None Greater Than John The Baptist
Jesus Christ Himself said that “Of those born among women, there is none greater than John The Baptist. But those who are least in the Kingdom are greater than he”
So if John was The Greatest of those born among women, He should have a testimony to prove it. Even as Paul the Apostle said that he wasn’t lacking anything that the most eminent Apostles have.” And rightly so but the Prophet John the Baptist was credited as “those born of women”. And it is us New Will and Testament believers who should at the least understand these things.
John The Baptist credentials.
So John was qualified as greatest of those born among women because of his direct association with Jesus. They both grew up in Galilee. They were both from Galilee. They were cousins. Johns father Zachariah served at the porch, at the alter, in the Temple of Jerusalem, of which only the High Priests had a higher clearance.
John was the first to know about the immediacy of the destruction the temple and of Jerusalem and the Jewish era as being “at hand” saying “who has warned you of the wrath to come?” Even as was confirmed with Jesus who said “Oh Jerusalem how I morn for you. I would’ve gathered you as a Hen gathers her chicks but you were not willing. Now this destruction is upon you.”
We say “that Jerusalem” because there is a Heavenly one that replaced expired and eternally replaced that one. The earthen one was a replica for instruction purposes only. And why the Jews city, temple and artifacts became a blasphemous rendition that invoked the disdain from God the Father. That Jerusalem’s true purpose was meant only to be a teaching tool and an aid for the invisible one called “The Kingdom prepared from the Foundations of the world”. To mean the eternal one in the Heavens that their brick made model was designed to teach them about. Kind of like toys for tots, and why they were called children in the Old Covenant nearly 1200 times because they did not make this connection. Even as Jesus scolded them saying “you do the deeds of your father Satan.
And, it was also the Jews as the last stewards, who lifted their Jerusalem higher than the God they were suppose to be instructed about. In turn they served their carnal copies as though they were Holy. That was their Blasphemy! To steal attention intended to be directed to the glory of God. To in turn take unto themselves Glory for YHWH unto themselves like the Jews did too.
That is why John came and said to them “you brood of vipers and sons of Satan, who has warned you to flee from the wrath to come. Therefore bare fruits worthy of repentance for God is able to raise up from these stones sons of Abraham.” And God did. He raised up a new people from among the Gentile nations. To mean even for since the time of the Jews were expired, that they could only enter in as just any other nation, at least from those who were left of the dispersion. And as for those today? We don’t know where they are from, but we do know that if they repent, they can entere “The Kingdom of God at hand”, as the other nations do. No better, and after they repent? No worse.
For this reasons Christ said their temple was to be destroyed “till not one stone was to be left upon another” to become unrecognizable and unable to rebuild lest His anger be kindled again.
So that the Jews temple replacement in the time of Christ, which also became the “Common Era”, of which those from all nations were called “living stones assembled together a habitation for God in the Spirit” with Jesus Christ work being finished thereby earning the title of “The Chief Cornerstone”, ‘where ever two or more are gathered in My name, there am I in their midst, that they were assembled to. Remember what Christ said to Peter? For you are Petros, and on this (Petra) rock, I will Assemble/build My Kingdom.”And He did.
To make the point that the Jews, their leaders, buildings, feasts and fixtures were physically dismantled and expired and left in a sate of disrepair being the whole “Old Covenant” as an expired, lifeless and dead document, meant to be used only as teaching tools of a way on how NOT to do it. Why? Because “10 As it is written: “There is none righteous, no, not one; 11 There is none who understands; There is none who seeks after God. 12 They have all turned aside; They have together become unprofitable; There is none who does good, no, not one.” 13 “Their throat is an open [a]tomb; With their tongues they have practiced deceit”; “The poison of asps is under their lips”; 14 “Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.” 15 “Their feet are swift to shed blood; 16 Destruction and misery are in their ways; 17 And the way of peace they have not known.” 18 “There is no fear of God before their eyes.” 19 Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become [b]guilty before God. 20 Therefore by the deeds of the law no flesh will be justified in His sight. To mean, never ever!
And because they redirected praise meant for God, to themselves, they were, not only removed and expired but eternally punished. Yes, this fits in with the term “expired” which is synonymous as being dead.
So when John the Baptist showed his rank and asked the Jews “Who has warned YOU to flee from the wrath to come”. The wrath “was NOT meant for those of the Gentiles who came to worship from miles around. No! For as the Apostles were instructed to “go ye to ALL the Gentile Nations teaching ALL I have commanded you.” was surely not an invitation back into the Old way of doing things
The evacuation from that Jerusalem commenced, as the command went out to the new Apostles to “go ye therefor. And that was to commence just as soon as they received “the promise that you had heard from Me” As Jesus spoke to them AFTER the cross when He visited them in the upper room behind closed doors” where He appeared to them “in another form” after the account of the empty tomb, YES, this was the risen Christ!
It was then that the Gentiles would become the Jews replacements as the true heirs of The New Will And Testament, as evidenced by the term “Time of the Gentiles” that came after the Jews became expired, along with The Old Covenant Kingdom with all its artifacts, its laws person and places, to become extincted with all their belongings. And why the command went out to “go ye therefore (to LEAVE that Jerusalem) and go throughout the world, teaching and preaching all I have commanded you?”
