{"id":3916,"date":"2013-08-28T12:48:19","date_gmt":"2013-08-28T12:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=3916"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:21:49","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:21:49","slug":"musing-through-matthew-egypts-journey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=3916","title":{"rendered":"Musing Through Matthew-Egypt&#8217;s Journey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse again today from Matthew 2: 13-15 theme of <strong><em>Jesus the King<\/em><\/strong>. I see in verse 14 the\u00a0Holy Child and His earthly parents make <strong><em>a trip down to Egypt<\/em><\/strong>. Egypt speaks of the unknown, a place of trials, and hard ships. I see the trip was made in haste.\u00a0Oh how\u00a0often the storm clouds will arise suddenly. I noticed they went in the night. Trouble often comes at the midnight hour. Let us be assured that our God did accompanied\u00a0them and\u00a0will go with us through\u00a0our Egypt trials. I would rather be in the Egypt with Him than be in Nazareth without Him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse again today from Matthew 2: 13-15 theme of Jesus the King. I see in verse 14 the\u00a0Holy Child and His earthly parents make a trip down to [&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-3916","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\/3916","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=3916"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5378,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3916\/revisions\/5378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}