groups and this is depicted in the hieroglyphs that the Egyptians have left behind on the walls of their tombs and the narrative in the Scriptures in the book of Exodus in which the Hebrews are being liberated by GOD through Moses, from the Egyptian's hand.
The Egyptians were using the mighty power that the Hebrews had, given the fact that they were the chosen ones in which the power  of GOD manifested directly. However, Hebrews fall from the special status in which they were and were just conforming themselves with the way of life in the Egyptian world because of the lack of faith in their own GOD.
The ACACIA tree is the best symbol of the spiritual body that the Hebrews needed to form in order to surpass the power of the Egyptian world.
The ACACIA wood is mentioned 12 times in the Scriptures. Acacia wood is dense and extremely strong. It is a low (humble) desert tree with an impressive umbrella shaped canopy. The canopy is formed by several equal sized branches originate from one point at the soil surface. They grow outward symmetrically in all directions, at an angle of 30 degrees from the perpendicular, and create an inverted cone.
The type of spiritual body that the Hebrews needed to conform was designed by the nature of the tree itself. The tree was known for its deep roots and grew in places where the water was at great depths and exploited water stores with which other plants cannot compete.
The Egyptians were not powerful enough to reach this resources because their hearts were entrenched in the things that belonged to the physical pleasure. The Hebrews were the opposite. They were capable to choose GOD and their heart were powerful enough to reach these waters of wisdom as long as their faith and hope were really strong.
Then they could be compared as the Acacia wood, which is often mentioned in the Scriptures in the book of Exodus, in reference to objects used in the construction of the Tabernacle and in its use in the construction of the ARK of the COVENANT.
The use of this ACACIA wood resulted in the fact that this material endured for a long time. The Tabernacle was used for the next 400 years, eventually finding a resting place within the Temple in Jerusalem constructed during the reign of Solomon.