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Alleged Contradictions In Scripture, Part 2

Does God Need To Repent of Evil?

[Updated August 14, 2026]

Exo 32:14  And the LORD repented of the evil which he thought to do unto his people.

1Sa 15:29  And also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent: for he is not a man, that he should repent.

Introduction

If “the Lord repented of the evil which He thought to do unto His people”, how can He then tell us “He is not a man that He should repent”? In the very same 15th chapter of 1Samuel we are told:

1Sa 15:35  And Samuel came no more to see Saul until the day of his death: nevertheless Samuel mourned for Saul: and the LORD repented that he had made Saul king over Israel.

This is but one of many examples of how God’s Word is written for the very purpose of blinding the eyes of those who are not chosen by God in this age to believe in Christ and abide in His Words. There is a very clear answer to this and every apparent contradiction in scripture, but it requires Christ’s faith within us to withstand the onslaught of attacks against the word of God.

Before we answer this oft repeated accusation against the Word of God, I want to let you know that I have been asked over and over, maybe by some of you, ‘How can I present the Truth in a way that my family and friends cannot deny it or fail to see it?’ I think that by now we have all come to know that there is no way you or I can make a blind man to see, especially when he has been intentionally blinded by Christ Himself, which is one of the very reasons Christ came into this world:

Joh 9:39  And Jesus said, For judgment I am come into this world, that they which see not might see; and that they which see might be made blind. 
Joh 9:40  And some of the Pharisees which were with him heard these words, and said unto him, Are we blind also? 
Joh 9:41  Jesus said unto them, If ye were blind, ye should have no sin: but now ye say, We see; therefore your sin remaineth. 

It is obvious that the Lord is not attempting to convert the world at this time. At this time He has sent an evil spirit “that they which see might be made blind [to] the things of the spirit.” It is not because men are not physically intelligent. Some of the world’s most intelligent people are atheists or agnostics for this very reason:

1Co 2:14  But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

The words, “Because they are spiritually discerned” makes “the natural man”, religious or secular, furious with resentment. They will always retort with something like, “Oh, so you think you have some kind of superior knowledge?” just as Joseph’s brothers responded to his dreams of ruling over them. The Pharisees certainly did not believe that some son of a carpenter, Jesus of Nazareth, was closer to God than they, and they certainly did not think of themselves as being blind. To those Pharisees, Christ’s miracles were something similar to the dreams of the dreamer which came true to try them as per Deuteronomy 13:

Deu 13:1  If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and giveth thee a sign or a wonder, 
Deu 13:2  And the sign or the wonder come to pass, whereof he spake unto thee, saying, Let us go after other gods, which thou hast not known, and let us serve them;
Deu 13:3  Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the LORD your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul. 
Deu 13:4  Ye shall walk after the LORD your God, and fear him, and keep his commandments, and obey his voice, and ye shall serve him, and cleave unto him.
Deu 13:5  And that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death; because he hath spoken to turn you away from the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, to thrust thee out of the way which the LORD thy God commanded thee to walk in. So shalt thou put the evil away from the midst of thee.

Getting back to the apparent contradiction of telling us that ‘the Lord is not a man that He should repent’ (1Sa 15:29), and then in the same breath telling us ‘the Lord repented that He had made Saul king’ (1Sa 15:35), we need to look more closely at the meaning of the Hebrew word translated as ‘repent’.

While it will mean nothing to the natural man to whom God has given a mind to reject His Word, let’s nevertheless look at what Strong’s has to say about the definition of this word which is translated as ‘repent’ in the King James Version of the scriptures, and see if perhaps there is no contradiction here at all:

H5162
נחם
nâcham
naw-kham’
A primitive root; properly to sigh, that is, breathe strongly; by implication to be sorry, that is, (in a favorable sense) to pity, console or (reflexively) rue; or (unfavorably) to avenge (oneself): – comfort (self), ease [one’s self], repent (-er, -ing, self).

As always this word also has both “a favorable sense” and an “unfavorable… sense”.

