{"id":2508,"date":"2012-12-16T07:45:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-16T11:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=2508"},"modified":"2012-12-19T22:54:43","modified_gmt":"2012-12-20T02:54:43","slug":"a-nation-of-prophets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=2508","title":{"rendered":"A nation of prophets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>For you\u00a0 are\u00a0 not sent to a people of unfamiliar speech and of hard language,\u00a0 but\u00a0 to the house of Israel, not to many people of unfamiliar speech and of hard language, whose words you cannot understand. Surely, had I sent you to them, they would have listened to you. But the house of Israel will not listen to you, because they will not listen to Me; for all the house of Israel\u00a0 are\u00a0 impudent and hard-hearted.\u00a0\u00a0 Ezekiel 3:5-7<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Lord did not send Ezekiel (or, apparently any prophet with the exception of Jonah) to preach to any foreign people. It was no doubt the Lord&#8217;s desire that the whole <em>nation<\/em>\u00a0of Israel fulfill a prophetic role, &#8220;&#8230;your sons and daughters will prophesy.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For you\u00a0 are\u00a0 not sent to a people of unfamiliar speech and of hard language,\u00a0 but\u00a0 to the house of Israel, not to many people of unfamiliar speech and of hard language, whose words you cannot understand. Surely, had I sent you to them, they would have listened to you. But the house of Israel &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=2508\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A nation of prophets&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2508"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2508"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2511,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2508\/revisions\/2511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}