{"id":3920,"date":"2013-08-30T10:47:48","date_gmt":"2013-08-30T10:47:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=3920"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:21:49","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:21:49","slug":"musing-through-matthew-killing-babies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=3920","title":{"rendered":"Musing Through Matthew-Killing Babies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse again today from Matthew 2:16 and the theme of <strong><em>Jesus the King.<\/em><\/strong> We are confronted in our text\u00a0with Herod&#8217;s <strong><em>killing of\u00a0babies<\/em> <\/strong>two years old and under. This is the second time in biblical history\u00a0that there is a wholesale killing of little ones. Pharaoh ordered it when Moses came because God was announcing the deliverer was coming. Now Herod repeats this killing and once again God is announcing a deliverer is coming.\u00a0Instead of \u00a0trying to abolish abortion or overthrow Roe versus Wade\u00a0let us\u00a0announce to the world a deliverer is coming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse again today from Matthew 2:16 and the theme of Jesus the King. We are confronted in our text\u00a0with Herod&#8217;s killing of\u00a0babies two years old and under. This [&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-3920","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\/3920","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=3920"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5376,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3920\/revisions\/5376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}