{"id":1693,"date":"2010-12-06T11:26:53","date_gmt":"2010-12-06T11:26:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=1693"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:28:08","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:28:08","slug":"warning-to-the-drunkards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=1693","title":{"rendered":"Warning To The Drunkards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse today from\u00a0Joel 1:5-6 where in\u00a0this <strong><em>present day of the Lord <\/em><\/strong>Joel sends <strong><em>a warning to the drunkards. <\/em><\/strong>In a country where the Jews found\u00a0the staple products for life were bread and wine it would be extremely difficult if these were cut off. The water was bad so often they had nothing but wine to drink. Many had given themselves\u00a0over to the extreme and had become drunkards. In verse six we are told that the land has been ravish\u00a0by the locust\u00a0and there will be no new wine for the next year. I wonder if\u00a0those who\u00a0take the spiritual\u00a0\u00a0liberty to socially drink should be careful. Alcohol is a strange substance, it is like a poisonous snake and it\u00a0often bites without warning. I have never known of one who was a\u00a0T totaler\u00a0who became a drunkard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse today from\u00a0Joel 1:5-6 where in\u00a0this present day of the Lord Joel sends a warning to the drunkards. In a country where the Jews found\u00a0the staple products for [&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-1693","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\/1693","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=1693"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6031,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1693\/revisions\/6031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}