{"id":3506,"date":"2014-10-02T09:13:21","date_gmt":"2014-10-02T14:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/wp\/?p=3506"},"modified":"2014-10-02T09:13:21","modified_gmt":"2014-10-02T14:13:21","slug":"revelation-chapter-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/?p=3506","title":{"rendered":"Revelation Chapter 8"},"content":{"rendered":"Today we are reading chapter eight of Revelation.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>Verse 13 – \u201cWoe, woe, woe to the inhabitants of the earth.\u201d\u00a0 It is hard to imagine this type of destruction occurring.\u00a0 It is equally hard to imagine our loving God is the one pouring out this judgment.\u00a0 We are encouraged to cheer and celebrate that a better day is coming, and it is, however, there has to be a cleansing first.\u00a0 To create a crime free zone, criminals must be caught, punished, and hopefully rehabilitated.\u00a0 Right now Jesus has come to seek and to save that which is lost.\u00a0 You and I are sinners that Jesus came to seek.\u00a0 He desires to capture us by His Spirit and His love which he demonstrated on the cross.\u00a0 Jesus took our punishment and now Christ \u201crehabilitates us\u201d; really God condemns the old and makes us new in Christ.\u00a0 Don\u2019t get so worldly minded that we think this earth is our home.\u00a0 One day after the renovation work of God we will return with Christ and we will make it our home for His glory.\u00a0 For now we are to warn the people of judgment and point them to their only hope found in Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"excerpt","protected":false},"author":1167,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","filesize_raw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible-reading"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3506"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3507,"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3506\/revisions\/3507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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<\/a>Verse 13 – \u201cWoe, woe, woe to the inhabitants of the earth.\u201d\u00a0 It is hard to imagine this type of destruction occurring.\u00a0 It is equally hard to imagine our loving God is the one pouring out this judgment.\u00a0 We are encouraged to cheer and celebrate that a better day is coming, and it is, however, there has to be a cleansing first.\u00a0 To create a crime free zone, criminals must be caught, punished, and hopefully rehabilitated.\u00a0 Right now Jesus has come to seek and to save that which is lost.\u00a0 You and I are sinners that Jesus came to seek.\u00a0 He desires to capture us by His Spirit and His love which he demonstrated on the cross.\u00a0 Jesus took our punishment and now Christ \u201crehabilitates us\u201d; really God condemns the old and makes us new in Christ.\u00a0 Don\u2019t get so worldly minded that we think this earth is our home.\u00a0 One day after the renovation work of God we will return with Christ and we will make it our home for His glory.\u00a0 For now we are to warn the people of judgment and point them to their only hope found in Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"excerpt","protected":false},"author":1167,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","filesize_raw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible-reading"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3506"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3507,"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3506\/revisions\/3507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}