{"id":3650,"date":"2016-06-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-10T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/oyb\/this-is-the-moses-who-said-to-the-israelites-god-will-raise-up-for-you-a-prophet-like-me-from-your-brothers-acts-737-esv\/"},"modified":"2016-06-10T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-06-10T00:00:00","slug":"this-is-the-moses-who-said-to-the-israelites-god-will-raise-up-for-you-a-prophet-like-me-from-your-brothers-acts-737-esv","status":"publish","type":"oyb","link":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/oyb\/this-is-the-moses-who-said-to-the-israelites-god-will-raise-up-for-you-a-prophet-like-me-from-your-brothers-acts-737-esv","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThis is the Moses who said to the Israelites, \u2018God will raise up for you a prophet like me from your brothers.\u2019&#8221; (Acts 7:37 ESV)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The newly appointed deacon, Stephen, was stoned to death for his witness, becoming the first Christian martyr. His verbal defense of the gospel before his accusers was a Spirit-inspired masterpiece, boldly proclaimed. He reminded them that it was Moses, whom they claimed to follow, that spoke of a coming prophet who would mediate God&#8217;s Word to them (Deut.18:14-19). Then, he compared them to the Israelites in the wilderness who rejected Moses, for they had rejected the Righteous One whom God had raised up &#8220;from their brothers,&#8221; Christ Jesus. Stephen was essentially preaching the words of Jesus, who said, &#8220;For if you believed Moses, you would believe me; for he wrote of me&#8221; (John 5:46).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The newly appointed deacon, Stephen, was stoned to death for his witness, becoming the first Christian martyr. His verbal defense of the gospel before his accusers was a Spirit-inspired masterpiece, boldly proclaimed. He reminded them that it was Moses, whom they claimed to follow, that spoke of a coming prophet who would mediate God&#8217;s Word to them (Deut.18:14-19). Then, he compared them to the Israelites in the wilderness who rejected Moses, for they had rejected the Righteous One whom God had raised up &#8220;from their brothers,&#8221; Christ Jesus. Stephen was essentially preaching the words of Jesus, who said, &#8220;For if you believed Moses, you would believe me; for he wrote of me&#8221; (John 5:46).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"scripture-book":[1311],"scripture-chapter":[1340],"oyb_day":[1688],"location":[],"class_list":["post-3650","oyb","type-oyb","status-publish","hentry","scripture-book-acts","scripture-chapter-1340","oyb_day-june-10"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oyb\/3650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oyb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/oyb"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3650"},{"taxonomy":"scripture-book","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/scripture-book?post=3650"},{"taxonomy":"scripture-chapter","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/scripture-chapter?post=3650"},{"taxonomy":"oyb_day","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oyb_day?post=3650"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=3650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}