The King James Version of the Bible says that God repented of the evil that he had said that he would do to Nineveh. Does this accurately describe what God did? THe New Century Bible says that he changed his mind. The NIV says that he relented. What we need to know here is that God's judgment always comes with a condition. "If at any time I announce that a nation or kingdom is to be uprooted, torn down and destroyed, and if that nation I warned repents of its evil, then I will relent and not inflict on it the disaster I had planned." Jeremiah 18:7-8 Too often we quote 2 Chronicles 7:14 saying that God will heal our land if we repent but that may be true only because God is a merciful God and not because of what we did. Our repentance does not guarantee healing, only God's mercy does that.
Just thinking.
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