Is God interacting with people in real sequence?

As you read these verses jot down thoughts and observations. In light of this reading answer the questions found
at the end of the document.

Gene 1:31 (NASU) God saw all that He had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there
was morning, the sixth day.

Gene 6:5 (NASU) Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth, and that every intent of
the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
6 The Lord was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart.

Gene 8:14 (NASU) In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry.
15 Then God spoke to Noah, saying,
16 "Go out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and your sons' wives with you.

Gene 8:20 (NASU) Then Noah built an altar to the Lord, and took of every clean animal and of every clean bird
and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

Gene 8:21 (NASU) The Lord smelled the soothing aroma; and the Lord said to Himself, "I will never again curse
the ground on account of man, for the intent of man's heart is evil from his youth; and I will never again destroy
every living thing, as I have done.
Gene 9:1 (NASU) And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the
earth.

Gene 11:6 (NASU) The Lord said, "Behold, they are one people, and they all have the same language. And this is
what they began to do, and now nothing which they purpose to do will be impossible for them.

Gene 11:7 (NASU) "Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, so that they will not understand one
another's speech."

Gene 11:8 (NASU) So the Lord scattered them abroad from there over the face of the whole earth; and they
stopped building the city.

Gene 12:1 (NASU) Now the Lord said to Abram,

"Go forth from your country,
And from your relatives
And from your father's house,
To the land which I will show you;
2 And I will make you a great nation,
And I will bless you,
And make your name great;
And so you shall be a blessing;

Gene 13:12 (NASU) Abram settled in the land of Canaan, while Lot settled in the cities of the valley, and moved
his tents as far as Sodom. 13 (NASU) Now the men of Sodom were wicked exceedingly and sinners against the
Lord. 14 (NASU) The Lord said to Abram, after Lot had separated from him, "Now lift up your eyes and look from
the place where you are, northward and southward and eastward and westward; 15 (NASU) for all the land which
you see, I will give it to you and to your descendants forever.

Gene 17:15 (NASU) Then God said to Abraham, "As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, but
Sarah [shall be] her name.

Gene 17:16 (NASU) "I will bless her, and indeed I will give you a son by her. Then I will bless her, and she shall be
[a mother of] nations; kings of peoples will come from her."

Gene 17:20 (NASU) "As for Ishmael, I have heard you; behold, I will bless him, and will make him fruitful and will
multiply him exceedingly. He shall become the father of twelve princes, and I will make him a great nation.

Gene 17:21 (NASU) "But My covenant I will establish with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you at this season next
year."

Gene 17:22 (NASU) When He finished talking with him, God went up from Abraham.

Gene 18:10 (NASU) He said, "I will surely return to you at this time next year; and behold, Sarah your wife will
have a son." And Sarah was listening at the tent door, which was behind him.

Gene 18:11 (NASU) Now Abraham and Sarah were old, advanced in age; Sarah was past childbearing.

Gene 18:12 (NASU) Sarah laughed to herself, saying, "After I have become old, shall I have pleasure, my lord
being old also?"

Gene 18:13 (NASU) And the Lord said to Abraham, "Why did Sarah laugh, saying, `Shall I indeed bear [a child],
when I am [so] old?'

Gene 18:15 (NASU) Sarah denied [it] however, saying, "I did not laugh"; for she was afraid. And He said, "No, but
you did laugh."

Gene 18:16 (NASU) Then the men rose up from there, and looked down toward Sodom; and Abraham was
walking with them to send them off.

Gene 18:17 (NASU) The Lord said, "Shall I hide from Abraham what I am about to do,

Gene 18:20 (NASU) And the Lord said, "The outcry of Sodom and Gomorrah is indeed great, and their sin is
exceedingly grave.

Gene 18:21 (NASU) "I will go down now, and see if they have done entirely according to its outcry, which has
come to Me; and if not, I will know."

Gene 18:23 (NASU) Abraham came near and said, "Will You indeed sweep away the righteous with the wicked?

Gene 18:24 (NASU) "Suppose there are fifty righteous within the city; will You indeed sweep [it] away and not
spare the place for the sake of the fifty righteous who are in it?

