{"id":178,"date":"2010-11-10T09:42:28","date_gmt":"2010-11-10T13:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=178"},"modified":"2010-11-10T09:42:32","modified_gmt":"2010-11-10T13:42:32","slug":"bless-the-world-through-his-people-genesis-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=178","title":{"rendered":"Bless the world through his people (Genesis 26)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Abimelech, king of the Philistines, was an upright man. He rebuked both Isaac and his father Abraham for lying in the same way. <\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, the Lord was with Isaac and blessed him. Abimelech acknowledged the same, and sought a treaty of peace with Isaac. <\/p>\n<p>God&#8217;s design is to bless the world through his people. As He promised Abraham, &#8220;All the families on earth will be blessed through you.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abimelech, king of the Philistines, was an upright man. He rebuked both Isaac and his father Abraham for lying in the same way. Nevertheless, the Lord was with Isaac and blessed him. Abimelech acknowledged the same, and sought a treaty of peace with Isaac. God&#8217;s design is to bless the world through his people. As &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=178\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bless the world through his people (Genesis 26)&#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":[5],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178"}],"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=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}