God is Free to Change His Focus and His Plan

God is free to change his focus and his commands according to his purposes. Scripture is a catalog of God giving different commands and making different promises to different people at different times for different purposes with different hopes. That's why the commended workman is the one who "rightly divides [cuts straight] the Word of Truth." (2 Tim 2:15) and "compares the things that differ" (Phil 1:10).

You shall observe this rite as a statute for you and for your sons forever.
-Exodus 12:24


Rather, the Lord, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt with great power and an outstretched arm, Him you shall fear, to Him you shall bow down, and to Him you shall sacrifice. 37 The statutes, the ordinances, the law, and the commandment, which He wrote for you, you shall observe to do forever. And you shall not fear other gods.
-2 Kings 17:36-37

"Forever" in scripture is understood as long as God has ordained it for a certain person/people for a certain purpose. We certainly are not observing these things today (nor should we). W have covered this in a PREVIOUS ENTRY.


While all scripture is FOR us, very little is TO us. I could spend all day on social media addressing random verses dragged from their contexts and applied to believers today despite the glaring problems.

Just yesterday I saw this one:

(Psalm 118:11)

How did that work out for Paul? And I would like to point the guy who is "claiming" this verse for believers today to Foxe's Book of Martyrs. I wonder why Tyndall didn't claim that promise as he was being strangled and burned at the stake. I guess he just didn't have enough faith? Nonsense and insulting.

Romans 8:28 is in a chapter about being lambs led to slaughter (Rom 8:36). The context is the future resurrection (Rom 8:29, etc.). I hope to cover this topic on this blog in the near future, but my conversational podcast episode can be viewed below.

Romans 8:28 is daily ripped from its context, by believers, to promise (or at least imply to) all believers that everything is going to be awesome in this life... eventually. The guy who wrote Romans 8:28 [Paul] was whipped, beaten, stoned, falsely accused, shackled, put in prison, and executed.

Paul wasn't "claiming" Romans 8:28 for this life and neither was Jeremiah 29:11 his "life verse." The latter being grossly abused regularly.

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