It is important for us to understand that God could withdraw His presence from His people, both in the Old Covenant and the New Covenant. Some religious leaders in the Old Testament presumed that God would never judge His people (Jeremiah 7:4), and some Christian leaders today do not think that God would judge Christians. However, the Bible explains, \u201cFor it is time for judgment to begin at the household of God; and if it begins with us, what will be the outcome for those who do not obey the gospel of God? And \u2018If the righteous is scarcely saved, what will become of the ungodly and the sinner?\u2019\u201d (1 Peter 4:17-18).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It is important for us to understand that God could withdraw His presence from His people, both in the Old Covenant and the New Covenant. Some religious leaders in the Old Testament presumed that God would never judge His people (Jeremiah 7:4), and some Christian leaders today do not think that God would judge Christians. However, the Bible explains, \u201cFor it is time for judgment to begin at the household of God; and if it begins with us, what will be the outcome for those who do not obey the gospel of God? And \u2018If the righteous is scarcely saved, what will become of the ungodly and the sinner?\u2019\u201d (1 Peter 4:17-18).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":924,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[208,29,207,206,92,90],"university":[],"class_list":["post-923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-1-peter-417-18","tag-church-history","tag-ezekiel-93","tag-increase-mather","tag-judgment","tag-repentance"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianunion.org\/america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianunion.org\/america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianunion.org\/america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianunion.org\/america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianunion.org\/america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=923"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/christianunion.org\/america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2126,"href":"https:\/\/christianunion.org\/america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923\/revisions\/2126"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianunion.org\/america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianunion.org\/america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianunion.org\/america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianunion.org\/america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=923"},{"taxonomy":"university","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianunion.org\/america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/university?post=923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}