Gene 18:25 (NASU) "Far be it from You to do such a thing, to slay the righteous with the wicked, so that the
righteous and the wicked are [treated] alike. Far be it from You! Shall not the Judge of all the earth deal justly?"

Gene 18:26 (NASU) So the Lord said, "If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare the whole
place on their account."

Gene 19:11 (NASU) They struck the men who were at the doorway of the house with blindness, both small and
great, so that they wearied [themselves trying] to find the doorway.

Gene 19:13 (NASU) for we are about to destroy this place, because their outcry has become so great before the
Lord that the Lord has sent us to destroy it."

Gene 19:24 (NASU) Then the Lord rained on Sodom and Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of
heaven,

Gene 22:1 (NASU) Now it came about after these things, that God tested Abraham, and said to him, "Abraham!"
And he said, "Here I am."

Gene 22:2 (NASU) He said, "Take now your son, your only son, whom you love, Isaac, and go to the land of
Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I will tell you."

Gene 22:5 (NASU) Abraham said to his young men, "Stay here with the donkey, and I and the lad will go over
there; and we will worship and return to you."

Gene 22:5 (NASU) Abraham said to his young men, "Stay here with the donkey, and I and the lad will go over
there; and we will worship and return to you."

Gene 22:10 (NASU) Abraham stretched out his hand and took the knife to slay his son.

Gene 22:11 (NASU) But the angel of the Lord called to him from heaven and said, "Abraham, Abraham!" And he
said, "Here I am."

Gene 22:11 (NASU) But the angel of the Lord called to him from heaven and said, "Abraham, Abraham!" And he
said, "Here I am."

Gene 22:12 (NASU) He said, "Do not stretch out your hand against the lad, and do nothing to him; for now I know
that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from Me."
Gene 22:15 (NASU) Then the angel of the Lord called to Abraham a second time from heaven,

Gene 22:15 (NASU) Then the angel of the Lord called to Abraham a second time from heaven,

Gene 22:16 (NASU) and said, "By Myself I have sworn, declares the Lord, because you have done this thing and
have not withheld your son, your only son,

Gene 22:17 (NASU) indeed I will greatly bless you, and I will greatly multiply your seed as the stars of the heavens
and as the sand which is on the seashore; and your seed shall possess the gate of their enemies.

Gene 22:18 (NASU) "In your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed, because you have obeyed My
voice."

Gene 18:20 (NASU) And the Lord said, "The outcry of Sodom and Gomorrah is indeed great, and their sin is
exceedingly grave.

Gene 18:21 (NASU) "I will go down now, and see if they have done entirely according to its outcry, which has
come to Me; and if not, I will know."

Gene 18:23 (NASU) Abraham came near and said, "Will You indeed sweep away the righteous with the wicked?

Gene 18:24 (NASU) "Suppose there are fifty righteous within the city; will You indeed sweep [it] away and not
spare the place for the sake of the fifty righteous who are in it?

Gene 18:25 (NASU) "Far be it from You to do such a thing, to slay the righteous with the wicked, so that the
righteous and the wicked are [treated] alike. Far be it from You! Shall not the Judge of all the earth deal justly?"

Gene 18:26 (NASU) So the Lord said, "If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare the whole
place on their account."

Gene 19:11 (NASU) They struck the men who were at the doorway of the house with blindness, both small and
great, so that they wearied [themselves trying] to find the doorway.

Gene 19:13 (NASU) for we are about to destroy this place, because their outcry has become so great before the
Lord that the Lord has sent us to destroy it."

Gene 19:24 (NASU) Then the Lord rained on Sodom and Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of
heaven,

Gene 22:1 (NASU) Now it came about after these things, that God tested Abraham, and said to him, "Abraham!"
And he said, "Here I am."

Gene 22:2 (NASU) He said, "Take now your son, your only son, whom you love, Isaac, and go to the land of
Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I will tell you."

Gene 22:5 (NASU) Abraham said to his young men, "Stay here with the donkey, and I and the lad will go over
there; and we will worship and return to you."

