{"id":14655,"date":"2024-04-10T18:46:13","date_gmt":"2024-04-10T23:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/?p=14655"},"modified":"2024-04-11T18:47:54","modified_gmt":"2024-04-11T23:47:54","slug":"bread-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/14655\/bread-of-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Bread of Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Pastor John,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Was the manna sent down by God from Heaven for the Israelites in the wilderness to eat, a shadow (representation) of &#8220;the Bread of Life (Jesus)&#8221; that God later sent down from Heaven for the Israelites to eat?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">It seems that it must be but I can&#8217;t remember the lesson.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Jerry<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">=========<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Hi Jerry,<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Since Jesus brought up the comparison in John (6:48\u201358), and Paul said that whatever was written in the Old Testament scriptures was written for our learning, I would say yes, the manna in the wilderness was a shadow of Christ, who called himself &#8220;the living Bread that came from heaven.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Pastor John<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pastor John, Was the manna sent down by God from Heaven for the Israelites in the wilderness to eat, a shadow (representation) of &#8220;the Bread of Life (Jesus)&#8221; that God later sent down from Heaven for the Israelites to eat? It seems that it must be but I can&#8217;t remember the lesson. Jerry ========= Hi [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14655"}],"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=14655"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14656,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14655\/revisions\/14656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}