{"id":3563,"date":"2012-12-03T05:00:31","date_gmt":"2012-12-03T05:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/?p=3563"},"modified":"2012-12-03T01:22:39","modified_gmt":"2012-12-03T01:22:39","slug":"jesus-christ-lion-of-judah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/03\/jesus-christ-lion-of-judah\/","title":{"rendered":"Jesus Christ: Lion of Judah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And he blessed Joseph and said,<br \/>\n\u201cThe God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked,<br \/>\nthe God who has been my shepherd all my life long to this day,<br \/>\nthe angel who has redeemed me from all evil, bless the boys;<br \/>\nand in them let my name be carried on, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac;<br \/>\nand let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth.\u201d<br \/>\n(Genesis 48:15-16 ESV)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJudah, your brothers shall praise you;<br \/>\nyour hand shall be on the neck of your enemies;<br \/>\nyour father&#8217;s sons shall bow down before you.<br \/>\nJudah is a lion&#8217;s cub;<br \/>\nfrom the prey, my son, you have gone up.<br \/>\nHe stooped down; he crouched as a lion<br \/>\nand as a lioness; who dares rouse him?<br \/>\nThe scepter shall not depart from Judah,<br \/>\nnor the ruler&#8217;s staff from between his feet,<br \/>\nuntil tribute comes to him;<br \/>\nand to him shall be the obedience of the peoples.<br \/>\n(Genesis 49:8-10 ESV)<\/p>\n<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0;float:none;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/03\/jesus-christ-lion-of-judah\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"25\" show_faces=\"true\" font=\"arial\" action=\"recommend\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And he blessed Joseph and said,<br \/> \u201cThe God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked,<br \/> the God who has been my shepherd all my life long to this day,<br \/> the angel who has redeemed me from all evil, bless the boys;<br \/> and in them let my name be carried on, [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-3563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-the-pastor","tag-advent"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1FrAa-Vt","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3563"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3580,"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3563\/revisions\/3580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}