{"id":14294,"date":"2023-10-29T00:11:15","date_gmt":"2023-10-29T00:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=14294"},"modified":"2023-10-29T00:11:15","modified_gmt":"2023-10-29T00:11:15","slug":"reading-hosea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/14294\/reading-hosea\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading Hosea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Whew, I almost can&#8217;t take reading Hosea.\u00a0 It pulls on my heart!\u00a0\u00a0All I could think as I poured through those pages was,\u00a0<em>no wonder\u00a0Catholicism\u00a0didn&#8217;t have us read the Bible. The god they were talking about, sure didn&#8217;t match up with God in Hosea<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0There would be so many questions and feelings by just reading Hosea!<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">I am so thankful I understand the sin of Jeroboam, the great showing of love and faith God tried to give them in Exodus, the mercy given to David, etc.\u00a0\u00a0I am so thankful I know the story, Pastor John.\u00a0\u00a0When I read Hosea, I know how much God has loved them,\u00a0and I almost can&#8217;t take hearing His heart break.\u00a0\u00a0Oh, Israel!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Hosea 11<\/span><\/p>\n<ol style=\"text-align: justify\" start=\"4\">\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">I led them with cords of a man, with ropes of love, but I was to them like those who lift up the yoke onto their jaws, though I had bent down to feed them.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Beth D.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whew, I almost can&#8217;t take reading Hosea.\u00a0 It pulls on my heart!\u00a0\u00a0All I could think as I poured through those pages was,\u00a0no wonder\u00a0Catholicism\u00a0didn&#8217;t have us read the Bible. The god they were talking about, sure didn&#8217;t match up with God in Hosea.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0There would be so many questions and feelings by just reading Hosea! I am [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14294"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}