{"id":25777,"date":"2025-05-16T17:22:25","date_gmt":"2025-05-17T00:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/?p=25777"},"modified":"2025-05-16T17:22:25","modified_gmt":"2025-05-17T00:22:25","slug":"a-warning-and-a-blessing-why-we-should-consider-it-a-great-privilege-to-live-in-such-a-time-as-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/a-warning-and-a-blessing-why-we-should-consider-it-a-great-privilege-to-live-in-such-a-time-as-this\/","title":{"rendered":"A Warning And A Blessing: Why We Should Consider It A Great Privilege To Live In Such A Time As This"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201c<em>May you live in interesting times.<\/em>\u201d This backhanded blessing is claimed to be derived from a Chinese curse. In reality, the expression is of English origin. \u201cInteresting times\u201d is a euphemism for times of trouble, making the blessing into a veiled warning of misfortune.<\/p>\n<p>Whether warning or blessing, we certainly live in interesting times.<\/p>\n<p>Many ministries that focus on Bible prophecy are emphasizing the rising darkness and pointing to developments that will come to fruition during the Tribulation\u2014after the Church has been raptured. Other evangelical ministries ignore any warning in their effort to emphasize only the grace and mercy of God\u2014leaving those who reject Jesus\u2019 offer of salvation oblivious that His wrath abides on them (<a class=\"rtBibleRef\" href=\"https:\/\/ref.ly\/John%203.36;kjv1900?t=biblia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-reference=\"John 3.36\" data-version=\"kjv1900\" data-purpose=\"bible-reference\">John 3:36<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Read more at: <a href=\"https:\/\/harbingersdaily.com\/a-warning-and-a-blessing-why-we-should-consider-it-a-great-privilege-to-live-in-such-a-time-as-this\/\">harbingersdaily.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cMay you live in interesting times.\u201d This backhanded blessing is claimed to be derived from a Chinese curse. In reality, the expression is of English origin. \u201cInteresting times\u201d is a euphemism for times of trouble, making the blessing into a veiled warning of misfortune. Whether warning or blessing, we certainly live in interesting times. Many &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/a-warning-and-a-blessing-why-we-should-consider-it-a-great-privilege-to-live-in-such-a-time-as-this\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Warning And A Blessing: Why We Should Consider It A Great Privilege To Live In Such A Time As This<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":21346,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/warning-300x100-300x100-1.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8fAkI-6HL","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25777"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25778,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25777\/revisions\/25778"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}