Why John The Baptist Death?

work of His hand? Such teachings arose because they neglected the progressive aspect of the Holy Bible and rush to call God the name He never deserve. If somebody commits a crime, for instance, murder in my presence, does that make me a killer? Every affliction comes from the devil, under the permissive will of God.

Some church members will quote the scriptures that support their misleading practices, “Suffer not a witch to live”, “the kingdom of God suffereth violet and the violent taketh it by force”, furthermore, “the axe is laid on the tree”. These three scriptures, sorry to say, are applied without taking cognizance of the two great commandments Christ passed on to his followers. Israelites received the law through Moses without interpretations,
In this scripture Jesus was explaining why John the Baptist was killed – because of the gospel, and warned his followers not to be discouraged by the tragic death of his forerunner. What led to John the Baptist death? There was a time he digressed from his divine message, and rebuke king Herod over unlawful covet of Herodias. That rebuke cost him his life, and he so languished in prison before his death that he lost memory of the great work God had done through him. The clause the kingdom of God suffers violence simply means that when you dedicate yourself to the ministry of doing good (which is the earthly part of the kingdom on earth), you will face persecutions from sons of belial (Jdg
shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord (Rom