2 Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off. 3 Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways.
Such passages do not require God to know the whole future in advance, glorydaz!
Again, we aren't suggesting that God is dumb or anything like that. We're simply saying that the idea that God knows absolutely everything there is to know, especially about future events, goes well beyond what the biblical material can support.
What happens is that people have this idea about God in their head and when they read passages like what you quoted above, they read that idea into the text and make it say more than what it actually says.
You mean those prophecies that haven’t come true YET or men haven’t realized?
No. I mean the prophecies that God made that did not come to pass and that cannot ever come to pass. There are several of them (See below).
One of these days we will see that every single word spoken by God through the prophets come to pass.
No, Glorydaz, that is false. It's a nice thing to believe but it simply isn't the truth.
We are but ants looking out into the vastness that is God. I want to understand every single word written in the BIBLE. Someday we will.
A terrific sentiment that I genuinely applaud. I recommend placing a filter in your mind that attempts to simply read the words on the page and takes passages to mean what they explicitly say and understand that much BEFORE making any attempt to interpret what it might be alluding to or what symbolism is present or any other such thing. Make the PLAIN READING
primary. That's not to say that there aren't valid ways to read between the lines or that there isn't rich symbolism to explore but simply that all such things take a back seat to what the text plainly states. If your doctrine cannot survive the plain reading of the text then, at the very least, there is good reason to have concerns about that doctrine's validity.
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Prophesies that did not come to pass.....
"Thus says the Holy Spirit, 'So shall the Jews at Jerusalem bind the man who owns this belt...' Now when we heard these things, both we and those from that place pleaded with him not to go up to Jerusalem"
Acts 21:11-12; Hezekiah was sick and near death and Isaiah the prophet went to him and said, "Thus says the Lord: 'Set your house in order for you shall die and not live.' Then [Hezekiah] turned his face toward the wall, and prayed to the Lord, saying, "Remember now, O Lord, I pray, how I have walked before You in truth and with a loyal heart, and have done what was good in Your sight." And Hezekiah wept bitterly. And it happened, before Isaiah had gone out into the middle court, that the word of the Lord came to him, saying, "Return and tell Hezekiah the leader of My people, 'Thus says the Lord, the God of David your father: "I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears; surely I will heal you." ' "
2 Kings 20:1-5 and
Isa. 38:1-5; Moses
Ex. 33:15-16.
God says He will "without fail" cast out the Canaanites, Jebusites, etc., but a generation later because of Israel's rebellion, God says that He will
not cast them out
Josh. 3:10 and
Deut. 7:17-20,
22-24 with
Deut. 7:1,
23,
Jud. 2:1,
20-23,
3:5,
10;
Ex. 32:10;
33:2,
3;
Deut. 12:29;
Judges 2:3;
10:13. God issues prophecies against Tyre and then reveals that the prophecy will not come to pass (and certainly not in its various details)
Ezek. 26:12;
29:18; see there regarding Egypt also.
God prophesied to David by way of
the ephod that Saul was on his way and, as to whether the men of Keilah would betray him to Saul, "the Lord said, 'They will deliver you.' " So David departed from there and, "Then it was told Saul that David had escaped from Keilah; so he halted the expedition"
1 Sam. 23:9-13 and the Keilahites never delivered David to Saul; Nebuchadnezzar himself did not take Tyre nor did he receive the spoils as prophesied
Ezek. 29:18 Ezekiel prophesies that Nebuchadnezzar will take Egypt
Ezek. 29:19 but compared to the rest of sacred and profane history, Nebuchadnezzar never conquered Egypt; many scriptures indicate that Jesus would return soon after His departure, such that the apostles would not have time to go through the cities (villages) of Israel before Jesus returns
Mat. 10:23; that
some standing there
may not die until they see the Son of Man returning in power in His kingdom
Mat. 16:28 (not referencing the Transfiguration, because that occurred almost immediately); the apostle John might have remained alive until Christ's return
John 21:23; [the near Second Coming explains the otherwise seeming reckless teachings of "Sell what you have"
Luke 12:33; "And everyone who has left houses... or lands, for My name's sake"
Mat. 19:29. "do not worry about your life, what you will eat"
Luke 12:22. The "ravens... neither sow nor reap" yet "God feeds them"
Luke 12:24; "Provide neither gold nor silver nor copper in your moneybelts"
Mat. 10:9; "Sell all that you have and distribute to the poor, and... come, follow Me"
Luke 18:22;] the generation Jesus was speaking to would not pass until the tribulation and Second Coming prophecies took place
Mat. 24:34; yet God had warned He may not give Israel their kingdom as prophesied for "the instant I speak concerning a nation and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it, if it does evil in My sight so that it does not obey My voice [such as in rejecting their resurrected Messiah], then I will repent concerning the good with which I said I would benefit it"
Jer. 18:9-10; thus God views the end times calendar as changeable, "I, the LORD, will hasten it in its time"
Isa. 60:22; and even the saints can change the time of Christ's return as Peter wrote that believers too should set about "hastening the coming of the day of God"
2 Peter 3:12; and even the length of the tribulation will change as Jesus said that, "those days will be shortened"
Mat. 24:22; [so expecting Christ's soon return therefore, in early Acts, the converts of the Lord, of Peter, and of the rest of the Twelve, sold their homes and their land
Acts 4:34-35;
5:1-2; (but the converts of the one sent to the Gentiles, the apostle Paul, did not sell their homes or fields for from them He raised relief
1 Cor. 16:1–4;
2 Cor. 8:1-9:15;
Gal. 2:10;
Rom. 15:25–31;
Acts 11:27–30;
24:17 for the believers who had sold their homes]; and like the shortening of the tribulation, the three days of God's punishment were cut short, for "Thus says the Lord: '... choose... seven years of famine... Or... flee three months before your enemies... Or... three days' plague..." And David said... "Please let us fall into the hand of the Lord, for His mercies are great..." So the Lord sent a plague upon Israel from the morning till the appointed time [i.e., of the evening sacrifice]. And when the angel stretched out His hand over Jerusalem to destroy it, the Lord repented from the destruction and said to the angel who was destroying the people, "It is enough; now restrain your hand." ... Then David spoke to the Lord when he saw the angel who was striking the people and said, "Surely I have sinned and I have done wickedly but... what have they done? ... So the Lord heeded the prayers for the land, and the plague was withdrawn from Israel."
2 Sam. 24:12-17, 25; the prophecy of expelling the pagan nations from the promised land would not be fulfilled as it had been prophesied
Josh. 3:10 with
Deut. 7:1,
23,
Jud. 2:1,
20-23,
3:5,
10;
Ex. 32:10;
33:2,
3;
Deut. 12:29;
Judges 2:3;
10:13; God issues prophecies against Tyre and then reveals that the prophecy did not come to pass (and certainly not in its various details)
Ezek. 26:12. [See also
Jer. 18:6-10.]
- the above is quoted directly from
OpenTheism.org
www.biblegateway.com
