{"id":391,"date":"2009-06-19T21:06:55","date_gmt":"2009-06-20T01:06:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/Correspondence\/?p=391"},"modified":"2009-06-19T21:06:55","modified_gmt":"2009-06-20T01:06:55","slug":"the-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/391\/the-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"The Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bro. John:<\/span><\/p>\n

I have read your message on “The Earth” several times now, and I marvel at the wisdom as I read what God is showing to us.\u00a0 How many people in the world today do you think have such insight into what is really happening?\u00a0 How many realize that there is a great Creator who has total control over hearts and all events that are occurring this very minute?\u00a0 Yet, He has chosen to open up our eyes to\u00a0His truth.\u00a0 Keep us humble, Lord.<\/span><\/p>\n

I never really understood completely why God loves Israel so, except that they were His first chosen people.\u00a0 But to understand now through that verse in Isaiah 66 that, as you said, “what has prevented the \u201cpeoples, and multitudes, and nations\u201d of this world from destroying Israel is the influence of God\u2019s New Testament saints on the world, with their prayers and their love for Israel,”<\/em> and<\/span> that Israel is the nation “through whom the Savior came”<\/em> puts in my heart the same feelings God has for His Son and for Israel.\u00a0 God must want us who were “born in one step”<\/em>, to understand the importance of Israel in our lives and the importance of the saints’ prayers for Israel.\u00a0 And, as always, the importance of His precious Son.\u00a0 Because of Israel’s rejection of God’s Son, and God being a jealous God, we became the recipient of such love.\u00a0 And it makes us love Israel more, knowing that they do not yet know their Savior — but that one day they will.\u00a0 It makes that verse in Zechariah 3:6 so special: “And one shall say unto him, What are these wounds in thine hands? Then he shall answer, Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends.”<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Reading what you wrote here: “The False Prophet, the servant of Satan and the Beast, was the kind of soil that, at first, bore great fruit, but then, near the harvest, it all turned bitter. May God help us to be the kind of earth that, with patience and understanding, bears good fruit until the end”<\/em>, reminds me of a verse in Zephaniah 3:16:<\/span><\/p>\n

“In that day, it shall be said to <\/em>Jerusalem<\/em>, Fear thou not: and to <\/em>Zion<\/em>, Let not thine hands be slack<\/span>.”<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

I pray that our hands and hearts do not become slack in the things of God, and that we recognize when He reveals to us His wisdom.\u00a0 God is so big, Bro. John, I’m sure at times I miss some of Him.\u00a0 It takes being still and spending time with Him so we can take in His feelings.\u00a0 The importance of what God sends is not just for our understanding, but so that our hands will not be slack in passing it on,\u00a0and as you wrote, “bears good fruit until the end.”<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

There are a lot of sobering feelings in what you wrote in “The Earth”<\/em>.\u00a0 God has revealed something tender and something terrifying.\u00a0 I was not able to take it all in Wednesday night.\u00a0 But He took time to show it to you so that you might show it to us.\u00a0 I want to take time to hear Him and feel His feelings.<\/span><\/p>\n

Thank you.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sandy<\/span><\/p>\n

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Bro. John: I have read your message on “The Earth” several times now, and I marvel at the wisdom as I read what God is showing to us.\u00a0 How many people in the world today do you think have such insight into what is really happening?\u00a0 How many realize that there is a great Creator […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391"}],"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=391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}