{"id":1304,"date":"2012-01-31T08:01:44","date_gmt":"2012-01-31T12:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=1304"},"modified":"2012-01-31T09:14:02","modified_gmt":"2012-01-31T13:14:02","slug":"2-kings-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=1304","title":{"rendered":"(2 Kings 21) Choices have consequences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Then the LORD said through his servants the prophets: \u201cKing Manasseh of Judah has done many detestable things. He is even more wicked than the Amorites, who lived in this land before Israel. He has caused the people of Judah to sin with his idols.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hezekiah would have rolled over in his grave to hear of the wickedness of his son, Manasseh. It is very difficult to understand how such a wicked man could be the son of such a godly man.\u00a0 Each of us must choose, and God has given us that freedom of choice.\u00a0 But choices have consequences, both temporal and eternal. We are free to choose; we are not free of the consequences of those choices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Then the LORD said through his servants the prophets: \u201cKing Manasseh of Judah has done many detestable things. He is even more wicked than the Amorites, who lived in this land before Israel. He has caused the people of Judah to sin with his idols.&#8221; Hezekiah would have rolled over in his grave to hear &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=1304\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;(2 Kings 21) Choices have consequences&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1304"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1304"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1305,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1304\/revisions\/1305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}