{"id":2376,"date":"2015-06-12T07:34:23","date_gmt":"2015-06-12T15:34:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/nook\/?p=2376"},"modified":"2015-06-12T07:34:23","modified_gmt":"2015-06-12T15:34:23","slug":"new-heaven-and-earth-seas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/2015\/06\/12\/new-heaven-and-earth-seas\/","title":{"rendered":"New Heaven and Earth, Seas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #000080;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I posted the other day about Revelations describing the new heaven and new Earth and how the seas were no more.\u00a0 I brought this up at a men&#8217;s group meeting that I attend Friday mornings that is sponsored by one of the semi-retired Pastors of Shoreline Covenant Church, and what he told me that this wasn&#8217;t literal, which makes sense as pretty much all of Revelations is heavily metaphoric, but rather &#8220;seas&#8221; represent evil, there will be no more evil.\u00a0 That makes me feel better because I&#8217;m not sure I&#8217;d want to live forever in a place where there were no seas.\u00a0 One would presume they&#8217;d be cleaner than the water in the picture below.\u00a0 Don&#8217;t know where that was taken but the water there is icky.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/s0.geograph.org.uk\/geophotos\/01\/77\/81\/1778173_6d38226b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/s0.geograph.org.uk\/geophotos\/01\/77\/81\/1778173_6d38226b.jpg\" alt=\"Seas\" width=\"630\" height=\"469\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I posted the other day about Revelations describing the new heaven and new Earth and how the seas were no more.\u00a0 I brought this up at a men&#8217;s group meeting that I attend Friday mornings that is sponsored by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/2015\/06\/12\/new-heaven-and-earth-seas\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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-2376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","wpautop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}