The Sermon On The Mount (John the Baptist, all locked up and beheaded)
Posted by Melody on November 12th, 2008
This post says so much despite how short it is.
John the Baptist was the immediate forerunner of Jesus. His message was this, “Repent of your sins”! For this message he was beheaded. Why? Because he had the arrogance to publicly call Herod the tetrarch on his sexual sin. Herod had married his brother’s wife, Herodious. Here are some Biblical accounts of the event:
Luke 3:19 “But when Herod the tecrarch was reproved by him (John) on account of Herodias, his brother’s wife, and on account of all the wicked things which Herod had done, he added this also to them all, that he locked John up in prison.”
Mark 6:18 “For John had been saying to Herod, “It is not lawful for you to have your brother’s wife”.
Matthew 14:3-4 “For when Herod had John arrested, he bound him, and put him in prison on account of Herodias, the wife of this brother Philip. For John had been saying to him, ‘It is not lawful for you to have her.’”
November 12th, 2008 at 2:55 pm
Why would God allow the immediate forerunner of Jesus be so hung up on one guys sexual sin? The only things John the Baptist even talks about are how terrible all those sinners were. Obviously these words were not relevant to the culture of the day. They got him killed. Why didn’t God send someone who dressed like everybody else, and said only nice things about Jesus instead of a strangoid who wore camelskin and lived like a crazy hermit in the desert?
November 13th, 2008 at 11:31 pm
I’m thinking that, in modern times, John the Baptist would be accused of using bad “tone”, of being “judgmental” and “negative”, and “not relating” to where people really are in their lives and “driving them away”, not to mention being “hung up on sex” and “thinking some sins are worse than others”. He would be accused of being “snarky” and being “a troll”.
He’d be kicked out of faculty meetings at Christian colleges and universities. He’d be kicked out of church. He’d probably be arrested for vagrancy.