{"id":692,"date":"2008-12-07T17:45:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-07T17:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scquest.org\/malachi-217-36\/"},"modified":"2014-01-02T20:45:50","modified_gmt":"2014-01-03T02:45:50","slug":"malachi-217-36","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/?p=692","title":{"rendered":"Malachi 2:17-3:6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Malachi 2:17-3:6<br \/>\nWhy doesn&#8217;t God intervene to prevent injustice-and to punish evil?<br \/>\nIs. 43:24 -he is wearied by their iniquities<br \/>\nTruth to take home &#8211;<br \/>\nI. God&#8217;s judgment is certain!<br \/>\nDeath is certain (Heb. 9:27) taxes are certain, and His coming is<br \/>\ncertain.<br \/>\nA. Christ may come at any time<br \/>\nB. When he returns to earth, Christ will come to judge.<br \/>\nII. God&#8217;s judgment will be severe!<br \/>\nA. He will destoy everyone who does not belong to him (vs. 2; cf. Rev.<br \/>\n6:17; Matt. 24:50-51; 25:30,41,46)<br \/>\nB. He will purify the nation of Israel (vs. 2-5; cf. Matt. 24:30-31)<br \/>\nIII. Any delay is due to God&#8217;s patience-His longsuffering (vs 6; cf.<br \/>\nJames 1:17; Heb. 13:8; 2 Peter 3:3,8-9)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scgrotzke.blogspot.com\/\">www.scgrotzke.blogspot.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malachi 2:17-3:6 Why doesn&#8217;t God intervene to prevent injustice-and to punish evil? Is. 43:24 -he is wearied by their iniquities Truth to take home &#8211; I. God&#8217;s judgment is certain! Death is certain (Heb. 9:27) taxes are certain, and His &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/?p=692\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty-baptist"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34kFn-ba","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=692"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5016,"href":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692\/revisions\/5016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}