Matthew 10:22 tells us we will “be hated of all men”, and that is exactly what has happened in every generation since Christ. One reason we are so hated is that we believe the promises of rulership belong to us. That hatred is getting progressively “worse and worse” leading up to “the redemption of the purchased possession.”

Eph 1:12  That we should be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ. 
Eph 1:13  In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise, 
Eph 1:14  Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.

2Ti 3:12  Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.
2Ti 3:13  But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived. 

The entire Bible is now regarded as mere myth by both secular government and the vast majority of professing Christian laymen and ministers. The day has now arrived when these words have become an outward reality:

Luk 18:8  I tell you that he will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?

People have been predicting the imminent return of Christ since the day He ascended up from His disciples into the cloud (Acts 1:9). Because it has been such a long time and because so many predictions have been proven to be false prophecies by false prophets, many Christians have begun to think exactly as the apostle Peter predicted they would:

2Pe 3:3  Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
2Pe 3:4  And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.

It is true that it has been a long time since the fathers fell asleep, but what should that tell us, if Christ is within us? Should we therefore assume it is still going to be a long time before “the promise of His coming” to give us “the redemption of the purchased possession?” Or should we not rather live as if “Christ is at hand?” This is what the holy spirit tells us:

Mar 1:14  Now after that John was put in prison, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God,
Mar 1:15  And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel.

‘The kingdom of God is at hand’ tells us that Christ our King is right here right now, ‘within us’:

Luk 17:20  And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation:
Luk 17:21  Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.

That is the mindset of Christ and of His Christ. Rather than teach that there are many years yet before the kingdom of God arrives, this is how you and I ought to be living our lives:

Rom 13:12  The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.
Rom 13:13  Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.
Rom 13:14  But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.

Php 4:5 Let your moderation be known unto all men. The Lord is at hand.

The Christ of Christ does not make false prophecies simply because we do not “think above what is written”:

1Co 4:6  Now these things, brothers, I applied to myself and Apollos for your sakes, so that in us ye might learn not to think above that which is written, so that ye may not be puffed up, one over the one against the other. (ACV)

 This is written, and it would behoove us to give heed to these words:

2Pe 3:5  For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:
2Pe 3:6  Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:
2Pe 3:7  But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men. 

Salon.com recently made this report concerning the free reign of Satanism in a country that has rejected God and has completely lost its way:

“A Satanist member identified only as Mary Doe was denied an abortion at a Planned Parenthood office last month because of the restrictions, and the Satanic Temple sued the state last month seeking a religious exemption.

“Satanic Temple spokesperson Lucien Greaves [says] the “informed consent” materials don’t just require women to comply with certain religious viewpoints, but also — in the case of Satanists — to contradict their own belief that women can decide for themselves.

“The question of when life begins is absolutely a religious opinion, and the state has no business proselytizing religious beliefs,” Greaves said.” (End Quote)

If the supreme court of the United States rules in favor of same-sex marriages (two of the justices have already officiated gay weddings), and if this satanist lawsuit is decided in favor of The Church of Satan, it will be consistent with that decision to permit abortions on demand. Why would either the satanists or the supreme court be influenced by a group of “worthless (spiritual) shepherds” who teach that most of those aborted babies will probably end up burning in hell for all eternity if they were not aborted?

That is why God told Zechariah to play the part of a worthless shepherd:

Zec 11:15  Then the LORD said to me, “Go again and play the part of a worthless shepherd.
Zec 11:16  This will illustrate how I will give this nation a shepherd who will not care for the sheep that are threatened by death, nor look after the young, nor heal the injured, nor feed the healthy. Instead, this shepherd will eat the meat of the fattest sheep and tear off their hooves.
Zec 11:17  Doom is certain for this worthless shepherd who abandons the flock! The sword will cut his arm and pierce his right eye! His arm will become useless, and his right eye completely blind!” (NLT)

This “worthless shepherd” is “the mother of harlots” who “sits on many waters” which ‘waters’ we are told are the many peoples of this world, who are becoming weary of her rulership and who are, as we speak, turning their backs on her and will very soon “hate her and burn her with fire.”

Rev 17:15  And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.
Rev 17:16  And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire. 
Rev 17:17  For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled.
Rev 17:18  And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth.

