{"id":63830,"date":"2023-05-07T14:34:47","date_gmt":"2023-05-07T14:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=63830"},"modified":"2023-05-07T14:34:47","modified_gmt":"2023-05-07T14:34:47","slug":"a-tale-of-two-tribes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=63830","title":{"rendered":"A tale of two tribes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anthropologists have it that there are over 650 tribes in the world. Missiologists put the figure at over 16,000. *My own understanding of the sum total of the Bible on the other hand divides our world into two tribes: * the Wicked and the Righteous.*<\/p>\n<p>*The tribe of the righteous* is described as godly, just, truthful, loyal and generous. Whenever and wherever they rise to power, there is joy and gladness. *The Lord has his eyes on them, to preserves them*, their legacies and offspring. (Psalms 1, 34, 37)<\/p>\n<p>*The tribe of the wicked is characterised as* ungodly, unjust, untruthful, treacherous violent and oppressive. Whenever and wherever they rise to power, they spread misery. *They have no place with God and no enduring legacy* (Ps.1:6)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have seen wicked and ruthless people \u00a0flourishing like a tree in its native soil. But when I looked again, they were gone&#8230; \u00a0Look at those who are honest and good, for a wonderful future awaits them&#8221; (Psalm 37:13-15)<\/p>\n<p>*Which is your tribe?*<\/p>\n<p>\u25aa\ufe0e \u00a9 Buti Sam KPUTU<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anthropologists have it that there are over 650 tribes in the world. Missiologists put the figure at over 16,000. *My own understanding of the sum total of the Bible on the other hand divides our world into two tribes: * the Wicked and the Righteous.* *The tribe of the righteous* is described as godly, just, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":63831,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5772],"tags":[5811,5812,1289],"class_list":["post-63830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-faith","tag-righteous","tag-tribes","tag-wicked"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/63831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}