{"id":502,"date":"2021-01-20T12:03:47","date_gmt":"2021-01-20T12:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/176.32.230.18\/swordmagazine.net\/?p=502"},"modified":"2021-02-21T17:53:52","modified_gmt":"2021-02-21T17:53:52","slug":"how-jesus-taught-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/?p=502","title":{"rendered":"How Jesus taught &#8211; part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>How he used demonstrations of God\u2019s power to drive home his message<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Healing and other Biblical miracles teach us that Yahweh is the one true God, and Yeshua the Messiah. The following examples of the Lord\u2019s triumph over the powers of darkness result in many people placing their faith in the Lord.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>In 1 Kings chapter 18, God\u2019s faithful prophet Elijah challenges evil King Ahab\u2019s priests of Baal and Ashtoreth to a showdown on Mount Carmel to reveal Yahweh as Lord. An offering is placed on an altar and the challenge given to the respective deities to call down fire. The priests of Baal and Ashtoreth go first, and despite their strenuous efforts, nothing happens. Elijah now insists that the altar and offering be deluged with water to make it impossible for them to catch fire. He then humbly petitions the Lord to show His power. Fire immediately descends from heaven, consuming the offering. Elijah then commands the people to put the false prophets to death.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:more --><\/p>\n<div class=\"swpm-more-tag-not-logged-in swpm-margin-top-10\">You need to login to view the rest of the content. Please <a class=\"swpm-login-link\" href=\"http:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/?page_id=733&swpm_redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fswordmagazine.net%2Findex.php\">Login<\/a>. Not a Member? <a href=\"http:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/?page_id=731\">Join Us<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How he used demonstrations of God\u2019s power to drive home his message Healing and other Biblical miracles teach us that Yahweh is the one true [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[31],"tags":[49],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=502"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":857,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502\/revisions\/857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}