{"id":112,"date":"2008-12-26T17:32:04","date_gmt":"2008-12-26T17:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=112"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:29:48","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:29:48","slug":"instead-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=112","title":{"rendered":"Instead of"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The verses today are from own morning devotion. They are Genesis 4:25-26 which says, And Adam knew his wife again and she bare a son, and called his name Seth:For God, said she, hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew. And to Seth, to him also there was born a son: and called his name Enos: then began men to call upon the name of the Lord. It is\u00a0here we have the gospel in a nut shell. I see that there is\u00a0<em>blood\u00a0 shed <\/em>in the person of Abel.<em> <\/em>This blood produces Seth <em>a blessed seed.<\/em> Seth&#8217;s name means substitute, in the place of, or in the\u00a0 stead of. This seed is \u00a0a great picture of Christ who \u00a0gave us <em>a beautiful salvation<\/em>. Seth&#8217;s son was named Enos which means mortal. Because of the blood it opened a new and living way that man can call on the Lord. My how this Bible is a &#8220;HIM BOOK&#8221;. It is not a hymn book, but a book were we see HIM everywhere.you look, why He is way over in Genesis the book of beginnings. It may even cause you to sing.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The verses today are from own morning devotion. They are Genesis 4:25-26 which says, And Adam knew his wife again and she bare a son, and called his name Seth:For [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-musings-from-the-motel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=112"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6527,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions\/6527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}