To: zeeba neighba
John was not rejected and killed. Did he restore the nation for the Messiah?
Was John (the so-called Elijah) beheaded?
The High Priest and the Pharisees were the ones who would not accept Jesus, for then their sweet little corrupt system would come down.
The priestly class were the Sadducees.
The Pharisees were skeptical, but reasonably tolerant of the nascent Jewish-Christians until a certain Saul of Tarsus denied the law of Moses.
2,314 posted on
02/27/2006 9:45:04 PM PST by
dread78645
(Intelligent Design. It causes people to misspeak)
To: dread78645; Dr. Eckleburg; Californiajones; Tim Long; Matchett-PI
Yes, with his baptism of the Jews, which was their ritual, by the way for it, John made the Jews who believed, righteous and ritually clean. Then he baptized Jesus who received the annointing and was thus Christ. The nation was restored, for Jesus said that He came for the lost sheep of Israel, and they have ben coming into the Kingdom in droves ever since.
John was beheaded, fulfilling the prophecy found re him in the Joseph story
2,316 posted on
02/28/2006 11:20:39 AM PST by
zeeba neighba
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