Hi Dave,
So the preaching to Nineveh was not 'conditional' at all, but that it would be destroyed in 40 days. There was no equivocation. Jonah himself seems to realize this at the end of the story when God makes him look like a fool by not destroying the city. ((The Lord didn;t destroy the city because the king repented, and so there was no destruction til later when Nineveh again turned hard and THEN refused to humble itself under the mighty hand of God. Do read the whole story, Kopji rather than your personal mis-interpretation.))
If this was a 'conditional' prophecy, God would have no need to 'repent of the evil' -sorry, the Bible's own term there-. He would just have 'relented'. That would have been much easier than raising the obvious paradox of God even being able to do evil. hey, I did not write the Bible. ((No you didn't and didn't translate it either. And yet think you could have done a better job than the Lord. And Yes, the Lord changed the conditional prophecy or repented of what they deserved because their king humbled himself, this happenned many times in the past and now and will happen in the future. The Lord is the SAME))
The prophecy to Nineveh was only 'conditional' because God repented. What would keep him from doing that again? ((Because it is a set time frame talked about in numerous places. The timing can;t change as this is the End Time for the whole world, the finale, the closing curtain before He rises it for His RULE and REIGN. He has a plan and the evil ones are even fulfilling it, by getting their world together. For the Lord gives people what they want and deserve, and besides they have been promised their time of total rule. It helps people decide like yourself. You have to choose, and after the bells tolls for the last time, that time of choosing will be gone.. The Seven Years Prophecy is not conditional, it doesn;t use the WORD IF.... for no ifs and buts about it, it will HAPPEN on schedule and so no person can stop it. We can only get on the right side.... and watch the Lord work))
I'm not arguing that Bible prophecy makes any sense. I'm the one saying it doesn't.