{"id":2507,"date":"2020-09-09T17:30:40","date_gmt":"2020-09-09T23:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=2507"},"modified":"2024-10-23T17:17:41","modified_gmt":"2024-10-23T23:17:41","slug":"it-came-as-predicted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=2507","title":{"rendered":"It came as predicted!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It came as scheduled. Temperatures had started to moderate in late August\/early September, highs in the 70s. Then, back to the upper 80s for us here in Monument (generally cooler than Colorado Springs and Denver). Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday hot, then, amazingly predicted before the hot days even started, SNOW on Tuesday. A 60-degree drop in temperature. As I write, it\u2019s 25 degrees, and we have about 5 inches of snow on the ground.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Friday’s weather forecast showing snow for the following Tuesday. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

What are the lessons? First, let\u2019s give thanks for the weather people. We had no way of knowing as late as Monday night that we would awaken Tuesday morning to cold and snow unless they had told us. Second, let\u2019s use \u201cprophecy\u201d to prepare. I unhooked my garden hoses, made sure the snow blower was ready for action, and postponed a couple of meetings.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n

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Snow came! Notice the aspen across the yard in full, green leaf.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

The purpose of prophecy in the Bible is not to satisfy curiosity about tomorrow but to change behavior today. When Jonah told the people of Nineveh that they would be destroyed in 40 days, they didn\u2019t get out their calendars, they repented (see Jonah 3<\/a>).\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The same might be true of \u201cnews\u201d and predictions about, say, how long COVID-19 restrictions will last. If I can use the news to prepare, great. If it\u2019s just idle speculation and curiosity, what\u2019s the point?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Third, let’s remember that things don’t always continue as they have been. The weather can turn on a dime. The pandemic reminds us of fact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They will say, \u201cWhere is the promise of his coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all things are continuing as they were from the beginning of creation.\u201d For they deliberately overlook this fact, that the heavens existed long ago, and the earth was formed out of water and through water by the word of God, and that by means of these the world that then existed was deluged with water and perished. (2 Peter 3.4 – 6, ESV)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It came as scheduled. Temperatures had started to moderate in late August\/early September, highs in the 70s. Then, back to the upper 80s for us here in Monument (generally cooler than Colorado Springs and Denver). Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday hot, then, amazingly predicted before the hot days even started, SNOW on Tuesday. A 60-degree drop … Continue reading It came as predicted!<\/span> →<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8X9bo-Er","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2507"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8293,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2507\/revisions\/8293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}