{"id":21297,"date":"2013-07-28T11:10:29","date_gmt":"2013-07-28T19:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/redeeminggod.com\/?p=21297"},"modified":"2013-07-28T11:10:29","modified_gmt":"2013-07-28T19:10:29","slug":"40-days-the-flood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redeeminggod.com\/40-days-the-flood\/","title":{"rendered":"40 Days and 40 Nights on the Flood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-21301\" alt=\"40 days of the flood\" src=\"https:\/\/redeeminggod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/40-days-of-flood.jpg\" width=\"234\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/redeeminggod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/40-days-of-flood.jpg 234w, https:\/\/redeeminggod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/40-days-of-flood-150x129.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 234px) 100vw, 234px\" \/>I am going to start posting on the flood account tomorrow for my book\u00a0<em>When God Pled Guilty.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This post is to provide fair warning&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>I initially wanted to try to cover the flood in about 1000 words. 1 or 2 posts maximum.<\/p>\n<p>Then as I studied, my first 1000 words on the flood became a flood of words, until I finally ended up with nearly 20,000 words.<\/p>\n<p>Overkill? Maybe. But so was the flood. Ha!<\/p>\n<p>Seriously though, this is a tough text in the Bible \u2013 maybe the toughest of all the violent passages in the Old Testament. And besides, it lays the framework and foundation for all the violent texts that follow.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->So brace yourselves.<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019re in for 40 days and 40 nights of posts on the flood. Well, maybe not that long\u2026 but you will probably be ready to get off the boat when we\u2019re finally done.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am going to start publishing posts on the flood. It is going to take a while to get through it all&#8230;. maybe 40 days and nights! So be warned! 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