{"id":1913,"date":"2011-02-13T12:52:21","date_gmt":"2011-02-13T12:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=1913"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:27:37","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:27:37","slug":"the-pride-of-edom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=1913","title":{"rendered":"The Pride of Edom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse today from Obadiah verse two\u00a0and <strong><em>the pride of Edom<\/em><\/strong>. Remember this book is addressed to Israel&#8217;s arch-enemy\u00a0the Edomites who are the descendents of Esau. It seems the\u00a0aim of Obadiah&#8217;s message we see in verse two is\u00a0Edom&#8217;s pride. <strong><em>God has brought them down in size among their own enemies<\/em><\/strong>. We have a tendency to\u00a0be easy\u00a0on pride. Pride turned the great angel\u00a0Lucifer into the arrogant devil. Pride is the great sin of all sins. It is the original sin and father of all sins. <strong><em>God says He resisteth the proud but\u00a0He giveth<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>\u00a0grace to the humble.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse today from Obadiah verse two\u00a0and the pride of Edom. Remember this book is addressed to Israel&#8217;s arch-enemy\u00a0the Edomites who are the descendents of Esau. It seems the\u00a0aim [&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-1913","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\/1913","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=1913"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5968,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1913\/revisions\/5968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}