{"id":12275,"date":"2021-08-01T17:53:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-01T17:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=12275"},"modified":"2021-08-01T17:53:00","modified_gmt":"2021-08-01T17:53:00","slug":"leviticus-2327-32-afflict-your-soul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/12275\/leviticus-2327-32-afflict-your-soul\/","title":{"rendered":"Leviticus 23:27, 32 &#8211; &#8220;Afflict Your Soul&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pastor John,<\/p>\n<p>What does afflict your souls mean in these verses?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Leviticus 23:27. \u201cAlso, on the tenth day of this seventh month shall be the Day for Atonements; it shall be a holy convocation for\u00a0<em>y<\/em>ou, and\u00a0<em>y<\/em>ou shall afflict\u00a0<em>y<\/em>our souls, and\u00a0<em>y<\/em>ou shall offer an offering made by fire to the\u00a0Lord.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Leviticus 23:32. It\u00a0shall be a sabbath of rest for\u00a0<em>y<\/em>ou, and\u00a0<em>y<\/em>ou shall afflict\u00a0<em>y<\/em>our souls. From the ninth\u00a0<em>day<\/em>\u00a0of the month at evening, from twilight to twilight,\u00a0<em>y<\/em>ou shall observe\u00a0<em>y<\/em>our sabbath.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Beth D.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">==========<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0013a3;\"><em>Hi Beth,<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0013a3;\"><em>That phrase &#8220;afflict your souls&#8221; means to fast and pray, and to do no work, that is, treat the day as a Sabbath, as God said in Leviticus 19:29 and Numbers 29:7.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0013a3;\"><em>Thanks for the question.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0013a3;\"><em>Pastor John<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pastor John, What does afflict your souls mean in these verses? Leviticus 23:27. \u201cAlso, on the tenth day of this seventh month shall be the Day for Atonements; it shall be a holy convocation for\u00a0you, and\u00a0you shall afflict\u00a0your souls, and\u00a0you shall offer an offering made by fire to the\u00a0Lord. Leviticus 23:32. It\u00a0shall be a sabbath [&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-12275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12275"}],"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=12275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}