{"id":1765,"date":"2012-06-12T08:17:51","date_gmt":"2012-06-12T12:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=1765"},"modified":"2012-06-14T08:35:35","modified_gmt":"2012-06-14T12:35:35","slug":"joel-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=1765","title":{"rendered":"(Joel 1) Turn toward the light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Alas for the day! For the day of the Lord is at hand; It shall come as destruction from the Almighty.\u00a0Is not the food cut off before our eyes, Joy and gladness from the house of our God?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The wages of sin is death.\u00a0 Idolatry is compensated with destruction.\u00a0 God does not delight in these things. Death and destruction should cause us to repent, to turn away from sin and idolatry,\u00a0and turn toward the light, the life, and the joy of obedience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alas for the day! For the day of the Lord is at hand; It shall come as destruction from the Almighty.\u00a0Is not the food cut off before our eyes, Joy and gladness from the house of our God? The wages of sin is death.\u00a0 Idolatry is compensated with destruction.\u00a0 God does not delight in these &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=1765\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;(Joel 1) Turn toward the light&#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\/1765"}],"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=1765"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1776,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1765\/revisions\/1776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}