Religion & Spirituality
Elijah lived in a time of failed institutions. He was an outsider. In a time when the political order and the religious order had both fallen into corruption and decay. Elijah lived in exile. He lived hand to mouth. And he was an opponent of corrupt kings and queens who tried to murder him. It is no wonder, then, that John– who lived in the wilderness– and who stood on the opposite side of the border, the east side of the Jordan beyond the reach of princes and law enforcement– John was seen as Elijah.