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We should never underestimate the importance of that aspect of the work of the Lord Jesus at Calvary which is known as propitiation.\u00a0 This is because the honour of God, the blessing of men, the introduction of Christ’s millenial kingdom, and the new heaven and the new earth, all depend upon it. When thinking of this vital matter, we need to be clear as to what propitiation actually is.\u00a0 It may be defined as follows: “Propitiation is the covering of sins to God’s satisfaction”.
\nThere are seven references to this subject in the New Testament, and they are as follows-\u00a0 Luke 18:13, (“merciful”);\u00a0 Romans 3:25; Hebrews 2:17, (translated “reconciliation”); Hebrews 8:12, (“merciful” means propitious); Hebrews 9:5, (“mercy-seat” means place of propitiation); 1 John 2:2; 1 John 4:10 <\/strong><\/p>\n

As we consider this subject in the light of the Scriptures, we could ask ourselves three main questions- <\/strong><\/p>\n

1. Why was propitiation necessary?
\n2. How was propitiation achieved?
\n3. What are the results of propitiation? <\/strong><\/p>\n

1. WHY WAS PROPITIATION NECESSARY?
\nBecause sins offend God.\u00a0 As God is the Absolute Standard of righteousness and holiness, all deviations from this standard are highly offensive to Him.\u00a0 Such is the intensity of His holiness that the simple mention of it is enough to make the posts of the doors of the temple in heaven move, Isaiah 6:4.\u00a0 His reaction to sin and iniquity is to turn from it, for He is of purer eyes than to behold iniquity, and who cannot look upon sin, Habakkuk 1:13.\u00a0 The very presence of sin in the universe is a grief to God.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n

Because as Moral Governor of the universe, He must be seen to deal with sins.\u00a0 God has enemies, both devilish and human, and He must be clear of any charge which they may level against Him that\u00a0 suggests He has ignored sins, or at least, ignored some sins.\u00a0 Eternity must not be allowed to run its course without this matter being settled.\u00a0 God deals with some sins instantly, but the majority seem to have gone unpunished.\u00a0 Sentence against an evil work has not been executed speedily, Ecclesiastes 8:11, since God is longsuffering, and waits to be gracious.\u00a0 This situation might give rise to the charge of indifference to sins, and so God must act to defend His honour. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Because God must have a just basis for continuing to have dealings with sinful men.\u00a0 One of the main purposes of the sacrifices on the Day of Atonement in Israel was that God might continue to dwell amongst them despite their uncleanness, Leviticus 16:16.\u00a0 So also when Christ was down here.\u00a0 It was only because God was not imputing trespasses so as to instantly judge them, but rather was working to reconcile unto Himself, that He was prepared to have dealings with men in the person of His Son.\u00a0 See 2 Corinthians 5:19. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Because if men are to be shown mercy, have their sins forgiven, and be reconciled to God, there must be a solid basis upon which these things can happen.\u00a0 God declares Himself to be a Saviour God- He cannot be fully satisfied solely by judging men .\u00a0 The fact that “God is light” demands that this be done, but “God is love” too, and delights to manifest Himself in grace. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Because the cycle of sin must be broken.\u00a0 In other words, if there is not to be an eternal succession of creations, falls, remedies for fall, and new creations, then there must be that established which is once for all, giving the complete answer to the question of sin.\u00a0 Unless this complete answer is given, the new heaven and earth will not be safe from disturbance. <\/strong><\/p>\n

We may now ask our second question:
\nHOW WAS PROPITIATION ACHIEVED?
\nThe ceremonies of the Day of Atonement as described in Leviticus chapter 16 will help us here.\u00a0 We need to be very careful in our interpretation of them, however.\u00a0 We should remember two things. First, that the Old Testament teaches by way of comparison as well as by contrast.\u00a0 Second, that Christ’s ministry is in connection with a sanctuary which is “not of this building”, Hebrews 9:11.\u00a0 That means it is not part of the creation of Genesis chapter one. So even whilst acting on earth, He was operating in relation to a sphere that is not subject to the limitations of time, space, or matter.<\/strong><\/p>\n

