{"id":473,"date":"2011-06-02T18:00:32","date_gmt":"2011-06-02T22:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=473"},"modified":"2011-06-14T07:10:40","modified_gmt":"2011-06-14T11:10:40","slug":"judges-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=473","title":{"rendered":"Buffoons and sinners (Judges 16)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Then Samson prayed to the Lord, &#8216;Sovereign Lord, remember me again. O God, please strengthen me just one more time. With one blow let me pay back the Philistines for the loss of my two eyes.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Samson was a buffoon.  The Philistines had him brought out  for their amusement. Here was mighty Samson!  No longer mighty. He was now a slave. <\/p>\n<p>Though weak and blind, this was his finest moment.  He looked up to heaven, and in the midst of this pagan festival he called on the God of Israel, addressing him as &#8220;Sovereign Lord&#8221;.  He pulled down the temple on himself and the Philistines, killing more in his death than he had in his life. <\/p>\n<p>God is merciful to buffoons and sinners who call on him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Then Samson prayed to the Lord, &#8216;Sovereign Lord, remember me again. O God, please strengthen me just one more time. With one blow let me pay back the Philistines for the loss of my two eyes.&#8217;&#8221; Samson was a buffoon. The Philistines had him brought out for their amusement. Here was mighty Samson! No longer &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=473\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Buffoons and sinners (Judges 16)&#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\/473"}],"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=473"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":505,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473\/revisions\/505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}