Bible‘s 7487 promises

i was trying to reflect on a question i.e.

How is God different from people when it comes to keeping promises?

Someone can sincerely promise something at 20 and feel completely differently at 40. Love changes. Priorities change. Character changes. Circumstances change. Scripture grounds God’s reliability in His constancy:

“I the LORD do not change.”
Malachi 3:6

And:

“Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.”
Hebrews 13:8

The Bible repeatedly makes promises… “God is not human, that he should lie, not a human being, that he should change his mind. Does he speak and then not act? Does he promise and not fulfill?” Numbers 23:19

i wanted to dive deeper if those promises were fulfilled, and while asking whether He has a track record of keeping them…

i found this person Everek R. Storms, a Canadian schoolteacher and Bible researcher having the same question; he spent about a year and a half cataloguing what he considered promises. “The Scriptures contain a grand total of 8,810 promises. How do I know? I counted them.”

his count might not be perfect but ultimately,

what did God promise?

“I make known the end from the beginning, from ancient times, what is still to come.” Isaiah 46:10

1. I will deal with evil.
Genesis 3:15 begins the trajectory.

2. I will bless the world through Abraham.
Genesis 12:1–3.

3. I will rescue a people and be their God.
Exodus 6:6–8.

4. I will establish a King from David’s line.
2 Samuel 7:12–16.

5. I will make a new covenant, forgive sin and change human hearts.
Jeremiah 31:31–34; Ezekiel 36:25–27.

6. I will give my Spirit.
Joel 2:28–29.

7. I will send the Messiah.
Isaiah 9:6–7; 11:1–10; Micah 5:2.

8. I will give eternal life through Christ.
John 3:16; 6:40.

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9. Christ will return and death will be defeated.
John 14:1–3; 1 Corinthians 15:20–26.

10. I will make creation new and live with humanity.
Revelation 21:1–5.

Joshua 21:45, after Israel entered Canaan:

“Not one of all the LORD’s good promises to Israel failed; every one was fulfilled.”

Then near the end of Joshua’s life, he says it again in Joshua 23:14: “Not one of all the good promises the LORD your God gave you has failed.” Hundreds of years later, Solomon looks backward across Israel’s history and makes essentially the same claim in 1 Kings 8:56 “Not one word has failed of all the good promises he gave through his servant Moses.”

Numbers 23:19
God does not lie or change His mind like human beings do.

Joshua 21:45
Not one promise failed.

Joshua 23:14
Joshua reaches the end of his life and says that his generation has seen God’s promises fulfilled.

1 Kings 8:56
Centuries into Israel’s story, Solomon says not one word of God’s promise through Moses had failed.

2 Chronicles 6:15
Solomon says of God’s promise to David: what God spoke “with your mouth” He fulfilled “with your hand.”

Hebrews 10:23
The reason Christians are told to hold onto hope is that “he who promised is faithful.”

2 Corinthians 1:20
Paul makes the extraordinary Christological claim that God’s promises find their “Yes” in Christ.

Some are already fulfilled, such as God’s promise to Abraham that his descendants would become a nation. Some are conditional, where the promised outcome explicitly depends upon a response. Some are given to particular individuals or nations, rather than being universal promises to every person.

“If God fulfilled every promise, what about promises that haven’t happened yet?”

Some are progressively fulfilled, with an initial historical fulfillment and a larger theological fulfillment. And some are eschatological, meaning Christianity claims they remain future, such as resurrection, final judgment and the renewal of creation.

The story is unfinished.
The God who fulfilled what He promised Abraham, Israel, Moses and David is presented as the same God whose remaining promises Christians are waiting for.

The Bible repeatedly says God remembers His covenant.

Genesis 9:15. I will remember my covenant between me and you and all living creatures of every kind. Never again will the waters become a flood to destroy all life.
Exodus 2:24. God heard their groaning and he remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac and with Jacob.
Psalm 105:8. He remembers his covenant forever, the promise he made, for a thousand generations,

“Though it linger, wait for it; it will certainly come and will not delay.” — Habakkuk 2:3.

trust.