{"id":2842,"date":"2013-11-24T08:39:04","date_gmt":"2013-11-24T16:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/?p=2842"},"modified":"2013-11-24T08:39:04","modified_gmt":"2013-11-24T16:39:04","slug":"a-foolish-national-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2013\/a-foolish-national-leader\/","title":{"rendered":"A Foolish National Leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Consider King David and God&#8217;s ways and purposes in 2 Samuel 24:1&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>And again the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he moved David against them to say, Go, number Israel and Judah.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I see God&#8217;s sovereignty at work. (I also believe He acted in <strong>complete justice and righteousness<\/strong>.)<\/p>\n<p>I read that verse and thought of this one: <!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The king&#8217;s heart is in the hand of the Lord, as the rivers of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will. -Proverbs 21:1<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I also see God using a national leader&#8217;s foolishness as <strong>the &#8220;mechanism&#8221; by which He launches judgment on an entire nation<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>And I wonder, not whether God does that today yet, but how and when.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m quite sure we are witnessing this today at various places around the world.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Or a national leader that did foolish things<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/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,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,20],"tags":[880],"class_list":["post-2842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity-101","category-youve-been-warned","tag-life-lessons"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJUJ-JQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}