Derf
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I see you are more concerned with the details of the scenario than you are with the logical conundrum it illustrates. Feel free to recast the story in terms of some dramatic future ecclesiastical event in which god lets it be known in advance what will occur, but someone subverts that by doing something different than god said. If god ain’t so good at predicting what I am gonna write, then just maybe we all got a surprise coming when we find god also missed the call on who’s gonna win in the end. Maybe Satan wins after all.
Satan would like you to think that, or even just consider that. Sometimes God's plan was altered by God when He saw repentance, if His plan was to bring judgment (like at Nineveh). Or it was altered by God when the subject would not obey (like King Saul).
He even tells us this is a possibility:
[Jer 18:7 NASB] "At one moment I might speak concerning a nation or concerning a kingdom to uproot, to pull down, or to destroy [it;]
[Jer 18:8 NASB] if that nation against which I have spoken turns from its evil, I will relent concerning the calamity I planned to bring on it.
[Jer 18:9 NASB] "Or at another moment I might speak concerning a nation or concerning a kingdom to build up or to plant [it;]
[Jer 18:10 NASB] if it does evil in My sight by not obeying My voice, then I will think better of the good with which I had promised to bless it.