{"id":2347,"date":"2012-11-08T19:43:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-08T23:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=2347"},"modified":"2012-11-11T22:07:32","modified_gmt":"2012-11-12T02:07:32","slug":"a-difficult-thing-to-understand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=2347","title":{"rendered":"A difficult thing to understand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>&#8220;Behold, I am\u00a0 against you, O most haughty one!&#8221; says the Lord God of hosts; &#8220;For your day has come, the time that I will punish you.&#8221;\u00a0 Jeremiah 50:31<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It is a difficult thing to understand&#8212;the wrath of God.\u00a0 If His wrath were only ever expressed in a passive, indirect way, it would be easier to deal with.\u00a0 But is that true?\u00a0 The flood, the fire that fell on Sodom and Gomorrah: Passive?\u00a0 Indirect?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Behold, I am\u00a0 against you, O most haughty one!&#8221; says the Lord God of hosts; &#8220;For your day has come, the time that I will punish you.&#8221;\u00a0 Jeremiah 50:31 It is a difficult thing to understand&#8212;the wrath of God.\u00a0 If His wrath were only ever expressed in a passive, indirect way, it would be easier &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=2347\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A difficult thing to understand&#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\/2347"}],"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=2347"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2354,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2347\/revisions\/2354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}