{"id":36773,"date":"2022-09-13T13:10:04","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T18:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/please-explain-the-cloud-and-the-fire-of-exodus-4038-do-christians-have-a-symbolic-cloud-of-god\/"},"modified":"2022-09-13T13:10:04","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T18:10:04","slug":"please-explain-the-cloud-and-the-fire-of-exodus-4038-do-christians-have-a-symbolic-cloud-of-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/please-explain-the-cloud-and-the-fire-of-exodus-4038-do-christians-have-a-symbolic-cloud-of-god\/","title":{"rendered":"Please explain the cloud and the fire of Exodus 40:38. Do Christians have a symbolic cloud of God?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-content\">\n<p>The cloud and pillar of fire symbolized the same thing &#8211; the <strong>presence of the God<\/strong> in the Israeli camp. The Lord, through these two things, took <strong>care<\/strong> of them, <strong>defended<\/strong> them and <strong>guided <\/strong>them during the wilderness.<br \/> &ldquo;And the LORD went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; to go by day and night,&rdquo; Exodus 13:21.<\/p>\n<p>Responding to the question whether Christians have their own symbolic cloud, we can say that they <strong>certainly have God&rsquo;s care and guidance<\/strong> throughout their lives. It is not as evident as it was for Israel at that time, but as the author of the Hebrews wrote about the angels: &ldquo;<strong>Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation?<\/strong>&rdquo; Hebrew 1:14.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cloud and pillar of fire symbolized the same thing &#8211; the presence of the God in the Israeli camp. The Lord, through these two things, took care of them, defended them and guided them during the wilderness. &ldquo;And the LORD went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/please-explain-the-cloud-and-the-fire-of-exodus-4038-do-christians-have-a-symbolic-cloud-of-god\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Please explain the cloud and the fire of Exodus 40:38. Do Christians have a symbolic cloud of God?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}