{"id":7718,"date":"2023-06-12T14:31:36","date_gmt":"2023-06-12T19:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=7718"},"modified":"2023-06-12T14:49:38","modified_gmt":"2023-06-12T19:49:38","slug":"time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=7718","title":{"rendered":"Time"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>That phenomenon of existence which began <br>Within that space known as eternity, <br>In which only the triune God exists.<br>It was made, as we are, beginning and end.<br>Only the Triune God is eternal.<br>All else was created by Him;<br>All else had a beginning!<br>And we, who are His, will, like Him,<br>Have no end. \u00a0Yeah, we&#8217;re gonna &#8220;live&#8221; somewhere.<br>So it is, my friend!  And what is your &#8220;fate&#8221;?<br>Where will you dwell?\u00a0 Heaven or hell?<br>Take the time, while you have it, to get right;<br>By the blood of the Lamb, you win the fight,<br>Which He won for you when His life was through,<br>Given up as a payment due for the crime that was sin.<br>A hell eternal was our constitutional right as humans,<br>Who had a bargain with God back in the garden.<br>The simple command -&#8220;Don&#8217;t eat this.&#8221; &#8211; was violated!<br>Oh, how stupid were our asinine ancestors!<br>(Adam and Eve. Pu-u-u-lease!\u00a0 What were ya thinkin&#8217;?<br>You turned the paradise into place really stinkin&#8217;!)<br>Blasphemers, thieves, murderers, fornicators \u00a0and liars!<br>Is there someone out there to save us we can hire?<br>Yeah, there was, but His service wasn&#8217;t for sale.<br>The Maker, Himself, did it for free.<br>Cost us nothing for the Son to hang on that tree.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That phenomenon of existence which began Within that space known as eternity, In which only the triune God exists.It was made, as we are, beginning and end.Only the Triune God is eternal.All else was created by Him;All else had a beginning!And we, who are His, will, like Him,Have no end. \u00a0Yeah, we&#8217;re gonna &#8220;live&#8221; somewhere.So [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[52,53],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7718"}],"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=7718"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7721,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7718\/revisions\/7721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}