For instance, the writer to the Hebrews indicates that the going forth of the Lord Jesus outside the camp, was the counterpart of the carrying of the carcase of the sin offering from the altar, where it had been slain, to a place of burning outside the camp.\u00a0 But this particular ritual took place almost at the\u00a0\u00a0end of the Day of Atonement proceedings, whereas the Lord Jesus went outside the camp before He died.\u00a0 We may say then that in one sense time is irrelevant as far as the work of Christ was concerned.
\nAgain, what took place at the altar in the court of the tabernacle; before the ark in the Holiest of All; outside the camp at the place of burning, and in the wilderness where the scapegoat was taken and let go, all typified some aspect of the work of Christ.\u00a0 Place is irrelevant, too.
\nAnd so is matter irrelevant.\u00a0 Christ needed no visible ark to enable Him to convince His Father that His blood had been shed.\u00a0 When the repentant man of Luke 18 appealed to God to be merciful to him, (or, to be gracious towards him on the ground of propitiation made), he went down to his house justified, despite the fact that there was no ark in the temple.\u00a0
\nWith these cautionary remarks in mind, we look now at Leviticus 16, and note those major parts of the ceremonies of that day which contribute towards making propitiation, the great end for which they were carried out.<\/strong><\/p>\n

A SUITABLE SIN OFFERING WAS BROUGHT NEAR\u00a0
\nWe must remember that the word “offer” that is used in Leviticus 16:6 means to bring near.\u00a0 A sacrifice must be offered before it can be laid on the altar.\u00a0 The blood that purges the conscience of God’s people is the blood of One who “offered Himself without spot to God”, Hebrews 9:10.\u00a0 That is, He presented Himself for sacrifice in all the spotlessness of His person, confident that He met the approval of His God.\u00a0\u00a0 We are reminded of the words of the psalmist when he said, “Search me O God, and try my heart”, Psalm 139:23.\u00a0 The Lord Jesus is the only one who could utter such words in the confidence that nothing contrary to God would be found in Him.\u00a0 In this He is so different to Aaron, or as the writer to the Hebrews puts it, He is “separate from sinners”, for Aaron could not present himself to God, he must present a substitute, Hebrews 7:27.\u00a0 Nor could that substitute bring itself, having no consciousness of God’s demands.\u00a0 Christ has no such limitations, however, for He offered Himself, as Aaron could not do, and as an animal would not do.<\/strong><\/p>\n

AN OFFERING WAS MADE FOR SIN\u00a0
\nIn Leviticus 16:9 a different word for offer is used, one which simply means to make.\u00a0 So the animal, having had the sins of Aaron and his household figuratively transferred to it, is by that act made to represent those sins.\u00a0 Whatever happens to the animal subsequently happens to the sin.\u00a0 The apostle Paul takes up this thought in 2 Corinthians 5:21 when he declares that “God hath made Him to be sin for us, who knew no sin, that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him”.\u00a0 It is exceedingly solemn to think that whatever God’s reaction to our sin was, became His reaction to Christ as the sinner’s substitute.\u00a0 So we may learn in the fullest sense what God’s reaction to sin is by looking to the cross where He forsook His Son and poured out His wrath upon Him.\u00a0 Such is the intensity of God’s hatred of sin, and such is his determination to deal with it, that “He spared not His own Son”, not shielding Him at all from the fury of His anger; not lessening the penalty, nor relieving the pain.\u00a0 Who can tell the agony of Christ’s soul when He was dealt with by God as if He were sin!\u00a0 Of course, He remained personally what He always had been, pure and holy, just as the sin-offering is said to be most holy, Leviticus 6:17, but He was made sin as our representative. <\/strong><\/p>\n

THE OFFERING WAS SLAIN AND ITS BLOOD SHED\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>“For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul”, Leviticus 17:11.\u00a0 Such are the words of God to His people, teaching us that the shedding of blood is vitally important, for “Without shedding of blood is no remission”, Hebrews 9:22.\u00a0 Accordingly, that sins might be dealt with, Christ “poured out His soul unto death”, Isaiah 53:12.\u00a0 He willingly laid down His life in accordance with His Father’s commandment, John 10:18. <\/strong><\/p>\n

THE CARCASE WAS BURNT
\nHaving been presented to God as a living animal at the altar, and having been slain and its blood retained, the animal’s corpse must be taken to the outside place, that it may be subjected to the fires of Divine holiness until nothing is left.\u00a0 How significant the contrast to Christ.\u00a0 For He was subjected to the Divine Fires whilst still alive, on the cross.\u00a0 How He must have suffered!\u00a0 Can we begin to take it in?\u00a0 Will not all eternity be needed to set forth what He was prepared to endure in love for our souls?\u00a0 But endure He did, and exhausted the fire of God’s wrath against our sins. <\/strong><\/p>\n

