Voice in the Wilderness- JOHN 1: 22-23
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The Baptist stood at the crossing roads of the Old to the New; he was the witness of what was to come. The temple was being abused by self-righteous leads whose only concern was power and prestige. We see the different sects coming about led by the Pharisees, whose role was maintaining the past and accumulating wealth and position was their concern—followed by the Sadducees, who were considered rationalists and cold-hearted, portrayed by their intellect. Sadduceeism is a reaction against Phariseeism in every age. Rationalism is a dry, critical, antagonistic spirit that protests against all that cannot be proved-their religion of the intellect. Then there are the Essenes, who bore neither formalism nor scepticism. Mystics who went out into the wilderness to find God in contemplation. Their creed “God must be felt,” their religion one of feeling and the Herodians, whose concern was more based within a political framework which turned aside from religious questions to those concerned man’s social and political existence.
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