{"id":13585,"date":"2023-01-19T21:37:03","date_gmt":"2023-01-19T21:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=13585"},"modified":"2023-01-19T21:37:03","modified_gmt":"2023-01-19T21:37:03","slug":"the-prophets-margo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/13585\/the-prophets-margo\/","title":{"rendered":"The Prophets: Margo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Hi Pastor John,<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">I hope you are well.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">I have a question related to the message\u00a0<u>Sunday morning<\/u>.\u00a0 When God started speaking through the prophets about Jesus, did they understand the prophecies?\u00a0 At what point was it understood that He was revealing things to come and preparing His people?\u00a0 I cannot imagine how David must have felt. To be praying and speaking on one thing and for those nuggets to be revealed.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">The message on Sunday makes me want to go through and read the Old Testament again.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Thank you,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Margo<\/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 Margo.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><em><span style=\"color: #0013a3\">The prophets all died without understanding any of their prophecies about Christ.\u00a0 We are not told when, but God did let them know that they were prophesying about a future event, as Peter said:<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #0013a3\"><em>&#8220;Prophets who prophesied of the grace that has come to\u00a0you searched out and diligently inquired about this salvation, trying to determine who or what time the Spirit of Christ which was in them was indicating when it testified beforehand of the\u00a0sufferings of Christ and of the\u00a0glory that followed.\u00a0 To them, it was revealed that they were ministering those things not to themselves, but to\u00a0you,<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>which things are now reported to\u00a0you by those who preach the gospel to\u00a0you by the holy Spirit sent from heaven, into which things angels long to look (1Pet. 1:10\u201312).<\/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>Hi Pastor John, I hope you are well.\u00a0 I have a question related to the message\u00a0Sunday morning.\u00a0 When God started speaking through the prophets about Jesus, did they understand the prophecies?\u00a0 At what point was it understood that He was revealing things to come and preparing His people?\u00a0 I cannot imagine how David must have [&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-13585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13585"}],"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=13585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}