{"id":2412,"date":"2012-11-26T08:27:39","date_gmt":"2012-11-26T12:27:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=2412"},"modified":"2012-11-26T10:01:44","modified_gmt":"2012-11-26T14:01:44","slug":"a-hot-stove","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=2412","title":{"rendered":"A hot stove"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Standing like an enemy, He has bent His bow.\u00a0 With His right hand, like an adversary, He has slain all\u00a0 who were\u00a0 pleasing to His eye.\u00a0 On the tent of the daughter of Zion, He has poured out His fury like fire. The Lord was like an enemy. He has swallowed up Israel, He has swallowed up all her palaces. He has destroyed her strongholds, and has increased mourning and lamentation in the daughter of Judah.\u00a0\u00a0 Lamentations 2:4-5<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We may liken the wrath of God to a pot of water on a hot stove which is slowly brought to a boil by the wickedness of mankind, and then poured out in fury on them on the day of judgement.\u00a0 He has poured out His fury like fire.<\/p>\n<p>We may also (or rather?) liken the wrath of God to the stove itself, dangerously hot to be sure, but only to those who approach it in a careless manner.\u00a0 The Lord is <em>like<\/em> an enemy.\u00a0 He actually\u00a0is the lover of mankind.\u00a0 Not the enemy.\u00a0 But if in our foolish and rebellious hearts we regard Him as the enemy,\u00a0there are consequences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Standing like an enemy, He has bent His bow.\u00a0 With His right hand, like an adversary, He has slain all\u00a0 who were\u00a0 pleasing to His eye.\u00a0 On the tent of the daughter of Zion, He has poured out His fury like fire. The Lord was like an enemy. He has swallowed up Israel, He has &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=2412\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A hot stove&#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\/2412"}],"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=2412"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2416,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2412\/revisions\/2416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}