{"id":352555,"date":"2026-09-01T07:49:18","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T11:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/?p=352555"},"modified":"2026-09-01T10:01:48","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T14:01:48","slug":"firstborn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/post\/firstborn\/","title":{"rendered":"Firstborn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"background-color: #f2f8fc; padding: 2em; border-left: 5px solid #ccc; margin: 1em 0;\"><p>Then you shall say to Pharaoh, \u2018Thus says the Lord: \u201cIsrael is My son, My firstborn. So I say to you, let My son go that he may serve Me. But if you refuse to let him go, indeed I will kill your son, your firstborn.\u201d (Exodus 4:22-23)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nHere we see the importance of primogeniture: God tells Pharaoh that Israel is His firstborn son and commands him to release him, for he is His chosen.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Then you shall say to Pharaoh, \u2018Thus says the Lord: \u201cIsrael is My son, My firstborn. So I say to you, let My son go that he may serve Me. But if you refuse to let him go, indeed I will kill your son, your firstborn.\u201d (Exodus 4:22-23) &nbsp; Here we see the importance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":248,"featured_media":352556,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[323,6248,377],"tags":[],"site":[],"class_list":["post-352555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-school-of-faith","category-ester-bezerra","category-women"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/248"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352555"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":352557,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352555\/revisions\/352557"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352555"},{"taxonomy":"site","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/site?post=352555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}