{"id":5241,"date":"2021-11-17T10:34:44","date_gmt":"2021-11-17T15:34:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=5241"},"modified":"2021-11-18T17:55:22","modified_gmt":"2021-11-18T22:55:22","slug":"purposes-for-evil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=5241","title":{"rendered":"Purposes for Evil"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>2 Chron. 18:22<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yes, the Lord has purposes for evil! <br>The world is not out of control; <br>He knows what He&#8217;s doing up there! <br>You think He sits around without a care? <br>He said, &#8220;You are to entice him and prevail.&#8221; (21) <br>Talkin&#8217; &#8217;bout Micaiah and Jehoshaphat. <br>What else can we say about that? <br>Don&#8217;t you know? Said, &#8220;Go and do so&#8221;! <br>You might think the world is out of control  <br>But He got it in His hand, don&#8217;t you know? <br>You out there havin&#8217; fun while He&#8217;s gettin&#8217; it done. <br>He&#8217;s got it all wrapped up and won! <br>Yeah, the Lord can entice (He&#8217;s got it like that.); <br>Might use a whale or even a rat.<br>He can bring down trouble on your head <br>Or give you night mares in your bed. <br>See Zedekiah was the son of Chanaanah; <br>Smacked the cheek of the prophet, Micaiah. <br>Said, &#8220;How&#8217;d the Spirit go from me to you?&#8221; <br>Said Micaiah, &#8220;Take a look for yourself!<br>If you come back, I&#8217;m a lyin&#8217; elf!&#8221; <br>So Jehoshaphat, the king of Judah <br>Joined up with the king of Israel <br>&#8220;A disguise for the battle is the plan! <br>I&#8217;ll go to war like a regular man!&#8221; (29)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mid November, 2021<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2 Chron. 18:22 Yes, the Lord has purposes for evil! The world is not out of control; He knows what He&#8217;s doing up there! You think He sits around without a care? He said, &#8220;You are to entice him and prevail.&#8221; (21) Talkin&#8217; &#8217;bout Micaiah and Jehoshaphat. What else can we say about that? Don&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[48,50,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5241"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5241"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5253,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5241\/revisions\/5253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}