{"id":3701,"date":"2012-12-19T05:00:07","date_gmt":"2012-12-19T05:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/?p=3701"},"modified":"2012-12-17T17:09:42","modified_gmt":"2012-12-17T17:09:42","slug":"jesus-christ-the-son-of-man-ruler-from-bethlehem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/19\/jesus-christ-the-son-of-man-ruler-from-bethlehem\/","title":{"rendered":"Jesus Christ: The Son of Man &#038; Ruler from Bethlehem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAs I looked,<br \/>\nthrones were placed,<br \/>\nand the Ancient of Days took his seat;<br \/>\nhis clothing was white as snow,<br \/>\nand the hair of his head like pure wool;<br \/>\nhis throne was fiery flames;<br \/>\nits wheels were burning fire.<br \/>\nA stream of fire issued<br \/>\nand came out from before him;<br \/>\na thousand thousands served him,<br \/>\nand ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him;<br \/>\nthe court sat in judgment,<br \/>\nand the books were opened.<br \/>\n\u201cI looked then because of the sound of the great words that the horn was speaking. And as I looked, the beast was killed, and its body destroyed and given over to be burned with fire. As for the rest of the beasts, their dominion was taken away, but their lives were prolonged for a season and a time.<br \/>\n(Daniel 7:9-12 ESV)<\/p>\n<p>But you, O Bethlehem Ephrathah,<br \/>\nwho are too little to be among the clans of Judah,<br \/>\nfrom you shall come forth for me<br \/>\none who is to be ruler in Israel,<br \/>\nwhose coming forth is from of old,<br \/>\nfrom ancient days.<br \/>\nTherefore he shall give them up until the time<br \/>\nwhen she who is in labor has given birth;<br \/>\nthen the rest of his brothers shall return<br \/>\nto the people of Israel.<br \/>\nAnd he shall stand and shepherd his flock in the strength of the LORD,<br \/>\nin the majesty of the name of the LORD his God.<br \/>\nAnd they shall dwell secure, for now he shall be great<br \/>\nto the ends of the earth.<br \/>\nAnd he shall be their peace.<br \/>\nWhen the Assyrian comes into our land<br \/>\nand treads in our palaces,<br \/>\nthen we will raise against him seven shepherds<br \/>\nand eight princes of men;<br \/>\n(Micah 5:2-5 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\/19\/jesus-christ-the-son-of-man-ruler-from-bethlehem\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"25\" show_faces=\"true\" font=\"arial\" action=\"recommend\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAs I looked,<br \/> thrones were placed,<br \/> and the Ancient of Days took his seat;<br \/> his clothing was white as snow,<br \/> and the hair of his head like pure wool;<br \/> his throne was fiery flames;<br \/> its wheels were burning fire.<br \/> A stream of fire issued<br \/> and came out [&#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-3701","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-XH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3701","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=3701"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3702,"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3701\/revisions\/3702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}