The first time I had anything to do with the biblical figure John the Baptist was about 25 years ago. I had recently become a Nazarite. I was reading Mark 9.13 in the New Testament. There, Jesus was talking about the recent murder of John the Baptist. Jesus mentioned that it was written in the Old Testament that John the Baptist would be murdered. Jesus was in the world at the time this prophecy about the murder of John was fulfilled. I did not want to bother with looking through all the prophesies for the place his murder was foretold in the bible. Then I asked God where his murder was written about. Immediately I got an answer back- Psalm 42. Then I turned to Psalm 42. It was a story of a man who used to like to lead a procession to the house of God to worship. But now he had been imprisoned near the Jordan River (Psalm 42:6). The psalm writer foretold he would be taunted by his enemies while in prison. Then a sword would crush his bones.
So the voice I heard in my heard had led me to the right place. It wasn’t a surprise since I was asking God about the murder of a biblical figure. In verse 11 of psalm 42 the psalmist writes as though he is John. Verse 11 says, ‘Why are you cast down, O my inner self? And why should you moan over me and be disquieted within me? Hope in God and wait expectantly for Him, for I shall yet praise Him, who is the hope of my countenance, and my God. The psalmist says God yet has something good in mind for John. The end of this psalm promises God is going to revisit this situation and sow on top of it.
What evidence is there in the bible that John the Baptist should have hope in God. Look to Genesis 49. Jacob is giving a description of the future messiah. It says there in verse 11, ‘Binding His foal to the vine and His donkey’s colt to the choice vine, He washes His garments in wine and His clothes in the blood of grapes”.
This is an interesting statement by Jacob about the messiah. The last statement there says the messiah washes His clothes in the blood of grapes. What does this parable mean?
John the Baptist was a nazarite, as I am. Nazarites are not allowed to drink wine or eat grapes. It is a part of their vow to God that was established by Moses in his relationship with God.
The blood of grapes is a reference to the murder of a nazarite. There is no other possibility. So the murder of John is being used by Jacob to reveal the identity and the redemption of the messiah.
This statement by Jacob where he associates the messiah with the murder of John is important. It obviously points directly to Jesus as the messiah and eliminates the possibility of somebody else being the king of the Jews.
It also shows God made a plan to overthrow those among the Jews who play dirty games with the words of the prophets. One of the dirty games they place is to throw out Isaiah 40.3 and Psalm 42. Somebody has to play those roles in order for those words to be fulfilled. John is the only candidate to fulfill this scripture. It is an extreme act of dishonesty to conceal this fact. It is dishonest to John, Jacob, and ultimately to God.
Those among the Jews who reject Jesus is the messiah always commit these perverted acts. They throw out John the Baptist, even though he fulfills Isaiah 40:3 and Psalm 42. They do not care at all that this scripture must be fulfilled, and the new testament reveals the fulfillment. This word by Jacob shows he is not among those who act as though throwing out scripture does not matter.
This certainly points to Jesus as the messiah since they are grouped together in Isaiah 40:3 and the four gospels.
This word was given to Jacob by God well before the life of John. Then his murder was prophecied about in Psalm 42. The fact God tied in the murder of John with the identity and redemption of the messiah is important. The link between the murder of a nazarite and the messiah certainly helps deliver Jesus from false accusations. Those who eliminate Jesus as the messiah consistently also throw out John the Baptist, and the unusual word by Jacob about the blood of grapes as well. The action in Genesis 49:11 shows the murder of John will not go to waste. The psalm writer is right when he says God will give John reason to praise Him.
Jesus did another important association with John the Baptist besides saying his murder was written about. He said John the Baptist fulfills the word of the prophet Malachi. The word Jesus says John will fulfill is found in 4:5-6. This is a word that is fulfilled at the end of the age, just before the day of the Lord. Jesus is giving John a role in lowering the death toll at the end of the age. What God and is simple honesty with their scripture. When somebody acknowledges John plays a role in fulfilling scripture, they can not be accused by God of being a liar and creating a more murderous environment in the world. Jesus uses John at the end of the age in a way where He is trying to get families unified around John, so they can not be convicted of being a person who forges a lie against God. Jesus deserves credit for giving people sound advice when He associates John with the word of the prophet Malachi.
The next unusual event I had with John the Baptist was a short time later. I was reading the story of his murder on the birthday of Herod in Mark 6. I felt incensed when I was finished reading about his murder so I threw the bible against the wall. I immediately said to God I wanted fire from heaven to strike a symbol of Herod in the world for my birthday to show everybody Jesus was the King.
As soon as I made this petition to God I was given a strong vision that lasted for several minutes. God was speaking to me during the vision and describing what was taking place. The vision contained a lot of pictures and details about the upcoming deaths of some people in the political world. During the vision God said He knew they would die the way they did when they were in the womb. At the end of the vision the person in the political world was placed in a room in heaven where everybody else there had been killed in the womb. Daniel 11:39. Then, three days later they died in the exact way it was told to me they would. It was an electrifying experience. It made me believe they had a different curse than me. They had more freedom than the person in Psalm 88, but they could die at at anytime, as those in Psalm 91 do.
