{"id":239,"date":"2019-02-02T14:00:22","date_gmt":"2019-02-02T14:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reachingtaiwan.com\/?p=239"},"modified":"2019-02-09T00:53:33","modified_gmt":"2019-02-09T00:53:33","slug":"did-god-love-the-whole-world-in-the-old-testament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reachingtaiwan.com\/?p=239","title":{"rendered":"Did God love the whole world in the Old Testament?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h5><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/adam.walz.71?__tn__=%2CdC-R-R&amp;eid=ARBDqktHXqmRGa14IeyO5mzT_nWJGW_tyTguS6r6TRkWThkhGMMhLEl2fjhjDPx_nwgdj4BtH_bUkkNy&amp;hc_ref=ARRY7jykua6oqCr8mFbnYMCTf8pY1ksm-nNqhSxMfddtoB7BF-Q5rimdPgWNbERa1-o&amp;fref=nf\">A<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?fbid=2412809452097815&amp;set=a.482648838447229&amp;type=3\"><abbr title=\"2\/2\/19, 8:56 AM\">J<\/abbr><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/#\"><\/a><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>1 Kings 8:41-42<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>41 Moreover <strong>CONCERING A STRANGER<\/strong>, that is not of thy people Israel, but cometh out of a far country for thy name\u2019s sake; 42 (For <strong>THEY SHALL HEAR OF THY GREAT NAME, AND OF THY STRONG HAND, AND OF THY STRETCHED OUT ARM<\/strong>) when he shall come and pray toward this house; 43 Hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place, and do according to all that the stranger calleth to thee for: <strong>THAT ALL THE PEOPLE OF THE EARTH MAY KNOW THY NAME<\/strong>, to fear thee, as do thy people Israel; and that they may know that this house, which I have builded, is called by thy name.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have heard people say that God really didn&#8217;t start caring for the world until the New Testament. You can&#8217;t read this passage of the Bible without knowing that is a lie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this prayer of Solomon, He is making it very clear, that God has a stretched out hard for the whole world. It wasn&#8217;t just for Israel. Israel was suppose to be a light to a dark world, pointing to A God Who loved them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It has always been God&#8217;s heart to love and save everyone, Not just a few.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My Prayer: &#8220;Lord, I pray that as you used Israel when they obeyed Your Word to be a light to this lost and dying world, that You will use me. Use me that the world will hear of Thy Great Name, And strong hand, and outstretched arm. Amen.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AJ 1 Kings 8:41-42 41 Moreover CONCERING A STRANGER, that is not of thy people Israel, but cometh out of a far country for thy name\u2019s sake; 42 (For THEY SHALL HEAR OF THY GREAT NAME, AND OF THY STRONG HAND, AND OF THY STRETCHED OUT ARM) when he shall come and pray toward this&hellip; <br \/> <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/reachingtaiwan.com\/?p=239\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":240,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reachingtaiwan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reachingtaiwan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reachingtaiwan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reachingtaiwan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reachingtaiwan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=239"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/reachingtaiwan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":248,"href":"https:\/\/reachingtaiwan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions\/248"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reachingtaiwan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reachingtaiwan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reachingtaiwan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reachingtaiwan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}