{"id":4811,"date":"2023-06-09T20:16:10","date_gmt":"2023-06-10T01:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nazareneblogs.org\/pastorscott\/?p=4811"},"modified":"2023-06-09T20:16:10","modified_gmt":"2023-06-10T01:16:10","slug":"devotional-on-2-kings-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/devotional-on-2-kings-27\/","title":{"rendered":"Devotional on 2 Kings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure style=\"width: 1600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-Io4zg0hVz0Y\/XoIiaFgseWI\/AAAAAAABEbE\/eyaepaBNOps-gj7N0zuFVb6zuY-fQUd2wCKgBGAsYHg\/s1600\/IMG_6045.JPG\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1200\" class=\"size-large\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">2017 &#8211; Badlands National Park, SD<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nThe nation that ignores God<br \/>\n2Kings 17: They lived a &#8220;nothing&#8221; life and became &#8220;nothings.&#8221;<br \/>\nThe 17th chapter of Second Kings is the epitaph of the Kingdom of Israel. After centuries of ups and mostly downs they exhaust the patience of God. The Lord hands them over to their enemies and the citizens are removed from their beloved land to live in exile the rest of their days. God&#8217;s verdict is clearly stated: &#8220;the exile came about because of sin&#8230;they had accumulated a long list of evil actions and God was fed up&#8230;God said, &#8216;Don&#8217;t!&#8217; but they did it anyway.&#8221; For decades it has appeared that they can brush God Jehovah off and do things their own way. They\u2019ve behaved as though his Commandments are mere suggestions that don\u2019t really apply. Traveling that road has brought them to its only possible destination and now they\u2019ve arrived: &#8220;they lived a &#8216;nothing&#8217; life and became &#8216;nothings.'&#8221; What happens to a nation that\u2019s been abundantly blessed by God but persistently chooses to ignore him and his ways? This chapter ought to really frighten us.<br \/>\nTake Away: The future is dim for a nation that ignores the Lord and his blessings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The nation that ignores God 2Kings 17: They lived a &#8220;nothing&#8221; life and became &#8220;nothings.&#8221; The 17th chapter of Second Kings is the epitaph of the Kingdom of Israel. After centuries of ups and mostly downs they exhaust the patience of God. The Lord hands them over to their enemies and the citizens are removed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1479,7],"tags":[117,257,336],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4811"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4811"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14492,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4811\/revisions\/14492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}