If God chooses a particular world of free will choices...
If God chose a particular world of free will choices, those free will choices will have to happen and not others.
But they are free will choices.
Figured into that world of free will choices is God's intervention as he saw needed to accomplish certain things or to limit certain things. This is the sovereignty of God. He can allow or limit free will as he sees fit. But I would think that he allows free will to mostly play out.
An example of limiting free will or redirecting it can be seen in the evil Joseph's brothers intended to do to Joseph, so that he ended up in Egypt, and he could be a savior to the family and provide the circumstances that would fulfill the prophecy to Abraham. This allowing and limiting of the evil of Joseph's brothers by God was how Joseph was able to soften the evil his brothers did by saying it was not they but God who sent him there. Joseph deflected the offense from them it seems to God, because of how God used it to accomplish his purposes. Man has free will, but God can choose to allow or limit it as he sees fit.
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