{"id":3935,"date":"2013-09-04T13:09:21","date_gmt":"2013-09-04T13:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=3935"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:21:49","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:21:49","slug":"musing-through-matthew-why-galilee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=3935","title":{"rendered":"Musing Through Matthew-Why Galilee?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse again today from Matthew 2:21-22 and the theme of <strong><em>Jesus the King.<\/em> <\/strong>In our text today we learn to ask the question <strong><em>why Galilee?<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0Joseph arose after being\u00a0warned by an angel to leave Egypt. He was latter\u00a0 warned in a dream to turn aside to Galilee of which he obeyed.\u00a0Oh how sensitive Joseph was to the divine impressions by God. Galilee at the time was being ruled by Philip a mild-mannered man. It was a despised country\u00a0filled with common folks. Is it not just like a Father to have His Son to\u00a0first\u00a0go among the plain folks. Lord turn aside once again to the Galilee&#8217;s of this world and do a work among the common folks. Send the Rain, send the Fire, and send the Holy Ghost even right now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse again today from Matthew 2:21-22 and the theme of Jesus the King. In our text today we learn to ask the question why Galilee?\u00a0Joseph arose after being\u00a0warned [&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-3935","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\/3935","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=3935"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5372,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3935\/revisions\/5372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}