When Jesus taught in the temple in Jerusalem, His Authority was questioned. He asked in return about John the Baptist. His teaching was from Heaven and baptism predicting the End of the world is from God.
The chief priests and elders of the people came forward while Jesus was preaching in the temple. "By what Authority do you do these things," they asked, "and who gave to you this Authority?"
"I shall ask you also one Word," Jesus answered, "which if you tell me I will also tell you by what Authority I do these things. The baptism of John--where was it from? Was it from Heaven or from men?"
And they went and argued among themselves, and said, "If we say 'from Heaven' He will say, 'Why then did you not believe him?' And if we say 'from men' we fear the crowd, for all hold John as a Prophet.'"
So they told Jesus, "We do not know."
Jesus said, "Nor do I tell you by what Authority I do these things."
When Jesus would not answer them like this, He showed how they really knew the answer. The baptism of John was from Heaven. It was not from men. And the chief priests and elders were proven wrong by the common people because they did not believe in John as a prophet, but the common people believed in him. And they knew better. They knew the Truth.
Jesus wouldn't answer them in order to save them. Now there was nothing He could do to reveal the Truth to them. They knew enough of the Truth without believing it. Even Jesus couldn't help them now.
They were more concerned with what men thought of them than with what God thought of them. But when they asked Jesus about His Authority, He was not concerned with what anyone thought of Him. And His Words convicted them as knowing and not believing.
The baptism of John was from Heaven and John was a prophet of God. The common people were right to believe on him. But the baptism has a prophetic significance for these Last Days. And this calls into question the cause of the global warming happening right now that is rising the sea levels and causing the floods on land too. Like the baptism, is it caused by people or by God?
God is not causing the End of the world. It is caused by people. Some people have argued a natural cause for the rising temperatures of climate change, and they also argue that means the natural cause will pass and the climate will not continue to change. If there were natural causes then God would be causing global warming.
But God can not be causing the rising temperatures because He will not destroy the world like that. And He is not causing just a temporary warming of the world either. The Prophecy of Jesus shows you that.
God would not try you by showing you the Prophecy of Jesus about these End-times to begin and then stop it from happening any further. God is not testing you because God is going to confirm the Prophecy of Jesus.
And God will not destroy the world. But now there are too many people in the world for its resources to feed the need and hunger of all those people. The baptism of John foretold the disasters of the Last Days in much flooding. God is not causing these End-times disasters and yet the prophetic baptism of John is from Heaven.
The baptism of John is from Heaven and God uses baptism to warn you to turn back to God in these Last Days. If you give up your life in submission to the rising waters of the End-times you will gain eternal Life in Heaven.
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