{"id":4567,"date":"2024-05-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-08T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/handstotheplow.org\/reading-plan\/may-8\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T16:36:32","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T21:36:32","slug":"may-8","status":"publish","type":"reading-plan","link":"https:\/\/handstotheplow.org\/am\/reading-plan\/may-8\/","title":{"rendered":"May 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Insight from John<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The New Testament authors affirm that the Old Testament was written for Christians and that the ancient prophets knew that they were writing for the benefit of new covenant saints. Yahweh\u2019s prophets knew something about Christ and the time of his coming (cf. John 8:56), but the full meaning of an Old Testament text at times transcended the human author\u2019s understanding. Fulfilling the prophecy of Isaiah (John 12:37\u201340), the innate wickedness and hard-heartedness of most of the Jewish leaders and broader Jewish populous rendered them spiritually disabled. In judgment, God hardened them so that they were unable to understand his word or see his purposes culminating in Jesus. Only \u201cthrough Christ\u201d is their blindness removed. As early as Jesus\u2019s birth, some like Simeon properly understood that Christ\u2019s triumph would only come through tribulation. However, full understanding of Scripture\u2019s testimony about Jesus\u2019s death, resurrection, and global mission came to most of his disciples only after his resurrection.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Adapted from <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Delighting<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 34\u201335.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><br style=\"font-weight: 400;\" \/><br style=\"font-weight: 400;\" \/><\/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-4567","reading-plan","type-reading-plan","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/handstotheplow.org\/am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reading-plan\/4567","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=4567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}