Bob Hill
TOL Subscriber
God repented of stated harm because of Moses’ prayer
Ex 32:9-14 And the LORD said to Moses, “I have seen this people, and indeed it is a stiff-necked people! 10 Now therefore, let Me alone, that My wrath may burn hot against them and I may consume them. And I will make of you a great nation.” 11 Then Moses pleaded with the LORD his God, and said: “LORD, why does Your wrath burn hot against Your people whom You have brought out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand? 12 Why should the Egyptians speak, and say, ‘He brought them out to harm them, to kill them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth’? Turn from Your fierce wrath, and repent from this harm to Your people. 13 Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, Your servants, to whom You swore by Your own self, and said to them, ‘I will multiply your descendants as the stars of heaven; and all this land that I have spoken of I give to your descendants, and they shall inherit it forever.’” 14 So the LORD repented from the harm which He said He would do to His people.
If God was outside of time and saw the future actions of men, God could not ever be wrong. If the future actions of men are unknowable because they have not been decided, our all knowing God would not know them. They don’t exist. there is nothing to know.
God always exists in time. So what? Time is no restraint to Him like it is to us. We need to sleep some time. He doesn’t. We grow old. He doesn’t. Most of us have clocks to punch, deadlines to keep and other time oriented responsibilities. He doesn’t. Time is no burden to God. Time is just the distance between 2 events. Since God could control every event, time is no burden to Him at all. He created this whole universe. We haven’t even discovered the end of the universe. How long did He take to create it? It seems like it was instantaneous. Wow, what a God. Don’t worry about time having any effect on Him. God is in control.
Safe in the God of time,
Bob Hill
Ex 32:9-14 And the LORD said to Moses, “I have seen this people, and indeed it is a stiff-necked people! 10 Now therefore, let Me alone, that My wrath may burn hot against them and I may consume them. And I will make of you a great nation.” 11 Then Moses pleaded with the LORD his God, and said: “LORD, why does Your wrath burn hot against Your people whom You have brought out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand? 12 Why should the Egyptians speak, and say, ‘He brought them out to harm them, to kill them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth’? Turn from Your fierce wrath, and repent from this harm to Your people. 13 Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, Your servants, to whom You swore by Your own self, and said to them, ‘I will multiply your descendants as the stars of heaven; and all this land that I have spoken of I give to your descendants, and they shall inherit it forever.’” 14 So the LORD repented from the harm which He said He would do to His people.
If God was outside of time and saw the future actions of men, God could not ever be wrong. If the future actions of men are unknowable because they have not been decided, our all knowing God would not know them. They don’t exist. there is nothing to know.
God always exists in time. So what? Time is no restraint to Him like it is to us. We need to sleep some time. He doesn’t. We grow old. He doesn’t. Most of us have clocks to punch, deadlines to keep and other time oriented responsibilities. He doesn’t. Time is no burden to God. Time is just the distance between 2 events. Since God could control every event, time is no burden to Him at all. He created this whole universe. We haven’t even discovered the end of the universe. How long did He take to create it? It seems like it was instantaneous. Wow, what a God. Don’t worry about time having any effect on Him. God is in control.
Safe in the God of time,
Bob Hill