{"id":6346,"date":"2015-12-16T20:59:22","date_gmt":"2015-12-16T20:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=6346"},"modified":"2015-12-16T20:59:22","modified_gmt":"2015-12-16T20:59:22","slug":"nehemiah-1036","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/6346\/nehemiah-1036\/","title":{"rendered":"Nehemiah 10:36"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Hi Pastor John,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">I have been enjoying reading Nehemiah, lately.\u00a0 In\u00a010:36, Nehemiah is bringing the firstfruits, tithes, on other things into the Temple, but &#8220;also the firstfruits of our\u00a0sons . . .&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">We know in the Law that God chose the Levites to be his priests and judges instead of the firstborn sons of Israel because of what happened on Mount Sinai with the Golden Calf.\u00a0 At this time in Nehemiah, would the firstborn sons\u00a0be given to help the Priests, such as gather wood, take care of the animals, and such?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Billy<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">============<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>Hi Billy.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>No, the firstborn sons were never chosen for such work by God.\u00a0 Every firstborn son of Israel belonged to God, even after the event in Exodus that led to God giving the priesthood to the tribe of Levi instead of the firstborn, but the firstborn son had to be redeemed with\u00a0money\u00a0(Ex. 34:20), and that redemption money was what was brought to the Lord in Nehemiah 10:36.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>Pastor John<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Pastor John, I have been enjoying reading Nehemiah, lately.\u00a0 In\u00a010:36, Nehemiah is bringing the firstfruits, tithes, on other things into the Temple, but &#8220;also the firstfruits of our\u00a0sons . . .&#8221; We know in the Law that God chose the Levites to be his priests and judges instead of the firstborn sons of Israel [&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-6346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6346"}],"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=6346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}