That “The Kingdom of God, was and is and is to become “at hand”, any time and any where “two or more are gathered together in My name”. Those were the words of our Christ and King, who is our crossover point into “The Kingdom of God is at hand”. Even still for a short season. Even as we read from The Revelation Of Jesus Christ” what many believe to be an open ended book and are wrong because (The Revelation of Jesus Christ, chapter 22 saying “ And he said to me, “Do not seal the words of the prophecy of this book, for the time is at hand. To mean active and reliable with those who heard it first who were there then saying “for that is “at hand”.
Therefore, we can enter The Kingdom of The New Will and Testament. Not as a “covenant” as of old, but a “Will” and “Testament” associated with the “death of a Testator’ for the distribution of the dead mans goods. To mean The Cross was the distribution source for ALL OF US!, past, present and future, we the heirs of “The Kingdom of God at hand!”
That is how we became (past tense) “heirs to the Kingdom of God at and” as being The Jerusalem that “Descends out of Heaven from The Father” as described at The end of Johns Revelation “which God gave him to show His servant (servant is an old covenant title) John (The Baptist) of things that must immediately take place”. This is the Gospel, because it did, And John the Baptist was the latest and the greatest and the last as (of those born from among men, there is none greater than John the Baptist, but those who are born again and from above are greater than he. That The Old Testament times, persons places and things were to be NO MORE! And John was the greatest of those born from among women, but we are born again from above, by the Holy Spirit and Heavenly Jerusalem, as the true Heirs of “The Kingdom of God at hand!!
And no where in the teachings from Jesus Christ, did He ever commend the Jew for anything, any time or any where ever! They were all (none were righteous, no not one) under judgement as false stewards and the absconders of the praise and worship intended for God as they do again today.
They became expired, and obsoleted with their rendition of Jerusalem, for no carnal kingdom could do not now nor then. Amen!
For the commencement of THAT JUDGMENT, John was baptizing on the Gentile side of the river Jordan and away from that Jerusalem, and why he asked the Jews who came to him to be baptized, John asked them “who has warned you to flee from the wrath to come”. Was obvious because John was Baptizing Gentiles outside of Judah. Even as their baptism took them across the Jordan away from the old Jerusalem and into “The Kingdom at hand”, and why John was qualified to do so.
These were “the acts of John the Baptist’ and why he was the greatest from the Law era and of those born among women. So that we could be born of the Spirit as the Heirs of the things of God.
If this testimony of John was not true, he would NOT have baptized the Christ as the Heir of the Kingdom, away from that Jerusalem, because with it too, there was a “Heavenly Jerusalem’ their carnal one was only suppose to mimic. Even as John asked Jesus “are you coming to be baptized of me? I should be baptized by you! And Jesus said, so let it be for now to fulfill all righteousness” and of the Jews there was “none righteous, no not one.” So John baptized his younger cousin Jesus to then say “and I saw the Holy Spirit of God descend upon Him to remain upon Him. (Remember John the Revelators testimony here as being the same thing but not from earth but a heavenly perspective explaining this same event. And John went on to say that, He “truly is The Son of God” and Heir to the Kingdom.” To mean “The King” Even as we quote the pro-phecy Micah 5.2 saying “But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, Though you are little among the thousands of (the tribe of, NOT the land of) Judah, Yet out of you shall come forth to Me The One to be Ruler in Israel, Whose goings forth are from of old, From [a]everlasting.”
So we can also understand that both John and Jesus were raised In Galilee, and Jesus was called the “Man from Galilee”. Yes John and Jesus grew up away from carnal and nearing its exoiration, Jerusalem. Jesus as a boy was missing from his family who had departed home from that temple. Having been aware of the disappearance of the boy Jesus hours later, his carnal father returned to find Jesus in the temple debating with the leaders of that day, and they were amazed at his incites. And when his earthen father asked the boy Jesus what He was doing, He simply replied “I must be about My fathers business” indicating that He knew He had another.
So yes with this background and Johns association with the person called Jesus, and Johns father Zachariah, of whom the Jewish leaders were condemned as Christ accused the Jews saying of Johns father Zachariah ” whom you killed between the porch and the Altar. Which the Altar was the most Holy place in the Temple service where only The High priest went once a year. And that was a great sanctification process and high demands and qualification to serve the Holy of Holy’s. And John the Baptists father Zachariah was that man as a qualification to be greatest of those born among women.
So yes, unequivocally, “of those born among women, there was none greater the John the Baptist”, to mean from among all those that went before him. Why? Because those who are born of the Spirit are greater than he, because we are the recipients for what those men gave their lives for, so that we could be part of “The new and living way to the Father.
So we beg to ask, since these testimonies are true, then John the Baptist has to have a written testimony to be the greatest. A written testimony is their eternal witness. Yes their are those who wrote about him, but those are second hand accounts at best.
