{"id":3058,"date":"2013-08-25T06:23:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-25T10:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=3058"},"modified":"2013-08-27T06:23:14","modified_gmt":"2013-08-27T10:23:14","slug":"his-vengeance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=3058","title":{"rendered":"His vengeance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Luke 18:6-8<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Then the Lord said, \u201cHear what the unjust judge said.\u00a0And shall God not avenge His own elect who cry out day and night to Him, though He bears long with them?\u00a0I tell you that He will avenge them speedily.\u00a0 Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will He really find faith on the earth?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><\/em>God will avenge.\u00a0 What does that mean?\u00a0 To avenge is to inflict harm in retaliation for harm done to oneself.\u00a0 It is an eye for an eye.\u00a0 If God is love&#8212;self-sacrificing love&#8212;as the Apostle John tells us,\u00a0 how should we understand His vengeance?<\/p>\n<p>The word vengeance has a violent connotation.\u00a0 God is not violent, yet He is fearsome.\u00a0 In the book of the Revelation (also written by the Apostle John), the wicked cry out to be spared from the\u00a0wrath of the Lamb!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luke 18:6-8 Then the Lord said, \u201cHear what the unjust judge said.\u00a0And shall God not avenge His own elect who cry out day and night to Him, though He bears long with them?\u00a0I tell you that He will avenge them speedily.\u00a0 Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will He really find faith on the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=3058\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;His vengeance&#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\/3058"}],"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=3058"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3068,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3058\/revisions\/3068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}