The prophet Jeremiah was sent both to Israel and to the nations which the Lord said He would send against His unfaithful wife. These are words which ‘are written’, and they are words for which the Lord tells us He will not repent:

Jer 4:28  For this shall the earth mourn, and the heavens above be black: because I have spoken it, I have purposed it, and will not repent, neither will I turn back from it.

Jer 25:31  A noise shall come even to the ends of the earth; for the LORD hath a controversy with the nations, he will plead with all flesh; he will give them that are wicked to the sword, saith the LORD.
Jer 25:32  Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, evil shall go forth from nation to nation, and a great whirlwind shall be raised up from the coasts of the earth.
Jer 25:33  And the slain of the LORD shall be at that day from one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth: they shall not be lamented, neither gathered, nor buried; they shall be dung upon the ground.

“The slain of the LORD shall be at that day from one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth… I have purposed it and will not repent”, and yet we read earlier:

Exo 32:14  And the LORD repented of the evil which he thought to do unto his people. 

Jon 3:10  And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil, that he had said that he would do unto them; and he did it not. 

Jer 26:12  Then spake Jeremiah unto all the princes and to all the people, saying, The LORD sent me to prophesy against this house and against this city all the words that ye have heard.
Jer 26:13  Therefore now amend your ways and your doings, and obey the voice of the LORD your God; and the LORD will repent him of the evil that he hath pronounced against you. 

Once again, Jeremiah 4:28… ‘I have spoken it and will not repent’ appears to contradict Jeremiah 26:13… “amend your ways and your doings, and obey the voice of the LORD your God; and the LORD will repent him of the evil that he hath pronounced against you.” 

How can God tell us “I… will not repent…[I am] not a man that [I] should repent” and in the same breath, in the same chapter just six verses apart, tell us “it repented the Lord that He had made Saul king over Israel?”

1Sa 15:29  And also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent: for he is not a man, that he should repent.

Six verses later we are told:

1Sa 15:35  And Samuel came no more to see Saul until the day of his death: nevertheless Samuel mourned for Saul: and the LORD repented that he had made Saul king over Israel.

Now let’s look at how this Hebrew word translated as ‘repent’ is most often translated:

H5162
נחם
nâcham
Total KJV Occurrences: 109
comfort, 34
Gen_5:29, Gen_27:42, Gen_37:35, 2Sa_10:2, 1Ch_7:22, 1Ch_19:2 (2), Job_2:11, Job_7:13, Job_21:34, Psa_23:4, Psa_71:21, Psa_119:50, Psa_119:76, Psa_119:82, Isa_22:4, Isa_40:1 (2), Isa_51:3 (2), Isa_51:19, Isa_57:6, Isa_61:2, Isa_66:13, Jer_16:7, Jer_31:13, Lam_1:2, Lam_1:17, Lam_1:21, Lam_2:13, Eze_14:23, Eze_16:54, Zec_1:17, Zec_10:2
comforted, 20
Gen_24:67, Gen_37:35, Gen_38:12, Gen_50:21, Rth_2:13, 2Sa_12:24, 2Sa_13:39, Job_42:11, Psa_77:2, Psa_86:17, Psa_119:52, Isa_49:13, Isa_52:9, Isa_54:11, Isa_66:13, Jer_31:15, Eze_5:13, Eze_14:22, Eze_31:16, Eze_32:31
repent, 19
Exo_13:17, Exo_32:12, Num_23:19, Deu_32:36, 1Sa_15:29 (2), Job_42:6, Psa_90:13, Psa_110:4, Psa_135:14, Jer_4:28, Jer_18:8, Jer_18:10, Jer_26:3, Jer_26:13, Jer_42:10, Joe_2:14 (2), Jon_3:9
repented, 17
Gen_6:6, Exo_32:14, Jdg_2:18, Jdg_21:6, Jdg_21:15, 1Sa_15:35, 2Sa_24:16, 1Ch_21:15, Psa_106:45, Jer_8:6, Jer_20:16, Jer_31:19 (2), Amo_7:3, Amo_7:6, Jon_3:10, Zec_8:14
comforters, 5
2Sa_10:3, 1Ch_19:3, Job_16:2, Psa_69:20, Nah_3:7
comforter, 3
Ecc_4:1, Lam_1:9, Lam_1:16
comforteth, 3
Job_29:25, Isa_66:12-13 (2)
repenteth, 3
Gen_6:7, 1Sa_15:11, Joe_2:13
comfortedst, 1
Isa_12:1
ease, 1
Isa_1:24
receive, 1
Isa_57:6
repentest, 1
Jon_4:2
repenting, 1
Jer_15:6

