{"id":5286,"date":"2015-01-02T15:06:20","date_gmt":"2015-01-02T15:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=5286"},"modified":"2015-01-02T15:06:20","modified_gmt":"2015-01-02T15:06:20","slug":"mark-1617-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/5286\/mark-1617-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark 16:17-18"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Pastor John,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">I came to my room to read with the thought of reading in Luke but when I opened my bible I stopped at Mark 16:17-18.\u00a0 I\u00a0read the scriptures and then got my print out of your translation and read again.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">I kept having a question come to mind.\u00a0 If the bible says &#8220;these signs shall follow them that believe,&#8221; and we don&#8217;t see these happening among us, what does that mean?\u00a0 Does this mean &#8220;all&#8221; of these signs, or occasionally 1 or 2 of them?\u00a0 Or should these signs should be an occurrence that happens daily among believers?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Michelle<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;font-family:Times New Roman;\">===========<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em><span style=\"font-family:Times New Roman;\">Hi Michelle.<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em><span style=\"font-family:Times New Roman;\">Good question.<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>Jesus is describing how it will be among those who truly believe in him.\u00a0 Obviously, these things do not happen all the time among us or God&#8217;s people as a whole.\u00a0 Jesus is just saying, &#8220;If you want to find those who truly belong to me, look for these signs.&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>Having said that, I hasten to add that when the body of Christ is healthy, these signs will be seen much more than they are seen today in the body of Christ.\u00a0 God&#8217;s people at this time in history, as a whole, are plundered, divided, confused, and spiritually weak. We need a visitation from the Lord to restore order in his earthly family, and that order comes through the working of His mighty power in His people.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>Pray for God&#8217;s people everywhere.\u00a0 We are sick.<\/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>Pastor John, I came to my room to read with the thought of reading in Luke but when I opened my bible I stopped at Mark 16:17-18.\u00a0 I\u00a0read the scriptures and then got my print out of your translation and read again.\u00a0\u00a0 I kept having a question come to mind.\u00a0 If the bible says &#8220;these [&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-5286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5286"}],"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=5286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}