“Honestly I feel it was too harsh on the man of
God. Haba now, could he have known he was being lied to? " I'm a prophet like you," the old man replied,
"and an angel spoke to me and delivered this message from the LORD: 'Bring
him back with you to your house and give him food and water.'" But he was
lying 1Kgs 13:18(ISV) Why punish
him with death? "This is
what the LORD says: 'Because you disobeyed a command from the LORD … but
instead you returned to eat and drink in the very place that he told you
"Eat no food and drink no water," your body will not be buried in the
same grave as your ancestors.'"1Kgs 13:21-22(ISV) ”
I need you to
understand something about the integrity of God. Would you believe a total
stranger who claims to have a contrary instruction to your father’s clear word?
“You mean he should have asked God first?”
It’s good you
recognise he should not have swallowed it at face value. It would have been out
of character for God to reverse himself like that.
“But God does reverse Himself sometimes. God told
Hezekiah
'Put your house in order, because you are
going to die. You won't recover Is 38:1(ISV) but after "I've heard
your prayer and I've seen your tears; so I will add fifteen years to your life Is 38:5(ISV). God reverses Himself when men repent.”
You didn’t
get my point. Prophecy can be reversed, but God
preserves the integrity of the prophet by announcing the reversal through him. Where
you quoted showed God sent Isaiah with the message of death and sent him back with
the reversal.
“Is
that what happens all the time in scripture?”
As far as I know; in both old and new testaments. God
warned through Paul. "Men, I see
that during this voyage there will be hardship and a heavy loss not only of the
cargo and ship, but also of our lives." Act 27:10(ISV). Later God
said: But now I urge you to
have courage because there will be no loss of life among you, but only loss of
the ship Act 27:22(ISV)
through the same Paul. God spoke to
Ahab through Elijah: Now pay
attention! I'm going to send evil in your direction! I will completely sweep
you away and eliminate from Ahab every male, whether indentured servant or
free, throughout Israel1Kgs
21:21(ISV),
and it is through the same Elijah (not Elisha or one of the sons of the
prophets) that God announces when Ahab repented "Have you
noticed that Ahab has humbled himself in my presence? Because he has humbled
himself in my presence, I will not bring his evil to harvest during his
lifetime, but I will bring evil to his household during his son's
lifetime." 1Kgs
21:29(ISV). You
will see the same trend in Joshua and Amos (Jos7:12;
8:1; Amos7:1-6). Jonah refused to announce his.
“Is
that so? Is it not pride or presumption on our part to insist on this?”
I ask: when the Spirit had expressly urged him to go to Jerusalem how
else did Paul disregard those who said to him not to go? (Acts20:22; 21:4, 12) Be not deceived.
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