May every “Jesus Receiver” take in John The Baptist’s words about Jesus!
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Question 1: “What ‘word about Jesus’ should every person on earth let their ‘Jesus Receiver’ take in?”
Answer: “God’s Last Prophet was John The Baptist. He, as if The Prophet Elijah returned to earth, told us what Jesus would do to every person’s immortal soul in Luke 3:10-18. Today’s Catholic Bible Reading that explains people were puzzled, but knew John The Baptist spoke with God’s Wisdom when they cried out in confusion:
‘The crowds asked John the Baptist, ‘What should we do?’ He said to them in reply, ‘Whoever has two cloaks should share with the person who has none. And whoever has food should do likewise.’ No one had ever heard that simple solution to every problem on earth!”
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Question 2 “Did even the greediest and most powerful people ask John The Baptist for advice and guidance?”
Answer: “‘Even tax collectors came to be Baptized and they said to him, ‘Teacher, what should we do?’
He answered them, ‘Stop collecting more than what is prescribed.’
Soldiers of Rome and Herod were the most powerful people on any street in the land. ‘Soldiers also asked him, ‘And what is it that we should do?’ He told them, ‘Do not practice extortion, do not falsely accuse anyone, and be satisfied with your wages.’”
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Question 3: “Both rich and powerful people were given simple answers to hard questions! How did ordinary people respond to John The Baptist’s amazing teaching?
Answer: “The Holy Spirit moved them! ‘Now the people were filled with expectation, and all were asking in their hearts whether John might be the Christ.’ Then, an often Overlooked Miracle: John The Baptist could read their minds and know of their unspoken question!
To prove that The Power of The Holy Spirit gave John The Baptist the ability to read minds and see into the future: ‘John answered them all, saying, ‘I am baptizing you with water, but One mightier than I is coming. I am not worthy to loosen the thongs of His sandals. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.
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Question 5: “What did John The Baptist then do?”
Answer: “He opened their ‘Jesus Receivers’ to let them understand THIS about The Coming Messiah! ‘His winnowing fan is in His hand to clear His threshing floor and to gather the wheat into His barn, but the chaff He will burn with unquenchable fire.’”
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Question 6: “What did John The Baptist do after that?”
Answer: “‘Exhorting them in many other ways, he preached good news to the people.’ John The Baptist opened many ‘Jesus Receivers’ that let thousands of people in Jerusalem, and billions of people in the world, follow Jesus when He came.”
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Question 6: “What did those whose ‘Jesus Receivers’ were were blessed to be opened do after Jesus came?”
Answer: “They gratefully obeyed The Church-Creating Word of Jesus to His First Catholic Pope: ‘And I say unto you thou art Peter and on this rock I build My Church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. I give you the keys to The Kingdom of Heaven.’”
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Question 7: “Does choosing whether or not to obey Words of Jesus still separate the souls who are ‘gathered into His barn’ from those who are eternally burned ‘with unquenchable fire’?”
Answer: “May every person on earth be blessed to ask God to let their ‘Jesus Receiver’ be opened to That Simple Fact!”
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Today’s Simple Rhyme: “May all understand one fact well: / Rejecting Christ sends souls to hell.”
