{"id":2812,"date":"2024-01-26T23:08:56","date_gmt":"2024-01-26T23:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2812"},"modified":"2024-01-26T23:09:02","modified_gmt":"2024-01-26T23:09:02","slug":"evensong-106","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2812","title":{"rendered":"EVENSONG 106"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1025\" height=\"999\" src=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/IMG_20160910_112742824-1025x999.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2814\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/IMG_20160910_112742824-1025x999.jpg 1025w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/IMG_20160910_112742824-300x292.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/IMG_20160910_112742824-768x749.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/IMG_20160910_112742824.jpg 1351w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1025px) 100vw, 1025px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Charles Spurgeon writes that this psalm\u2019s theme is: \u201cHoliness is happiness\u201d \u2014 and he\u2019s right in an ass-backwards kind of way. This lengthy psalm of 48 verses once again gives the history of the Israelites, focusing on their failures in holiness, at least according to their good lord, YHWH.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A more accurate thematic statement would be: Unholiness is unhappiness. We see in this psalm how YAH punished the Children of Israel in ancient times, first for worshiping a bull statue made of gold jewelry during the Exodus, then fire-breathing sun god Baal, and then&nbsp; \u201cidols of Canaan.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The psalmist points out that YHWH even punished the natural world \u2014 a body of water, at least \u2014 on His chosen people\u2019s behalf: \u201cHe rebuked the Red Sea also, and it dried up.\u201d That was just before He drowned the whole Egyptian army in it and made Cecil B. DeMille\u2019s cinematic career.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In another passage, the psalm tells how YAH punished His children \u201c[w]hen they did not destroy the peoples, \/ Concerning whom the Lord had commanded them.\u201d Genocide, anyone? I guess that\u2019s how Israel justifies genocide now. Bibi Netanyahu needs to be voted out of office for good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then there\u2019s the bit about the Golden Calf \u2014 \u201cthe image of an ox that eats grass.\u201d YAH\u2019s latest chosen ones of various denominations (mainly unmarked twenties) say they\u2019re fine worshiping a con man who\u2019s full of bull and a gold-plated ass. How about another pandemic and insurrection?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Spurgeon writes that this psalm\u2019s theme is: \u201cHoliness is happiness\u201d \u2014 and he\u2019s right in an ass-backwards kind of way. This lengthy psalm of 48 verses once again gives the history of the Israelites, focusing on their failures in holiness, at least according to their good lord, YHWH. A more accurate thematic statement would &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2812\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">EVENSONG 106<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2812"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2815,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2812\/revisions\/2815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}