{"id":10285,"date":"2018-07-09T13:39:41","date_gmt":"2018-07-09T13:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=10285"},"modified":"2018-07-09T13:39:41","modified_gmt":"2018-07-09T13:39:41","slug":"judges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/10285\/judges\/","title":{"rendered":"Judges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Hey Pastor John,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Last night I was reading in Judges the story of the war between Israel and the Benjamites because of their sin in Gibeah.\u00a0 How did that affect the role of the Benjamites within the 12 tribes?\u00a0 Were there other consequences other than almost being totally eliminated?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Thanks,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Michelle<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">===========<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>Hi Michelle.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>Obviously, God felt that almost wiping out the tribe of Benjamin was sufficient\u00a0punishment for their cruel and gross immorality.\u00a0 From what I can tell, that fearful judgment from God had no other effect on the role of the tribe of Benjamin in Israel.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>As an added note, we should all be very thankful that God chose not to eradicate the tribe of Benjamin; otherwise, the apostle Paul would never have been born (Phip. 3:5)!<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>Pastor John<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey Pastor John,\u00a0 Last night I was reading in Judges the story of the war between Israel and the Benjamites because of their sin in Gibeah.\u00a0 How did that affect the role of the Benjamites within the 12 tribes?\u00a0 Were there other consequences other than almost being totally eliminated? Thanks,\u00a0 Michelle =========== Hi Michelle. Obviously, [&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-10285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10285"}],"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=10285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}