{"id":1906,"date":"2011-02-11T12:38:56","date_gmt":"2011-02-11T12:38:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=1906"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:27:37","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:27:37","slug":"who-is-obadiah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=1906","title":{"rendered":"Who is Obadiah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse\u00a0today on the\u00a0thought of <strong><em>who is Obadiah?<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0This prophet\u00a0came on the scene crying out in woe against the\u00a0Edomites. He\u00a0appears out of nowhere and vanishes just as quickly.\u00a0He left behind this\u00a0little 21 verse book that found its way into Holy writ. Is Obadiah\u00a0 the prophet who hid\u00a0preachers in a\u00a0Elijah&#8217;s day?\u00a0Is he\u00a0the law teacher of Jehoshaphat&#8217;s reign? Is he the one who oversaw the temple repairs in Josiah&#8217;s day? We have not a clue who he was. We only know that he was a voice crying in the wilderness\u00a0warning the folks to\u00a0turn to God. May we be such a voice for our day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse\u00a0today on the\u00a0thought of who is Obadiah?\u00a0This prophet\u00a0came on the scene crying out in woe against the\u00a0Edomites. He\u00a0appears out of nowhere and vanishes just as quickly.\u00a0He left behind [&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-1906","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\/1906","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=1906"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5970,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1906\/revisions\/5970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}