Luke 3:15 ¶ And as the
people were in expectation, and all men mused in their hearts of John, whether
he were the Christ, or not; 16 John
answered, saying unto them all, I indeed baptize you with water; but one
mightier than I cometh, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to unloose:
he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire: 17 Whose fan is in his hand, and he will
throughly purge his floor, and will gather the wheat into his garner; but the
chaff he will burn with fire unquenchable. 18 And many other things in his exhortation
preached he unto the people. 19 But
Herod the tetrarch, being reproved by him for Herodias his brother Philip’s
wife, and for all the evils which Herod had done, 20 Added yet this above all, that he shut up
John in prison.
John the Baptist
prophesies both advents of Christ; the first to pay the penalty for mankind’s
sin against God for those who would receive the gift and trust in Christ’s
righteousness and not their own for salvation receiving the Holy Ghost, the
very mind of God indwelling them. Then the judgment at the end of human history
in which all those who reject Him are judged for their sins against God.
Revelation
20:11 ¶ And I saw a great white throne,
and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and
there was found no place for them. 12 And I saw the dead, small and great, stand
before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the
book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written
in the books, according to their works.
This method of
incorporating a nearer prophecy and a future prophecy is performed in Isaiah 61
and other Old Testament passages, as well. In the passage in Isaiah both
advents are listed, separated for our understanding by a comma in verse 2.
Jesus will quote the verse up to that point in chapter 4 of Luke referring to
Himself.
Isaiah 61:1 ¶ The Spirit of
the Lord GOD is upon me;
because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath
sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and
the opening of the prison to them that
are bound; 2 To proclaim the
acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort
all that mourn; 3 To appoint unto them
that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for
mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be
called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might be
glorified.
While he was preaching
Herod the tetrarch, who was angry at being called out for his adultery, arrested
John and locked him up.
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