God was straightening up house. Moses had just experienced God with the burning bush and his incredible ministry was in motion. The issue was he had married a woman from a different culture and he let them raise their son in her cultural beliefs. This did not please God. When God finally said enough is enough his wife knew exactly what she was being disobedient in and how to fix it.
John did not suffer a death. He was the apostle that would not taste of death until the Lord comes again: 22 Jesus said to him, “If I [a]will that he remain till I come, what is that to you? You follow Me.” 23 Then this saying went out among the brethren that this disciple would not die. Yet Jesus did not say to him that he would not die, but, “If I will that he remain till I come, what is that to you?”
Rarely Satan still employs this tactic of showing a human the entire world today. Sometimes through psychodelic drugs, sometimes through meditaion or other religious experiences. But the people I heard that from usually get a different promise than the one Jesus got. They see all of the world and then Satan convinces them of the idea that all of us are one being and all of us are God. They think everything leads to truth and if someone wants to make a distiction between the Creator and the creation then he is comitting heresy. And the very same people think that all roads lead to truth, and because of that the biggest offense you can do is tell someone that his path is wrong and they need to repent. This is the perfect polemic against Christianty. After all the core of Christianity is denied and the most basic command that Jesus gave to us is turned into the greatest offense. And since this revelation is such a clear and strong emotional experience, they usually trust it just as much or even more so than physical reality.
This is what does it for me. Surely if they had made it up, one of them would’ve confessed under threat of death. 10 or 11 guys and not one of them says they made it up and get martyred? They must believe what they’re preaching.
