Post by PopeADope on May 8, 2016 19:20:49 GMT
"... Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown." (Jonah 3:4)
The prophecy did not take place because the people amended their ways.
The prophet Isaiah came to him and advised Hezekia, “Set your house in order, for you shall die, and not live” (2 Kings 20:1). He wept, repented, and pleaded to God. God healed him and he lived another 15 years.
It is possible for a person to get God to change His mind:
Exodus 32:
7And the Lord said unto Moses, Go, get thee down; for thy people, which thou broughtest out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves:
..... I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:
10Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may wax hot against them, and that I may consume them: and I will make of thee a great nation.
11And Moses besought the Lord his God, and said, Lord, why doth thy wrath wax hot against thy people, which thou hast brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power, and with a mighty hand?
12Wherefore should the Egyptians speak, and say, For mischief did he bring them out, to slay them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth? Turn from thy fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against thy people.
13Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, thy servants, to whom thou swarest by thine own self, and saidst unto them, I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken of will I give unto your seed, and they shall inherit it for ever.
14And the Lord repented of the evil which he thought to do unto his people.
So, Moses acted like an attorney before the judge and presented multiple reasons why he should reconsider, be lenient, and simply change His mind. And He did
Another interesting point is the wedding of Cana. Jesus didn't want to work His first miracle there as He said his time had not come, neither was he concerned that people were running out of intoxicating beverage. He reluctantly supplied more wine because His mother asked him to. So, God seems to be encouraging us to try to get him, through prayer, to do what He doesn't intend to do or what He doesn't even want to do.
The Parable of the Persistent Widow
18 Then Jesus told his disciples a parable to show them that they should always pray and not give up. 2 He said: “In a certain town there was a judge who neither feared God nor cared what people thought. 3 And there was a widow in that town who kept coming to him with the plea, ‘Grant me justice against my adversary.’
4 “For some time he refused. But finally he said to himself, ‘Even though I don’t fear God or care what people think, 5 yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will see that she gets justice, so that she won’t eventually come and attack me!’”
6 And the Lord said, “Listen to what the unjust judge says. 7 And will not God bring about justice for his chosen ones, who cry out to him day and night? Will he keep putting them off?"
The interesting thing is, the judge in the parable did not fear God or care about people. He did so reluctantly because the woman was bothering him and he even began to feel threatened by her.
The prophecy did not take place because the people amended their ways.
The prophet Isaiah came to him and advised Hezekia, “Set your house in order, for you shall die, and not live” (2 Kings 20:1). He wept, repented, and pleaded to God. God healed him and he lived another 15 years.
It is possible for a person to get God to change His mind:
Exodus 32:
7And the Lord said unto Moses, Go, get thee down; for thy people, which thou broughtest out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves:
..... I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:
10Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may wax hot against them, and that I may consume them: and I will make of thee a great nation.
11And Moses besought the Lord his God, and said, Lord, why doth thy wrath wax hot against thy people, which thou hast brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power, and with a mighty hand?
12Wherefore should the Egyptians speak, and say, For mischief did he bring them out, to slay them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth? Turn from thy fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against thy people.
13Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, thy servants, to whom thou swarest by thine own self, and saidst unto them, I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken of will I give unto your seed, and they shall inherit it for ever.
14And the Lord repented of the evil which he thought to do unto his people.
So, Moses acted like an attorney before the judge and presented multiple reasons why he should reconsider, be lenient, and simply change His mind. And He did
Another interesting point is the wedding of Cana. Jesus didn't want to work His first miracle there as He said his time had not come, neither was he concerned that people were running out of intoxicating beverage. He reluctantly supplied more wine because His mother asked him to. So, God seems to be encouraging us to try to get him, through prayer, to do what He doesn't intend to do or what He doesn't even want to do.
The Parable of the Persistent Widow
18 Then Jesus told his disciples a parable to show them that they should always pray and not give up. 2 He said: “In a certain town there was a judge who neither feared God nor cared what people thought. 3 And there was a widow in that town who kept coming to him with the plea, ‘Grant me justice against my adversary.’
4 “For some time he refused. But finally he said to himself, ‘Even though I don’t fear God or care what people think, 5 yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will see that she gets justice, so that she won’t eventually come and attack me!’”
6 And the Lord said, “Listen to what the unjust judge says. 7 And will not God bring about justice for his chosen ones, who cry out to him day and night? Will he keep putting them off?"
The interesting thing is, the judge in the parable did not fear God or care about people. He did so reluctantly because the woman was bothering him and he even began to feel threatened by her.
