I. John came as a testimony about the light. V6-9
A. This is important and proves Yahweh follows His own Laws.
1. Now remember, the Word was with Eloheem and the Word was Eloheem:
a. This word “Eloheem”. (Heb. found in Gen. 1:1 is in a plural form and we
find this same thing in Gen. 1:26)
b. The word “Eloheem” is the same. (But also adds the Let Us, In Our
image and likeness thus driving home this idea of Father, Son, and
Holy Spirit)
c. This word is interesting. (It can also mean judges which would give the
idea of establishing the truth)
d. Look at John 1:7. (John the Baptist came as a testimony and witness so
all might believe)
e. Now, look at John 5:31-47. (This passage speaks specifically about
witnesses about Him and who is a witness)
1). These witness and testify are related in the GK. (The word witness in the
GK is mar-too-reh-o and means to witness, testify, to bear record, to
be well reported of)
2). Testify. (GK is diamartyromai and is a verb means to testify, but the
dia prefix gives it more intensity as the message being given carries
as in to give a warning “slavation”)
3). This comes from Deut. 19:15. (One witness cannot establish any wrong
doing or sin, you must have two or three witnesses)
4). Look at who is Testifying here. (The Father, John, and Scripture gave
Testimony that established the truth as to who Yashua was and is
John 5:32, 33, 39 and Luke 24:26-27)
5). So John the Baptist. (Was a witness for Yashua sent into the world to
let the world know He was coming and in fact was here)
f. Let’s look closer at John being sent as a witness:
1). Look at Mark 1:1-3. (This comes from Isa. 40:3-5 “A voice crying out
the wilderness”)
2). Look at Mal. 3:1. (Yahweh says He will send a messenger and he will
clear the way)
3). Now look at Mal. 4:5. (Elijah the prophet will be sent out before the
Great and Awesome Day of Yahweh)
4). This book Mal. (Was written between 460 and 435 BC and the events
with Ahab and Elijah took place between 874 and 853 BC, so when
this was given in Mal. Elijah had long ago been taken up)
5). Look again at Mal. 3:1. (There is a messenger sent to clear the way,
Yahweh is identified as the Messenger of the covenant that they had
sought showing the two John and Yashua)
6). Now look at Matt. 11:7-15. (Yashua identifies John as Elijah who was
prophesied as the one who would come and make straight the path)
g. Now look how closely this is tied to the witnesses:
1). The reason for John coming. (So we would listen to the witnesses and
we would believe the witnesses as to the Light)
2). Now remember, His life is the light of man. (GK is phos and it man to
illuminate or to make manifest, but is made up of two RT words)
2). The first is fah-ee-no. (This word means to lighten and to show)
3). The second is fay-mee. (It means to show or to make known ones
thoughts and can mean to speak or to say)
4). So to make known the light. (Is to make known the thoughts, or the
truth about the Messiah so we will be able to believe)
5). Look at Mal. 4:6. (It was prophesied that Elijah would turn the hearts
of fathers to their children and vise versa, he had the ministry of
reconciliation)
6). Look at Luke 1:16-17. (It is the same ministry of Elijah that was given
to John the Baptist)
7). Look at Matt. 3:1-2. (John’s message was to “Repent because the
Kingdom of Yahweh is at hand, so reconciliation has to do with
repentance)
a). The word “repent”. (GK is met-an-o-eh-o and means to think
differently, or to reconsider)
b). It is made up of two words. (GK met-ah which means to transfer)
c). The second is. (GK is noy-eh-o and means to exercise the mind, so
put together it means to exercise your mind in a such a way you
change the way you think)
d). Repent in the Hebrew. (Hebrew has three words for repent, the 1st is
naham and it has two meanings, to console or comfort, or to change
ones mind)
e). The second is ana. (It means and can denote a humbling of ones self)
f). The third is sub (shoob). (And it means to turn, or to turn back and is
used as a verb for the act of turning back to truth)
g). Look at 1 Kings 18:15-19. (Ahab had turned the hearts of Israel away
from the commands of Yahweh and Elijah was to turn the hearts of
Israel back to Yahweh)
1). Look at 1 Kings 16:29-33. (Ahab married Jezebel and they bring Baal
worship to Israel)
2). Look also 1 Kings 19:1-2. (Jezebel makes a promises to kill Elijah)
3). Look at Mark 6:14-25. (Specifically at V19-20 Herodias wants John
the Baptist died)
h. So we can see the first 5 verses are about Yashua’s identity as Yahweh and
verse 6-9 are about Yashua’s identity as Messiah.