{"id":10047,"date":"2018-01-11T00:48:28","date_gmt":"2018-01-11T00:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=10047"},"modified":"2018-01-11T00:48:28","modified_gmt":"2018-01-11T00:48:28","slug":"colossians-215","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/10047\/colossians-215\/","title":{"rendered":"Colossians 2:15"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">RE: Colossians 2:15: \u201cAnd having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">How did Jesus make a \u201cshow of the principalities and powers openly\u201d?\u00a0 I remember what a Triumph was in ancient Rome, but who was Jesus\u2019 Triumph in front of?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">te<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">=========<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>Hey Token!<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>The answer to your question is in the last word of that verse: \u201cit\u201d.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>Our translation of Colossian\u00a02:14\u201315 is this: \u201cAfter he had done away with the writing of ordinances by hand, which was contrary to us, removing it from between us when he nailed it to the cross, by which, stripping the rulers and authorities, he exposed them publicly, leading them along in a Triumph.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>Jesus made a public spectacle of the principalities and powers when they nailed him to a cross.\u00a0 They, and everyone else in heaven and earth except God, thought that Jesus was the public spectacle.\u00a0 But the people who abused and crucified the Son of God were the disgusting spectacle\u00a0to the One who counted.\u00a0 The cross was Jesus\u2019 Triumph over the whole universe.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>Dad<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RE: Colossians 2:15: \u201cAnd having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it.\u201d\u00a0 How did Jesus make a \u201cshow of the principalities and powers openly\u201d?\u00a0 I remember what a Triumph was in ancient Rome, but who was Jesus\u2019 Triumph in front of? te ========= Hey Token! The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10047"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10047\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}