We have already scrutinized several blemishes in the storyline of John the Baptist, some of which we will here consider again, along with many new ones, to see that, for the most part, they can actually be made sense of in the insurrectionist context. At the same time, we will discover that they certainly cannot be made sense of in the context of John having been part of a “divine plan” to prepare the way for the “savior of the world.” The New Testament makes a correlation between John the Baptist and Elijah the prophet, to the degree of even implying that John was literally Elijah himself. Where did this idea come from? For starters, it is necessary to understand that Jews had always believed that Elijah was taken up alive into heaven, without ever seeing death, as mentioned in 2 Kings 2:11: “…and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.” Later on, Yahweh promised, in Malachi 4:5, that he would one day send Elijah back to earth on a special mission: “See, I will send the prophet Eli...
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