{"id":34316,"date":"2015-11-07T15:57:55","date_gmt":"2015-11-07T20:57:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/?p=34316"},"modified":"2019-05-06T13:28:33","modified_gmt":"2019-05-06T18:28:33","slug":"recently-uncovered-texting-conversation-from-1600-bc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2015\/11\/recently-uncovered-texting-conversation-from-1600-bc\/","title":{"rendered":"Recently uncovered texting conversation from 1600 BC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shem: Oh great. Moses just posted a new policy.<\/p>\n<p>Mannassah: More animals we can&#8217;t eat?<\/p>\n<p>S: Nope, it says we wander in the desert until we are all dead. <!--more-->Then our children inherit the promised land when they are old.<\/p>\n<p>M: Uhhh<\/p>\n<p>S: He said it would take about 40 years<\/p>\n<p>M: This is not going to go over well on the blogs\u2026<\/p>\n<p>S: Newspapers either; the Egyptian Post\u00a0just put up their article: \u201cMoses declares every Israelite an apostate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>M: I honestly think he\u2019s going to take a bit of a PR hit on this one.<\/p>\n<p>S: You\u2019re probably right.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>(I should note that the children of Israel really did suffer and really did have an incredibly hard time. \u00a0And some of them were relatively innocent &#8212; especially their children. \u00a0And of course Moses wasn&#8217;t perfect either. \u00a0All of these things are true. \u00a0And I am glad that so far I don&#8217;t have to do any of those things they did. \u00a0Just like many people today face really hard challenges as they try to live the gospel in incredibly trying circumstances. \u00a0I feel for them and pray for them, though I do not feel what they feel. \u00a0All of that said, this is not the first time or the last time that God or His church will ask people to do things that are not fair or easy. \u00a0Despite what Facebook says.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shem: Oh great. Moses just posted a new policy. Mannassah: More animals we can&#8217;t eat? S: Nope, it says we wander in the desert until we are all dead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":34319,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-politics"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Exodus16-3.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34316"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39049,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34316\/revisions\/39049"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}