{"id":192,"date":"2017-01-01T10:43:30","date_gmt":"2017-01-01T15:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/?p=192"},"modified":"2017-01-01T10:43:30","modified_gmt":"2017-01-01T15:43:30","slug":"in-the-fullness-of-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/2017\/01\/01\/in-the-fullness-of-time\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Fullness of Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Lord has appointed times for all things, including sending His son Jesus to the earth for our salvation.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Prophet Isaiah prophesied the signs that would precede Jesus&#8217; birth, approximately 700 years beforehand.<\/li>\n<li>There was a period of about 400 years from the last words spoken in the Old Testament and Jesus&#8217; birth in which God was silent.\n<ul>\n<li>During this period, men\u00a0looked to themselves and their traditions, not to God&#8217;s prophetic word.<\/li>\n<li>This was the time that God ordained for Jesus to come into the world.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>God orchestrated many world events to prepare the way for Jesus and fulfill His prophecy:\n<ul>\n<li>The rise of many empires, ending with Rome.<\/li>\n<li>The exile of the Jews into Assyria and Babylon.<\/li>\n<li>The return of Jews to their land.<\/li>\n<li>Rome took control of the promised land.<\/li>\n<li>The Roman Caesar ordered everyone to return to their hometown to be counted in a census.<\/li>\n<li>The Lord chose a woman (Mary) to bring forth His son who would be married to a man (Joseph) who was from the city of Bethlehem.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Key Verses:\u00a0<\/strong>Ecclesiastes 3:1-8, Galatians 4:4-7, Isaiah 7:14, Matthew 1:22-23, Michah 5:2<\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-192-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/12-25-16.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/12-25-16.mp3\">http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/12-25-16.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lord has appointed times for all things, including sending His son Jesus to the earth for our salvation. The Prophet Isaiah prophesied the signs that would precede Jesus&#8217; birth, approximately 700 years beforehand. There was a period of about&#8230;<br \/><a class=\"read-more-button\" href=\"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/2017\/01\/01\/in-the-fullness-of-time\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":198,"href":"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions\/198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}