{"id":1646,"date":"2010-10-25T11:35:35","date_gmt":"2010-10-25T11:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=1562"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:28:11","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:28:11","slug":"israels-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=1646","title":{"rendered":"Israel&#8217;s Return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse from Hosea 3:5 and\u00a0the thought\u00a0of <strong><em>Israel&#8217;s\u00a0return<\/em><\/strong>. The word return means to come back to an original state. It is word used for\u00a0repentance or 180\u00b0 turn and change of life. It is used 22 times in this book of Hosea alone. Hosea says of this nation that in the latter days they will return and <strong><em>seek the Lord<\/em><\/strong>. The word seek means to press or pant after God.\u00a0Hosea also says they will fear the Lord and his goodness in the latter days. The word <strong><em>fear<\/em><\/strong> means to stand in reverential awe and to hold one in the highest regard.\u00a0Oh may we as\u00a0the future bride of Christ not wait till later but let us now return make sure there is nothing between our soul and the Savior.\u00a0Let us\u00a0seek Him and hold him in the highest regard as our all in all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse from Hosea 3:5 and\u00a0the thought\u00a0of Israel&#8217;s\u00a0return. The word return means to come back to an original state. It is word used for\u00a0repentance or 180\u00b0 turn and change [&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-1646","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\/1646","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=1646"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6069,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1646\/revisions\/6069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}