{"id":2566,"date":"2013-01-07T23:04:30","date_gmt":"2013-01-08T03:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=2566"},"modified":"2013-01-10T09:16:19","modified_gmt":"2013-01-10T13:16:19","slug":"not-overpowering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=2566","title":{"rendered":"Not overpowering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Because you [Ammonites] clapped\u00a0 your\u00a0 hands, stamped your feet, and rejoiced in heart with all your disdain for the land of Israel, indeed, therefore, I will stretch out My hand against you, and give you as plunder to the nations; I will cut you off from the peoples, and I will cause you to perish from the countries; I will destroy you, and you shall know that I am\u00a0the Lord.\u00a0\u00a0Ezekiel 25:6-7<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It has ever been the Lord&#8217;s design to reveal Himself; that men may know Him to be the Lord of all.\u00a0 But His revelation is not overpowering, as I often wish it were.\u00a0 It is a still small voice.\u00a0 It is a quiet gift which may be received with gratitude, or rejected as superfluous.<\/p>\n<p>The Lord is the Lord.\u00a0 He can be overpowering, as His words through His prophet reveal.\u00a0 But you need eyes opened by the Holy Spirit to see it.\u00a0 When this prophecy was fulfilled against the blind Ammonites, doubtless they considered it fate, or just bad luck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because you [Ammonites] clapped\u00a0 your\u00a0 hands, stamped your feet, and rejoiced in heart with all your disdain for the land of Israel, indeed, therefore, I will stretch out My hand against you, and give you as plunder to the nations; I will cut you off from the peoples, and I will cause you to perish &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=2566\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Not overpowering&#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\/2566"}],"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=2566"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2570,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2566\/revisions\/2570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}