{"id":3121,"date":"2026-10-24T11:57:38","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T16:57:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/?p=3121"},"modified":"2026-10-24T12:01:51","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T17:01:51","slug":"introduction-to-the-life-of-the-messiah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/?p=3121","title":{"rendered":"Introduction to the Life of the Messiah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The coming of Jesus into the world was accompanied by intense anticipation. The prophet Daniel&#8217;s timeline for the appearance of the Messiah to defeat Israel&#8217;s oppressors and restore the kingdom was almost up. But the prophecies and scripture references gave seemingly conflicting versions of the Messiah&#8217;s mission and character.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.communityoncolumbia.org\/pdf\/Readings_Notes\/NTJohn1_Notes.pdf\">Introduction to the Life of the Messiah<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The coming of Jesus into the world was accompanied by intense anticipation. The prophet Daniel&#8217;s timeline for the appearance of the Messiah to defeat Israel&#8217;s oppressors and restore the kingdom was almost up. But the prophecies and scripture references gave &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/?p=3121\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3122,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-readings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3121","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=3121"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3124,"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3121\/revisions\/3124"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}