{"id":5854,"date":"2024-08-29T09:32:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-29T09:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/?p=5854"},"modified":"2024-09-03T09:33:55","modified_gmt":"2024-09-03T09:33:55","slug":"faith-may-make-you-appear-foolish-until-it-begins-to-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/2024\/08\/29\/faith-may-make-you-appear-foolish-until-it-begins-to-rain\/","title":{"rendered":"FAITH MAY MAKE YOU APPEAR FOOLISH UNTIL &#8220;IT BEGINS TO RAIN&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Luk 17:26 &#8220;And as it was in the days of Noah, so it will be also in the days of the Son of Man . Luk 17:27 &#8220;They ate, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all.<\/p>\n<p>Noah was between the age of 525- 545 years old when he started building the ark. Bible scholars estimate that it took Noah between 55-75 years to build the ark( Answers In ). The Bible clearly records that Noah was 600 years old when the floods finally came. Certainly, the construction of the ark was a lengthy endeavor.<\/p>\n<p>But imagine how awkward Noah felt constructing an ark during a dry season? I am sure many people were convinced beyond any reasonable doubt that all was not well with him. He must have earned himself a nick name among the locals. But everything changed when it started  raining and the water levels started rising.<\/p>\n<p>Faith at times will make you appear foolish until it &#8220;begins to rain&#8221;.  Do not shy away from trusting God to release to you what appears impossible.  Gen 7:6 Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was on the earth.Gen 7:7 So Noah, with his sons, his wife, and his sons&#8217; wives, went into the ark because of the waters of the flood.<\/p>\n<p>Further readings:<br \/>\nMat 24:37,38<br \/>\nHeb 11:7<br \/>\n1Pe 3:20<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\ude4fBlessed Day\ud83d\ude4f<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luk 17:26 &#8220;And as it was in the days of Noah, so it will be also in the days of the Son of Man . Luk 17:27 &#8220;They ate, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5855,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5854"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5854"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5856,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5854\/revisions\/5856"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}