John The Baptist The Secret Messiah Part 1

Is exhibit a secret tradition that believes that John and not Jesus was the Messiah? Are the secret wars that wait amid the coldness in the history folder the effect of an snowy power struggle? Who was John the Baptist and who were his followers? Upper momentously, does his following conscious to this day? Let's dig in and see if the truth isn't defeat in vibrant forethought...The Gospel of Mark- traditionally intended to be the primordial of the four gospels in the New Testament- begins, not with Jesus, but with John, son of Zechariah and Elisabeth, boss informal as 'John the Baptist' : Blow up as it is in black and white in Isaiah the soothsayer, Vision, I send my candidate former thy traverse, Who shall go over thy way. The talk about of one upset in the badlands, Construct ye available the way of the Noble, Construct his paths straight; John came, who baptized in the badlands and preached the first use of guilt unto remission of sins. And exhibit went out unto him all the rest of Judaea, and all they of Jerusalem; And they were baptized of him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins. And John was fitting with camel's hair, and had a leathern girdle about his loins, and did eat locusts and crazy newborn. And he preached, saying, In attendance cometh formerly me he that is mightier than I, the latchet of whose shoes I am not clear to slump down and unloose. I baptized you in water; But he shall nominate you in the Blessed Spirit.- Drum in 1:2-8 ASVDespite what some Christians may atmosphere, the fountain pen informal as Drum in was not a journalist, he was a propagandist in the truest sense of the word. He was seeking to produce offspring the Jesus cult. Not lone was Drum in conflicting with the defense force of Jewish, Pagan and Solar cults, he was conflicting with other Jesus factions.The turnaround Drum in faced is that in their own time John the Baptist was a extreme exceptional lead rank in Palestine than Jesus. So formerly John baptizes Jesus, he is dispensed with by Drum in (and by his traditionalist Matthew), until he is executed.On the other hand, the Gospel biographer Luke seems to be discerning that he is style for a breed that intended that John, and not Jesus, was the Messiah. One intended that Luke was style former the fall of Jerusalem and former the death of the Apostle Paul, and that a important recruit faculty foothold been fashioned circa 64 AD. Thus the important chapter of Luke acknowledges the ascendancy of John in his audience's sentry by blabbermouth his story important.Luke 1:5-25 tells the je ne sais quoi story of John's likely to the Temple priest Zechariah and his childless other half, Elisabeth. The angelic transmission of the John's life is keep pace with to Jesus': "And exhibit appeared unto him an angel of the Noble standing on the cut out for contact of the altar of incense. And after Zacharias saw him, he was in tears, and precision knock down upon him. But the angel believed unto him, Alarm not, Zacharias: for thy prayer is heard; and thy other half Elisabeth shall abide thee a son, and thou shalt nickname his name John. And thou shalt foothold joy and gladness; and numerous shall take pride at his likely.Luke 1:11-14 (ASV) Luke in addition to has Mary investigate Elisabeth in order that the recognized rank of Elisabeth can bestow her blessings on the lesser-known Mary. Of course, Elisabeth is immaculately passive to Mary in Luke's blabbermouth. Mischievously, John's subservience to Jesus most probably is prenatal: And whence is this to me, that the mother of my Noble want come to me? For, lo, as at once as the talk about of thy salutation sounded in dig out ears, the dear leaped in my womb for joy. Luke 1:43-44 (ASV)The important chapter ends with John's likely and with Zechariah's cry of approve for the je ne sais quoi nativity, and John's passive ego in society to the coming messiah. One way or another overlooked by the so-called "Biblical Literalists" is that Zechariah's view of the coming messiah (whom he does not name) is noticeably and unambiguously Solar:And you, my child, behest be called a soothsayer of the Best High;for you behest go on former the Noble to go over the way for him,to harvest his breed the knowledge of deliveranceexpress the pity of their sins,so of the proposition honor of our God,by which the rising sun behest come to us from fantasyto outrival on persons living in cloudinessLuke 1: 76-79 (NIV)Luke takes up the story of John the Baptist anew in chapter 3, formerly establishing Jesus' bona fides in chapter 2. In the field of, Luke want summon up his listeners of John's messianic idea using John's own words: And now in addition the axe is laid unto the headquarters of the trees: every tree hence which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast during the fire. And the breed asked him, saying, The same as shall we do then? He answereth and saith unto them, He that hath two coats, let him say to to him that hath none; and he that hath middle, let him do likewise. Plus came in addition publicans (tax collectors) to be baptized, and believed unto him, Master, what shall we do? And he believed unto them, Finale no exceptional than that which is preordained you. And the territorial army likewise demanded of him, saying, And what shall we do? And he believed unto them, Do fieriness to no man, neither responsibility any falsely; and be cheerful with your profits. And as the breed were in count on, and all men mused in their hearts of John, whether he were the Christ, or not; John answered, saying unto them all, I positively nominate you with water; but one mightier than I cometh, the latchet of whose shoes I am not clear to unloose: he shall nominate you with the Blessed Specter and with fire: Whose fan is in his hand, and he behest meticulously purge his found, and behest stockpile the wheat during his garner; but the pull somebody's leg he behest burn with fire ravenous. - Luke 3: 7-17 ASVLuke's rumor clothed in ends with John for one person in prison (Luke 3:20). The decisive we stab of John in the Gospel of Luke is an unpromising to the left by Herod, referring to John's hanging. (Luke 9:7-8) Three analytically expensive facts come to light in the story of John's ministry in Luke. * First, John's communistic teachings are surprisingly quiet to Jesus', leading numerous scholars to atmosphere that Jesus was one of John's disciples. * With anew EP, as with Zecharias that John's view of the coming Christ is Solar- John baptizes with water, but the Christ does so with fire. This brings to sentry the first use by fire Isis performed with Sovereign Astarte's son to back up him immortality, as chronicled by Plutarch: "They link up that Isis nursed the child by part it her manage to suck preferably of her breast, and in the night she would burn given away the fatal portions of its self." - Plutarch, "Isis and Osiris", Moralia, 357B * Best momentously, EP that John does not put Jesus as the coming messiah in the Pay for of Luke. This is lofty for a Gospel story, and is in straight rejection to the accounts of Matthew and John. It's in addition analytically expensive clothed in to EP that Luke makes quotation to John's ministry for one person in the spirit and power of Elijah. (Lk 1:16) May well it be that that John's splendid following was very comfy with his messianic prophecies? Of a nature the complex rumor of John's biography and activities in Luke's Gospel, it's very biological that exhibit were gone in black and white information of John's life and works which Luke is quoting from, prominently in the third chapter.The fact that a Christian propagandist may possibly clutch the back to go into Jesus' name during Zechariah's and John's all right Solar prophecies is in itself mark of a recognized main part of Johannine literature in the First Century.TO BE CONTINUED