We are currently living in a climate of rising fear. The xenophobia apparent in our public discourse right now seems to beg for an immediate apocalypse. We need to hear Luke’s version of John’s sermon. the way to live in this climate is actually very simple. Share what you have, live next to one another. Zepheniah longs for the presence of God among us as a victor. We badly want a victor at the moment. Luke instead gives us Jesus, as our emperor, reigning from the cross: in Luke’s Gospel, the centurion points at Jesus on the cross, and says, “Surely, this man was divi filius,” a title for Caesar.