{"id":352343,"date":"2026-08-07T07:37:54","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T11:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/?p=352343"},"modified":"2026-08-07T11:41:59","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T15:41:59","slug":"pruning-evil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/post\/pruning-evil\/","title":{"rendered":"Pruning Evil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"background-color: #f2f8fc; padding: 2em; border-left: 5px solid #ccc; margin: 1em 0;\"><p>For before the harvest, when the bud is perfect<br \/>\nAnd the sour grape is ripening in the flower,<br \/>\nHe will both cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks<br \/>\nAnd take away and cut down the branches. (Isaiah 18:5)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nWhen repentance for salvation is planted in a person&#8217;s life, it flourishes and produces the fruit of the Holy Spirit.<br \/>\nOnly those who have Him can remain with a clean life, separate from the world and far from evil, sanctifying His Name.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; For before the harvest, when the bud is perfect And the sour grape is ripening in the flower, He will both cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks And take away and cut down the branches. (Isaiah 18:5) &nbsp; When repentance for salvation is planted in a person&#8217;s life, it flourishes and produces the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":248,"featured_media":352345,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[323,6248,377],"tags":[],"site":[],"class_list":["post-352343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-school-of-faith","category-ester-bezerra","category-women"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/248"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352343"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":352344,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352343\/revisions\/352344"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352343"},{"taxonomy":"site","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/site?post=352343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}