{"id":5382,"date":"2022-12-20T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-21T00:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=5382"},"modified":"2022-12-10T16:42:07","modified_gmt":"2022-12-10T23:42:07","slug":"its-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=5382","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s War!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As we approach Christmas Day coming up this Sunday, we would do well to remember that it really wasn&#8217;t a &#8220;Silent Night,&#8221; as much as we enjoy that carol and others like it. Jesus&#8217; birth was an invasion and the battle is ongoing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I just noticed in my reading of the letters to the Seven Churches of Revelation (Revelation chapters 2 and 3) that there&#8217;s a comment element in each short letter: &#8220;the one who conquers,&#8221; ESV, or &#8220;to him who overcomes,&#8221; NKJV. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The one who conquers\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Will eat of the tree of life in the paradise of God, 2.7<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Will not be hurt by the second death, 2.11<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Will receive some of the hidden manna, 2.17<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Will receive authority over the nations, 2.26<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Will be clothed in white garments and not have his name blotted out of the book of life 3.5<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Will be a pillar in the temple of my God, 3.12<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Will sit with me on my throne, 3.21<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Conquering and overcoming imply there&#8217;s a battle. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tomorrow we&#8217;ll look at the beginning of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil. (1 John 3.8, ESV)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we approach Christmas Day coming up this Sunday, we would do well to remember that it really wasn&#8217;t a &#8220;Silent Night,&#8221; as much as we enjoy that carol and others like it. Jesus&#8217; birth was an invasion and the battle is ongoing. I just noticed in my reading of the letters to the Seven &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=5382\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">It&#8217;s War!<\/span> <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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8X9bo-1oO","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5382","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=5382"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5385,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5382\/revisions\/5385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}