Gene 22:5 (NASU) Abraham said to his young men, "Stay here with the donkey, and I and the lad will go over
there; and we will worship and return to you."

Gene 22:10 (NASU) Abraham stretched out his hand and took the knife to slay his son.

Gene 22:11 (NASU) But the angel of the Lord called to him from heaven and said, "Abraham, Abraham!" And he
said, "Here I am."

Gene 22:11 (NASU) But the angel of the Lord called to him from heaven and said, "Abraham, Abraham!" And he
said, "Here I am."

Gene 22:12 (NASU) He said, "Do not stretch out your hand against the lad, and do nothing to him; for now I know
that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from Me."

Gene 22:15 (NASU) Then the angel of the Lord called to Abraham a second time from heaven,

Gene 22:15 (NASU) Then the angel of the Lord called to Abraham a second time from heaven,

Gene 22:16 (NASU) and said, "By Myself I have sworn, declares the Lord, because you have done this thing and
have not withheld your son, your only son,

Gene 22:17 (NASU) indeed I will greatly bless you, and I will greatly multiply your seed as the stars of the heavens
and as the sand which is on the seashore; and your seed shall possess the gate of their enemies.

Gene 22:18 (NASU) "In your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed, because you have obeyed My
voice."
Gene 46:1 (NASU) So Israel set out with all that he had, and came to Beersheba, and offered sacrifices to the God
of his father Isaac.

Gene 46:2 (NASU) God spoke to Israel in visions of the night and said, "Jacob, Jacob." And he said, "Here I am."

Gene 46:3 (NASU) He said, "I am God, the God of your father; do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for I will
make you a great nation there.

Gene 46:4 (NASU) "I will go down with you to Egypt, and I will also surely bring you up again; and Joseph will
close your eyes."

Exod 3:7 (NASU) The Lord said, "I have surely seen the affliction of My people who are in Egypt, and have given
heed to their cry because of their taskmasters, for I am aware of their sufferings.

Exod 3:8 (NASU) "So I have come down to deliver them from the power of the Egyptians, and to bring them up
from that land to a good and spacious land, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanite
and the Hittite and the Amorite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite.

Exod 3:9 (NASU) "Now, behold, the cry of the sons of Israel has come to Me; furthermore, I have seen the
oppression with which the Egyptians are oppressing them.

Exod 3:11 (NASU) But Moses said to God, "Who am I, that I should go to Pharaoh, and that I should bring the sons
of Israel out of Egypt?"

Exod 3:12 (NASU) And He said, "Certainly I will be with you, and this shall be the sign to you that it is I who have
sent you: when you have brought the people out of Egypt, you shall worship God at this mountain."

Exod 3:13 (NASU) Then Moses said to God, "Behold, I am going to the sons of Israel, and I will say to them, `The
God of your fathers has sent me to you.' Now they may say to me, `What is His name?' What shall I say to
them?"

Exod 3:21 (NASU) "I will grant this people favor in the sight of the Egyptians; and it shall be that when you go, you
will not go empty-handed.

Exod 4:1 (NASU) Then Moses said, "What if they will not believe me or listen to what I say? For they may say,
`The Lord has not appeared to you.' "

Exod 4:1 (NASU) Then Moses said, "What if they will not believe me or listen to what I say? For they may say,
`The Lord has not appeared to you.' "

Exod 4:2 (NASU) The Lord said to him, "What is that in your hand?" And he said, "A staff."
Exod 4:3 (NASU) Then He said, "Throw it on the ground." So he threw it on the ground, and it became a serpent;
and Moses fled from it.

Exod 14:1 (NASU) Now the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

Exod 14:2 (NASU) "Tell the sons of Israel to turn back and camp before Pi-hahiroth, between Migdol and the sea;
you shall camp in front of Baal-zephon, opposite it, by the sea.

Exod 14:13 (NASU) But Moses said to the people, "Do not fear! Stand by and see the salvation of the Lord which
He will accomplish for you today; for the Egyptians whom you have seen today, you will never see them again
forever.

