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John the Baptist [note 1] (c. 6 BC [18] – c. AD 30) was a Jewish preacher active in the area of the Jordan River in the early first century AD. [19] [20] He is also known as Saint John the Forerunner in Eastern Orthodoxy and Oriental Orthodoxy, John the Immerser in some Baptist Christian traditions, [21] and as the prophet Yaḥyā ibn Zakariyā (Arabic: النبي يحيى, An-Nabī ...
Dec. 2—Jesus told a crowd in Matthew 11:7-14 that John the Baptist had been "the Elijah who was to come" and that has led many people to wonder if John was the actual re-appearance of the great ...
Matthew 11:14 and Matthew 17:10–13 however, make it clear that John was the spiritual successor to Elijah. In the Nativity of St. John the Baptist in Luke, Gabriel appears to Zechariah, John's father, and told him that John "will turn many of the sons of Israel to the Lord their God," and that he will go forth "in the spirit and power of Elijah."
John (the Baptist) [39] el-Khudar [n 1] Yahya ibn Zakariyya [8] — Yuhana Maṣbana: John (the Baptist) — Jesus Christ [40] Jesus Christ: Isā ibn Yusuf and Maryam (Jesus, son of Joseph and Mary) [41] [42] Isa ibn Maryam (Jesus, son of Mary) [8] — — Jesus of Nazareth — — — Luke the Evangelist (Lūqā ...
John the Baptist is Elias, and Elias is John, because both were forerunners of Christ." [ 2 ] Jerome : " That He says, This is Elias, is figurative, and needs to be explained, as what follows, shows; He that hath ears to hear, let him hear."
Otto Fetting in 1916. The Assured Way church has its origin in the Fettingite movement of the Hedrickite expression of the Latter Day Saint religion. Otto Fetting, an Apostle in the Temple Lot Church of Christ, during the early twentieth century, claimed to be receiving a series of messages from an unearthly "messenger" he identified as John the Baptist.
The church's name originates in the alleged visitations of John the Baptist to Otto Fetting and William Draves. In the Gospel of Matthew 11:14, Jesus Christ identifies John with the prophet Elijah in the Book of Malachi; hence the use of "Elijah Message". Malachi 4:5-6 says: "Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the ...
Matthew 17:13 states that the three of them believed Jesus was comparing Elijah to John the Baptist. The imprisonment and death of John the Baptist (Mark 6:17–29) may be compared to the persecution of Elijah by Jezebel (1 Kings 19:2–3). [13] Moses can be seen as a representative of the law and Elijah a representative of the prophets.