{"id":2555,"date":"2013-01-02T09:05:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-02T13:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=2555"},"modified":"2013-01-06T09:21:01","modified_gmt":"2013-01-06T13:21:01","slug":"for-hhis-own-names-sake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=2555","title":{"rendered":"For His own names sake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Each of you, throw away the abominations which are before his eyes, and do not defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt. I\u00a0 am the Lord your God. But they rebelled against Me and would not obey Me. They did not all cast away the abominations which were before their eyes, nor did they forsake the idols of Egypt. Then I said, I will pour out My fury on them and fulfill My anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt. But I acted for My names sake, that it should not be profaned before the Gentiles among whom they were,\u00a0 in whose sight I had made Myself known to them, to bring them out of the land of Egypt.\u00a0\u00a0 Ezekiel 20:7-9<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It appears the Israelites embraced the idols of Egypt while they were its slaves.\u00a0 The Lord, for His own names sake, delivered them, not because they had been looking to God for deliverance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each of you, throw away the abominations which are before his eyes, and do not defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt. I\u00a0 am the Lord your God. But they rebelled against Me and would not obey Me. They did not all cast away the abominations which were before their eyes, nor did they forsake &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=2555\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;For His own names sake&#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\/2555"}],"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=2555"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2557,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2555\/revisions\/2557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}