{"id":2772,"date":"2013-03-10T15:59:27","date_gmt":"2013-03-10T19:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=2772"},"modified":"2013-03-11T17:19:04","modified_gmt":"2013-03-11T21:19:04","slug":"things-i-understand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=2772","title":{"rendered":"Things I understand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>&#8220;For behold, the day is coming, burning like an oven&#8230;&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0 Malachi 4:1<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Like so much of the Old Testament, this last chapter of its last book contains things I understand and things I don&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>I understand that the great day of the Lord is coming.\u00a0 A day of judgement.\u00a0 A day that will &#8220;burn like an oven.&#8221;\u00a0 And I understand that before that future day of judgement, there is a day of salvation.\u00a0 A day of mercy.\u00a0 Today is that day.<\/p>\n<p>I understand that the God of the Universe steps onto the stage only twice in history.\u00a0 When He did the first time, He was despised and rejected.\u00a0 Cast out.\u00a0 &#8220;He bore our sins in His own body on the tree.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>When He comes the second time, however, on that great and last day, it will altogether different.\u00a0 As C.S. Lewis said, &#8220;When the Author walks on the stage, the play&#8217;s over.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;For behold, the day is coming, burning like an oven&#8230;&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0 Malachi 4:1 Like so much of the Old Testament, this last chapter of its last book contains things I understand and things I don&#8217;t. I understand that the great day of the Lord is coming.\u00a0 A day of judgement.\u00a0 A day that will &#8220;burn like &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=2772\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Things I understand&#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\/2772"}],"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=2772"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2775,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2772\/revisions\/2775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}