DOES THE CREATOR REPENT? (Part 6)
2 – The Creator always desire to relent from all evil that is necessary to come on His servants, as we can see below:
Psalms 135.14:
• (Darby) For Jehovah will judge his people, and will repent in favour of his servants.
• (MKJV) For Jehovah will judge His people, and He will have pity on His servants.
• (ESV) For the LORD will vindicate his people and have compassion on his servants.
For this, the Creator judge His people so that they can repent, convert and, thus, He can find place in their heart to personify His pity (compassion) and favor (grace) in behalf of His servants, as well as vindicate His people.
So, when the Creator desire to save His people, He bring some situation that will induce them to break down their heart in total contrition.
He arises a prophet to admonish and exhort His people:
• Joel 2.13,14 -> ““and rend your hearts and not your garments.” Return to the LORD your God, for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love; and he relents over disaster. Who knows whether he will not turn and relent, and leave a blessing behind him, a grain offering and a drink offering for the LORD your God?”.
And, after, when their heart is opened to His mercy and grace, He comfort Himself using them to carry out His salvation:
• Psalms 106:44-46 -> “Nevertheless he regarded their distress, When he heard their cry: and he remembered for them his covenant, And repented according to the multitude of his lovingkindnesses. He made them also to be pitied of all those that carried them captive.”.
But, there are some cases that the Creator desire to make someone fall (see Ezekiel 3:20), as it was the case of Amaziah and Ahab:
• 2Ch 25:16 -> “But as he was speaking, the king said to him, “Have we made you a royal counselor? Stop! Why should you be struck down?” So the prophet stopped, but said, “I know that God has determined to destroy you, because you have done this and have not listened to my counsel.”
• 2Ch 25:20 -> “But Amaziah would not listen, for it was of God, in order that he might give them into the hand of their enemies, because they had sought the gods of Edom.”
• 1Ki 22:20-23 -> “and the LORD said, ‘Who will entice Ahab, that he may go up and fall at Ramoth-gilead?’ And one said one thing, and another said another. Then a spirit came forward and stood before the LORD, saying, ‘I will entice him.’ And the LORD said to him, ‘By what means?’ And he said, ‘I will go out, and will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.’ And he said, ‘You are to entice him, and you shall succeed; go out and do so.’ Now therefore behold, the LORD has put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these your prophets; the LORD has declared disaster for you.”.
This also took place in Israel in the time of David (as we saw in the foregoing topic).
It is the sin to death:
• 1Jn 5:16,17 -> “If any man see his brother sin a sin which is not unto death, he shall ask, and he shall give him life for them that sin not unto death. There is a sin unto death: I do not say that he shall pray for it. All unrighteousness is sin: and there is a sin not unto death.”.
Tomorrow we will keep on.
Have a splendid day.
2 – The Creator always desire to relent from all evil that is necessary to come on His servants, as we can see below:
Psalms 135.14:
• (Darby) For Jehovah will judge his people, and will repent in favour of his servants.
• (MKJV) For Jehovah will judge His people, and He will have pity on His servants.
• (ESV) For the LORD will vindicate his people and have compassion on his servants.
For this, the Creator judge His people so that they can repent, convert and, thus, He can find place in their heart to personify His pity (compassion) and favor (grace) in behalf of His servants, as well as vindicate His people.
So, when the Creator desire to save His people, He bring some situation that will induce them to break down their heart in total contrition.
He arises a prophet to admonish and exhort His people:
• Joel 2.13,14 -> ““and rend your hearts and not your garments.” Return to the LORD your God, for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love; and he relents over disaster. Who knows whether he will not turn and relent, and leave a blessing behind him, a grain offering and a drink offering for the LORD your God?”.
And, after, when their heart is opened to His mercy and grace, He comfort Himself using them to carry out His salvation:
• Psalms 106:44-46 -> “Nevertheless he regarded their distress, When he heard their cry: and he remembered for them his covenant, And repented according to the multitude of his lovingkindnesses. He made them also to be pitied of all those that carried them captive.”.
But, there are some cases that the Creator desire to make someone fall (see Ezekiel 3:20), as it was the case of Amaziah and Ahab:
• 2Ch 25:16 -> “But as he was speaking, the king said to him, “Have we made you a royal counselor? Stop! Why should you be struck down?” So the prophet stopped, but said, “I know that God has determined to destroy you, because you have done this and have not listened to my counsel.”
• 2Ch 25:20 -> “But Amaziah would not listen, for it was of God, in order that he might give them into the hand of their enemies, because they had sought the gods of Edom.”
• 1Ki 22:20-23 -> “and the LORD said, ‘Who will entice Ahab, that he may go up and fall at Ramoth-gilead?’ And one said one thing, and another said another. Then a spirit came forward and stood before the LORD, saying, ‘I will entice him.’ And the LORD said to him, ‘By what means?’ And he said, ‘I will go out, and will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.’ And he said, ‘You are to entice him, and you shall succeed; go out and do so.’ Now therefore behold, the LORD has put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these your prophets; the LORD has declared disaster for you.”.
This also took place in Israel in the time of David (as we saw in the foregoing topic).
It is the sin to death:
• 1Jn 5:16,17 -> “If any man see his brother sin a sin which is not unto death, he shall ask, and he shall give him life for them that sin not unto death. There is a sin unto death: I do not say that he shall pray for it. All unrighteousness is sin: and there is a sin not unto death.”.
Tomorrow we will keep on.
Have a splendid day.