God knows what volition occur earlier it happens. He sees the large picture. He has no argue to alter His mind.
“God is non a man, that He should lie, nor a boy of man, that He should alter His mind.” Numbers 23:19
However, the even out of Jonah seems to hold upward a contradiction to this truth. God said He’d destroy Nineveh, only He "relented" together with didn't destroy them (Jonah 3:10).(1)
However, if nosotros accept a closer await nosotros realize He didn't actually alter His hear because this type of alarm has weather explained inward Jeremiah 18:7-8:
"If at whatsoever fourth dimension I denote that a acre or kingdom is to hold upward uprooted, torn downwards together with destroyed, together with if that acre I warned repents of its evil, thus I volition relent together with non inflict on it the disaster I had planned."
God would receive got carried out His excogitation to destroy an unrepentant Nineveh.
But the Ninevites repented together with the alarm no longer applied to them. They became recipients of God's unchanging hope to forgive together with present mercy to those who plough to Him.
In similar manner, God warns every human being together with adult woman that nosotros volition instruct to hell because we've all sinned together with “the reward of sin is death” (Romans 3:23; Romans 6:23).
But when nosotros repent together with plough to Christ, that alarm no longer applies (John 3:16).
God doesn't alter His mind. His wrath against the wicked stands theater (John 3:36). But His mercy toward the believer every mo good stands firm.
Depend on it!
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(1) Do you lot know why Jonah tried to piece of occupation away? See Jonah 4:2.
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