{"id":730,"date":"2009-11-23T13:56:47","date_gmt":"2009-11-23T13:56:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=730"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:28:57","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:28:57","slug":"jacobs-delivered-posterity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=730","title":{"rendered":"Jacob&#8217;s Delivered Posterity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Let us muse today from Matthew 1:1-3 and <em>&#8216;Jacob&#8217;s Delivered Posterity&#8217;<\/em>. After all of Jacob&#8217;s foolishness and deception, underneath we find a heart for God. We find him included in the geneology of Jesus Christ in verse 2. How can this be? In verse 3 we find his son, Judah, whose name means &#8216;praise&#8217; is the only son mentioned in this geneology. How can this be? We also find mentioned\u00a0his daughter-in-law, Tamar, the most deceptive. How can this be that they are included in the line of Christ? I tell you how. <em>&#8216;There is a fountain filled with blood drawn from Emmanuel&#8217;s veins and sinners plunged beneath that flood loose all their guilty stains<\/em>.&#8217; None get in that line, except by the blood. <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse today from Matthew 1:1-3 and &#8216;Jacob&#8217;s Delivered Posterity&#8217;. After all of Jacob&#8217;s foolishness and deception, underneath we find a heart for God. We find him included in [&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-730","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\/730","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=730"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6316,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730\/revisions\/6316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}