John The Baptist

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DAY 10 - JOHN THE BAPTIST

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"The Mystic's Dream"

This is an abbreviated version
of a longer cut on the album
it comes from:
THE CELTIC CIRCLE,
a double CD compilation
from the Arista label,
released in 2003.
Written and sung by
Loreena McKennitt,
it was part of the soundtrack
of the film
The Mists of Avalon.

John the Baptist was born March 25, 7 B.C.,
in accordance with the promise that Gabriel
made to Elizabeth in June of the previous year.
For five months Elizabeth kept secret Gabriel's visitation;
and when she told her husband, Zacharias, he was
greatly troubled and fully believed her narrative
only after he had an unusual dream about six weeks
before the birth of John. Excepting the visit
of Gabriel to Elizabeth and the dream of Zachiarias,
there was nothing unusual or supernatural
connected with the birth of John the Baptist.
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When sixteen years old, John, as a result of
reading about Elijah, became greatly impressed
with the prophet of Mount Carmel and decided
to adopt his style of dress. From that day on
John always wore a hairy garment with a
leather girdle. At sixteen he was more
than six feet tall and almost full grown.
With his flowing hair and peculiar mode of dress
he was indeed a picturesque youth.
And his parents expected great things of
this their only son, a child of promise
and a Nazarite for life.
After an illness of several months Zacharias died
in July, A.D. 12, when John was just past
eighteen years of age. In September of this year
Elizabeth and John made a journey to Nazareth to visit
Mary and Jesus. John had just about made up his mind
to launch out in his lifework, but he was admonished,
not only by Jesus' words but also by his example,
to return home, take care of his mother and
await the "coming of the Father's hour."
After bidding Jesus and Mary good by at the end
of this enjoyable visit, John did not again see
Jesus until the event of the baptism in the Jordan.
In the so-called "wilderness of Judea" John
tended his sheep along a brook that was tributary
to a larger stream which entered the Dead Sea
at Engedi. The Engedi colony included not only
Nazarites of lifelong and time-period consecration
but numerous other ascetic herdsmen who congregated
in this region with their herds and fraternized with
the Nazarite brotherhood. They supported themselves
by sheep raising and from gifts which
wealthy Jews made to the order.
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From all John heard of the vice and wickedness
of Rome and the dissoluteness and moral bareness of
the empire, from what he knew of the evil doings
of Herod Antipas and the governors of Judea,
he was minded to believe that the end of the age
was impending. It seemed to this rugged and noble
child of nature that the world was ripe for
the end of the age of man and the dawn
of the new and divine age -
the kingdom of heaven.
The feeling grew in John's heart that he was to be
the last of the old prophets and the first of the new.
And he fairly vibrated with the mounting impulse to
go forth and proclaim to all men:
"Repent! Get right with God! Get ready
for the end; prepare yourselves for the appearance
of the new and eternal order of earth affairs,
the kingdom of heaven."

The Urantia Book, Part IV
Edited from Paper 135.

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"John The Baptist"

This song is religious music of a totally different flavor - well, the entire CD is.
It's called Full Gospel Rockabilly, and features some excellent musicians
who call themselves The Found Cats.
Release was in '03 on the Golly Gee Records label.

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HIS CLOTHES WERE WEIRD.

HIS DIET WAS SPARTAN. You could tell

he'd spent years in isolation,

breaking loose from social conventions

to which the rest of us cheerfully adhere.

He was, in other words, a strangely free individual.

Fear had no claims on him,

so he could speak the truth as he understood it.

When he talked, he yelled,

and the topic of his rants was always religion.

If you saw this man on the street today,

you'd cross to the other side for sure.

Who would want to be a friend of John the Baptist?

Alice Camille, U.S. Catholic, Dec., '07

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"John In The Jordan"

Duet Lou Reid & Carolina sing an "ol' time" gospel song
from his new ('09) CD My Own Set of Rules on the Rural Rhythm label.
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CHRISTMAS DAY

THE LENTEN SERIES

Ash Wednesday

Parable of the Sower

The Kheresa Lunatic

Feeding the 5,000

Crisis at Capernaum

The Epochal Sermon

Last Words In The...

Jesus' Family Arrives

At Sidon and Tyre

At Caesarea-Philippi

The Talk With Nathaniel

His Human & Divine Minds

Dangers in Jerusalem

The Water of Life

The Rich Young Man

The Good Samaritan

Healing the Blind Beggar

The Good Shepherd

The Pharisees At Ragaba

The Ten Lepers

Blessing the Children

The Talk About Angels

Resurrection of Lazarus

Meeting of the Sanhedrin

The Lost Son

Rich Man & The Beggar

The Father & His Kingdom

About the Kingdom

The Perean Tour

The Visit to Zaccheus

Sabbath at Bethany

Starting for Jerusalem

Visiting About the Temple

Cleansing the Temple

Status of Individual Jews

Wednesday With John Mark

The Last Social Hour

Last Day at the Camp