Of the 109 time this Hebrew word appears, 67 times it is translated with some form of the word ‘comfort’.  The first time this word appears in scripture is in Genesis 5 where we read:

Gen 5:28  And Lamech lived an hundred eighty and two years, and begat a son:
Gen 5:29  And he called his name Noah [H5146: Noach], saying, This same shall comfort [H5162: nacham] us concerning our work and toil of our hands, because of the ground which the LORD hath cursed.

The name ‘Noah’ is a form of the word which is elsewhere translated as repent, but ‘repent’ is not the primary meaning of this word. ‘Comfort’ is the primary meaning, and while repentance brings us comfort, comfort does not necessarily bring us to repentance. God comforted himself after rejecting Saul, but He did not repent of giving us King Saul as a type of how the first Adam is rejected for the last Adam.

It was God who ordained that Abel replace Cain, that Isaac replace Ishmael, that Jacob replace Esau, that Rachel replace Leah, and that Joseph replace Reuben. He has never repented for rejecting the flesh in favor of the spirit. All things are being done “after the counsel of His own will”, and He has given us all of those Old Testament types as shadows of how our old man must be sacrificed for the sake of establishing our new man as His elect. That is the answer to our dilemma. The Lord is not a man that He should repent of the destruction of our old man, but He comforts Himself knowing that destruction will produce a new man.

It all adheres to this Biblical principle:

1Co 15:45  And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.
1Co 15:46  Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward [through the unrepentant destruction of our old man] that which is spiritual. 

“The first man Adam… is earthy”, and without Christ coming to destroy him and his kingdom he will always act earthy. This is ordained of God for the very purpose of demonstrating for all men why “flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God”. The reason why is that “corruption cannot inherit incorruption”, and flesh and blood are corruption. Flesh and blood not only act corrupt, flesh and blood act in a corrupt way simply because flesh and blood are “corruption” in which God cannot take comfort:

Joh 6:63  It is the spirit that giveth life; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I have spoken unto you are spirit, and they are life.

1Co 15:50  Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption. 

The spirit equates flesh and blood with corruption. Paul tells us that flesh and blood are controlled by a law which causes it to act in a corrupt way. Flesh and blood are “corruption” and can act in no other way unless the spirit of God drag it to His mind and His actions:

Rom 7:18  For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.
Rom 7:19  For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.
Rom 7:20  Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me [“That is in my flesh”].
Rom 7:21  I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.
Rom 7:22  For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
Rom 7:23  But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.

Here is one last verse which demonstrates the primary meaning of the Hebrew word ‘nacham’:

Isa 57:5  Enflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the clifts of the rocks?
Isa 57:6  Among the smooth stones of the stream is thy portion; they, they are thy lot: even to them hast thou poured a drink offering, thou hast offered a meat offering. Should I receive comfort [H5162: nacham, the same word translated as ‘repent’ in 1 Samuel 15:35] in these?

Knowing that the primary meaning of the Hebrew word ‘nacham’, is ‘comfort’, and that its secondary meaning is ‘repent’, let’s go back to 1 Samuel 15 and look at what we are really being told in verses 29 and 35:

1Sa 15:29  And also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent: for he is not a man, that he should repent [of the destruction of our carnal-minded old man].

1Sa 15:35  And Samuel came no more to see Saul until the day of his death: nevertheless Samuel mourned for Saul: and the LORD repented that he had made Saul king over Israel.

