{"id":2246,"date":"2018-09-27T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-27T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/?p=2246"},"modified":"2018-09-27T08:30:00","modified_gmt":"2018-09-27T15:30:00","slug":"how-to-ruin-a-watchman-or-a-prophet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/2018\/how-to-ruin-a-watchman-or-a-prophet\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Ruin a Watchman or a Prophet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For Sunday School in our congregation, we&#8217;ve been studying in Ezekiel. And that has included reading and studying about the watchman. This morning I ponder again the reality that watchmen get worn out and discouraged. Done for, really.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Where are those who have been tasked with sustaining and encouraging the watchman?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>And that reminds me of <a href=\"http:\/\/href=\"http:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/2009\/whatcha-here-fer\/\">Elijah<\/a>. He was mighty in spirit and valorous in deed. But then he got discouraged and went into hiding. &#8220;I&#8217;m the only one left, Lord, and they&#8217;re trying to find me to kill me.&#8221; God told him 7,000 people remained in Israel who hadn&#8217;t bowed to idols.<\/p>\n<p>So I ask: Where were those 7,000 when the prophet needed them?! Why did they leave him standing&#8230;and then fleeing&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/2006\/alone\/\">alone<\/a>&#8230;and lonely&#8230;and done with his ministry&#8230;and his life? <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>More importantly, where are those who will stand with the watchman or the prophet in our day? And why do leave him standing&#8230;alone&#8230;lonely&#8230;done in?<\/p>\n<p>Does anybody know? Does anyone even care? Truly? Enough? Tangibly?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-content\/uploads\/veryjealous-b.jpg\" alt=\"I have been very jealous for the LORD God of hosts (1 Kings 19:10)\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2249\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-content\/uploads\/veryjealous-b.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-content\/uploads\/veryjealous-b-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-content\/uploads\/veryjealous-b-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-content\/uploads\/veryjealous-b-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-content\/uploads\/veryjealous-b-668x501.jpg 668w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I wrote along these lines back in 2009 (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/2009\/whatcha-here-fer\/\">Whatcha Here Fer?<\/a>) and 2006 (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/2006\/alone\/\">Alone?<\/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>Hint: Just leave him standing alone.<!-- 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":[76],"tags":[48,64,45],"class_list":{"0":"post-2246","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-1-kings","7":"tag-hang-in-there","8":"tag-peace","9":"tag-tribulation","10":"h-entry","11":"hentry","12":"h-as-article"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJBV-Ae","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2246","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=2246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}