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Ruins of Herod's palace at Caesarea |
“I baptize you with water for repentance. But after me will come one who is more powerful than I, whose sandals I am not fit to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire. His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing floor, gathering his wheat into the barn and burning up the chaff with unquenchable fire.” - Matt .3:11-12 NIV
Herod didn't realize that all of his efforts, all of his great monuments were nothing but wood hay and stubble; that they would disappear, fade into the dust of memory, become just another ruin. His rule and the rule of any before or after him, was being replaced by an everlasting king and an everlasting kingdom, one that would withstand the ravages of time.
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