{"id":1640,"date":"2010-10-19T12:12:44","date_gmt":"2010-10-19T12:12:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=1541"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:28:11","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:28:11","slug":"i-will-betroth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=1640","title":{"rendered":"I Will Betroth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let us\u00a0 muse today from\u00a0Hosea 2:18-20 and a fourth<strong><em>\u00a0I will statement\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>from our \u00a0Lord&#8217;s last will and statement. The statement is <strong><em>I will betrothed<\/em><\/strong>. The word betrothed\u00a0means to be engaged\u00a0to one\u00a0for marriage. I thought it is interesting that the word\u00a0betrothed\u00a0is mentioned three \u00a0times. This is the number for the triune God head,\u00a0 the three in one. Our marriage will be\u00a0to the one who is manifested in three persons. The bases of this marriage will be a covenant that was made before\u00a0time and\u00a0will be unending. The fruits of this relationship will be <strong><em>peace, righteousness, judgment, loving kindness, mercy, and faith fullness<\/em><\/strong>. It will be through this fruit that God will manifest <strong><em>His grace<\/em><\/strong>. Paul tells us in Ephesians in the ages to come, which means the turning of the pages of an endless book,\u00a0He will show\u00a0the\u00a0exceeding riches of his grace. Through all this Hosea says in verse 20 <strong><em>we shall know the Lord.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us\u00a0 muse today from\u00a0Hosea 2:18-20 and a fourth\u00a0I will statement\u00a0from our \u00a0Lord&#8217;s last will and statement. The statement is I will betrothed. The word betrothed\u00a0means to be engaged\u00a0to one\u00a0for [&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-1640","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\/1640","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=1640"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6075,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1640\/revisions\/6075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}