{"id":1699,"date":"2023-06-23T08:55:24","date_gmt":"2023-06-23T15:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mastersmindministry.org\/focus\/?p=1699"},"modified":"2023-06-23T08:55:24","modified_gmt":"2023-06-23T15:55:24","slug":"what-is-god-up-to-in-these-terrible-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mastersmindministry.org\/focus\/what-is-god-up-to-in-these-terrible-times\/","title":{"rendered":"What is God up to in these terrible times?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Discussion question for June 30, 2023<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Jeremiah asked: &#8220;Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why do all who are treacherous thrive?&#8221; in Jer 12:1, and the Psalmist asks the same questions regarding the wicked, evildoers, and corrupt rulers (Ps 94).\u00a0\u00a0 Why doesn&#8217;t God render justice against corrupt politicians?\u00a0 Why does He allow disgusting ideologies to be promoted in our country and in our educational systems?\u00a0 What should be our Christian response to these attacks against morality?\u00a0 Why doesn&#8217;t God use His sovereignty to wipe out our enemies? How is our time similar or dissimilar to the ancient Israelites? What emotional response is appropriate to this conflict? What does Go want us to do about it? How does 2 Pet 3:8-9 influence your thinking?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Discussion question for June 30, 2023 Jeremiah asked: &#8220;Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why do all who are treacherous thrive?&#8221; in Jer 12:1, and the Psalmist asks the same questions regarding the wicked, evildoers, and corrupt rulers (Ps 94).\u00a0\u00a0 Why doesn&#8217;t God render justice against corrupt politicians?\u00a0 Why does He allow disgusting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-questions-for-discussion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mastersmindministry.org\/focus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mastersmindministry.org\/focus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mastersmindministry.org\/focus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mastersmindministry.org\/focus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mastersmindministry.org\/focus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1699"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mastersmindministry.org\/focus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1700,"href":"https:\/\/mastersmindministry.org\/focus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1699\/revisions\/1700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mastersmindministry.org\/focus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mastersmindministry.org\/focus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mastersmindministry.org\/focus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}