{"id":1697,"date":"2012-05-29T09:23:46","date_gmt":"2012-05-29T13:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=1697"},"modified":"2012-06-01T09:30:52","modified_gmt":"2012-06-01T13:30:52","slug":"2-chronicles-10-ultimately-a-mystery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=1697","title":{"rendered":"(2 Chronicles 10) Ultimately a mystery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>So the king did not listen to the people; for the turn of events was from God, that the Lord might fulfill His word, which He had spoken by the hand of Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The turn of events was from God.\u00a0 God is Sovereign over all.\u00a0 And yet, His sovereignty does not negate our choices.\u00a0 King Rehoboam foolishly decided to take the advice of the young men around him, and come down hard on his subjects.\u00a0 He made that decision.\u00a0 The Lord sealed the deal, so to speak.\u00a0 How do God&#8217;s sovereignty and human responsibility coincide? It is ultimately a mystery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So the king did not listen to the people; for the turn of events was from God, that the Lord might fulfill His word, which He had spoken by the hand of Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat. The turn of events was from God.\u00a0 God is Sovereign over all.\u00a0 And yet, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=1697\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;(2 Chronicles 10) Ultimately a mystery&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1697"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1697"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1698,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1697\/revisions\/1698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}