{"id":4375,"date":"2022-11-16T08:02:53","date_gmt":"2022-11-16T14:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nazareneblogs.org\/pastorscott\/?p=4375"},"modified":"2022-11-16T08:02:53","modified_gmt":"2022-11-16T14:02:53","slug":"devotional-on-deuteronomy-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/devotional-on-deuteronomy-22\/","title":{"rendered":"Devotional on Deuteronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure style=\"width: 1600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-F1maiTFlXOs\/XXb-laWnqVI\/AAAAAAABBB8\/VmCHZgVILiUR9BRFZ35zn1SLRcqymk-vgCKgBGAs\/s1600\/IMG_2685.JPG\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1195\" class=\"size-large\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">2014 &#8211; Along Oregon Hwy 101 &#8211; north of Florence &#8211; Heceta Head Lighthouse<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nThe ultimate Prophet<br \/>\nDeuteronomy 18: God, your God, is going to raise up a prophet for you\u2026a prophet like me.<br \/>\nIt\u2019s the nature of things for people to want a &#8220;word from the Lord.&#8221;  Even when all the other aspects of religion are established and operating we want to hear from the Lord.  In this passage Moses addresses this.  The priests are doing their jobs and the Levites are in place but Moses knows that without the &#8220;prophetic voice&#8221; that the people will be tempted to turn to the occult in an effort to touch something, someone, beyond themselves.  In addressing this issue, and as a true prophet himself, Moses speaks beyond his own knowledge.  He understands that the Lord is promising to send someone who will speak with prophetic authority, but he doesn&#8217;t know just how great and complete that Voice will be.  Out of their number God will anoint the ultimate prophet.  In fact, this prophet will be the very Word of God.   Throughout their history, these Hebrew people will hear the message of many prophets, but the ultimate prophet, the One who will proclaim God&#8217;s message with absolute authority, is none other than Jesus, the Son of God.<br \/>\nTake Away: In Jesus we not only hear the Word of God, but we meet the Word of God in the flesh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ultimate Prophet Deuteronomy 18: God, your God, is going to raise up a prophet for you\u2026a prophet like me. It\u2019s the nature of things for people to want a &#8220;word from the Lord.&#8221; Even when all the other aspects of religion are established and operating we want to hear from the Lord. In this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,7],"tags":[67,121,438,873],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4375"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4375"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14047,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4375\/revisions\/14047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}