{"id":1696,"date":"2010-12-09T12:22:06","date_gmt":"2010-12-09T12:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=1696"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:28:08","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:28:08","slug":"a-warning-to-the-farmers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=1696","title":{"rendered":"A Warning To The Farmers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let\u00a0us muse\u00a0today from Joel 1: 7-12 and the<strong><em> present day of the Lord <\/em><\/strong>when\u00a0Joel issues\u00a0<strong><em>a warning\u00a0to the farmers.<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0Joel tells\u00a0the farmer what the locus\u00a0had destroyed in verses 7-12. They laid waste the grape-vine,\u00a0the corn\u00a0is gone, no wine is in the house, no wheat or\u00a0barley, and\u00a0the fig\u00a0and pomegranate trees are all gone. In verse nine the Lord says you can&#8217;t even bring Me\u00a0the sacrifice to mourn for your sins. The Lord tells\u00a0them to put on sackcloth which was the attire of\u00a0repentance and <strong><em>act like a Virgin whose\u00a0husband\u00a0had died\u00a0on the day they were to be married.<\/em><\/strong> O what\u00a0brokenness\u00a0our sin\u00a0must demand before God will forgive. Just saying I&#8217;m sorry may not get it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let\u00a0us muse\u00a0today from Joel 1: 7-12 and the present day of the Lord when\u00a0Joel issues\u00a0a warning\u00a0to the farmers.\u00a0Joel tells\u00a0the farmer what the locus\u00a0had destroyed in verses 7-12. They laid waste [&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-1696","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\/1696","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=1696"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6029,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1696\/revisions\/6029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}