{"id":5863,"date":"2017-05-03T09:22:31","date_gmt":"2017-05-03T13:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/?post_type=oyb&#038;p=5863"},"modified":"2017-05-03T09:22:31","modified_gmt":"2017-05-03T13:22:31","slug":"in-those-days-there-was-no-king-in-israel-everyone-did-what-was-right-in-his-own-eyes-judges-176-nkjv","status":"publish","type":"oyb","link":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/oyb\/in-those-days-there-was-no-king-in-israel-everyone-did-what-was-right-in-his-own-eyes-judges-176-nkjv","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did what was right in his own eyes&#8221; (Judges 17:6 NKJV)."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"87a9p\" data-offset-key=\"1ail9-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"1ail9-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"1ail9-0-0\">This verse contains the theme of the book of Judges. In this book we see illustrated, in vivid and violent detail, the ugly chaos of a rudderless and relativistic culture. Western culture is already on its way to such an end, as it has increasingly embraced the same mantra. Without a mutually agreed upon and absolute moral standard of right and wrong, human society slides further and further down the slippery slope of sin.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"87a9p\" data-offset-key=\"abc2n-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"abc2n-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"abc2n-0-0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"87a9p\" data-offset-key=\"hcfo-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"hcfo-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"hcfo-0-0\">The stories in the book of Judges, and the news reports in our world today, make us long for a true king. It makes us long for a king like Jesus.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This verse contains the theme of the book of Judges. In this book we see illustrated, in vivid and violent detail, the ugly chaos of a rudderless and relativistic culture. Western culture is already on its way to such an end, as it has increasingly embraced the same mantra. Without a mutually agreed upon and absolute moral standard of right and wrong, human society slides further and further down the slippery slope of sin.<\/p>\n<p>The stories in the book of Judges, and the news reports in our world today, make us long for a true king. It makes us long for a king like Jesus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"scripture-book":[1274],"scripture-chapter":[1350],"oyb_day":[1650],"location":[],"class_list":["post-5863","oyb","type-oyb","status-publish","hentry","scripture-book-judges","scripture-chapter-1350","oyb_day-may-3"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oyb\/5863","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=5863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5863"},{"taxonomy":"scripture-book","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/scripture-book?post=5863"},{"taxonomy":"scripture-chapter","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/scripture-chapter?post=5863"},{"taxonomy":"oyb_day","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oyb_day?post=5863"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=5863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}