THE BLOOD WAS SPRINKLED\u00a0
\nWe come now to the central action on the Day of Atonement, the sprinkling of the blood both of the bullock for Aaron and his house, and the goat for the nation of Israel, on the mercy-seat, or “the place for the covering of sin”.\u00a0 If God covers sins, then they are put completely out of His sight.\u00a0 We ought not to think of this covering as a temporary thing, or else we shall have difficulty understanding why God declared that Israel was cleansed from all their sins that day, Leviticus 16:30.\u00a0 It is true that the Scripture says that “It is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins”, Hebrews 10:, but what that blood symbolises, even the blood of Christ, can.\u00a0 And that not only after Calvary, but before as well.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Now when the writer to the Hebrews referred to this mercy-seat, he used the Greek word which means propitiatory, the place where God is propitiated in regard to sins, and where those sins are atoned for. This makes clear that he did not see a distinction between covering and propitiating.\u00a0 There was a two-fold significance to this, however, as indicated by the two-fold sprinkling of each kind of blood, that of the bullock and of the goat.\u00a0 The blood sprinkled on the mercy-seat was to satisfy the demands of God, so that instead of anger because of sins, He could be merciful in dealing with them. This was because the blood was a reminder to God that a suitable sin-offering had been slain, and burnt in the fire.\u00a0 The blood sprinkled before the mercy-seat was to meet the needs of the Israelites, for it established a footing for them in the presence of God based upon the shedding of blood.
\nSo with the work of Christ.\u00a0 He has fully met every demand that God could make about sins.\u00a0 As one of the Persons of the Godhead, He has Divine insight into God’s requirements, and He has fully met those requirements.\u00a0 We are assured of this because He has set Himself down with confidence at the right hand of the Majesty on high- He purged sins in harmony with the Majesty of God.\u00a0 But He has also established a sure footing in the presence of God for those who believe, so that the apostle Paul; can speak of the grace wherein we stand, Romans 5:1.\u00a0 So dominant is the idea of grace with regard to that position, that the apostle uses the word grace to describe it.\u00a0 Only those who have “received the atonement”, Romans 5:11, are in that secure place before God. <\/strong><\/p>\n

THE SINS WERE CONFESSED\u00a0AND CARRIED AWAY
\nThe sin-offering for the people consisted of two goats, one for the Lord’s interests, and one for theirs.\u00a0 One, as we have seen, was slain so that blood could be sprinkled on the mercy-seat.\u00a0 The other was called the scape-goat, or goat that was dismissed and went away.\u00a0 There was no double sin-offering for Aaron and his house, for he had seen the blood on the mercy-seat, and since he had not died, he knew it had been accepted, and his sins were gone.\u00a0 The rest of Israel did not have that experience, however, and so to reassure them, they were able to see Aaron lay his hands on their goat, confess over it their sins, and then watch the goat, which carried its dreadful load of their sins, disappear into the wilderness, guided by a man whose fitness lay in his ability to take the animal to a place from which it could not return.\u00a0 The writer to the Hebrews takes up these things in Hebrews 9:25-28, where he speaks of Christ appearing to “put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself”- this is the counterpart of the blood on the mercy-seat.\u00a0 Then he speaks of Christ “bearing the sins of many”, and now he is thinking of the scapegoat.\u00a0 When the Lord Jesus was forsaken of His God upon the Cross, He was in a moral position equal to that of the scapegoat, which was accepted as an offering, but rejected because of the load it bore.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Just as there are two goats for the people, so there are two men acting on their behalf.\u00a0 There was Aaron, who went into the sanctuary with the blood of the slain goat, and there was the fit man, going into the wilderness with the live goat.\u00a0 The return of Aaron from the presence of God signified that sins were dealt with satisfactorily Godward, for he had not died.\u00a0 The return of the fit man, without the goat, signified that the burden of sin was removed from the people.\u00a0 An alternative rendering of the expression “fit man” is “a man standing ready”. So before John the Baptist announced the Lord Jesus to be the lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the world, he described Him as “one standing among you”- He was standing ready to do the work of Calvary at the time of His Father’s appointment.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n

