Tim Maas Supporter Retired Quality Assurance Specialist with the U.S. Army

God's core nature and eternal purposes are unchanging. However, His case-by-case specific actions can be responsive to temporal human choices and circumstances.

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Donna Williams Supporter

Dear Anonymous, in context with this particular passage of scripture. Balak, who was the king of Moab wanted Balaam to curse the children of Israel. But he was forbidden to do so, because of the word that the LORD had put in his mouth.

When the Lord makes a promise, it cannot be reversed. 

Now there are times when He will relent from the judgment that He has pronounced upon those who are in rebellion or the wicked. For example, God repented/relented of His course of action against the Ninevites when they humbled themselves through fasting, because of the judgment that the prophet Jonah pronounced against their wickedness. 

The Lord showed His mercy towards the Ninevites because of the repentance of their sins!

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Leslie Coutinho Supporter

Numbers 23:19: God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? Or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?

When the Lord brought Abraham out from the land of Ur of the Chal’-dees, he came to the land of Canaan. There was a famine in the land, and he went down into Egypt, where Sarah, his wife, was commended and was taken to be in Pharaoh's house. The Lord then plagued Pharaoh and his household, for he then sent them away, and they left Egypt. (Gen 12:5,10,15,17,20,15:7) Abraham, who was childless at the time with his wife Sarah, the Lord came to him in a vision. Lord God then spoke to Abraham, saying, “He who shall come forth out of thine own bowels, shall then be like the stars of heaven that you shall not be able to number them. For then thy seed descendants shall be strangers in a land (Egypt) that is not theirs and shall serve the inhabitants of the land for four hundred years. In the fourth generation, they shall come hither again to the promised land.” (Gen 15:1-5,13,16,18-21) Abraham's grandson, the prince who then had power with God, was no longer called “Jacob, but Israel, who then were fruitful and multiplied and filled the land of Egypt.” (Gen 32:28/Exo 1:7) 

Moses, who was born in the land of Egypt and then raised by Pharaoh’s daughter, when he grew up later fled and dwelt in the land of Midian. The land that was named after Abraham’s third wife, Keturah, who was sent eastward, whose son’s name was Midian. (Exo 2:15/Gen 25:1-2) The angel of the Lord then appeared in the flames of fire to Moses, and God the Father called out to him from the midst of the bush. The Lord then said unto him, "I have seen the affliction of My People who are in Egypt. I have come down to deliver them and bring them out into a good land. I will send you, unto Pharaoh to bring My people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt." (Exo 3:2,4,7,8,10) What was revealed unto Abraham came to pass, for then Moses brought them out of Egypt through the Red Sea to the Arabian Peninsula. God the Father then came down on the top of Mount Si’-nai, and called Moses to come up to Him. The Lord God then said, “I will send an Angel before you, beware of Him and obey His voice.” (Gen 15:16/Exo 19:20/23:21) 

God the Father sent His Angel, and Moses was told to obey His voice, provoke Him not, for He will not pardon your transgression. The Lord then descended in a cloudy pillar and stood at the door of the tabernacle. Moses was not allowed to see His face, for He said, “For there shall no man see me, and live.” This Angel had God the Father’s name in Him, that was, the Rock that followed them, and the Rock was Christ. (Exo 23:21,33:2,9,19-23/1 Cor 10:4) The Rock that stood before them and walked before them, Moses was told to speak to the Rock before their eyes of the congregation, and He shall give forth His water. Moses did not obey; he struck the Rock twice, and the water came abundantly for the congregation. Moses was then told that he would not bring this congregation into the land which "He, the Lord,” had given them. (Num 20:8,11-12) God the Father then sent Moses and Elijah to witness our Lord Jesus when He was on the mount with His disciples. Lord Jesus was transfigured before them who then witnessed Him, to testify of His second coming. (Mat 17:3,5/Rev 11:3) 

2 Samuel 24:16: And when the angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it, the Lord repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed the people, It is enough: stay now thine hand. And the angel of the Lord was by the threshing place of A-rau’-nah the Jeb’-u-site.

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