{"id":1718,"date":"2010-12-14T12:48:24","date_gmt":"2010-12-14T12:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=1718"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:28:08","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:28:08","slug":"a-dark-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=1718","title":{"rendered":"A Dark Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse today from Joel 2:1 and 11 in the section I have entitled<strong><em> a purposeful day<\/em><\/strong>. In these verses\u00a0Joel mentions\u00a0our theme phrase\u00a0<strong><em>day of the Lord <\/em><\/strong>on two occasions. He tells us in verse one that it is nigh at hand.\u00a0 Let us be reminded that our Lord&#8217;s coming is\u00a0nigh even at the door. We are told that it will be a dark day when this Assyrian army comes. They will come in verse two\u00a0like a\u00a0morning coming up over the mountains. Oh, how the day of the Lord will come suddenly and without any warning. No wonder<strong><em> Jesus said\u00a0be ye\u00a0also ready for in such and hour as you\u00a0think not the\u00a0Son of man\u00a0cometh.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse today from Joel 2:1 and 11 in the section I have entitled a purposeful day. In these verses\u00a0Joel mentions\u00a0our theme phrase\u00a0day of the Lord on two occasions. [&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-1718","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\/1718","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=1718"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6024,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1718\/revisions\/6024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}