And of Johns greatest and the last act for us before his murder. He was the best man and the legal witness at His cousins wedding. With instructions from our Heavenly Father, who told John what to look for in his baptizing, to know when his time was over, He said “upon whom you see the Holy Spirit descend upon to remain upon, this is He” This tells us a few things. That John had such incite into the Spirit, to see the Holy Spirit “descend like a dove to remain upon Jesus” as being “Heavenly Jerusalem the Mother of us all” who are born of this Spirit. And this started with the man Jesus. And for those of uswho have received Christ as the word, DNA and seed of God, to have The Holy Spirit to descend upon us who have Gods Word and DNA in us, we become sons and daughters of that wedding. Of which a wedding is a uniting to become one and wed as the amalgamation of all things Eternal. That “we have been given everything that pertains to (Eternal) life and Godliness through the knowledge of knowing Him who has called us to Glory by virtue of this knowledge Other prophets didn’t do this. That yes John was last of the Old.
That for the Holy Spirit to “descend to remain upon Him” and to remain upon Him” indicates the melding and the enmeshing of two like as in a wedding, a becoming ONE. And not so much just a melding, but the combination of the components necessary to have offspring. That with the coming together of these two similar entities, like Adam was one before the rib was removed he was One, or Wed. When Adam and Eve were be split to become two, it was for disclosure purposes only for the recipients of that creation. And because of their split, there had to be a reunification for “The New Creation”. So may we re-introduce to you The Wife and The Bride of Christ “come down from Heaven to remain upon, that this is truly the Son of God”…
And just so that you Do Not remain confused, The creation of the first five days, was all foundational for what was coming. It was all supportive as a foundation only like a table set up for a display of something. For what was really the creation of God, was His Image and Likeness in Adam. And further displayed as the removal of the rib to become Eve, or more correctly in Hebrew “Havah”. That is as far as we will go with Her for now for She is another teaching.
But the point is that what God considered as His first creation, was His images in Adam and Eve that the makings of the first five days, was just a platform for the real work He would do called Adam and Eve .
So then with this description made clear. That when we think of the “New Creation”, we think of Adam and Eves replacements, and not another creation like with the first five days.
And this is where we get back to John The Baptist being greatest of those born of the flesh of THAT creation. And of Johns era of the prophets to be over, completed and “fulfilled”, is that He would not only baptize his cousin, but that He would introduce His replacement and Adam and Eves replacements.
And John the Baptist did see the doors open into “The Kingdom of God at Hand” and into The New Creation that is not new in the sense that it just came into be. But New in the sense that it had never been seen before, and New in the sense that what the the Baptism of Jesus Christ gave us? The pro-generator of those “Born from Above” meaning from Heavenly Jerusalem the Mother of those “Borne of the Spirit”, to also have the connotation of being carried around, borne?
As from John the Disiples account of John the Baptist saying “5 Jesus answered, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. 6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. 7 Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’ 8 The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear the sound of it, but cannot tell where it comes from and where it goes. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit.”
So then this is “The Kingdom prepared from (before)the foundations of the world” Because this “New Creation” is not so much a creation but an Eternal and always New reality for those of us who are “born again” and “borne, as in carried about, of the spirit”.
So then, for those who are expecting a do-over in a carnal way, or supposing the carnal creation to become renewed and refurbished to suit the flesh, which is really not new but a remodel? You are going to be sorely disappointed.
Have you really considered what the term “at hand ” means? Because if you are waiting for something more concrete to “walk in newness of life”. You really haven’t responded to the Gospel. Didin’t Christ at the cross say “It is finished”? Is He NOT “seated at the right hand of the Father waiting for His enemies to become His footstool? What more can be done to understand this “Kingdom of God at hand”?
And as a “spoiler alert” if you didn’t catch it earlier. John the Apostle did NOT wright The Book of The revelation. John the Baptist did because of the previously mentioned qualifications and of being “greatest born among women, and the greatest and the last prophet. That all the law and the prophets there is none greater than John. For this he was beheaded as the end of an era. All the law and the prophets were till John. John as the best man and officiator said “He who has the bride is the bridegroom; but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom’s voice. Therefore this joy of mine is fulfilled.
Now lets line this up with “The Revelation of Jesus Christ which God gave His servant John (the Baptist) of things to shortly take place. Now match that with this from Johns Book of The Revelation God gave John of things that must shortly take place. (29 He who has the bride is the bridegroom; but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom’s voice. Therefore this joy of mine is fulfilled. 30 He must increase, but I must decrease
How could these accounts both from Johns NOT be the same John? After all,the Revelator John didn’t provide New information other than one is spoken with an earthly view (come down from Heaven, was the interpretation (that no man receives his testimony” and why you need to be born again and borne from above as those who are NOT carnal, but those of us born of the Spirit. That we are “fellow citezines and saints and members of the household of God. What are you waiting for?
The Kingdom of God is still at hand in this way and this way only. That we too testify that Gods Word is true. We hear the Bridegrooms voice even still in our day.
Amen
The question is, do you? Are you in the Old as evidenced by your expectations? That only those born again can see the Kingdom?” And those “Born above cn enter the Kingdom?” The “Kingdom of God at hand?
Is this you? Can you see this? Do you have ears to hear and eyes to see? Then blessed are you and welcome home for “The Kingdom of God is still, “At hand” Amen!