Exod 14:14 (NASU) "The Lord will fight for you while you keep silent."
Exod 14:15 (NASU) Then the Lord said to Moses, "Why are you crying out to Me? Tell the sons of Israel to go
forward.

Exod 14:16 (NASU) "As for you, lift up your staff and stretch out your hand over the sea and divide it, and the sons
of Israel shall go through the midst of the sea on dry land.

Exod 3:7 (NASU) The Lord said, "I have surely seen the affliction of My people who are in Egypt, and have given
heed to their cry because of their taskmasters, for I am aware of their sufferings.

Exod 3:8 (NASU) "So I have come down to deliver them from the power of the Egyptians, and to bring them up
from that land to a good and spacious land, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanite
and the Hittite and the Amorite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite.

Exod 3:9 (NASU) "Now, behold, the cry of the sons of Israel has come to Me; furthermore, I have seen the
oppression with which the Egyptians are oppressing them.

Exod 3:11 (NASU) But Moses said to God, "Who am I, that I should go to Pharaoh, and that I should bring the sons
of Israel out of Egypt?"

Exod 3:12 (NASU) And He said, "Certainly I will be with you, and this shall be the sign to you that it is I who have
sent you: when you have brought the people out of Egypt, you shall worship God at this mountain."

Exod 3:13 (NASU) Then Moses said to God, "Behold, I am going to the sons of Israel, and I will say to them, `The
God of your fathers has sent me to you.' Now they may say to me, `What is His name?' What shall I say to
them?"

Exod 3:21 (NASU) "I will grant this people favor in the sight of the Egyptians; and it shall be that when you go, you
will not go empty-handed.

Exod 4:1 (NASU) Then Moses said, "What if they will not believe me or listen to what I say? For they may say,
`The Lord has not appeared to you.' "

Exod 4:1 (NASU) Then Moses said, "What if they will not believe me or listen to what I say? For they may say,
`The Lord has not appeared to you.' "

Exod 4:2 (NASU) The Lord said to him, "What is that in your hand?" And he said, "A staff."
Exod 4:3 (NASU) Then He said, "Throw it on the ground." So he threw it on the ground, and it became a serpent;
and Moses fled from it.

Exod 14:1 (NASU) Now the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

Exod 14:2 (NASU) "Tell the sons of Israel to turn back and camp before Pi-hahiroth, between Migdol and the sea;
you shall camp in front of Baal-zephon, opposite it, by the sea.

Exod 14:13 (NASU) But Moses said to the people, "Do not fear! Stand by and see the salvation of the Lord which
He will accomplish for you today; for the Egyptians whom you have seen today, you will never see them again
forever.

Exod 14:14 (NASU) "The Lord will fight for you while you keep silent."

Exod 14:15 (NASU) Then the Lord said to Moses, "Why are you crying out to Me? Tell the sons of Israel to go
forward.

Exod 14:16 (NASU) "As for you, lift up your staff and stretch out your hand over the sea and divide it, and the sons
of Israel shall go through the midst of the sea on dry land.

Gene 22:1 (NASU) Now it came about after these things, that God tested Abraham, and said to him, "Abraham!"
And he said, "Here I am."

Exod 16:4 (NASU) Then the Lord said to Moses, "Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you; and the people
shall go out and gather a day's portion every day, that I may test them, whether or not they will walk in My
instruction.

