He never has to go back to the drawing board!ДЄdversity, judgement, famine, or wilderness does not cause YahwГЁ Г‰lГ¶him to change his mind вЂfor God is not a man, that He should lie neither the son of man, that He should repent. the Book of Psalms), chooses the foolish things to confound the wise (1 Corinthians 1:27), causes the omens of boasters to fail, makes fools out of diviners, and turns their knowledge into foolishness (Yeshaiyah 44:25, i.e. In the midst of any adversity, judgement, famine, or wilderness the wisdom of the Sovereign Lord turns the ways of the wicked upside down (Tehillim 146:9, i.e. In the midst of all adversity, judgement, famine, and wilderness вЂthose God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers and sistersвЂ™ (Romans 8:29), through the outpouring of His grace (Romans 5:20). In the midst of disobedience and sin, the wisdom of the Righteous Father made a way for mercy to triumph over judgement and fulfil His overall eternal purposes. Then the Israelites did evil in the eyes of the LORD and served the BaalвЂ™s.вЂ™ However I give all thanks to the Sovereign Lord and Merciful One who вЂdoes not treat us as our sins deserve or repay us according to our iniquitiesвЂ™ but rather вЂas a father has compassion on his children, so the LORD has compassion on those who fear him for he knows how we are formed, he remembers that we are dustвЂ™ (Tehillim 103:10, 13-14, i.e. Subsequently вЂafter that whole generation had been gathered to their ancestors, another generation grew up who knew neither the LORD nor what he had done for Israel. Why have you done this? And I have also said, вЂI will not drive them out before you they will become traps for you, and their gods will become snares to you.вЂ™ (Shoftim2: 1-3, i.e. the Book of Ruth), the consequence for disobedience to the Sovereign Lord, for вЂњI said, вЂI will never break my covenant with you, and you shall not make a covenant with the people of this land, but you shall break down their altars.вЂ™ Yet you have disobeyed me.

In the days when Judges ruled, there was a famine in the land (Rut 1:1, i.e.

My ways are not your ways