{"id":1410,"date":"2009-11-18T12:29:56","date_gmt":"2009-11-18T12:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=719"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:28:57","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:28:57","slug":"jacobs-inferno","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=1410","title":{"rendered":"Jacob&#8217;s Inferno"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Let us muse today from Genesis 34:1-2,24-26,&amp;35:22 and <em>&#8216;Pride&#8217;s Inferno&#8217;<\/em> because Jacob has failed to head for home. In 34:1-2 we find his daughter, Dinah, is raped by a\u00a0Hivite whom they were dwelling among. In verses 24-26 her brother kills him and his family unmercifully through a deceptive plan. During these days of pride Jacob&#8217;s son Reuben has an affair with his stepmother, one of his Dad&#8217;s wives. Disobedience to God&#8217;s command, &#8216;to go&#8217;, has lifted the hedge of Jacob&#8217;s protection and the enemy has come in like a flood creating an Inferno for Jacob to deal with. You may say, Jacob&#8217;s failure to go home seems like a minor infraction. Apparently not to God with the price that is paid in consequences. <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse today from Genesis 34:1-2,24-26,&amp;35:22 and &#8216;Pride&#8217;s Inferno&#8217; because Jacob has failed to head for home. In 34:1-2 we find his daughter, Dinah, is raped by a\u00a0Hivite whom [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-musings-from-the-motel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1410"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6320,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1410\/revisions\/6320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}