{"id":2215,"date":"2007-04-19T15:56:58","date_gmt":"2007-04-19T19:56:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/eng\/reversion-to-the-past"},"modified":"2007-04-19T15:56:58","modified_gmt":"2007-04-19T19:56:58","slug":"reversion-to-the-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/2007\/04\/19\/reversion-to-the-past\/","title":{"rendered":"Reversion To The Past"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>But what is the motive for this strange reversion of Israel&#8217;s mind to the past? The context suggests<br \/>\nthe answer. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The olden time was the time of the Exodus, the Mosaic epoch. It was normative in its<br \/>\nprinciples for every crisis. To the prophet&#8217;s mind there was no other way for reopening the fountains<br \/>\nof grace than by turning back to this declaration in the wilderness.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> The wilderness is the wrestlingplace,<br \/>\nwhere the spirit of sinful Israel has ever again to meet the mysterious stranger, who has the<br \/>\nblessing, but will not impart it, until it shall have been fought for in bitter anguish of soul. Here is the<br \/>\nvision of the sword and that of the ranks of the slain, perpetual witnesses to the divine resentment of<br \/>\nsin. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But here also, nay more impressive, is the picture of sovereign grace unaccountably interposing:<br \/>\nhere were the left ones and they did find favor and God did cause them to rest.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But what is the motive for this strange reversion of Israel&#8217;s mind to the past? The context suggests the answer. The olden time was the time of the Exodus, the Mosaic epoch. It was normative in its principles for every crisis. To the prophet&#8217;s mind there was no other way for reopening the fountains of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"twitterCardType":"","cardImageID":0,"cardImage":"","cardTitle":"","cardDesc":"","cardImageAlt":"","cardPlayer":"","cardPlayerWidth":0,"cardPlayerHeight":0,"cardPlayerStream":"","cardPlayerCodec":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}