Can God cause harm? Can he “relent”? And can people, like David in this passage, plea to take the harm of others? How does harm, wrath, ownership of sin, punishment, and conditional and unconditional responses all collide? In today’s podcast, Emma Dotter dives head—first into two deep questions seen in 2 Samuel 24. 
 
 Does God change his mind: https://www.gotquestions.org/God-change-mind.html
 
 Additional Scriptures in the podcast:
 1 Chronicles 21:1, David taking a census
 Job1-2, God allowing Satan to tempt Job
 Acts 2,
 2 Corinthians 12:7, “Messenger of Satan to harass me,” 
 Exodus 30, Census Tax
 Numbers 1, Census of Israel’s Warriors
 Malachi 3:6, “I, the Lord do not change…”
 James 1:17, “With whom there is no variation of shadow due to change…”
 Numbers 23:19, “Or a son of man, that he should change his mind…”
 Genesis 6:6, “And the Lord regretted that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him to his heart.”  
 
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 Join the Journey Jr. https://www.jointhejourney.com/jr/5781-do-you-remember-god-s-promises-to-abraham