{"id":2997,"date":"2025-12-26T15:11:37","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T21:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/?p=2997"},"modified":"2025-12-26T15:11:37","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T21:11:37","slug":"december-28-2025-isaiah-401-8-comfort-ye-my-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/?p=2997","title":{"rendered":"December 28, 2025 &#8211; Isaiah 40:1-8 &#8211; Comfort Ye My People"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jewish expectation of a coming Messiah was high when Jesus was brought to the Temple to be presented (Luke 2:25). A pious man named Simeon had been &#8220;waiting for the consolation of Israel&#8221; and knew he had found Him when he saw the baby Jesus. The prophet Isaiah had spoken of this consolation or comfort centuries before.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.communityoncolumbia.org\/pdf\/Readings_Notes\/Isaiah40_1-8_Notes.pdf\">Notes on Isaiah 40:1-8<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jewish expectation of a coming Messiah was high when Jesus was brought to the Temple to be presented (Luke 2:25). A pious man named Simeon had been &#8220;waiting for the consolation of Israel&#8221; and knew he had found Him when &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/?p=2997\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2998,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-feast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2997"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2999,"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2997\/revisions\/2999"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}