"'His winnowing fork is in his hand, to clear his threshing floor and to gather the wheat into his granary; but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire'...[John the Baptist] proclaimed the good news." Judgement is such good news (I say sarcastically). Especially in a society where the tax collectors and thieves and the soldiers are extortionists!
I guess I never really saw John as a preacher of fire and brimstone, but I guess its only if you focus on the "brood of vipers" and trees thrown into fire. I see this guy every once in a while in Boston. He wears a sign that says "Jesus or Hell" or something like that and hands out flyers. The difference between this guy and John, however, is that John draws a crowd. And I guess, in his way, he is doing what God called him to do. To prepare the way!
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