{"id":4599,"date":"2016-12-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-12-06T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/oyb\/my-people-are-destroyed-for-lack-of-knowledge-because-you-have-rejected-knowledge-i-reject-you-from-being-a-priest-to-me-and-since-you-have-forgotten-the-law-of-your-god-i-also-will-forget-your-c\/"},"modified":"2016-12-06T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-12-06T00:00:00","slug":"my-people-are-destroyed-for-lack-of-knowledge-because-you-have-rejected-knowledge-i-reject-you-from-being-a-priest-to-me-and-since-you-have-forgotten-the-law-of-your-god-i-also-will-forget-your-c","status":"publish","type":"oyb","link":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/oyb\/my-people-are-destroyed-for-lack-of-knowledge-because-you-have-rejected-knowledge-i-reject-you-from-being-a-priest-to-me-and-since-you-have-forgotten-the-law-of-your-god-i-also-will-forget-your-c","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge; because you have rejected knowledge, I reject you from being a priest to me. And since you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children&#8221; (Hosea 4:6 ESV)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>God gave the prophet Hosea a word of accusation and warning for the priests of Israel. He accused them of failing to fulfill their calling to know, believe and teach God&#8217;s Word. This failure affected the people, who were being &#8220;destroyed for lack of knowledge,&#8221; and the next generation of children who no longer knew God, nor His Word. Today, we are the &#8220;priests&#8221; (1 Peter 2:9). And we are responsible to know, believe and preach God&#8217;s Word. Where the people in our world are being destroyed and the children are being forgotten, isn&#8217;t it because we have yet to give them the knowledge of God?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>God gave the prophet Hosea a word of accusation and warning for the priests of Israel. He accused them of failing to fulfill their calling to know, believe and teach God&#8217;s Word. This failure affected the people, who were being &#8220;destroyed for lack of knowledge,&#8221; and the next generation of children who no longer knew God, nor His Word. Today, we are the &#8220;priests&#8221; (1 Peter 2:9). And we are responsible to know, believe and preach God&#8217;s Word. Where the people in our world are being destroyed and the children are being forgotten, isn&#8217;t it because we have yet to give them the knowledge of God?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"scripture-book":[1295],"scripture-chapter":[1337],"oyb_day":[1867],"location":[],"class_list":["post-4599","oyb","type-oyb","status-publish","hentry","scripture-book-hosea","scripture-chapter-1337","oyb_day-december-6"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oyb\/4599","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=4599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4599"},{"taxonomy":"scripture-book","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/scripture-book?post=4599"},{"taxonomy":"scripture-chapter","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/scripture-chapter?post=4599"},{"taxonomy":"oyb_day","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oyb_day?post=4599"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=4599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}