I did not know at the time that I would need this experience in the future in order to fulfill the word in Daniel 11:39. There it says help from a god, a politician), is needed to deal with the strongest fortress. God obviously knew this, but I did not know the scripture as well as God.
God used the murder of John the Baptist to help fulfill His scripture against murder. When this takes place, John the Baptist is leading Jesus back into the world. This act by God fulfills the need at the end of Psalm 42 for John the Baptist to have reason to praise God.
John the Baptist was used by God again in another attack against killing in the womb. I received another strong vision with numerous details of the death of some people in the church who practiced and supported abortion. Fellow Nazarite Samson was involved in this vision. Then, one day, one of the people who was the subject of the vision appeared in front of me. Then Jesus said to me, “A judgment is coming into the world soon and he is going to die because there is too much support for abortion around him”. In the background was a picture of a politician he supported who supported abortion. When I heard this, I felt a sudden desire to protect him so I reached out and pulled him to me. I was much bigger than him and he fit into my hand. As I did this, a platter he was attached to shattered into pieces. I knew they were about to die and later that day they died in the exact way I heard they would. God wanted to take John the Baptist off the platter, and put those in the church who supported abortion in his place.
God treated them in a similar way to Ananias and Sapphira, who died in Acts 5 for taking money from the church. Only this time the crime was over killing in the womb.
This action by Jesus around John the Baptist helps make sense of His statement about John in Matthew 11:11. There He said John is least in the kingdom of heaven even though he was a great a prophet as any. I think the word of Jesus is true if your murder is used to ignite God into cutting off people from using the political world to legalize killing little ones in the womb.
About ten years ago, I was reading the words of Zachariah, the father of John the Baptist. He is quoted in Luke 1. There he affiliated his son with the deliverance of Jews from murder. Since his father said this, John himself was murdered and so have many other Jews.
This raises a very important issue. An issue that cuts to the core of the validity of the new testament. How could John end the murder of Jews when he himself is prophecied to be murdered in psalm 42?
The word of Zachariah is true because of the future strategy of the bible. This strategy gets fulfilled after the death of John. There are two prophetic vines in the bible as Jacob said in Genesis 49. The first one helps reveal the Messiah, and show people can be raised from the dead and receive forgiveness for their sins. John fulfilled some of this initial activity in Malachi 4.5, Isaiah 40.3, and Psalm 68. Without his efforts, the future strategy of Jacob’s choice vine against murder could not be used.
It is also true it is not possible to fulfill the choice vine without John. Petitions to God about his murder caused God to fulfill the bible’s strategy against murder. God did not reveal the choice vine of Jacob to me until I used the murder of John in a petition to God. This use of John by God against murder at the end of the age directly leads to the return of Jesus. So John does indeed play a huge role in delivering the Jews from murder. So the promise of his father is true.
In Matthew 17:10-12 Jesus was talking about both John the Baptist and the future. There it says, The disciples asked Him, Then why do the scribes say that Elijah must come first? He replied, Elijah does come and will get everything restored and ready. But I tell you that Elijah has come already, and they did not know or recognize him, but did to him as they liked. So also the Son of Man is going to be treated and suffer at their hands.
This is a great statement by Jesus. It needs to be much better understood by His followers than it is at this time. He is speaking in parables here with His use of the name of Elijah. His use of the name Elijah is a reference to a nazarite since Elijah was a nazarite.
He says here a nazarite will come and get things restored and ready. This is a different nazarite from John since he was murdered at the time Jesus gave this statement about the future.
Jesus is showing a much better knowledge of the details of future biblical prophecy than anybody else has ever done.
The words used by myself to get things restored and ready were created when Jesus said this so He was able to see their existence at the time He made this quote. Only the book of Revelation had not been written.
When a nazarite is used to get things restored and ready, he is coordinating prophecies that are terrible for the killers of the world. So this statement by Jesus shows both His knowledge and participation in this important biblical strategy.
Jesus divided the future acts in the prophets against murder between John the Baptist and me. The only act He affiliated John with is found in Malachi. This statement by Malachi is a general statement about the intervention against murder so He applied it to John.
The other statements used to get things restored and ready require somebody to be in the world at the end of the age. So that is why another nazarite other than John is also needed. This website discusses the words used to get things restored and ready.
Jesus obviously knew both His death and the death and John were prophesied about before both of them were born. But Jesus participated in it because it fulfills a need in the bible’s strategy against murder. This important fact about Jesus makes Him worthy to be the King of the world.
One of the most interesting quotes by Jesus is about John the Baptist and the prophet Malachi. This statement is found in Matthew 11.14. The Jesus said, “And if you are willing to receive and accept it, John himself is Elijah who was to come”.
John did not deserve to be murdered. We could say the same thing about others who have been murdered. Jesus is taking a murdered man and giving him a role in God’s attack against murder. Things are changing. This action by Jesus takes place when God has decided to quit counting bodies.
Here is what Malachi said in 4.5-6, the passage Jesus is referring to.
