Do all prophecies have to be fulfilled?
People talk a lot about end times and how this has to be fulfilled/take place, and that has to be fulfilled/take place before Yeshua returns - but is it true?
Jonah didn't want to go to Nineveh and then when he did, and they repented, and
Jon 3:10 And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil, that he had said that he would do unto them; and he did it not.
Jonah got mad and:
Jon 4:2 And he prayed unto the LORD, and said, I pray thee, O LORD, was not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I fled before unto Tarshish: for I knew that thou art a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repentest thee of the evil.
In that verse "And he prayed" is interesting. "And he prayed" is:
pâlal
paw-lal'
A primitive root; to judge (officially or mentally); by extension to intercede, pray: - intreat, judge (-ment), (make) pray (-er, -ing), make supplication.
Jonah "judged" that God is "a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repentest thee of the evil" while he was yet in his country.
Did Nineveh understand those truths about God? Maybe not. Maybe that's why Jonah was mad - the people of Nineveh might've looked at him as a false prophet.
But when it comes down to it, it's not about Jonah. It's about God: "a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repentest thee of the evil"
So when people say this has to be fulfilled/take place and that has to be fulfilled/take place before Yeshua returns, is it true?
Do all prophecies have to be fulfilled?
But ...Yeshua did say:
Mat 5:17-18 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. (18) For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
But it is written:
Jer 18:7-10 At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy it; (8) If that nation, against whom I have pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them. (9) And at what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it; (10) If it do evil in my sight, that it obey not my voice, then I will repent of the good, wherewith I said I would benefit them.
Any thoughts? Insights? Rebuttals?
People talk a lot about end times and how this has to be fulfilled/take place, and that has to be fulfilled/take place before Yeshua returns - but is it true?
Jonah didn't want to go to Nineveh and then when he did, and they repented, and
Jon 3:10 And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil, that he had said that he would do unto them; and he did it not.
Jonah got mad and:
Jon 4:2 And he prayed unto the LORD, and said, I pray thee, O LORD, was not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I fled before unto Tarshish: for I knew that thou art a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repentest thee of the evil.
In that verse "And he prayed" is interesting. "And he prayed" is:
pâlal
paw-lal'
A primitive root; to judge (officially or mentally); by extension to intercede, pray: - intreat, judge (-ment), (make) pray (-er, -ing), make supplication.
Jonah "judged" that God is "a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repentest thee of the evil" while he was yet in his country.
Did Nineveh understand those truths about God? Maybe not. Maybe that's why Jonah was mad - the people of Nineveh might've looked at him as a false prophet.
But when it comes down to it, it's not about Jonah. It's about God: "a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repentest thee of the evil"
So when people say this has to be fulfilled/take place and that has to be fulfilled/take place before Yeshua returns, is it true?
Do all prophecies have to be fulfilled?
But ...Yeshua did say:
Mat 5:17-18 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. (18) For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
But it is written:
Jer 18:7-10 At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy it; (8) If that nation, against whom I have pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them. (9) And at what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it; (10) If it do evil in my sight, that it obey not my voice, then I will repent of the good, wherewith I said I would benefit them.
Any thoughts? Insights? Rebuttals?