April 27, 1999, Tuesday

If you hear words of truth from your associates should it

be confirmed or suppressed? Would you consider the future

to be filled with many contingencies? What comparisons do

we make on a regular daily basis?

Amos prophesied that Jesus would return and James knew

the Old Testament well and the prophecy of Amos that many

Gentiles would be called by God's Name. James did not

consider it unusual that what God had spoken had come to

pass, but he confirmed the Word to the other disciples--

"And with this agree the words of the prophets; as it is

written: After these things I will return, and will rebuild

the tabernacle of David which is fallen, and will rebuild

its ruins, and will set it up, so that the residue of men may

seek out the Lord, and all the nations on whom My Name

is invoked, says the Lord, who does these things known from

eternity" (Acts 15:15-18). God knows all of His works from

the beginning of the world, and He allows everything to come

to pass by His appointment.

The Lord spoke through the prophet Isaiah to tell of His

accomplishments; those that are unanswerable proof that

He knows all future contingencies and all from the past--

"Who has performed and accomplished it, Calling forth the

generations from the beginning? I the Lord, am the first,

and with the last; I am He" (Isa 41:4). God was calling

all the nations out of nothing from the beginning of the

world, even from the beginning of eternity. He will be our

God through all eternity!

Certainly we are reminded of Jesus and His humanity and it

is difficult not to compare an infinite God to a man. But

Moses spoke to his people to explain the vast difference--

"God is not a man, that He should lie, Nor a son of man,

that He should repent; Has He said, and will He not do it?

Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good" (Num 23:19)?

God cannot break His promises made to His people for their

preservation and blessings for an eternity! He will not be

One to change His counsel or purpose unless He sees sin in

His people that have turned from Him.

Let us remember the God that is our Everlasting God. God's

Name is Jehová El Olam. He is the God of Eternity that always

was and always will be. He is the God who has an eternal purpose

for us that Exceeds what any mind may conceive. He understands

human frailty and the shortness of life. Lift your hands to Him

and Praise Him today for the fact that He is the God who is our

Everlasting God that will always be there for us!