{"id":188,"date":"2008-09-29T17:10:47","date_gmt":"2008-09-29T21:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/Correspondence\/?p=188"},"modified":"2008-09-29T17:10:47","modified_gmt":"2008-09-29T21:10:47","slug":"accepting-the-prophets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/188\/accepting-the-prophets\/","title":{"rendered":"Accepting the Prophets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Hey Pastor John,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">I have a quick question for you\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">How come Old Testament children of Israel accepted the old prophets of God and Godly<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color:#000000;\">kings and all them, But did not accept Jesus who also was sent by God?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Steven<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">==========<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>Hi Steven:<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>In their time, those prophets were persecuted by most of the Jews, just as Jesus was.\u00a0 It was only later, when God&#8217;s servants were safely in their graves, that the majority of God&#8217;s OT people\u00a0began to honor\u00a0them as holy men of God.\u00a0 As for Israel&#8217;s righteous kings, they could demand submission, so the people would seem to honor\u00a0them.\u00a0\u00a0In David&#8217;s case,\u00a0as great a man of God as he was, and as powerful a king as he was, it is clear that most Israelites did not agree with his doctrine in his time.\u00a0 There were at least\u00a0two great rebellions of the nation against him, one of them led by his own son Absalom.\u00a0 And in king\u00a0Josiah&#8217;s story, we see\u00a0that, no matter how it appeared while he lived, after a righteous king died, the people in general ran back to the kind of life they really loved.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>Good question.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>Pastor John<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey Pastor John, I have a quick question for you\u2026 How come Old Testament children of Israel accepted the old prophets of God and Godly kings and all them, But did not accept Jesus who also was sent by God? Steven ========== Hi Steven: In their time, those prophets were persecuted by most of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188"}],"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=188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}