{"id":267,"date":"2020-07-06T11:47:33","date_gmt":"2020-07-06T11:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubenjamin.com\/?p=140"},"modified":"2020-07-06T11:47:33","modified_gmt":"2020-07-06T11:47:33","slug":"fire-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubenjamin.com\/index.php\/2020\/07\/06\/fire-line\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire Line"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Fire Line<\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\n<p style=\"font-size: 10pt; text-align: right;\"><em>Hosea 13.14<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 10pt; text-align: left;\"><em>April 27, 2008<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><em>Shall I ransom them from the power of Sheol? Shall I redeem them from Death? O Death, where are your plagues? O Sheol, where is your destruction? Hosea 13. 14.<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Israel went astray from God in pride and spiritual adultery for 250 years. Judgment or redemption was the conflict on God&#8217;s heart. God&#8217;s heart of love was churned within Him and cried, \u201cEphraim how can I give you up?\u201d He did not give up! <strong>Jesus paid the ransom through His life on the Cross!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Paul writes in 1 Corinthians 15.55,\u00a0<em>\u201c\u00a0<\/em><em>Where, O death is your victory? Where, O death is your sting?&#8221;\u00a0<\/em>Jesus rose from the dead. Death has no more hold on Him.\u00a0<strong>Death has no more power over us!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">We hear about the fire that swept across the early American prairies. The fire moved faster than the horses causing severe damage. Expecting the fire&#8217;s arrival, the pioneers burnt a designated area and stayed within the area. They were safe because the <strong>fire had already passed over that area<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">God made a pledge to ransom Israel and to redeem them.\u00a0<strong>He fulfilled it <\/strong>through the death and resurrection of His Son Jesus Christ!<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">God&#8217;s pledge will also be fulfilled when we all will be resurrected at the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ!<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">I believe that this pledge of God will also be fulfilled when Israel as a Nation receives Jesus Christ as their Messiah and Savior! Shall we look up to the coming of the Redeemer? He is coming quickly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fire Line Hosea 13.14 April 27, 2008 Shall I ransom them from the power of Sheol? Shall I redeem them from Death? O Death, where are your plagues? O Sheol, where is your destruction? Hosea 13. 14. Israel went astray from God in pride and spiritual adultery for 250 years. Judgment or redemption was the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":155,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72,74,77,80],"tags":[23],"class_list":["post-267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-death","category-ransom","category-redeem-2","category-resurrection-2","tag-resurrection-series"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubenjamin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubenjamin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubenjamin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubenjamin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubenjamin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubenjamin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubenjamin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubenjamin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubenjamin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubenjamin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}