{"id":12843,"date":"2022-02-26T15:39:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-26T15:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=12843"},"modified":"2022-02-26T15:39:00","modified_gmt":"2022-02-26T15:39:00","slug":"fulfilling-scripture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/12843\/fulfilling-scripture\/","title":{"rendered":"Fulfilling Scripture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Hey Pastor John,<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Just thinking over the Matthew readings, more precisely they fact scripture was fulfilled with certain details of Jesus death.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">One instance was, &#8220;There was not a bone broken&#8221; in his body.\u00a0 My question is, the Pharisees were up on their scriptures as good as anyone&#8230;.didn&#8217;t they see that was being fulfilled by what they were doing??<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Or were they blinded by God so they couldn&#8217;t put 2 and 2 together??<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Thank you,<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Steve<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">=========<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#0013a3;\"><em>Good question, Steven.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#0013a3;\"><em>Nobody in Israel believed that any prophecy of a man suffering, and especially of a man dying, applied to the mighty Messiah of whom the prophets also spoke.\u00a0 They were looking for a superman-type person, not a man who was despised and abused.\u00a0 So, no, the Pharisees did not apply the prophecies about suffering to Jesus.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#0013a3;\"><em>As clear as the prophecies seem to us, it is difficult to understand how they could have missed it, but until God opens our eyes, we are all just as blind.\u00a0 And when He decides to keep our spiritual eyes shut, no one can open them.\u00a0 Be thankful for what you can see!<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#0013a3;\"><em>I am glad you are thinking on these things.\u00a0 Do keep it up!<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#0013a3;\"><em>Pastor John<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey Pastor John, Just thinking over the Matthew readings, more precisely they fact scripture was fulfilled with certain details of Jesus death. One instance was, &#8220;There was not a bone broken&#8221; in his body.\u00a0 My question is, the Pharisees were up on their scriptures as good as anyone&#8230;.didn&#8217;t they see that was being fulfilled by [&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-12843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12843"}],"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=12843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}