{"id":2515,"date":"2012-12-18T10:22:18","date_gmt":"2012-12-18T14:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=2515"},"modified":"2012-12-22T10:30:16","modified_gmt":"2012-12-22T14:30:16","slug":"all-the-more-dark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=2515","title":{"rendered":"All the more dark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Therefore thus says the Lord God: \u2018Because you have multiplied disobedience more than the nations that are all around you, have not walked in My statutes nor kept My judgments, nor even done according to the judgments of the nations that are all around you\u2019\u2014therefore thus says the Lord God: \u2018Indeed I, even I, am against you and will execute judgments in your midst in the sight of the nations.\u00a0And I will do among you what I have never done, and the like of which I will never do again, because of all your abominations. Therefore fathers shall eat their sons in your midst, and sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments among you, and all of you who remain I will scatter to all the winds.\u00a0\u00a0 Ezekiel 5:7-10<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It was bad enough\u00a0the land of Israel was full of iniquity, but here the Lord is saying that their iniquity<em> exceeded<\/em> that of the pagan nations around them!\u00a0 Perhaps their deeds were more wicked than those of their pagan neighbors.\u00a0 Or perhaps, darkness is all the more dark if it is allowed to snuff out the light.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Therefore thus says the Lord God: \u2018Because you have multiplied disobedience more than the nations that are all around you, have not walked in My statutes nor kept My judgments, nor even done according to the judgments of the nations that are all around you\u2019\u2014therefore thus says the Lord God: \u2018Indeed I, even I, am &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=2515\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;All the more dark&#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\/2515"}],"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=2515"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2516,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2515\/revisions\/2516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}