Behold I will send you Elijah before the great and terrible day of the Lord comes. And he shall turn and reconcile the hearts of the estranged fathers to the ungodly children, and the hearts of the rebellious children to the piety of their fathers, lest I come and smite the land with a curse and a ban of utter destruction.
So what Jesus is saying here is He wants John the Baptist to play a role in raising the level of faith in God in families, so God does not have to kill as many people at the end of the age. God is using a murdered man to try to get people to associate with God than the murderous activity in the world.
How can John the Baptist do this? John the Baptist certainly fulfilled Psalm 42, when he was murdered. But how can a murdered man improve faith in the world and make the day of the Lord less severe.
Jesus has some great reasons for wanting John the Baptist to play a role at the end of the age. First of all, the father of John claimed his son would help end the murder of Jews. This is yet to come true.
The writer of psalm 42 promised God was going to remember John sometime after his murder. Jesus is going about the business of proving the writer right.
John was murdered during the life of Jesus. If Jesus gives him a role in lessening the severity of the judgment at the end of the age, then John is playing a valuable rode in leading the return of Jesus.
Jesus is planning to sow on top of the murder of John. How can this be done? Jesus is desiring to sow on top of his murder when he associates John with future action at the end of the age.
Another fact is Jesus wants to own John the Baptist for Himself. The author of the qu’ran associated Jesus and John the Baptist with some unwanted statements. When Jesus uses John for a role at the end of the age He is overthrowing this unwanted relationship.
Jesus put His future into the quote of John. This shows what He cares about. Those who through out His quote are guilty of concealment.
In order to understand the desire to use John in a role at the end of the age, a person needs to have a good grasp of biblical strategy. The first prophetic vine of words produced evidence of the identity of the messiah, that people can be raised from the dead and receive forgiveness for their sins. The second prophetic vine is about God’s intimacy with murder. It is a terrible maneuver against the killers of the world. I was not allowed to be trained to coordinate the words of this second vine until I started using the murder of John in a petition to God. The murder of John was used to ignite this final prophetic strategy against murder. This is what Jesus is doing when he says John will play a role in preparing the world for judgment at the end of the age. He is giving a murdered man a role in ending murder. This is the only thing that can be done to fulfill the claim at the end of psalm 42, where it says God will give John a reason to praise him.
Another important feature is in the action at the end of the age in the bible. The murder of John the Baptist was used twice by myself in a petition to God. Both times God responded to the petition. The blood of John was obviously very powerful with God. When God responded to the petition, God attacked killing in and out of the womb. this performance by God fulfilled the word of Joel 2.30. It also directly linked John to God’s intervention against murder. When Jesus gave John a judgment day role long ago, He is building a relationship with a nazarite at the end of the age who uses John’s murder to ignite God’s intervention against murder. This is a need for me to have a quote where Jesus associated John with action at the end of the age since I used his murder to to motivate God to perform the acts of Joel 2.30
The achievements of Jesus are great when He uses John in a judgment day role at the end of the age.
- He fulfills the promise of Zechariah, who promised his son would help end the murder of Jews
- He is breaking off His relationship with some deviant bluster by the author of the qu’ran
- He is sowing on top of the murder of John by giving John a role in leading His return
- He is using John to help lower the death toll at the end of the age
- He is attacking abortion, which is an assault against God
- He is giving support to a piper who warns at the end of the age.
- These are the actions of a Guy who knows how to win and take over the world
The first day I ever read the word of Zachariah was about ten years ago. I remember later that day seeing and talking to a demon. This demon had a head that was about four times longer than it was tall. It was shaped like a rectangle. It had narrow slits for eyes. Its face was made of many triangles that were fit together well. The triangles were yellow with black along the sides. When it came into my room, it was chanting the same thing over and over. It was crunching its words together. I asked it what it was saying because I could not understand its language. Then right away it said, “I’m going to kill you and your family” in english.
quote Jesus, say how He compared John the Baptist to Elijah, Jesus said he fulfilled OT scripture
John said he fulfilled Isaiah 40.3
discuss what Jesus said John was least in the kingdom of God…discuss who is least… those who died in the womb…discuss what these words mean, they mean Jesus does not like arrogance,arrogance in the form of older people like John being glorified over those who died so quickly…give Jesus credit for teaching people not to be arrogant, getting rid of arrogance is essential to survival
discuss John’s role in fulfilling the strategy of Jacob
1) his murder was used to produce the strong wind in Revelation 6.12, which ends the murder of biblical people
2) this fulfills the promise at the end of psalm 42
3) Jesus prophesied about his murder, show the quote in Mark 9.13
4) show his father prophesied in Luke they would play a role in ending the murder of Jews
5) bible needs to fulfill the word of Zachariah about them to win
6) tell how once I asked where was the quote, and immediately I heard psalm 42 and the voice was right
7) Zachariah, the father of John, associated the birth of his son with deliverance for God’s people; show how the
strategy of Jacob proves that Zachariah is right
explain Matthew 17.11 and when Jesus said he is least in the kingdom of God Matthew 11.11