{"id":2088,"date":"2023-12-15T15:47:56","date_gmt":"2023-12-15T15:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/?p=2088"},"modified":"2023-12-15T15:47:56","modified_gmt":"2023-12-15T15:47:56","slug":"advent-herpetology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/?p=2088","title":{"rendered":"Advent Herpetology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2046\" src=\"http:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/advent2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"326\" height=\"358\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/advent2.jpg 1244w, https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/advent2-274x300.jpg 274w, https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/advent2-934x1024.jpg 934w, https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/advent2-768x842.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 326px) 100vw, 326px\" \/><span id=\"en-NIV-18431\" class=\"text Isa-40-10\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In those days\u00a0John the Baptist came preaching in\u00a0the wilderness of Judea,<strong><sup>\u00a0<\/sup><\/strong>\u201cRepent, for\u00a0the kingdom of heaven is at hand.\u201d\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cThe voice of one crying in the wilderness: \u2018Prepare<sup data-fn=\"#fen-ESV-23196b\" data-link=\"[&lt;a href=&quot;#fen-ESV-23196b&quot; title=&quot;See footnote b&quot;&gt;b&lt;\/a&gt;]\">\u00a0<\/sup>the way of the Lord; make his paths straight.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u2026<strong><sup>\u00a0<\/sup><\/strong>But when he saw many of\u00a0the Pharisees and\u00a0Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them,\u00a0\u201cYou brood of\u00a0vipers! Who warned you to flee from\u00a0the wrath to come?\u00a0<strong><sup>\u00a0<\/sup><\/strong>Bear fruit\u00a0in keeping with repentance.\u00a0 Matt. 3: 1-3; 7-8<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">How could John\u2019s words to religious leaders prepare the way of the Lord?\u00a0 How does this apply to preparing for his Second Advent?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-align: center;\">December 15, 2023<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In those days\u00a0John the Baptist&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2088","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-thought-for-the-day"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2088"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2094,"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2088\/revisions\/2094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}