{"id":1950,"date":"2011-02-26T03:34:18","date_gmt":"2011-02-26T03:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=1950"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:27:36","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:27:36","slug":"the-date-is-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=1950","title":{"rendered":"The Date Is Coming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let us\u00a0muse today from verses 15-16 of Obadiah\u00a0and the idea\u00a0of <strong><em>the\u00a0date is coming<\/em><\/strong>. In verse 15 Obadiah tells us that <strong><em>the day of the Lord is near<\/em><\/strong>. The word\u00a0near implies\u00a0at the door. Although\u00a0men have spoken of the Lord&#8217;s coming for hundreds of years and\u00a0always make as though it was near, it is nearer now than ever before. The\u00a0Edomites have continually been Israel&#8217;s enemies. These Arab nations in and around the Jordan will one day make an alliance with Russia and come down upon God&#8217;s people. It will seem as though Israel is swallowed up like a glass of wine, but\u00a0be assured\u00a0God says He will do to Edom\u00a0what they have done to His people. Keep your eyes on this little middle eastern nation of Israel because soon business will pick up their and set the stage for a deliverer to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us\u00a0muse today from verses 15-16 of Obadiah\u00a0and the idea\u00a0of the\u00a0date is coming. In verse 15 Obadiah tells us that the day of the Lord is near. The word\u00a0near implies\u00a0at [&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-1950","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\/1950","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=1950"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5959,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1950\/revisions\/5959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}