{"id":4554,"date":"2024-04-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-20T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/handstotheplow.org\/reading-plan\/april-20\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T16:21:41","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T21:21:41","slug":"april-20","status":"publish","type":"reading-plan","link":"https:\/\/handstotheplow.org\/am\/reading-plan\/april-20\/","title":{"rendered":"April 20"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Insight from Exodus 20:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cExodus 20 highlights the way in which the encounter with God\u2019s presence mentioned in Exodus 19:4 grounds and gives rise to the calling of verses 5\u20136. At the mountain YHWH had disclosed both his person and word in power through the giving of the Ten Words. The crashing and piercing sounds and the visible display of fire and smoke had caused the people to tremble and to back away from the mountain (Ex. 20:18). YHWH is not safe, but he is good. At this Moses came to them and declared in Exodus 20:20: \u201cDo not fear, for God has come in order to test you and in order that the fear of him may be before you, that you may not sin\u201d (author\u2019s translation). The logic of this text is important. God came to test the Israelites and to generate holy fear in them in order that they might not sin. Sin implies a lack of Godward fear, and a lack of Godward fear implies that we are not encountering God.\u201d<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"give_campaign_id":0,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_crdt_document":""},"class_list":["post-4554","reading-plan","type-reading-plan","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/handstotheplow.org\/am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reading-plan\/4554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/handstotheplow.org\/am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reading-plan"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/handstotheplow.org\/am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/reading-plan"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/handstotheplow.org\/am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}