{"id":1668,"date":"2010-11-18T12:10:17","date_gmt":"2010-11-18T12:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=1636"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:28:09","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:28:09","slug":"agricultural-image","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=1668","title":{"rendered":"Agricultural Image"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse today from Hosea 9:10-10:10 and <strong><em>the agricultural image<\/em><\/strong>. God in this text reviews His relationship with\u00a0Israel with a\u00a0gardening image. God first saw them in\u00a09:10 <strong><em>as\u00a0grapes in the wilderness and a ripe bearing fig tree.<\/em><\/strong> God planted this nation in a special land and they polluted it with the worship of false religion. In 10:1 she became a fuitless vine and in 10:4\u00a0they became a field of weeds. In 10: 12 He gave them a space to repent and they repented not. In 722 BC God used the Assyrian army to cause the\u00a010 tribes\u00a0to vanish as a nation. <strong><em>Let us take warning, righteousness\u00a0exalts a\u00a0nation, but\u00a0sin<\/em><\/strong><strong><em> is a reproach to any people and blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse today from Hosea 9:10-10:10 and the agricultural image. God in this text reviews His relationship with\u00a0Israel with a\u00a0gardening image. God first saw them in\u00a09:10 as\u00a0grapes in the [&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-1668","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\/1668","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=1668"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6047,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1668\/revisions\/6047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}