{"id":87,"date":"2009-02-02T06:44:39","date_gmt":"2009-02-02T11:44:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyber-chapel.org\/blog\/?p=87"},"modified":"2009-02-02T06:44:39","modified_gmt":"2009-02-02T11:44:39","slug":"the-theory-and-practice-of-darkness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyber-chapel.org\/blog\/the-theory-and-practice-of-darkness\/","title":{"rendered":"The Theory and Practice of Darkness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cyber-chapel.org\/sermons\/isaiah\/mp3\/isa8_18_22.mp3\">this week&#8217;s message<\/a>, God responds to the Messiah&#8217;s words, and confirms the importance of cleaving to &#8220;the law and the testimony,&#8221; apart from which there is no light. This sad condition explains the dismay that the nation feels. Its remedy awaits the coming of the Messiah mentioned already in 8:13-15, and presented as the dawning of a new day in 9:1-2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this week&#8217;s message, God responds to the Messiah&#8217;s words, and confirms the importance of cleaving to &#8220;the law and the testimony,&#8221; apart from which there is no light. This sad condition explains the dismay that the nation feels. Its remedy awaits the coming of the Messiah mentioned already in 8:13-15, and presented as the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,1],"tags":[28],"class_list":["post-87","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermon-summary","category-uncategorized","tag-isaiah"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2MwJP-1p","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyber-chapel.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyber-chapel.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyber-chapel.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyber-chapel.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyber-chapel.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cyber-chapel.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyber-chapel.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyber-chapel.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyber-chapel.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}