How can I hand you over, Israel?… My heart is changed within me; all my compassion is aroused” (Hos. 11:8). Revelation repeatedly affirms that God is slow to anger and most merciful; he will turn aside from his anger whenever men and women make it possible for him to do so by repenting of their sins before him. It is this aspect of his gracious character that accounts for the category of conditional prophecies. When can the reader and interpreter assume that they are dealing with a conditional prophecy?