{"id":5531,"date":"2015-02-19T22:21:29","date_gmt":"2015-02-19T22:21:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=5531"},"modified":"2015-02-19T22:21:29","modified_gmt":"2015-02-19T22:21:29","slug":"sometimes-evil-wins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/5531\/sometimes-evil-wins\/","title":{"rendered":"Sometimes, Evil Wins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pastor John,<\/p>\n<p>I have really enjoyed our Old Testament study.\u00a0 Thanks for all the time you put in it so that we can learn the bible.\u00a0 Jimmy has done a nice job.\u00a0 We read the story of Ahab, Jezebel and Naboth.\u00a0 I remember when you told us that evil does win sometimes.\u00a0 That&#8217;s what I thought about when I read that story.\u00a0 Naboth was righteous and he died by the hands of the unrighteous.\u00a0 Ahab and Jezebel may have thought they could get by, but no one ever does.\u00a0 Jesus is our near kinsman. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\"> Natalie<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color:#000000;\"> ==========<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>Amen, Natalie.\u00a0 The old saying, &#8220;He who laughs last laughs best&#8221;, comes to mind when I think of this terrifying portion of scripture:<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Proverbs 1:24-28 KJV<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color:#000000;\"> [24] Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded; [25] But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof: [26] I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh; [27] When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you. [28] Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">Let the world and even unwise children of God laugh and mock us; only, dear God, may we never hear the Almighty laugh at our calamity and mock at our fear!\u00a0 May He always be our Redeemer, our avenging Near Kinsman!<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"> Pastor John<\/span> <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pastor John, I have really enjoyed our Old Testament study.\u00a0 Thanks for all the time you put in it so that we can learn the bible.\u00a0 Jimmy has done a nice job.\u00a0 We read the story of Ahab, Jezebel and Naboth.\u00a0 I remember when you told us that evil does win sometimes.\u00a0 That&#8217;s what I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5531"}],"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=5531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}