{"id":7443,"date":"2016-03-09T00:05:33","date_gmt":"2016-03-09T08:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/?p=7443"},"modified":"2016-03-08T11:58:43","modified_gmt":"2016-03-08T19:58:43","slug":"the-hidden-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2016\/03\/09\/the-hidden-god\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hidden God"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><em>Thus says the LORD: <br \/>\nThe wealth of Egypt and the merchandise of Ethiopia, <br \/>\nand the Sabeans, tall of stature,  <br \/>\nshall come over to you and be yours,  <br \/>\nthey shall follow you;  <br \/>\nthey shall come over in chains and bow down to you.  <br \/>\nThey will make supplication to you, saying,  <br \/>\n\u201cGod is with you alone, and there is no other;  <br \/>\nthere is no god besides him.\u201d  <br \/>\nTruly, you are a God who hides himself,  <br \/>\nO God of Israel, the Savior.  <br \/>\nAll of them are put to shame and confounded,  <br \/>\nthe makers of idols go in confusion together.  <br \/>\nBut Israel is saved by the LORD  <br \/>\nwith everlasting salvation;  <br \/>\nyou shall not be put to shame or confounded  <br \/>\nto all eternity.   (Isaiah 45:14-17)<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What you see is not always what you get.  Egypt and Ethiopia were near each other in Africa. Sometimes Ethiopia was ruled by the Egyptians. Sometimes the Egyptians were ruled by the Ethiopians.  Seba, or Sheba, from which the Sabeans came, was located in what is today Yemen, which is on the coast of the Arabian peninsula.  They may also have established colonies along the coast of Ethiopia.  One of their queens once visited Solomon.<\/p>\n<p>Isaiah predicted that the people of Egypt, Ethiopia and Sabea would turn to worshipping the God of Israel. But they wouldn\u2019t do that because of beautiful idols stationed in a beautiful temple.  The God of Israel was something far more than just a pretty statue.<\/p>\n<p>Alone among the peoples of the world, the Jews did not make physical representations of their God.  The God of Israel was not visible, nor was he ever to be made visible.  While the other gods had visible representations, they were powerless and did nothing.  The God of Israel was invisible, but powerful and did everything.  The hidden God became visible in what he accomplished. Faith could then be placed on Him who could not be seen because of the evidence of his actions that could be(Hebrews 11:1).<\/p>\n<div class='kindleWidget kindleLight' ><img src=\"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-content\/plugins\/send-to-kindle\/media\/white-15.png\" \/><span>Send to Kindle<\/span><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thus says the LORD: The wealth of Egypt and the merchandise of Ethiopia, and the Sabeans, tall of stature, shall come over to you and be yours, they shall follow you; they shall come over in chains and bow down &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2016\/03\/09\/the-hidden-god\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"yes"},"categories":[18,17,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7443"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7443"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7445,"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7443\/revisions\/7445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}