{"id":3697,"date":"2014-08-31T08:22:06","date_gmt":"2014-08-31T12:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=3697"},"modified":"2014-08-31T08:22:06","modified_gmt":"2014-08-31T12:22:06","slug":"how-is-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=3697","title":{"rendered":"How is it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Revelation 15:1<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Then I saw another sign in heaven, great and marvelous: seven angels having the seven last plagues, for in them the wrath of God is complete.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The God of the universe is a Father, having eternally begotten a Son, the same Word of God who became flesh. He is a kind and loving Father who is not willing that any should perish.<\/p>\n<p>And yet we read here, as in many places in Scripture, of the wrath of God, at least once referred to as &#8220;the wrath of the Lamb&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>How is it that a loving Father who sent His own Son into the world to save it&#8212;the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world&#8212;should here be described as One about to pour out His wrath on the very ones for whose sins His Son, the Lamb, was sacrificed?<\/p>\n<p>God&#8217;s love is a jealous love. The wrath of God is Love&#8217;s response to recalcitrant sinners who, refusing to repent, bring this wrath upon themselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Revelation 15:1 Then I saw another sign in heaven, great and marvelous: seven angels having the seven last plagues, for in them the wrath of God is complete. The God of the universe is a Father, having eternally begotten a Son, the same Word of God who became flesh. He is a kind and loving &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=3697\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How is it&#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\/3697"}],"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=3697"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3698,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3697\/revisions\/3698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}