{"id":8153,"date":"2024-05-31T03:12:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-31T03:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=8153"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:32:24","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:32:24","slug":"under-foot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=8153","title":{"rendered":"UNDER FOOT"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today this verse from Romans 16 struck me as really funny:<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><i>20 The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet.<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The contrast between &#8220;God of PEACE&#8221; and &#8220;CRUSHING Satan under foot&#8221; (meaning stomping\/destroying\/killing) feels wonderfully oxymoronic.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s like Satan represents everything that is wrong with the world and so the only path to true peace is to obliterate him. Violently.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On a side note, it is curious that God will be the actor &#8211; He will be doing the crushing &#8211; but He will use the feet of believers as His means.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We will get to help God bring lasting peace by stomping on Satan&#8217;s head!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today this verse from Romans 16 struck me as really funny: 20 The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet. The contrast between &#8220;God of PEACE&#8221; and &#8220;CRUSHING Satan under foot&#8221; (meaning stomping\/destroying\/killing) feels wonderfully oxymoronic.\u00a0 It&#8217;s like Satan represents everything that is wrong with the world and so the only path [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8153"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8154,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8153\/revisions\/8154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}