{"id":4465,"date":"2014-05-21T19:54:28","date_gmt":"2014-05-21T19:54:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=4465"},"modified":"2014-05-21T19:54:28","modified_gmt":"2014-05-21T19:54:28","slug":"as-a-thief-in-the-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/4465\/as-a-thief-in-the-night\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;as a thief in the night&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Pastor John,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">If \u200bJesus&#8217; return will not come &#8220;\u200bas a thief\u200b in the night&#8221;\u200b to God&#8217;s saints \u200b(just to the world)\u200b, that means 1) Jesus&#8217; return will not come \u200b&#8221;\u200bas a thief \u200b in the night&#8221;\u200b to the wise virgins only\u200b because t he foolish virgins are like the world and WILL be caught off-guard, correct?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">===============<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>Yes, Amanda, that is correct.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">===============<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">\u200band 2) \u200bT\u200bh \u200be\u200b delay \u200bin the Lord&#8217;s coming \u200bwill be \u200ba test for wise virgins \u200b,\u200b as these will be the faithful that are persecuted here on earth during that time, correct? \u200b \u200b<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">===============<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>Yes<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">===============<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">And\u200b will the foolish virgins be persecuted as well?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Amanda<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">===============<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>Some will, at first, but they will not be able to hold on to the faith, according to Jesus (Mt. 24:10).<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>Pastor John<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"gmail_default\" style=\"font:16px\/normal arial, sans-serif;color:#222222;text-transform:none;text-indent:0;letter-spacing:normal;word-spacing:0;white-space:normal;background-color:#ffffff;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;font-family:garamond, serif;font-size:large;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;font-family:garamond, serif;font-size:large;\">\u200b<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Pastor John, If \u200bJesus&#8217; return will not come &#8220;\u200bas a thief\u200b in the night&#8221;\u200b to God&#8217;s saints \u200b(just to the world)\u200b, that means 1) Jesus&#8217; return will not come \u200b&#8221;\u200bas a thief \u200b in the night&#8221;\u200b to the wise virgins only\u200b because t he foolish virgins are like the world and WILL be caught [&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-4465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4465"}],"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=4465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}