{"id":7707,"date":"2016-06-27T00:05:21","date_gmt":"2016-06-27T07:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/?p=7707"},"modified":"2016-06-26T20:49:58","modified_gmt":"2016-06-27T03:49:58","slug":"time-for-some-punishment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2016\/06\/27\/time-for-some-punishment\/","title":{"rendered":"Time For Some Punishment"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><em>Then I said, \u201cO Sovereign LORD,<br \/>\nthe people have been deceived by what you said,<br \/>\nfor you promised peace for Jerusalem.<br \/>\nBut the sword is held at their throats!\u201d<br \/>\nThe time is coming when the LORD will say<br \/>\nto the people of Jerusalem,<br \/>\n\u201cMy dear people, a burning wind is blowing in from the desert,<br \/>\nand it\u2019s not a gentle breeze useful for winnowing grain.<br \/>\nIt is a roaring blast sent by me!<br \/>\nNow I will pronounce your destruction!\u201d<br \/>\nOur enemy rushes down on us like storm clouds!<br \/>\nHis chariots are like whirlwinds.<br \/>\nHis horses are swifter than eagles.<br \/>\nHow terrible it will be, for we are doomed!<br \/>\nO Jerusalem, cleanse your heart<br \/>\nthat you may be saved.<br \/>\nHow long will you harbor<br \/>\nyour evil thoughts?<br \/>\nYour destruction has been announced<br \/>\nfrom Dan and the hill country of Ephraim. (Jeremiah 4:10-15)<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>How could Jeremiah tell God that he had deceived his people?  Was he calling God a liar?  Not at all.  Instead, he was pointing out that the people of Israel had only listened selectively to what God had said. They comforted themselves with God\u2019s promises of blessing and conveniently ignored what they had to do to get them.  And they forgot the promised curses that were inevitable for disobedience.<\/p>\n<p>Like a cheating husband telling his betrayed wife, \u201cbut you said you would love me and honor me and always be there for me, in sickness and health\u201d when she serves him with divorce papers, so the Israelites seemed unable to wrap their heads around how the bad things they were facing could have anything to do with how they had betrayed God.  Just as God had promised peace for Jerusalem, so he had also promised its destruction: it was up to the Israelites which promise they were going to get. People tend to believe only what they want to believe.<\/p>\n<div class='kindleWidget kindleLight' ><img src=\"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-content\/plugins\/send-to-kindle\/media\/white-15.png\" \/><span>Send to Kindle<\/span><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Then I said, \u201cO Sovereign LORD, the people have been deceived by what you said, for you promised peace for Jerusalem. But the sword is held at their throats!\u201d The time is coming when the LORD will say to the &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2016\/06\/27\/time-for-some-punishment\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"yes"},"categories":[18,17,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7707"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7707"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7709,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7707\/revisions\/7709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}