Yes I am not disagreeing with this. I am only saying that God knows what our actions will be beforehand, and He knows what His reaction will be and so He knows the future that will be formed in this way until a person’s death. And this goes for all people.
Within Catholicism, there are two major camps on this. One is the Thomist view of God’s future knowledge. It states that God necessarily knows all things to happen in the future, for if God didn’t know all things in the future, His omniscience would be limited, therefore meaning there is a limitation in God. Here is Aquinas on this: " for since God’s act of understanding, which is His being, is measured by eternity; and since eternity is without succession, comprehending all time, the present glance of God extends over all time, and to all things which exist in any time, as to objects present to Him." Source
And, " Since as was shown above, God knows all things; not only things actual but also things possible to Him and creature; and since some of these are future contingent to us, it follows that God knows future contingent things." Source
The second camp is what is called Molinism. It is a way to explain how God know’s all things in the future without ordaining them. But in my view, Molinism doesn’t give the best explanations, and Thomism not only uses the best philosophy to answer the question of God knowing the future, but answers with the aid of Scripture and Tradition backing it more thoroughly. Here is the Summa on the God’s knowledge. I recommend giving it a read.
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