{"id":13229,"date":"2022-08-31T23:42:58","date_gmt":"2022-08-31T23:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=13229"},"modified":"2022-08-31T23:42:58","modified_gmt":"2022-08-31T23:42:58","slug":"judges-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/13229\/judges-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Judges 20"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Pastor John,<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">In Judges 20*, why were the first two sets of Israelite men defeated when they were fighting at Gibeah?\u00a0 They inquired of Jehovah, and He said go, but it wasn&#8217;t until the third time they fought that they won the battle.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Michelle<\/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>Hi Michelle.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#0013a3;\"><em>God\u2019s justice was perfect.\u00a0\u00a0The men of Gibeah could not possibly have grown so immoral if the rest of the tribes had been righteous.\u00a0\u00a0Those defeats were an indication of the poor spiritual condition of all the tribes of Israel.\u00a0\u00a0None of the\u00a0tribes had fallen into the gross debauchery of the tribe of Benjamin (thus the eventual victory of the eleven tribes), but they were all guilty to some degree.\u00a0\u00a0We aren\u2019t told all the details, but we can trust God, that He worked it all out just right.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#0013a3;\"><em>Pastor John<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>*\u00a0<span style=\"color:#3366ff;\"><a style=\"color:#3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/goingtojesus.com\/gtj_translation.html?tname=judges#CH20\">https:\/\/goingtojesus.com\/gtj_translation.html?tname=judges#CH20<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pastor John, In Judges 20*, why were the first two sets of Israelite men defeated when they were fighting at Gibeah?\u00a0 They inquired of Jehovah, and He said go, but it wasn&#8217;t until the third time they fought that they won the battle. Michelle ========== Hi Michelle. God\u2019s justice was perfect.\u00a0\u00a0The men of Gibeah could [&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-13229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13229"}],"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=13229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}