by UUSurprise | May 31, 2019 | From the Minister's Desk | 0 Comments

One lesson of the Hebrew scriptures is that prophets, those who see the future and tell others about it, are generally not welcome.  For one thing, that is because their message is almost never good news.  For another, they insist on pointing out what the people they are prophesying to are doing wrong that will result in the dire consequences.  No one likes a nag. Let’s take Jeremiah as an example, “the weeping prophet”.   His message was that God would destroy Judah, allowing the Babylonian Empire to defeat Jerusalem, as it eventually did, sending the Judeans into exile in Babylon.  The reason for their nation’s destruction, Jeremiah said, was that God was judging the people of Judah for...