{"id":2192,"date":"2018-01-17T06:43:05","date_gmt":"2018-01-17T14:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/?p=2192"},"modified":"2018-01-17T06:43:05","modified_gmt":"2018-01-17T14:43:05","slug":"before-you-go-about-rebuking-the-devil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/2018\/before-you-go-about-rebuking-the-devil\/","title":{"rendered":"Before You Go About Rebuking the Devil"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"lectura\" style=\"width:220px\">Reading:<\/p>\n<h3>2 Peter 2:9-11<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<p>Having wandered off to Matthew, Daniel, Hebrews, and Psalms the last few days, I finally get back to my trip through Peter&#8217;s epistles.<\/p>\n<p>If you want the background and context of these three verses, you could read (again?) what I last wrote from 2 Peter 2: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/2018\/before-judgment-times-of-mercy\/\">Before Judgment, Times of Mercy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Now, today&#8217;s verses&#8230; <!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"passage\">\n<ol>\n<li>The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:<\/li>\n<li>But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they, selfwilled, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities.<\/li>\n<li>Whereas angels, which are greater in power and might, bring not railing accusation against them before the Lord.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n<p>Peter&#8217;s focus locks onto people who&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>live according to their natural longings for moral contaminants.<\/li>\n<li>hold authority, authorities, and authority structures in contempt &#8212; a broad-reaching, wide-spanning attitude and disposition that encompasses both the human and spirit realms.<\/li>\n<li>with daring cockiness and arrogant familiarity, brashly spew forth their contempt with attitudes, speech, and techniques even God&#8217;s mighty angels dare not employ.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What about these ex-Christians (see verses 15 and 20-22)? God will punish them on the day of judgment. Meanwhile, He knows how to &#8220;reserve&#8221; them for that day. Though for the present they seem to get away with evil with impunity, they are not.<\/p>\n<p>But what&#8217;s in these several verses for me, who am not an ex-Christian? May I not be swept away by such people. May I not indulge their attitudes noted herein. May I not adopt their philosophies and techniques of spiritual warfare so called.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-content\/uploads\/thatthepowerofchrist-b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-content\/uploads\/thatthepowerofchrist-b.jpg\" alt=\"That the power of Christ may rest upon me (2 Corinthians 12:9)\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2195\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-content\/uploads\/thatthepowerofchrist-b.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-content\/uploads\/thatthepowerofchrist-b-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-content\/uploads\/thatthepowerofchrist-b-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-content\/uploads\/thatthepowerofchrist-b-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-content\/uploads\/thatthepowerofchrist-b-668x501.jpg 668w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/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>Check your perspective and guard your attitude!<!-- 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":[33],"tags":[103,105,52,60],"class_list":{"0":"post-2192","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-2-peter","7":"tag-humility","8":"tag-purity","9":"tag-speech","10":"tag-warning","11":"h-entry","12":"hentry","13":"h-as-article"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJBV-zm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}