{"id":25493,"date":"2026-02-18T12:37:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T17:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/?p=25493"},"modified":"2026-02-18T12:48:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T17:48:27","slug":"the-lord-was-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/the-lord-was-there\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lord Was There"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Because thou hast said, These two nations and these two countries shall be mine, and we will possess it; whereas the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord<\/span> was there: (Ezekiel 35:10)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Edom&#8217;s princes saw the whole country left desolate and counted upon its easy conquest; but there was one great difficulty in their way\u2014quite unknown to them\u2014\u201c<i>The<\/i> Lord <i>was there<\/i>\u201d; and in His presence lay the special security of the chosen land. Whatever may be the machinations and devices of the enemies of God&#8217;s people, there is still the same effectual barrier to thwart their plan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The saints are God&#8217;s heritage, and He is among them and will protect His own. This assurance grants us comfort in our troubles and spiritual conflicts! We are constantly opposed and yet perpetually preserved! How often Satan shoots his arrows against our <i>faith<\/i>, but our faith defies the power of hell&#8217;s fiery darts; they are not only turned aside, but they are quenched upon its shield, for \u201cthe Lord was there.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><i>Our good works<\/i> are the subjects of Satan&#8217;s attacks. A believer never yet had a virtue or a grace that was not the target for hellish bullets: whether it was bright and sparkling hope, or warm and fervent love, or all-enduring patience, or zeal flaming like coals of fire, the old enemy of everything that is good has tried to destroy it. The only reason why anything virtuous or lovely survives in us is this: \u201cthe Lord was there.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If the Lord is with us through life, we do not need to fear death; for when we come to die, we will find that \u201cthe Lord is <i>there<\/i>.\u201d Where the billows are most tempestuous, and the water is most chill, we shall feel the bottom and know that it is good; our feet shall stand upon the Rock of Ages when time is passing away. Dear friend, from the beginning of a Christian&#8217;s life to the end, the only reason he does not perish is because \u201c<i>the<\/i> Lord <i>was there<\/i>.\u201d When the God of everlasting love shall change and leave His elect to perish, then may the church of God be destroyed; but not until then, because it is written, JEHOVAH SHAMMAH, \u201c<i>The Lord was there<\/i>.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because thou hast said, These two nations and these two countries shall be mine, and we will possess it; whereas the Lord was there: (Ezekiel 35:10)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25494,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[22,8,27],"tags":[366,367,365],"class_list":["post-25493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bible-errors","category-bible-study","category-bible-teaching","tag-edom","tag-jehovah-shammah","tag-lord","has-thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}