“Are you the Expected One or do we look for someone else?” John the Baptist Part 1

Eschatology- is a branch of theology concerned with the final events in the history of the world or of mankind.

Luke 1: 2b-9, 15

John the Baptist Baptism of Repentance The Coming One will make things right The Fruit of True Repentance

John 1: 19-32

Who was John? One Crying in the Wilderness “The wilderness served as the symbol for hope for God’s deliverance, and John called all Israel to repent in preparation for God’s promised Salvation.”

John 1: 24-28

Who was John? One Crying in the Wilderness “The wilderness served as the symbol for hope for God’s deliverance, and John called all Israel to repent in preparation for God’s promised Salvation.” Prophecy of Ezekiel 36: 25-27

Ezekiel 36: Then I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean; I will cleanse you from all your filthiness and from all your idols. Moreover, I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; and I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will be careful to observe My ordinances.

John 1: 29-34

Who was John? One Crying in the Wilderness “The wilderness served as the symbol for hope for God’s deliverance, and John called all Israel to repent in preparation for God’s promised Salvation.” Prophecy of Ezekiel 36: The Lamb Who takes away the sin of the world

What John the Baptist meant by ‘who takes away the sin of the world’ may have had more to do with judgment and destruction than with sacrifice. D.A. Carson

John 1: 29-34