Our paragraph topic is: (Herod murdered John) Part 2.
Herod was a deceitful King. He was a liar and a murderer. He was filled with his own passion and guided by his wife Herodias. For Herod loved Herodias. He desired her. He lusted that he would do anything for her. John spoke against Herod and Herodias and they did not like it. How dare he speak against the king. How dare he speak against the king's wife. Any lesser man would have been put to death immediately. But John was a prophet. John was the messenger of the Messiah. John proclaimed the coming of the savior and the people revered him. But Herodias was filled with hatred and passion against John and she would have his head for speaking against her.
Herod was a deceitful King. He was a liar and a murderer. He was filled with his own passion and guided by his wife Herodias. For Herod loved Herodias. He desired her. He lusted that he would do anything for her. John spoke against Herod and Herodias and they did not like it. How dare he speak against the king. How dare he speak against the king's wife. Any lesser man would have been put to death immediately. But John was a prophet. John was the messenger of the Messiah. John proclaimed the coming of the savior and the people revered him. But Herodias was filled with hatred and passion against John and she would have his head for speaking against her.
To appease Herodias, Herod had John arrested and imprisoned. Herod would have liked to put him to death but the people would have revolted against him for such actions and that would have involved the Romans coming in to calm the crowds. So Herod was perplexed as to what to do about John the Baptist. He wondered, he planned, he schemed, and he plotted. And finally he came up with a plan. The demons were with him. The demons helped him to plan. The demons that possessed Herod had him do their actions to murder John the Baptist. This was their plan.
On Herod's birthday, the daughter of Herodias danced before them, and pleased Herod. Whereupon he promised with an oath to give her whatever she might ask of him. Then she, at her mother's prompting, said, "Give me here on a dish the head of John the Baptist.
And so the plot enacted. John was to beheaded because of an oath by the King to give anything to his wife's daughter. This was the plan. This was the plot. This was the scheme of the demons to get rid of John the Baptist. The demons were loosing disciples because of John the Baptist. They were being cast out. They were loosing souls to John the Baptist who was baptising souls to Christ. But the demons had a plan. The demons had a plot. And the demons had agents to work for them. The demons had Herod and Herodias to do their will in killing John the Baptist.
Be not an agent for the devil. Become an agent for Christ. There is no middle ground. You are either one or the other. You are either working with Christ or you are working against Christ. And the demons are recruiting daily. They are plotting. They are planning. They are running every kind of scheme to steal the souls of men, women, girls and boys, children and all mankind. For they work for the evil one who's goal is to capture as many souls as he can and destroy them in hell.
Christ said beware the one who can kill the body and destroy the soul in hell. He it is whom you should fear. There are agents in this world for the evil one. Do not become one of them. Repent and be born again in Christ. For he will cleans you of the evil that would possess you. He will sanctify you that you may be made anew. He will justify you that you will be made holy before the father. He will protect you that you may not fall again to the tricks and traps of the evil one. His word is truth. His word is life. His word is love. Become one in Christ and he will become one you.
