{"id":1069,"date":"2015-03-03T17:22:38","date_gmt":"2015-03-03T22:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dsoemarko.us\/christian\/?p=1069"},"modified":"2015-03-10T23:32:36","modified_gmt":"2015-03-11T04:32:36","slug":"ephesians-1-3-an-overview-1-of-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dsoemarko.us\/christian\/?p=1069","title":{"rendered":"Ephesians 1 &#8211; 3: An Overview (1 of 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dsoemarko.us\/christian\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/OverviewPic.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-1072\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dsoemarko.us\/christian\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/OverviewPic-150x150.png\" alt=\"OverviewPic\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Scripture: Ephesians chapters 1 to 3<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<span style=\"color: #ff0000\">Praise\u00a0be\u00a0to God for his great blessings to us<\/span>&#8221; is the theme in Ephesians chapters 1 to 3. We have looked at some details of this passage in the past. As a reminder that <span style=\"color: #ff0000\">the book of Ephesians is a letter<\/span> and that every part is not detached from its surrounding passage, we are going to look at the overall structure now.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>While an overview is usually given in the beginning of a study, I chose to delay doing it until now because when I started the blog, I wanted the blog to\u00a0sound like a blog instead of a formal study (as that would probably have driven some readers away, unfortunately). But now that we have gone through 3 chapters of the book, I think it is about time to look at the overall structure.<\/p>\n<p>Since overall structure can be easier seen visually, and since it is not easy to do visual presentation with just words\/writing, I have prepared a video. It can viewed here:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ephesians - Overview (1 of 2)\" width=\"980\" height=\"735\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fzk7GKlCly0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I used a <span style=\"color: #008000\">voice synthesizer<\/span> to prepare the video. It makes the production much faster. I apologize if you hate the voice. I don&#8217;t love it either, but the saving in time is substantial, especially for a second-language speaker. For presenting a structure or outline, I think it has some value. Hopefully in the near future, technology in voice synthesis will advance to the point of producing much more natural sounding voice.<\/p>\n<p>May you experience God&#8217;s blessing as you read and hear about his blessings for us in Christ!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Ephesians chapters 1 to 3 &#8220;Praise\u00a0be\u00a0to God for his great blessings to us&#8221; is the theme in Ephesians chapters 1 to 3. We have looked at some details of this passage in the past. As a reminder that the book of Ephesians is a letter and that every part is not detached from its surrounding passage, we are going <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dsoemarko.us\/christian\/?p=1069\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1072,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[52,24,8,4,5,18],"class_list":["post-1069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ephesians","tag-bible","tag-bible-study","tag-blessed","tag-ephesians-2","tag-epistle","tag-salvation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dsoemarko.us\/christian\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dsoemarko.us\/christian\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dsoemarko.us\/christian\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dsoemarko.us\/christian\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dsoemarko.us\/christian\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1069"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.dsoemarko.us\/christian\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1089,"href":"https:\/\/www.dsoemarko.us\/christian\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1069\/revisions\/1089"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dsoemarko.us\/christian\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dsoemarko.us\/christian\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dsoemarko.us\/christian\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dsoemarko.us\/christian\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}