Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown! Jonah 3:4
Was Nineveh destroyed after the 40 days mentioned here? No, it wasn’t..Not in forty days, and not in forty years because the people of Nineveh changed their minds, and God didn't destroy them. God had said it would happen, but it didn’t happen because the people repented of their ways !! So when we see or hear visions, dreams or words of judgement on our lives remember God will never, ever change His character BUT He can and will change His mind when His people pray.
We read that "it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was very angry. And he prayed unto the LORD, and said, I pray thee, O LORD, was not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I fled before unto Tarshish: for I knew that thou art a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repentest thee of the evil" Jonah 4:2
If we see visions and dreams of judgement on others let us not be like Jonah but pray that "His People would pray" for the judgement to be removed !! God is compassionate, answers earnest prayers and is faithful and merciful if we pray!
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