Exod 32:5 (NASU) Now when Aaron saw [this], he built an altar before it; and Aaron made a proclamation and
said, "Tomorrow [shall be] a feast to the Lord."
6 So the next day they rose early and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people sat
down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play.
7 Then the Lord spoke to Moses, "Go down at once, for your people, whom you brought up from the land of
Egypt, have corrupted [themselves].
8 "They have quickly turned aside from the way which I commanded them. They have made for themselves a
molten calf, and have worshiped it and have sacrificed to it and said, `This is your god, O Israel, who brought you
up from the land of Egypt!' "
9 The Lord said to Moses, "I have seen this people, and behold, they are an obstinate people.
10 "Now then let Me alone, that My anger may burn against them and that I may destroy them; and I will make
of you a great nation."
11 Then Moses entreated the Lord his God, and said, "O Lord, why does Your anger burn against Your people
whom You have brought out from the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand?
12 "Why should the Egyptians speak, saying, `With evil [intent] He brought them out to kill them in the
mountains and to destroy them from the face of the earth'? Turn from Your burning anger and change Your
mind about [doing] harm to Your people.
13 "Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, Your servants to whom You swore by Yourself, and said to them, `I will
multiply your descendants as the stars of the heavens, and all this land of which I have spoken I will give to your
descendants, and they shall inherit [it] forever.' "
14 So the Lord changed His mind about the harm which He said He would do to His people.
15 Then Moses turned and went down from the mountain with the two tablets of the testimony in his hand,
tablets which were written on both sides; they were written on one [side] and the other.
16 The tablets were God's work, and the writing was God's writing engraved on the tablets.

Exod 32:30 (NASU) On the next day Moses said to the people, "You yourselves have committed a great sin; and
now I am going up to the Lord, perhaps I can make atonement for your sin."

Exod 32:32 (NASU) "But now, if You will, forgive their sin--and if not, please blot me out from Your book which
You have written!"

Exod 32:33 (NASU) The Lord said to Moses, "Whoever has sinned against Me, I will blot him out of My book.

Exod 32:34 (NASU) "But go now, lead the people where I told you. Behold, My angel shall go before you;
nevertheless in the day when I punish, I will punish them for their sin."

Exod 33:1 (NASU) Then the Lord spoke to Moses, "Depart, go up from here, you and the people whom you have
brought up from the land of Egypt, to the land of which I swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, saying, `To your
descendants I will give it.'

Exod 33:2 (NASU) "I will send an angel before you and I will drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite, the Hittite, the
Perizzite, the Hivite and the Jebusite.

Judg 2:19 (NASU) But it came about when the judge died, that they would turn back and act more corruptly than
their fathers, in following other gods to serve them and bow down to them; they did not abandon their practices
or their stubborn ways.
20 So the anger of the Lord burned against Israel, and He said, "Because this nation has transgressed My
covenant which I commanded their fathers and has not listened to My voice,
21 I also will no longer drive out before them any of the nations which Joshua left when he died,
22 in order to test Israel by them, whether they will keep the way of the Lord to walk in it as their fathers did, or
not."
3:3 [These nations are]: the five lords of the Philistines and all the Canaanites and the Sidonians and the Hivites
who lived in Mount Lebanon, from Mount Baal-hermon as far as Lebo-hamath.
4 They were for testing Israel, to find out if they would obey the commandments of the Lord, which He had
commanded their fathers through Moses.
5 The sons of Israel lived among the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the
Jebusites;
Exod 33:5 (NASU) For the Lord had said to Moses, "Say to the sons of Israel, `You are an obstinate people; should
I go up in your midst for one moment, I would destroy you. Now therefore, put off your ornaments from you,
that I may know what I shall do with you.' "

2Chr 32:30 (NASU) It was Hezekiah who stopped the upper outlet of the waters of Gihon and directed them to
the west side of the city of David. And Hezekiah prospered in all that he did.
31 Even [in the matter of] the envoys of the rulers of Babylon, who sent to him to inquire of the wonder that had
happened in the land, God left him [alone only] to test him, that He might know all that was in his heart.

2Kin 18:19 (NASU) Then Rabshakeh said to them, "Say now to Hezekiah, `Thus says the great king, the king of
Assyria, "What is this confidence that you have?

2Kin 18:22 (NASU) "But if you say to me, `We trust in the Lord our God,' is it not He whose high places and whose
altars Hezekiah has taken away, and has said to Judah and to Jerusalem, `You shall worship before this altar in
Jerusalem'?
2Kin 18:28 (NASU) Then Rabshakeh stood and cried with a loud voice in Judean, saying, "Hear the word of the
great king, the king of Assyria.

2Kin 18:29 (NASU) "Thus says the king, `Do not let Hezekiah deceive you, for he will not be able to deliver you
from my hand;

2Kin 18:33 (NASU) `Has any one of the gods of the nations delivered his land from the hand of the king of
Assyria?

2Kin 19:1 (NASU) And when King Hezekiah heard [it], he tore his clothes, covered himself with sackcloth and
entered the house of the Lord.

2Kin 19:3 (NASU) They said to him, "Thus says Hezekiah, `This day is a day of distress, rebuke, and rejection; for
children have come to birth and there is no strength to [deliver].

2Kin 19:4 (NASU) `Perhaps the Lord your God will hear all the words of Rabshakeh, whom his master the king of
Assyria has sent to reproach the living God, and will rebuke the words which the Lord your God has heard.
Therefore, offer a prayer for the remnant that is left.' "

2Kin 19:6 (NASU) Isaiah said to them, "Thus you shall say to your master, `Thus says the Lord, "Do not be afraid
because of the words that you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed Me.
2Kin 19:7 (NASU) "Behold, I will put a spirit in him so that he will hear a rumor and return to his own land. And I
will make him fall by the sword in his own land." ' " 2Kin 19:8 (NASU) Then Rabshakeh returned and found the
king of Assyria fighting against Libnah, for he had heard that the king had left Lachish.

2Kin 19:10 (NASU) "Thus you shall say to Hezekiah king of Judah, `Do not let your God in whom you trust deceive
you saying, "Jerusalem will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria."

2Kin 19:14 (NASU) Then Hezekiah took the letter from the hand of the messengers and read it, and he went up to
the house of the Lord and spread it out before the Lord. 2Kin 19:15 (NASU) Hezekiah prayed before the Lord and
said, "O Lord, the God of Israel, who are enthroned [above] the cherubim, You are the God, You alone, of all the
kingdoms of the earth. You have made heaven and earth. 2Kin 19:16 (NASU) "Incline Your ear, O Lord, and hear;
open Your eyes, O Lord, and see; and listen to the words of Sennacherib, which he has sent to reproach the living
God.

2Kin 19:19 (NASU) "Now, O Lord our God, I pray, deliver us from his hand that all the kingdoms of the earth may
know that You alone, O Lord, are God." 2Kin 19:20 (NASU) Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah saying,
"Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, `Because you have prayed to Me about Sennacherib king of Assyria, I have
heard [you].' 2Kin 19:29 (NASU) `Then this shall be the sign for you: you will eat this year what grows of itself, in
the second year what springs from the same, and in the third year sow, reap, plant vineyards, and eat their fruit.
2Kin 19:31 (NASU) `For out of Jerusalem will go forth a remnant, and out of Mount Zion survivors. The zeal of the
Lord will perform this. 2Kin 19:32 (NASU) `Therefore thus says the Lord concerning the king of Assyria, "He will
not come to this city or shoot an arrow there; and he will not come before it with a shield or throw up a siege
ramp against it. 2Kin 19:33 (NASU) "By the way that he came, by the same he will return, and he shall not come
to this city," ' declares the Lord. 2Kin 19:34 (NASU) `For I will defend this city to save it for My own sake and for
My servant David's sake.' " 2Kin 19:35 (NASU) Then it happened that night that the angel of the Lord went out
and struck 185,000 in the camp of the Assyrians; and when men rose early in the morning, behold, all of them
were dead. 2Kin 19:36 (NASU) So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed and returned [home], and lived at
Nineveh.
2Kin 19:37 (NASU) It came about as he was worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and
Sharezer killed him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Ararat. And Esarhaddon his son became
king in his place.

2Kin 20:1 (NASU) In those days Hezekiah became mortally ill. And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came to
him and said to him, "Thus says the Lord, `Set your house in order, for you shall die and not live.' "
2 Then he turned his face to the wall and prayed to the Lord, saying,
3 "Remember now, O Lord, I beseech You, how I have walked before You in truth and with a whole heart and
have done what is good in Your sight." And Hezekiah wept bitterly.
4 Before Isaiah had gone out of the middle court, the word of the Lord came to him, saying,
5 "Return and say to Hezekiah the leader of My people, `Thus says the Lord, the God of your father David, "I have
heard your prayer, I have seen your tears; behold, I will heal you. On the third day you shall go up to the house of
the Lord.
6 "I will add fifteen years to your life, and I will deliver you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria; and I
will defend this city for My own sake and for My servant David's sake." ' "

Psa 90:4 (NASB) For a thousand years in Your sight Are like yesterday when it passes by, Or as a watch in the
night.

Isai 5:1 (NASU) Let me sing now for my well-beloved

A song of my beloved concerning His vineyard.
My well-beloved had a vineyard on a fertile hill.
2 He dug it all around, removed its stones,
And planted it with the choicest vine.
And He built a tower in the middle of it
And also hewed out a wine vat in it;
Then He expected [it] to produce [good] grapes,
But it produced [only] worthless ones.
3 "And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah,
Judge between Me and My vineyard.
4 "What more was there to do for My vineyard that I have not done in it?
Why, when I expected [it] to produce [good] grapes did it produce worthless ones?
5 "So now let Me tell you what I am going to do to My vineyard:
I will remove its hedge and it will be consumed;
I will break down its wall and it will become trampled ground.

Isa 57:15 (NASB) For thus says the high and exalted One Who lives forever, whose name is Holy, "I dwell on
a high and holy place, And also with the contrite and lowly of spirit In order to revive the spirit of the lowly
And to revive the heart of the contrite.

Isa 57:15 (KJV) For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the
high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to
revive the heart of the contrite ones.

Jer. 26:1-3
In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, this word came from the Lord,
saying,
2 "Thus says the Lord, `Stand in the court of the Lord's house,
and speak to all the cities of Judah who have come to worship [in] the Lord's house all the words that I
have commanded you to speak to them.
Do not omit a word!
3 `Perhaps they will listen and everyone will turn from his evil way,
that I may repent of the calamity which I am planning to do to them because of the evil of their deeds.'

David numbers Israel, contrary to the will of God

Chr 21:7 (NASU) God was displeased with this thing, so He struck Israel.
8 David said to God, "I have sinned greatly, in that I have done this thing. But now, please take away the iniquity
of Your servant, for I have done very foolishly."
God responds
10 "I offer you three things; choose for yourself one of them, which I will do to you." ' "
....
13 David said to Gad, "I am in great distress; please let me fall into the hand of the Lord, for His mercies are very
great. But do not let me fall into the hand of man."
14 So the Lord sent a pestilence on Israel; 70,000 men of Israel fell.
15 And God sent an angel to Jerusalem to destroy it; but as he was about to destroy [it], the Lord saw and was
sorry over the calamity, and said to the destroying angel, "It is enough; now relax your hand."
Questions & Reflection:
1. Discuss the nature of Gods relationship with time and interactivity. Include the following questions.
a. If the past, present, and future are all simultaneously experienced by God what is happening in these
verses?
b. Is God a living Being with personal characteristics or an impersonal force?
c. Do we have a common basis with God for mutual intimacy?
d. Does the future consist of some events that are certain to occur, and other activities that may or may
not happen?
e. Does the future have genuine choices that people can make? Are possibilities allowed about the way
some things will be in the future?
2. Discuss the significance of prayer in relationship to the foreknowledge of God and the nature of Gods
relationship with time.
3. One author writes,
In the midst of all the horror, God's heart was touched and moved with compassion, and He changed His mind
in the matter and told the angel not to fulfill what He commanded. This shows the tender heart of God. But if God had
always intended to decrease the judgment, He would have been lying when He had declared otherwise. When God dealt
with Nineveh, and sent Jonah there, if it were a certainty in Gods mind, that He would not destroy the city in forty days,
then God entirely misrepresented the matter, and if He was to be sincere should have given a conditional message. But
God certainly impressed Jonah that He was sincere in His declared judgment, for he brought the people to a point where
they believed God and repented deeply. If God never intended to destroy Nineveh, then Jonah and the people believed a
lie, for they really believed that God was sincere in His threats and intended to destroy them.
What are your thoughts on this?