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don’t say that. This Herod here is Herod

Agrippa, the grandson of Herod the Great

who was king when Christ was born, and he

was the nephew of the Herod who killed

John the Baptist, and Herod probably was

not a believer, a true believer, nor was he a

pagan. As a matter of fact, you can't find

any evidence of anybody in Jerusalem that

worshiped Ishtar at that present time in the

first century. It's just not there. Historians

actually say that Herod was nonreligious

and akin to being a political secularist. This

Scripture doesn't say that he was waiting for

a pagan holiday to come about before he

killed Peter.

Now, think about this. Why would Herod
even want to wait until after the Days of

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