A Conditional Prophecy and Does God Send a Lying Spirit?
Will you please explain the following scriptures: Eze. 47:1, 12; 48:31? Please explain 1 Kings 22:23, concerning the “lying spirit.”
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Will you please explain the following scriptures: Eze. 47:1, 12; 48:31? Please explain 1 Kings 22:23, concerning the “lying spirit.”
“But God could, and we believe would, have worked out his purposes through other channels and by other means, ages ago, if his chosen people had fully carried out his will. We incline to think that one of these other channels is described in Ezekiel 38 and 39.”
“When this is done, then we shall have all of the substantial features of Ezekiel’s prophecy fulfilled, only in another manner. . . This is carrying out substantially the same purpose. . . only this is a dispensation later, and accomplished in a different manner.”
“Then we have there simply a description of the way in which God would have punished the enemies of his people, had the latter done what he proposed to them. As they did not thus do, those chapters never have been, and never are to be, fulfilled. But God’s purposes are not to be thwarted or marred in the least degree on this account. He changes his plan of action somewhat to suit the exigencies of the case…”
Will Sabbath-keepers of other countries be affected by the decree of the image which is formed in this country? Does Eze. 47:9,10 refer to the new-earth state? What is the meaning of 1 Cor. 15:29, and 1 Pet. 3:19, 20?