{"id":7325,"date":"2023-03-13T20:25:40","date_gmt":"2023-03-14T01:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=7325"},"modified":"2023-03-13T20:36:09","modified_gmt":"2023-03-14T01:36:09","slug":"those-ancient-angels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=7325","title":{"rendered":"Those Ancient Angels"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Yes, those angels have been around a long time.&nbsp; Michael could tell much of what it was like way back in the day when that band of heaven-dwellers were up there hanging out for <em>years<\/em> (or whatever they called the measurement of time back then).&nbsp; They must have had <em>some<\/em> entertainment with the Lord when there were <em>no people<\/em> and <em>no earth<\/em> to watch!&nbsp; We can only imagine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Do you suppose that the Almighty (the triune God, indeed!) had something for them to watch?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well, if He (think, three) could keep them engaged and happy for <em>all that time<\/em> with no earth or people to watch, He must be quite the Entertainer!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And what did the Trinity do before angels were created?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well, the Almighty &#8211; the Father, Son, and the Spirit &#8211; did not, and does not, need anyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I think, indeed, there will plenty of attractions in heaven!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>13 March 2023<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, those angels have been around a long time.&nbsp; Michael could tell much of what it was like way back in the day when that band of heaven-dwellers were up there hanging out for years (or whatever they called the measurement of time back then).&nbsp; They must have had some entertainment with the Lord when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[50,54,23,53,31],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7325"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7325"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7330,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7325\/revisions\/7330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}