{"id":1645,"date":"2010-10-24T10:28:05","date_gmt":"2010-10-24T10:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=1560"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:28:11","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:28:11","slug":"the-present-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=1645","title":{"rendered":"The Present State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse today from Hosea 3:4 and <strong><em>the present state of Israel<\/em><\/strong>. We are told she will dwell many days without a king. There has been\u00a0only three kings\u00a0over United Israel. They were Saul, David, and Solomon. They have had no\u00a0king since. Israel said\u00a0at Jesus death we will not have this man rule over us, for we have no king but Caesar. They have no active <strong><em>priesthood or sacrifice <\/em><\/strong>that stands out since the days that God rent the veil in two. What does Israel have? They have nothing but the empty shell of religion to hope to\u00a0sustain them for all eternity. We know\u00a0as a\u00a0Bible fact that the\u00a0shell of religion will not sustain us through death. I am glad I can say, on Christ the solid rock I stand all other ground is sinking sand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse today from Hosea 3:4 and the present state of Israel. We are told she will dwell many days without a king. There has been\u00a0only three kings\u00a0over United [&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-1645","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\/1645","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=1645"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6070,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1645\/revisions\/6070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}