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Pastimes : Prophecy -- HYPE or HOPE? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: alan w who wrote (2564)	2/10/2004 12:47:34 AM
From: gregor	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5569

alan: What other approach do you feel that God should have taken with Pharaoh? What else could He have done to accomplish His purposes in any other way and been effective. Eventually, wouldn't any other effort have boiled down to the same thing. Give you a good example . I have a friend who stays fully invested at all times. The only thing he will invest in is high tech and high growth. He rode out the last correction and lost 75% to 90% of his money in many funds. I have seen him through all the corrections and all his belly aching and moaning and groaning. All this knowing that he will never change. He asks me for advice and I know what is coming and still tell him he is doing the right thing. Why. Because I know him. He will never sell out at the bottom. He mantra is to stay fully invested at all times. This is an extreme example but it is the closest thing I can think of. God knew Pharaoh. God knew the final outcome. Remember he writes the book from the back to the front. It is just His nature. By God saying He will harden Pharaoh's heart all He is saying is that He has already seen the end before the beginning. By all accounts Pharaoh drowned in the Red Sea. God wrote a xillion versions of the book and they all ended up the same way with Pharaoh being lost and God punched His ticket. If he had to do it by "hardening Pharaoh's heart" then I have no problem with that. It makes me love the Lord no less. In fact what God was doing is in a way He was letting Pharaoh read several versions of the books last chapter and saying ...is this what you want...big boy! There Pharaoh was fighting it all the way. He let the people go . Right. He was in the Lord's will and bingo , Pharaoh changed His mind again. After all those opportunities, isn't it just like God to let someone destroy themselves. I would almost guarantee you that Pharaoh was even at the reins of his own chariott as they went down into the Red Sea. In Christ....gregor