{"id":901,"date":"2023-12-12T20:55:03","date_gmt":"2023-12-12T20:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rap.us\/?p=901"},"modified":"2023-12-12T20:55:03","modified_gmt":"2023-12-12T20:55:03","slug":"john-the-baptist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rap.us\/?p=901","title":{"rendered":"John the Baptist"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I found the appearance of Gabriel and other angels, and how people reacted to angels to be very interesting.\u00a0 First Gabriel appears to Zechariah, who would be the father of John the Baptist. When Zechariah saw Gabriel, he was very afraid. (Luke 1:12) While Zechariah was in the temple the priests entered to burn incense and they found him there and he could not speak which was because he had doubted the angel&#8217;s words.\u00a0 The angel had revealed to him that his son would be no ordinary child but would be a great prophet who would, \u201cGo before the face of the Lord to prepare his way\u201d (Luke 1:76).\u00a0 When he finished his time in the temple, he went home.\u00a0 Soon after his wife Elizabeth who was previously barren became pregnant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found the appearance of Gabriel and other angels, and how people reacted to angels to be very interesting.\u00a0 First Gabriel appears to Zechariah, who would be the father of John the Baptist. When Zechariah saw Gabriel, he was very afraid. (Luke 1:12) While Zechariah was in the temple the priests entered to burn incense [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rap.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rap.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rap.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rap.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rap.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=901"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rap.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":902,"href":"https:\/\/rap.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901\/revisions\/902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rap.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rap.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rap.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}