{"id":2448,"date":"2012-12-03T21:21:16","date_gmt":"2012-12-04T01:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=2448"},"modified":"2012-12-04T09:05:20","modified_gmt":"2012-12-04T13:05:20","slug":"simple-yet-forceful-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=2448","title":{"rendered":"Simple yet forceful words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego answered and said to the king, &#8220;O Nebuchadnezzar, we have no need to answer you in this matter&#8230;.our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and He will deliver us from your hand, O king.\u00a0 But if not, let it be known to you, O king, that we do not serve your gods, nor will we worship the gold image which you have set up.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0 Daniel 3:16-18<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He is able.&#8221;\u00a0 &#8220;And He will.&#8221;\u00a0 &#8220;But if not.&#8221;\u00a0 Where did such simple yet forceful words come from?\u00a0 We might imagine the three Hebrew youths recalling the proclamation of the prophet Isaiah as the guards brought them forward to stand before the king.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">He is able<\/span>.\u00a0 <em>Have you not known? Have you not heard? The everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth neither faints nor is weary.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">And He will<\/span>.\u00a0<em>\u00a0 H<\/em><em>e brings the princes to nothing.\u00a0 He makes the judges of the earth useless.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">But if not<\/span>.\u00a0 <em>Why do you say, O Jacob, and speak, O Israel: My way is hidden fom the Lord, and my just claim is passed over by my God?&#8230;Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall. But those who wait on the Lord&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego answered and said to the king, &#8220;O Nebuchadnezzar, we have no need to answer you in this matter&#8230;.our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and He will deliver us from your hand, O king.\u00a0 But if not, let it be known to you, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=2448\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Simple yet forceful words&#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\/2448"}],"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=2448"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2454,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448\/revisions\/2454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}