{"id":4627,"date":"2024-07-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-18T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/handstotheplow.org\/reading-plan\/july-18\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T10:55:22","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T15:55:22","slug":"july-18","status":"publish","type":"reading-plan","link":"https:\/\/handstotheplow.org\/am\/reading-plan\/july-18\/","title":{"rendered":"\u1301\u120b\u12ed 18"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u12a8\u122e\u121b\u12cd\u12eb\u1295 \u121b\u1235\u1270\u12cb\u120d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><br style=\"font-weight: 400;\" \/><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe must ask, \u2018What exactly happened in salvation history to remove dietary restrictions and to mark all creatures as clear?\u2019 Unclean animals represented the God-hostility and curse identified with the first friction and fall, and Israel\u2019s \u2018regulations for the body\u2019 related to \u2018food and drink and various washings\u2019 that were \u2018imposed until the time of reformation\u2019 (Heb. 9:10). Yet with Christ\u2019s arrival, this reformation has dawned\u2026 Paul states that this change directly relates to what Jesus did \u2018through the cross\u2019 (Eph. 2:16), by which\u00a0 God \u2018disarmed the rulers and authorities and put them to open shame, by triumphing over them in [Christ]\u2019 (Col. 2:15)&#8230; In Christ, God has inaugurated the new creation, has overcome the curse with blessing, is saving some from once alienated nations, and has declared <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u1201\u1209\u121d<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> creatures good for food and symbolically clean. In Paul\u2019s words, \u2018I know and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in itself\u2026. Everything is indeed clean,m but it is wrong for anyone to make another stumble by what he eats\u2019 (Rom. 14:14, 20).\u201d\u00a0<\/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-4627","reading-plan","type-reading-plan","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/handstotheplow.org\/am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reading-plan\/4627","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=4627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}