likely to stand at the last day.” As we noted in our first chapter, the Herod who reigned when John was born is often referred to in history as Herod “the Great.” But you will notice the Bible does not call him great. It calls John the Baptist great, but it does not call Herod great, for heaven evaluates on a far different basis than the world does. The world would not have called John great in his lifetime. “How Herod or Pilate or Caesar, or philosophers at Athens, or rabbis in Jerusalem would have