Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!apple!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: bgsuvax!kutz@cis.ohio-state.edu (Kenneth J. Kutz) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: False prophets Message-ID: Date: 14 Sep 90 04:50:50 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: Bowling Green State University B.G., Oh. Lines: 40 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu In article , rjb@akgua.att.com (Robert J Brown) writes: > [There has been some question about whether a prophet can make > mistakes in his predictions and still be a prophet. Jonah was > mentioned, in that he resisted God. But doing that still isn't > an error in his prophecy. --clh] > The bottom line is Jonah said (in his prophetic role) "Yet 40 days > and Nineveh will be overthrown" (KJV). It did not happen. Nineveh > repented from the King on down to the cows. By the Torah definition > of Prophet isn't Jonah a false prophet ? Did Jonah speak truth? The Hebrew word for "overthrown" in the Old Testament can literally mean overturned. In other words, moving in one direction and then, phhhhhhhhttt, spin around and be overturned in the other direction. The same word is used in the Old Testament of a plate being overturned. After Jonah made this proclamation, here is the account of what happened: "By the decree of the king and his nobles:" ... "let man and beast be covered with sackcloth. Let everyone call urgently on God. Let them ----->----->----->-----+ give up their evil ways and their violence..." R E P E N T A N C E | ..."When God saw what they did AND HOW THEY -----<-----<-----<-----+ TURNED FROM THEIR EVIL WAYS, he had compassion on them and did not bring upon them the destruction he had threatened." So we must ask, was Nineveh overturned within 40 days? Absolutely. The US will receive its overturning. I pray that it will be the kind that Ninevah experienced. (I don't have a concordance at work, but there is a passage in the Old Testament where the Lord explains that if a nation repents between a proclamation to being overturned and the spoken date, he will be merciful to that nation. Either way, the nation is still overturned. One is brought about by repentance, the other by judgement.) -- Kenneth J. Kutz Internet kutz@andy.bgsu.edu Systems Programmer BITNET KUTZ@ANDY University Computer Services UUCP ...!osu-cis!bgsuvax!kutz Bowling Green State Univ. US Mail 238 Math Science, BG OH 43403