{"id":3675,"date":"2014-08-24T21:37:44","date_gmt":"2014-08-25T01:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=3675"},"modified":"2014-08-25T08:31:37","modified_gmt":"2014-08-25T12:31:37","slug":"darkened-the-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=3675","title":{"rendered":"Darkened the earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Revelation 9:2<\/em><br \/>\n<em>And he opened the bottomless pit, and smoke arose out of the pit like the smoke of a great furnace. So the sun and the air were darkened because of the smoke of the pit.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know what this means exactly, but it is a picture of great evil. The devil and his demonic hordes, acting in imperceptible yet very real ways, have darkened the earth with their evil designs.<\/p>\n<p>Yet the victory over sin, death and the devil is ours through our Lord Jesus Christ!<\/p>\n<address>In devil\u2019s dungeon chained I lay<br \/>\nThe pangs of death swept o\u2019er me.<br \/>\nMy sin devoured me night and day<br \/>\nIn which my mother bore me.<br \/>\nMy anguish ever grew more rife,<br \/>\nI took no pleasure in my life<br \/>\nAnd sin had made me crazy.<\/address>\n<address>\u00a0<\/address>\n<address>Then was the Father troubled sore<br \/>\nTo see me ever languish.<br \/>\nThe Everlasting Pity swore<br \/>\nTo save me from my anguish.<br \/>\nHe turned to me his father heart<br \/>\nAnd chose himself a bitter part,<br \/>\nHis Dearest did it cost him.<\/address>\n<address>\u00a0<\/address>\n<address>Thus spoke the Son, \u201cHold thou to me,<br \/>\nFrom now on thou wilt make it.<br \/>\nI gave my very life for thee<br \/>\nAnd for thee I will stake it.<br \/>\nFor I am thine and thou art mine,<br \/>\nAnd where I am our lives entwine,<br \/>\nThe Old Fiend cannot shake it.\u201d<br \/>\nMartin Luther<\/address>\n<address>\u00a0<\/address>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Revelation 9:2 And he opened the bottomless pit, and smoke arose out of the pit like the smoke of a great furnace. So the sun and the air were darkened because of the smoke of the pit. I don&#8217;t know what this means exactly, but it is a picture of great evil. The devil and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=3675\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Darkened the earth&#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\/3675"}],"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=3675"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3682,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3675\/revisions\/3682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}