{"id":25,"date":"2026-04-19T19:30:01","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T17:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kings-watchmen.co.za\/?page_id=25"},"modified":"2026-05-20T08:27:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T06:27:24","slug":"one-page-express","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.kings-watchmen.co.za\/","title":{"rendered":"Called to make a difference"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-vivid-red-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-3a56a8b5ffcbb0d951a3afcaa5d392e2 wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Ezekiel 33: 1-9<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-vivid-red-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-1a4c580b4d10101f37714f05a96a1fa6 wp-block-paragraph\">1 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-vivid-red-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-da1f2b23fd03624689a54e0a641ef5e5 wp-block-paragraph\">2 Son of man, speak to your people [the Israelite captives in Babylon] and say to them, When I bring the sword upon a land and the people of the land take a man from among them and make him their watchman,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-vivid-red-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-ba7fe3eda97ad69e639160315ab99429 wp-block-paragraph\">3 If when he sees the sword coming upon the land, he blows the trumpet and warns the people,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-vivid-red-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-917f72c06680f90be0f1f2758d8c2fb8 wp-block-paragraph\">4 Then whoever hears the sound of the trumpet and does not take warning, and the sword comes and takes him away, his blood shall be upon his own head.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-vivid-red-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-b1a6576ccc8af937970b2141fbd944bb wp-block-paragraph\">5 He heard the sound of the trumpet and did not take warning; his blood shall be upon himself. But he who takes warning shall save his life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-vivid-red-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-1e9c8aa515765e5d6937e8501978f720 wp-block-paragraph\">6 But if the watchman sees the sword coming and does not blow the trumpet and the people are not warned, and the sword comes and takes any one of them, he is taken away in and for his perversity and iniquity, but his blood will I require at the watchman&#8217;s hand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-vivid-red-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-15e05eb4afd4ee0c338218061ba798ba wp-block-paragraph\">7 So you, son of man, I have made you a watchman for the house of Israel; therefore hear the word at My mouth and give them warning from Me,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-vivid-red-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-0d1901678d4beb6aa887926638465cfe wp-block-paragraph\">8 When I say to the wicked, O wicked man, you shall surely die, and you do not speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked man shall die in his perversity and iniquity, but his blood will I require at your hand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-vivid-red-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-47d581d2ec9d77ef37e2569c48b5ec15 wp-block-paragraph\">9 But if you warn the wicked to turn from his evil way and he does not turn from his evil way, he shall die in his iniquity, but you will have saved your life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ezekiel 33: 1-9 1 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 2 Son of man, speak to your people [the Israelite captives in Babylon] and say to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-25","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kings-watchmen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kings-watchmen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kings-watchmen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kings-watchmen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kings-watchmen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.kings-watchmen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46,"href":"https:\/\/www.kings-watchmen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25\/revisions\/46"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kings-watchmen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}