{"id":1651,"date":"2010-10-30T13:45:54","date_gmt":"2010-10-30T13:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=1578"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:28:11","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:28:11","slug":"court-spectators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=1651","title":{"rendered":"Court Spectators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse from Hosea 4:15-19 today and <strong><em>the court spectators<\/em><\/strong>. We are left to look\u00a0in on\u00a0this court session\u00a0from yesterday. He speaks in verse 15 on a place called<strong><em> Beth Haven<\/em><\/strong>. It is a play on the word <strong><em>Bethel<\/em><\/strong> which means house of God. The word Beth Haven means house of evil. will. The house of God has turned into a house of evil. He compares Israel as well as us to<strong><em> a stubborn heifer and not a submissive lamb<\/em><\/strong>. This is surely the state we find ourselves in today. We often do not find ourselves just being a submissive lamb that\u00a0opens not our mouth, but we must stubbornly make our point. Hosea tells\u00a0us in verse 19 because of our stubbornness God will send the\u00a0whirl wind\u00a0that will leave us in great shame. Let us remember the sin of stubbornness is worse than the\u00a0sin of witchcraft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse from Hosea 4:15-19 today and the court spectators. We are left to look\u00a0in on\u00a0this court session\u00a0from yesterday. He speaks in verse 15 on a place called Beth [&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-1651","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\/1651","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=1651"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6064,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1651\/revisions\/6064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}