{"id":26,"date":"2008-03-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-16T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-03-16T08:05:03","modified_gmt":"2008-03-16T12:05:03","slug":"palm-sunday-among-the-agutaynens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/2008\/03\/16\/palm-sunday-among-the-agutaynens\/","title":{"rendered":"Palm Sunday among the Agutaynens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--StartImportPhoto--><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/files\/2008\/03\/1242_34477.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-104\" style=\"margin-right: 10px;margin-bottom: 5px\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/files\/2008\/03\/1242_34477.jpg\" alt=\"Claire with palm branches\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><!--EndImportPhoto--><\/p>\n<p>If you would&nbsp;observe the Agutaynens, you could easily think that they are Christians. But in reality, they have simply mixed the teaching of the &quot;local church&quot; with their animism. Satan has deceived them by giving them a small portion of the truth, without the whole Truth. For example, today was Palm Sunday. Several Agutaynens remembered Jesus&rsquo; Triumphant Entry into Jerusalem by taking palm branches with them to the &quot;church&quot;. There, the palm branches were &ldquo;blessed&rdquo;. The Agutaynens then take these branches to their homes or to their rice fields to assure safety, good health, and a bountiful rice harvest. As you can see, they have a bit of the truth, but Satan has deceived them into putting their trust in a <em><span class=\"boldText-blue\"><em>branch<\/em><\/span><\/em> instead of the <em><span class=\"boldText-blue\"><em>Creator<\/em><\/span><\/em> of that branch, our Savior Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n<p><strong>This week, for us, is a week of rejoicing&nbsp;in&nbsp;Jesus&#8217;&nbsp;death, burial and resurrection. However, the Agutaynens still fear God&rsquo;s wrath and search for how they can try to appease it. Please continue to pray for their salvation. <br \/><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Would you trust in a palm leaf to make your garden grow?  Or to heal your sick child?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}