The Lord had to destroy the first man Adam, and He comforted Himself as “Samuel mourned for Saul” who typifies “the first man Adam.” The Lord comforted Himself as “Samuel mourned for Saul”, because the Lord knew that it was through the death of the first Adam, signified by King Saul that another vessel was typically being formed into a living spirit. That change will come to King Saul himself in his own appointed time. That is the same message we are being given in these words:

Isa 53:1  Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed?
Isa 53:2  For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
Isa 53:3  He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
Isa 53:4  Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
Isa 53:5  But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed. 
Isa 53:6  All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
Isa 53:7  He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.
Isa 53:8  He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.
Isa 53:9  And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.
Isa 53:10  Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.

God ‘creates evil’ (Isa 45:7), and ‘He makes wicked men for the day of evil’ (Pro 16:4), for the express purpose of demonstrating that He made men as “brute beasts [who were] made to be taken and destroyed.” These words apply to all of us, even to the flesh and blood of Christ Himself. “The new man” in every man is “His seed”, and the fruit of His offering of His bruised life.

1Co 15:50  Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption. 

2Pe 2:12  But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;

Knowing this is all true, it is clear that God does not need to repent of the evil He brings upon the kingdom of our old man via the evil spirits He sends to work the evil which He creates to accomplish His plan and His purpose. God is our Creator, and as such He has every right to do with His creation as He sees fit. It is in 1 Samuel 15 where we are told that God is not a man that He should repent (vs 29) and then in verse 35 we are told that He repented for making Saul king. The sovereignty of God over both good and evil is revealed to us in the very next chapter of 1 Samuel (1Sa 16:14). Clearly the Lord is demonstrating that He, and He alone is “working all things… even the wicked… (Pro 16:4) after the counsel of His own will”, and He wants us to know that He comforts Himself when He “endures with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath, fitted to destruction.”

1Sa 16:14  But the Spirit of the LORD departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the LORD troubled him.

Eph 1:11  In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:

The replacing of King Saul with King David, was not ‘plan B’ for God. King Saul, like Pharaoh, was raised up for the very purpose of being “taken and destroyed.”

Rom 9:17  For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose [“as a brute beast, made to be taken and destroyed”] have I raised thee up, that I might shew my power in thee, and that my name might be declared throughout all the earth. 
Rom 9:18  Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth.
Rom 9:19  Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will?
Rom 9:20  Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?
Rom 9:21  Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump [Both ‘Adams’ are first “in earthen vessels”, (Col 1:27)] to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour? 
Rom 9:22  What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction [our old man]: 
Rom 9:23  And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy [our new man], which he had afore prepared unto glory,
Rom 9:24  Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles? 

[Note] Just today (Friday, June 26, 2015) the supreme court has indeed ruled that marriage is to be accepted legally as including same-sex marriages. This outwardly is a great earthquake, and its destructive fruit will soon become evident. This is just one of the many ‘signs of the times’ in which we live.

Mat 16:2  He answered and said unto them, When it is evening, ye say, It will be fair weather: for the sky is red.
Mat 16:3  And in the morning, It will be foul weather to day: for the sky is red and lowring. O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times? 

It is as of now illegal for a Christian to refuse to serve those who want us to partake of this perverse lifestyle. As of this day it is now illegal for a florist to refuse to cater a same sex marriage, for a baker to refuse to cater a same sex marriage, or for a student to profess his or her faith in the Word of God. It is now illegal to teach your children that homosexuality is an abomination to God. God has placed it in the power of the wild beast to carry out His purpose of destroying the great whore so she can be replaced with His faithful wife, the new man/the mind of the spirit, and eventually a spiritual body.

Through this Supreme court ruling, the beast has once again demonstrated that He hates the woman (that great whore, Babylon) who has had the hegemony over him for so long. The beast is in the process of burning her with fire, and the Lord is repenting of taking her as His wife. It will take the miraculous hand of our heavenly Father to take us, His new bride, up to His throne and protect His elect when His great wrath and destruction comes upon the great whore.

Rev 12:5 And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and to his throne [Eph 2:6… ‘we are seated with Him in the heavens’].

Rev 17:16  And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire.
Rev 17:17  For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled.