Chapter 62: Justice and Righteousness

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Next day John went again into temple courts and said:
“Prepare, O Israel, prepare to meet your king.”
The chief priests and scribes would know the meaning of of his words; they said:
“Bold man, what is the purport of this message that you bring to Israel 🇮🇱? If you be seer and prophet tell us plainly who has sent you here?”
And John replied 🗣️: “I am the voice of the one who cries out in the wilderness, Prepare the way, make you straight 📏 the paths, for, lo, the Prince of Peace 👼 will come to rule in love 🤍.”
Your prophet Malachi wrote ✏️ down the words of God:
‘And I will send Eiijah unto you before the retribution day shall come, to turn agin the hearts of men 🫀 to God, and if they will not turn, lo, I will smite them with a curse.’
“You men of Israel; you know your sins. As I passed by I saw a wounded bird 🐦 prone in your streets, and men of every were beating it with clubs ⚾; and then I saw that Justice was its name.”
“I looked again and saw that its companion had been killed 🔪; the pure white wings 🕊️ of Righteousness were trampled 🦶 in the dust.”
“I tell you men, your awfulness of guilt has made a cesspool of iniquity that sends a fearful stench 🐽 to heaven ☝️.”
“Reform, O Israel, reform; prepare to meet your king.”
And then John turned away and as he went he said,
“In seven days 📆, lo, I will stand at Gilgal, by the Jordan ford, where Israel first crossed into the promised land 📍.”
And then he left the temple court to enter it no more 🔴; but many people followed him as far as Bethany, and there he tarried at the home of Lazarus, his kin 👥.
The anxious people gathered all about the home and would not go; then John came forth and said 🗣️,
“Reform, O Israel, reform; prepare to meet your king.”
“The sins of Israel do not all lie at the door priest an scribe. O think you not that all the sinners of Judea are found among the rulers and the men of wealth.”