WHAT ARE THE RESULTS OF PROPITIATION? <\/strong><\/p>\n

THE DEMANDS OF GOD WERE FULLY MET
\nTo satisfy God as the Moral Governor of the universe, an adequate and final answer must be found to the question of sin.\u00a0 The demands of His holiness and righteousness are such that every sin must be responded to.\u00a0 Only Christ is adequate for this situation.\u00a0 He it is who has “put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself”, Hebrews 9:26.\u00a0 To put away in that verse means to abolish.\u00a0 As far as God is concerned, and in this context, sin is not.\u00a0 No charge can henceforth be made against God that He has ignored the presence of sin.\u00a0 On the contrary, He has taken account of each and every sin through his Son’s work at Calvary.\u00a0 John wrote, “He is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world”, 1 John 2:2.\u00a0 Of course “the sins of” is in italics in that verse.\u00a0 But the words must be supplied because they are implied in the “ours” of the previous statement.\u00a0 If John had written “not for us only”, then he could have continued “but also for the whole world”.\u00a0 Since, however, he uses the possessive pronoun “ours”, then “the sins of” must be inserted.\u00a0 Now the apostle will write later that “we know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in wickedness”, 1 John 5:19.\u00a0 He sees mankind divided into two clearly defined sections, believers, and the whole world.\u00a0 The same whole world whose sins God took account of at Calvary.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n

GOD’S DEALINGS WERE VINDICATED
\nIn Old Testament times God blessed men by reckoning them righteous when they believed in Him.\u00a0 Romans 3:24,25 indicates that the propitiatory work of Christ vindicates God for so acting.\u00a0 In can be seen now that God was blessing anticipatively, crediting believers with the results of Christ’s work before they had been achieved.\u00a0 He also remitted, or passed over, their sins in forbearance, holding back from judging those sins in virtue of what His Son would do at Calvary.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n

GOD’S GLORY IS FULLY DISPLAYED
\nThere is no attribute of God which has not been fully expressed at Calvary.\u00a0 This is why the apostle Paul speaks of rejoicing in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement, Romans 5:11.\u00a0 Atonement in this verse means reconciliation, one of the effects of propitiation.\u00a0 By His sacrificial work at Calvary Christ has brought the character of God out into full and glorious display.\u00a0 Those who are brought by faith into the good of that work are enabled to behold that display, and rejoice in it.\u00a0 Would we know Divine holiness, or righteousness, or love, or wrath, or any other aspect of the Person of God?\u00a0 Then we must look to the cross for the sight of it.\u00a0 We shall not be disappointed. <\/strong><\/p>\n

GOD’S MERCY IS AVAILABLE
\nThe repentant sinner who called upon God to be merciful to him, is the first person in the New Testament to use the word propitious- “God be merciful to me on the basis of propitiation”.\u00a0 He went down to his house justified, Luke 18:13,14. Under the terms of the New Covenant, God promises that “I will be merciful (propitious) to their unrighteousness, Hebrews 8:12. The mercy-seat was the same width and breadth as the ark, telling us that the ark (the person of Christ) and the mercy-seat, (the work of Christ), were perfectly matched. But we are not told the thickness or depth of the gold of the mercy-seat, for there is an infinite supply of mercy for those who believe, enough to keep them secure for all eternity. <\/strong><\/p>\n

GOD’S FORGIVENESS IS ASSURED\u00a0
\nIn Hebrews 10:5-8 we have the Spirit of Christ in the psalmist telling of His work of sacrifice. Then we have the Spirit’s testimony telling us of the results of that work, Hebrews 10:15-17.\u00a0 God promises emphatically that He will not remember the sins and iniquities of His people any more, since He brought those sins into remembrance at Calvary, and Christ dealt with them effectively there. “No more” means in no way, nor at any time.\u00a0 Note that God pledges to positively not remember, not negatively to forget. We may forget, and then remember again, whereas God promises never to remember for ever. <\/strong><\/p>\n

GOD’S PEOPLE ARE PRESERVED
\nThe Lord Jesus spoke in the Upper Room of His brethren, then indicated that He was about to “ascend to My Father, and your Father, to My God, and your God”, John 20:17.\u00a0 Thus He would still be the link between his people and God, maintaining them in His dual role of Advocate with the Father, and High Priest in things pertaining to God.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The basis of His advocacy is two-fold.\u00a0 His person, for He is Jesus Christ the righteous, and His work, for He is the propitiation for our sins, 1 John 2:1,2.\u00a0 The apostle John was concerned about believers sinning.\u00a0 The sins of believers are just as obnoxious to God, and just as deserving of wrath, as those of unbelievers.\u00a0 But we are “saved from wrath through Him”, Romans 5:9, as He pleads the merits of His work.\u00a0 He is, says John, the propitiatory offering for our sins.\u00a0 Not was, but is.\u00a0 In other words, the one who acts for us in heaven as our advocate, is the very same one who hung upon the cross as a sacrifice for our sins.<\/strong><\/p>\n

