{"id":2025,"date":"2020-01-09T04:31:36","date_gmt":"2020-01-09T04:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=2025"},"modified":"2020-01-09T04:31:38","modified_gmt":"2020-01-09T04:31:38","slug":"hellish-australian-fires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=2025","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;hellish&#8217; Australian fires"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/australia-broadcasting-corp-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2026\" width=\"582\" height=\"387\" srcset=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/australia-broadcasting-corp-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/australia-broadcasting-corp-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/australia-broadcasting-corp-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/australia-broadcasting-corp-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/australia-broadcasting-corp.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 582px) 100vw, 582px\" \/><figcaption>Australia Broadcast Co. photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s time to stop beating around the bush(fire).  This is what a significant part of Australia looks like right now.  Climate change?  Yes, on one level.  But this, according to the Bible&#8217;s &#8220;Sea of fire&#8221; passage is what hell looks like <em>all <\/em>the time.  A <em>Vox News<\/em> headline today:  <strong>Australia is enduring a &#8216;hellish&#8217; fire season.<\/strong>  So&#8230; Down through the centuries God has, at times, used events in nature as harbingers.  The fires are happening in a country known, in part, for the slogan:  &#8220;Australia:  No rules, just right.&#8221;  The Ten Commandments are &#8220;rules.&#8221;  God&#8217;s rules.  If you have a society, a nation, a world&#8230; predominately not living by these rules anymore, countless souls become in grave danger of being lost, for eternity, in a &#8220;sea of fire.&#8221;  Is God allowing these infernos to warn us, not just around one of the seven deadly sins of &#8220;gluttony&#8221; when it comes to our fossil fuel use, but about how <em>all<\/em> our sin &#8212; and it&#8217;s <em>a lot<\/em> these days &#8212; could end us up in a place even hotter than current Australia? &#8216;Fire for thought.&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s time to stop beating around the bush(fire). This is what a significant part of Australia looks like right now. Climate change? Yes, on one level. But this, according to the Bible&#8217;s &#8220;Sea of fire&#8221; passage is what hell looks <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=2025\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2025"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2027,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2025\/revisions\/2027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}