What is the significance of Jeremiah 18:7–11?
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Verse: Jeremiah 18
The Lord states that “if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, turns from its evil, I will change my mind about the disaster that I intended to bring on it.” But if a nation…
What is the significance of Jeremiah 19:5?
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Verse: Jeremiah 19
The Lord says that Israel has “gone on building the high places of Baal to burn their children in the fire as burnt offerings to Baal, which I did not command or decree, nor did…
What is the significance of Jeremiah 26:2–3?
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Verse: Jeremiah 26
The Lord tells Jeremiah to prophesy to Israel that they should repent, for “I may change my mind about the disaster that I intend to bring on [Israel] because of their evil doings.” It is…
What is the significance of Jeremiah 26:19?
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Verse: Jeremiah 26
“Did [Hezekiah] not fear the Lord and entreat the favor of the Lord, and did not the Lord change his mind about the disaster that he had pronounced against [Israel]?” As in 2 Kings 20:1–6…
What is the significance of Jeremiah 32:35?
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Verse: Jeremiah 32
As in Jeremiah 19:5, the Lord expresses his dismay over Israel’s paganism by saying they did this “though I did not command them, nor did it enter my mind that they should do this abomination.”…
What is the significance of Jeremiah 36:1-6
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Verse: Jeremiah 36
The Lord has Jeremiah write his prophecy on a scroll, telling him, “Perhaps when the people of Judah hear about every disaster I plan to inflict on them, they will each turn from their wicked…
What is the significance of Jeremiah 38:17–18, 20–21, 23?
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Verse: Jeremiah 38
The Lord prophesies to Zedekiah, “If you will only surrender to the officials of the king of Babylon” the city and his family would be spared, but “if you do not surrender” the city and…
What is the significance of Jeremiah 42:9-16?
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Verse: Jeremiah 42
Through Jeremiah the Lord tells Israel “If you stay in this land, I will build you up and not tear you down; I will plant you and not uproot you, for I have relented concerning…
What is the significance of Ezekiel 12:1–3?
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Verse: Ezekiel 12
The Lord has Ezekiel symbolically enact Israel’s exile as a warning and remarks, “Perhaps they will understand, though they are a rebellious house” (vs. 3). Though Israel repeatedly surprised God by their persistent rebellion, he…
What is the significance of Ezekiel 22:29–31?
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Verse: Ezekiel 22
The Lord says he “sought for” someone to stand in the breech for Israel “but I found none.” Hence Israel experienced the wrath of God. If everything that shall ever come to pass is eternally…
What is the significance of Ezekiel 33:13–15?
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Verse: Ezekiel 33
“[W]hen I say to the righteous he will surely live, and he so trusts in his righteousness that he commits iniquity, none of his righteous deeds will be remembered…he will die. But when I say…
What is the significance of Hosea 8:5?
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Verse: Hosea 8
The Lord asks, “How long will they [Israel] be incapable of innocence?” The Lord’s continual striving with Israel regarding their lack of innocence suggests that this question was not merely rhetorical. If God knows the…
What is the significance of Hosea 11:8–9?
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Verse: Hosea 11
After plotting severe judgment against Israel (vs. 5–7) the Lord says, “My heart recoils within me; my compassion grows warm and tender. I will not execute my fierce anger… I will not come in wrath.”…
What is the significance of Joel 2:13–14?
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Verse: Joel 2
“Return to the Lord your God, for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love, and relents from punishing. Who knows whether he will not turn and relent, and leave…
What is the significance of Amos 7:1–6?
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Verse: Amos 7
The Lord revealed a judgment he was planning to bring on Israel to Amos in a vision. Amos prayed “O Lord God, forgive, I beg you!” (vs. 2). Scripture declares that, “The Lord relented concerning…
What is the significance of Jonah 1:2; 3:2, 4–10; 4:2?
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Verse: Jonah 1, Jonah 3, Jonah 4
God “changed his mind” (3:10) about the destruction he planned to carry out on Nineveh. If all events in history are eternally settled and known by God as such, his word to Jonah that he…
What is the significance of Matthew 25:41?
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Verse: Matthew 25
The Lord teaches that on the judgment day he will say to the wicked, “Depart from me into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels…” Hell was expressly prepared for “the devil…
What is the significance of Matthew 26:39?
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Verse: Matthew 26
Jesus threw himself on the ground and prayed, “My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from me; yet not what I want but what you want.” Scripture indicates that much about the…
What is the significance of Acts 15:7?
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Verse: Acts 15
At the Jerusalem council, “Peter stood up and said to them, ‘My brothers, you know that in the early days God made a choice among you, that I should be the one through whom the…
What’s the significance of Acts 17:26-27?
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Verse: Acts 17
This passage is frequently cited by determinists, for Paul here states that God “marked out” the “appointed times in history and the boundaries” of nations (Ac. 17:26). This doesn’t entail omni-control on God’s part, however….