{"id":1752,"date":"2010-12-28T12:01:20","date_gmt":"2010-12-28T12:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=1752"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:28:07","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:28:07","slug":"gods-vengeance-on-his-enemies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=1752","title":{"rendered":"God&#8217;s Vengeance On His Enemies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let us begin today to\u00a0muse from\u00a0Amos 1:3-10 and\u00a0the section I have entitled <strong><em>God&#8217;s vengeance<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0Amos mentions in this section<strong><em>\u00a0three arch enemies of God&#8217;s people <\/em><\/strong>and shows how\u00a0God\u00a0\u00a0will deal with them. In verses 3-5\u00a0Amos deals with<strong><em> Damascus<\/em><\/strong>. This is the\u00a0capital of Syria. This was David&#8217;s arch-enemy as well as 10 generations after.\u00a0The king\u00a0during David&#8217;s day was\u00a0Adad and\u00a0thus in\u00a0all the other\u00a0kings were named\u00a0\u00a0Ben-hadad which means the worshiper of the sun. The repetitious phrase for <strong><em>three transgressions and\u00a0for four\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>is mentioned in verse three. This\u00a0idiom is used for\u00a0the sin\u00a0that\u00a0is the\u00a0straw that breaks the camels back. Damascus crosses God&#8217;s line of mercy when they attacked Gilead. In verse four and five <strong><em>God spares no mercy in dealing with this nation. God will bless those that bless His people and cursed with\u00a0wrath\u00a0those that mess with\u00a0His<\/em><\/strong><strong><em> people.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us begin today to\u00a0muse from\u00a0Amos 1:3-10 and\u00a0the section I have entitled God&#8217;s vengeance.\u00a0Amos mentions in this section\u00a0three arch enemies of God&#8217;s people and shows how\u00a0God\u00a0\u00a0will deal with them. In [&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-1752","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\/1752","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=1752"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6013,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1752\/revisions\/6013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}