{"id":3741,"date":"2014-07-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-04T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/oyb\/why-are-the-nations-so-angry-why-do-they-waste-their-time-with-futile-plans-psalm-21-nlt\/"},"modified":"2014-07-04T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-07-04T00:00:00","slug":"why-are-the-nations-so-angry-why-do-they-waste-their-time-with-futile-plans-psalm-21-nlt","status":"publish","type":"oyb","link":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/oyb\/why-are-the-nations-so-angry-why-do-they-waste-their-time-with-futile-plans-psalm-21-nlt","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Why are the nations so angry? Why do they waste their time with futile plans?&#8221; (Psalm 2:1 NLT)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On this date when Americans celebrate Independence Day, we are appropriately thankful for God&#8217;s blessing on the USA. Yet, many of us are troubled by the news of nations and terrorists threatening war and violence in the world. This same verse from Psalms 2 was quoted in prayer by the first century Christians (Acts 4:25-26) when they were being persecuted by their political leaders for preaching the gospel. They prayed that God would handle the threats and &#8220;futile plans&#8221; of leaders like Pilate and Herod, while giving them boldness to keep preaching the Word. So, on this July 4th, I&#8217;m praying like they did. Kings and rulers may plot against the Lord&#8217;s anointed, against Christ and His Church, but the Lord God who rules in heaven &#8220;laughs&#8221; (Psa. 2:4) at them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On this date when Americans celebrate Independence Day, we are appropriately thankful for God&#8217;s blessing on the USA. Yet, many of us are troubled by the news of nations and terrorists threatening war and violence in the world. This same verse from Psalms 2 was quoted in prayer by the first century Christians (Acts 4:25-26) when they were being persecuted by their political leaders for preaching the gospel. They prayed that God would handle the threats and &#8220;futile plans&#8221; of leaders like Pilate and Herod, while giving them boldness to keep preaching the Word. So, on this July 4th, I&#8217;m praying like they did. Kings and rulers may plot against the Lord&#8217;s anointed, against Christ and His Church, but the Lord God who rules in heaven &#8220;laughs&#8221; (Psa. 2:4) at them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"scripture-book":[1286],"scripture-chapter":[1335],"oyb_day":[1712],"location":[],"class_list":["post-3741","oyb","type-oyb","status-publish","hentry","scripture-book-psalms","scripture-chapter-1335","oyb_day-july-4"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oyb\/3741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oyb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/oyb"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3741"},{"taxonomy":"scripture-book","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/scripture-book?post=3741"},{"taxonomy":"scripture-chapter","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/scripture-chapter?post=3741"},{"taxonomy":"oyb_day","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oyb_day?post=3741"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=3741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}