{"id":2375,"date":"2012-11-17T07:41:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-17T11:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=2375"},"modified":"2012-11-23T08:11:50","modified_gmt":"2012-11-23T12:11:50","slug":"who-will-not-see","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=2375","title":{"rendered":"Who will not see"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>So Zedekiah the king swore secretly to Jeremiah, saying,\u00a0 &#8220;As\u00a0 the Lord lives, who made our very souls, I will not put you to death, nor will I give you into the hand of these men who seek your life.&#8221;\u00a0 Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, &#8220;Thus says the Lord, the God of hosts, the God of Israel: If you surely surrender\u00a0 to the king of Babylon&#8217;s princes, then your soul shall live; this city shall not be burned with fire, and you and your house shall live. But if you do not surrender to the king of Babylon&#8217;s princes, then this city shall be given into the hand of the Chaldeans; they shall burn it with fire, and you shall not escape from their hand.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremiah 38:16-18<\/em><\/p>\n<p>There would have been in Zedekiah&#8217;s voluntary surrender to the king of Babylon a kind of a surrender to the will of God.\u00a0 This is why a promise of life is given to him.\u00a0 And yet Zedekiah stubbornly refuses to submit even to this (the inevitable), and in so doing forfeits the lives of his own sons, and his own eyesight as well.\u00a0 Of a truth it has often been said: There is none so blind as those who<em>will not <\/em>see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So Zedekiah the king swore secretly to Jeremiah, saying,\u00a0 &#8220;As\u00a0 the Lord lives, who made our very souls, I will not put you to death, nor will I give you into the hand of these men who seek your life.&#8221;\u00a0 Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, &#8220;Thus says the Lord, the God of hosts, the God &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=2375\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Who will not see&#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\/2375"}],"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=2375"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2404,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2375\/revisions\/2404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}