{"id":2530,"date":"2012-12-25T10:11:49","date_gmt":"2012-12-25T14:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=2530"},"modified":"2012-12-29T17:19:44","modified_gmt":"2012-12-29T21:19:44","slug":"upon-his-shoulder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=2530","title":{"rendered":"Upon his shoulder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>For I am the Lord. I speak, and the word which I speak will come to pass.\u00a0 Ezekiel 12:25<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The word of God is true.\u00a0 His promises are sure.\u00a0 Unfailing.\u00a0 You can (and better) bet your life on it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For unto us a child is born, unto us a Son is given.\u00a0 And the government will be upon his shoulder.&#8221;\u00a0 Justin Martyr writes that this prophecy was fulfilled in Jesus Christ, whose government was upon his shoulder, symbolizing the cross by which He would redeem the world, conquer all His enemies, and usher in a new everlasting government of peace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For I am the Lord. I speak, and the word which I speak will come to pass.\u00a0 Ezekiel 12:25 The word of God is true.\u00a0 His promises are sure.\u00a0 Unfailing.\u00a0 You can (and better) bet your life on it. &#8220;For unto us a child is born, unto us a Son is given.\u00a0 And the government &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=2530\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Upon his shoulder&#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\/2530"}],"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=2530"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2533,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2530\/revisions\/2533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}