{"id":58441,"date":"2019-01-25T05:48:59","date_gmt":"2019-01-25T11:48:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prayingpint.com\/?p=58441"},"modified":"2019-01-22T08:49:17","modified_gmt":"2019-01-22T14:49:17","slug":"70-pay-careful-attention-to-him-and-obey-his-voice-do-not-rebel-against-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/2019\/01\/25\/70-pay-careful-attention-to-him-and-obey-his-voice-do-not-rebel-against-him\/","title":{"rendered":"70. Pay careful attention to him and obey his voice; do not rebel against him"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Joshua 5:13 \u00a0 <\/span>When Joshua was by Jericho, he lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, a man was standing before him with his drawn sword in his hand. And Joshua went to him and said to him, \u201cAre you for us, or for our adversaries?\u201d And he said, \u201cNo; but I am the commander of the army of the Lord. Now I have come.\u201d And Joshua fell on his face to the earth and worshiped and said to him, \u201cWhat does my lord say to his servant?\u201d And the commander of the Lord’s army said to Joshua, \u201cTake off your sandals from your feet, for the place where you are standing is holy.\u201d And Joshua did so.<\/p>\n

Exodus 23:20-22<\/b><\/span><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0\u201cBehold, I send an angel before you to guard you on the way and to bring you to the place that I have prepared.\u00a0\u00a0Pay careful attention to him and obey his voice; do not rebel against him, for he will not pardon your transgression, for my name is in him.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cBut if you carefully obey his voice and do all that I say, then I will be an enemy to your enemies and an adversary to your adversaries.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Interest in angels is at an all-time low in our culture, and few people long to have an encounter with them. However, while seeing an angel would be a remarkable event, even the angels themselves are far more concerned that we heed God\u2019s messages to us than they are that we see them face to face. We have in Scripture a message from the Lord delivered through the angels (Heb. 2:1\u20134<\/span><\/a>)\u201dTherefore we must pay much closer attention to what we have heard, lest we drift away from it.\u00a0For since\u00a0the message declared by angels proved to be reliable, and\u00a0every transgression or disobedience received a just\u00a0retribution,\u00a0how shall we escape if we\u00a0neglect such a great salvation? It was\u00a0declared at first by the Lord, and it was\u00a0attested to us\u00a0by those who heard,\u00a0while God also bore witness\u00a0by signs and wonders and various miracles and by\u00a0gifts of the Holy Spirit\u00a0distributed according to his will.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

It is that message we must trust, follow, and\u00a0obey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Joshua 5:13 \u00a0 When Joshua was by Jericho, he lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, a man was standing before him with his drawn sword in his hand. And Joshua went to him and said to him, \u201cAre you for us, or for our adversaries?\u201d And he said, \u201cNo; but I am the … Continue reading “70. Pay careful attention to him and obey his voice; do not rebel against him”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[856,9036,9037,8373,7086,9035,4699,9040,6536,9041,700,6447,9034,117,9039,3152,9,9038],"class_list":["post-58441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-prayers","tag-angel","tag-are-you-for-us","tag-commander-of-the-army","tag-do-all-i-say","tag-do-not-rebel","tag-drawn-sword","tag-guard-you","tag-he-will-not-pardon","tag-i-have-come","tag-i-will-be","tag-jericho","tag-joshua","tag-lifted-up-his-eyes","tag-obey","tag-pay-careful-attention","tag-prepared","tag-servant","tag-take-off-your-sandles"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58441"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58442,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58441\/revisions\/58442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}