{"id":2278,"date":"2012-10-18T08:38:29","date_gmt":"2012-10-18T12:38:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=2278"},"modified":"2012-10-19T09:03:24","modified_gmt":"2012-10-19T13:03:24","slug":"a-fire-that-will-burn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=2278","title":{"rendered":"A fire that will burn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron.\u00a0\u00a0With the point of a diamond it is engraved on the tablet of their heart, and on the horns of your altars&#8230;and I will cause you to serve your enemies in the land which you do not know; for you have kindled a fire in My anger which shall burn forever.\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremiah 17:1-4<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The LORD&#8217;s anger was kindled against His own people, who had rebelled against Him time and again.\u00a0 The fire of the LORD&#8217;s judgement is said to burn<em> forever.\u00a0 <\/em>Forever may refer to endless duration.\u00a0 As my great-grandfather used to say, &#8220;you know, forever is a long time&#8221;.\u00a0 Or it\u00a0may\u00a0refer to the quality of the fire itself; it is an unquenchable fire, a fire that will burn as long as it takes.\u00a0 Either way, the fire of the LORD&#8217;s anger is not something we want any part of.\u00a0 That is why we pray now, &#8220;Lord, have mercy&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron.\u00a0\u00a0With the point of a diamond it is engraved on the tablet of their heart, and on the horns of your altars&#8230;and I will cause you to serve your enemies in the land which you do not know; for you have kindled a fire in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=2278\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A fire that will burn&#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\/2278"}],"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=2278"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2280,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2278\/revisions\/2280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}