Title: The Harbinger-Silencing a Prophet
Author: Christopher Harbin
Text: Luke 3:15-22
While the political world was concerned with Qaletaqa, her message, and her influence, they were mainly intent on determining what to do with and about her. Her words were stirring up the people, but beyond ideas of revolutionary transformation she espoused, there were questions about her identity and the role she would take in the life of the nation and indeed the larger world. Qaletaqa called people to effectgreat changes in their living. That brought with it much speculation, as people left and right asked who Qaletaqa was. Specifically, they were intent on determining if she were the one long-awaited and prophesied of long ago to bring deliverance to the nations. Was she the one on whom they should pin their hopes, dreams, and expectations?
Some of the people gained the courage to put the question to her directly. "Are you the one we have long awaited?" She hid nothing in declaring she was not the one they expected. She was simply preparing the ground for the one who would follow her. It was this other one on whom their expectations from prophecy were pinned. It was this other whom they needed to be ready to heed. She was simply a herald, coming beforehand as the advance party to make preparations. Her charge and task was getting them ready to listen in anticipation of what the promised one would say and do.
Despite her declarations about who she was and that she was not the one they anticipated, many found this hard to believe. They wanted to cast her as the one long-awaited and on whom their hopes were pinned. They wanted to take her as Messiah, center of their hope, the one on whom they would depend, burdening her with fulfilling their dreams, their versions of the coming golden era.
Qaletaqa did not seem to fit any norms and expectations. She lived a new paradigm, as she did not embrace the consumerism so integral to the cultural norms. She did not bother wi ...
Author: Christopher Harbin
Text: Luke 3:15-22
While the political world was concerned with Qaletaqa, her message, and her influence, they were mainly intent on determining what to do with and about her. Her words were stirring up the people, but beyond ideas of revolutionary transformation she espoused, there were questions about her identity and the role she would take in the life of the nation and indeed the larger world. Qaletaqa called people to effectgreat changes in their living. That brought with it much speculation, as people left and right asked who Qaletaqa was. Specifically, they were intent on determining if she were the one long-awaited and prophesied of long ago to bring deliverance to the nations. Was she the one on whom they should pin their hopes, dreams, and expectations?
Some of the people gained the courage to put the question to her directly. "Are you the one we have long awaited?" She hid nothing in declaring she was not the one they expected. She was simply preparing the ground for the one who would follow her. It was this other one on whom their expectations from prophecy were pinned. It was this other whom they needed to be ready to heed. She was simply a herald, coming beforehand as the advance party to make preparations. Her charge and task was getting them ready to listen in anticipation of what the promised one would say and do.
Despite her declarations about who she was and that she was not the one they anticipated, many found this hard to believe. They wanted to cast her as the one long-awaited and on whom their hopes were pinned. They wanted to take her as Messiah, center of their hope, the one on whom they would depend, burdening her with fulfilling their dreams, their versions of the coming golden era.
Qaletaqa did not seem to fit any norms and expectations. She lived a new paradigm, as she did not embrace the consumerism so integral to the cultural norms. She did not bother wi ...
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