{"id":4387,"date":"2012-11-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/oyb\/on-july-31-of-my-thirtieth-year-while-i-was-with-the-judean-exiles-beside-the-kebar-river-in-babylon-the-heavens-were-opened-and-i-saw-visions-of-god-ezekiel-11\/"},"modified":"2012-11-01T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-11-01T00:00:00","slug":"on-july-31-of-my-thirtieth-year-while-i-was-with-the-judean-exiles-beside-the-kebar-river-in-babylon-the-heavens-were-opened-and-i-saw-visions-of-god-ezekiel-11","status":"publish","type":"oyb","link":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/oyb\/on-july-31-of-my-thirtieth-year-while-i-was-with-the-judean-exiles-beside-the-kebar-river-in-babylon-the-heavens-were-opened-and-i-saw-visions-of-god-ezekiel-11","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;On July 31 of my thirtieth year, while I was with the Judean exiles beside the Kebar River in Babylon, the heavens were opened and I saw visions of God&#8221; (Ezekiel 1:1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ezekiel saw his first vision when he was 30. The 30th year was significant in Jewish life: The Levites began Temple service at 30. Jesus began his public ministry at age 30. On July 12 of 1988 I turned 30. God used this verse in Ezekiel to confirm my call to preach. I thought I had waited too long, but God showed me that it was just the right time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ezekiel saw his first vision when he was 30. The 30th year was significant in Jewish life: The Levites began Temple service at 30. Jesus began his public ministry at age 30. On July 12 of 1988 I turned 30. God used this verse in Ezekiel to confirm my call to preach. I thought I had waited too long, but God showed me that it was just the right time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"scripture-book":[1293],"scripture-chapter":[1334],"oyb_day":[1832],"location":[],"class_list":["post-4387","oyb","type-oyb","status-publish","hentry","scripture-book-ezekiel","scripture-chapter-1334","oyb_day-november-1"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oyb\/4387","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=4387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4387"},{"taxonomy":"scripture-book","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/scripture-book?post=4387"},{"taxonomy":"scripture-chapter","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/scripture-chapter?post=4387"},{"taxonomy":"oyb_day","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oyb_day?post=4387"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=4387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}