Yes, the prophecy can be changed, in fact most prophecies of impending disaster are given in the hope that it will be reversed and some will even provide an answer to prevent the prophecy from coming true. For example, there is a prophecy that says that if we do not accept Jesus as our Savior we will go to Hell but Romans 10:9 reverses it by saying that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised him from the dead dead, you will be saved.
I can recall two prophecies in the Old Testament that were reversed. One is founded on 2 Kings 20:1-6 and the other is on Jonah 3:1-10. Paraphrasing the two accounts, in 2 Kings 20: 1-6 Hezekiah was sick, the Prophet Isaiah told him to put his house in order because he was going to die, but Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed. God heard his prayer and added fifteen more years to his life for the prophecy to be reversed. In Jonah 3:1-10 God told Jonah to cry out against the city of Nineveh because of its wickedness and in forty days it will be destroyed. When the people of that city heard this message, they repented of their sins and fasted. God saw that they had turned from their wicked ways and repented of the disaster that he had said he would bring upon them. That prophecy was also reversed.
You could say that Jesus could not reverse the prophecy that was prophesied about His suffering when He prayed in the Garden of Gethsemane. He wasn’t trying to stop fulfilling his destiny, he just wanted to know if there was any other way to do it without him being out of God’s presence. No one has ever been out of the face of God, so we’ll never know the depth of this, but Jesus knew and that’s why he prayed that prayer. Since there was no other way, He said: “not my will, but yours be done.”
We can accept a good prophecy, but if a bad one comes, we don’t have to accept it, but we can do whatever it takes to reverse it because all things are subject to change.
By Lizzie Ducking
