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The Unchanging Character of God: From Genesis to Revelation
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God is not man that he should lie or son of man, that he should change his mind. Has he said and will he not do it or has he spoken and will he not fulfil it?
If we look at how God is revealed to us throughout the Bible, we may think that he changes, but he doesn’t. His character is completely consistent. He is fully just from first to last and fully merciful from first to last.
Sometimes people think that God has encouraged the Israelites to be war mongering in the Old Testament. But no, God in his commitment to righteousness is purging the unrighteousness from the land into which the Israelites are moving. He also provides in his mercy a way for us to be loved and forgiven despite our own shortcomings.
He shows how much he loves us by, of course, sending Jesus to die in our place so we don’t have to. His loving kindness is shown right from the first pen stroke in Genesis until Revelation. In Genesis, he makes a creation, a planet fit for us to inhabit. And in Revelation, he makes heaven fit for us to inhabit with him.