He is also our High priest.\u00a0 The language of Hebrews 2:17,18- “Wherefore in all things it behoved Him to be made like unto His brethren, that He might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people.\u00a0 For in that He Himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to succour them that are tempted”.\u00a0 These verses form a bridge between chapter two, with its emphasis on the reasons why the Lord Jesus took manhood, and the way in which Israel were tempted in the wilderness.\u00a0 Note in particular the word “for” which begins verse 18-too little attention has been paid to this word, and hence the connection between verses 17 and 18 is often lost.\u00a0 The reason why we have a high priest who is merciful and faithful is that He has been here in manhood and suffered being tempted.\u00a0 When His people pass through temptation, then He undertakes to deal with their cause.\u00a0 Because He has been here, and has been tempted in all points like as we are, He is able to help us when we cry to Him for help.\u00a0 The word for succour is used by the woman of Canaan in Matthew 15:25 when she cried out, “Lord, help me”.\u00a0 He is able to point us to the ways in which He overcame in the wilderness temptation, and thus we are strengthened to resist temptation.<\/strong><\/p>\n

But what if we fall, and sin?\u00a0 In that case He comes to our aid in another way.\u00a0 We see it typified negatively in Leviticus 10:16-20.\u00a0 The priests were commanded to eat the sin-offerings, if the blood thereof had not been brought into the sanctuary.\u00a0 But at the end of the consecration of the priesthood, Moses was angry on God’s behalf, for the priests had failed in this.\u00a0 Moses said, “God hath given it you to bear the iniquity of the congregation, to make atonement for them before the Lord”, Leviticus 10:17.\u00a0 One of the functions of priesthood, then, was to personally identify with the sin-offering by eating it, and by so doing bear the iniquity of the congregation, taking responsibility for their failure, but doing so safeguarded by the fact that a sin-offering had been accepted by God.\u00a0 As they did this the scripture explicitly says they made atonement for the people, Leviticus 10:17.\u00a0 We see then what the writer to the Hebrews means when he talks of Christ making reconciliation or propitiation for the sins of the people.\u00a0 He is indicating that Christ personally identifies Himself with His sin-offering work at Calvary, and thus takes responsibility for the failures of His people under temptation.\u00a0 This is acceptable to God, and His people are preserved, despite their failure. <\/strong><\/p>\n

GOD’S PURPOSE FOR THE EARTH IS FURTHERED\u00a0
\nWhen Adam the head of the first creation fell, all creation had to be subjected to vanity, or else a fallen man would have been head over an unfallen creation.\u00a0 Now that He has obtained rights over the earth by His death, the Lord Jesus is able to bring in new conditions for God.\u00a0 He can now righteously deliver the present creation from the bondage of corruption that the fall of man brought it into, Romans 8:19-23.\u00a0 Colossians 1:20 assures us that on the basis of the blood of His cross, all things, whether in earth or in heaven, can be reconciled to God, for that alienation between God and His creation which took place at the Fall, can be remedied. <\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/strong>GOD’S INTENTION\u00a0TO CREATE A NEW HEAVEN AND A NEW EARTH CAN BE REALISED\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 U<\/strong>nless the sin which has marred the first creation is dealt with, God cannot righteously introduce an eternal earth and heavens, for it would not have been evident that He was able to deal with the fall of the first creation.\u00a0 Having dealt with it through Christ, He is able to bring in new things that will never be spoiled.\u00a0 Daniel was told that Messiah the Prince would bring in “everlasting righteousness”, Daniel 9:24, and this He will do, on the basis of His death.\u00a0 It only remains for God to announce “Behold, I make all things new”, Revelation 21:5, and a “New heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness”, will be established, 2 Peter 3:13.\u00a0 At last there will be a settled and congenial place for righteous to dwell in, after all the turmoil brought in by Adam’s sin.\u00a0 At last those profound words spoken by John the Baptist will be fully brought to pass- “Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world”, John 1:29.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We should never underestimate the importance of that aspect of the work of the Lord Jesus at Calvary which is known as propitiation.\u00a0 This is because the honour of God, the blessing of men, the introduction of Christ’s millenial kingdom, and the new heaven and the new earth, all depend upon it. When thinking of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[300,442,486,587,611,673,706],"class_list":["post-783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-propitiation","tag-atonement","tag-forgiveness","tag-holiness","tag-merciful","tag-offering","tag-righteousness","tag-sin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiangospel.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiangospel.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiangospel.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiangospel.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiangospel.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christiangospel.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiangospel.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiangospel.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiangospel.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}