There are many prophets in the Bible and sometimes the people see it as a threat or as someone bearing false witness to what God has bestowed on them. I recently watched a show that featured a person playing John the Baptist. Nicodemus, the rabbi, was talking to him while John was imprisoned, and John talked about how Jesus was the son of God, the savior of the world, Nicodemus got angry because all he wanted to know what Jesus’ name was. If he wanted to know this out of curiosity to figure out how to warn others about him or to spread the news about him was unknown, but others before him and around him wanted to know out of pure fear because they thought that Jesus would overthrow them on their thrown. There were those who were scared of the prophecies, others who were interested, and some who thought that the prophet was crazy, and they wanted the prophet dead. A specific example that is widely known is the act of King Herod to kill all of the children under two years of age in his kingdom because he heard about Jesus and was worried that Jesus would dethrone him. This action connects to today how people worry too much about what could happen, and they do not focus on the present
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