{"id":1120,"date":"2021-05-12T12:02:02","date_gmt":"2021-05-12T11:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/?p=1120"},"modified":"2021-05-12T12:15:53","modified_gmt":"2021-05-12T11:15:53","slug":"unveiled-faces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/?p=1120","title":{"rendered":"unveiled faces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>What does it mean to worship our Father with unveiled faces? Peter Sammons ponders the question.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>2 Corinthians 3:18, ESV:<em> \u201cAnd we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another. For this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit.\u201d Wow! The first response as we look at this key verse is to be amazed at the truth it brings to us. First, what is its context? The verse is contained within a portion of 2 Corinthians that explores, and revels in, the New Covenant. Some point out that what we call the New Covenant might be better described as the \u2018Renewed Covenant\u2019, now that the \u201cpriestly\u201d (or Moses\u2019) covenant is extended to cover all who place their trust and faith in Jesus. That\u2019s a discussion for another day! We shall park it for now! <\/em><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:more --><\/p>\n<div class=\"swpm-more-tag-not-logged-in swpm-margin-top-10\">You need to login to view the rest of the content. Please <a class=\"swpm-login-link\" href=\"http:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/?page_id=733&swpm_redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fswordmagazine.net%2Findex.php\">Login<\/a>. Not a Member? <a href=\"http:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/?page_id=731\">Join Us<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What does it mean to worship our Father with unveiled faces? Peter Sammons ponders the question. 2 Corinthians 3:18, ESV: \u201cAnd we all, with unveiled [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[74,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1120"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1123,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120\/revisions\/1123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}