Is John the Baptist going to heaven?
Can someone explain this scripture to me? Because when I read it...?It reads to me like John the Baptist doesn't go to heaven, what's your take on it?
(Matthew 11:11) . . .Truly I say to you people, Among those born of women there has not been raised up a greater than John the Baptist; but a person that is a lesser one in the kingdom of the heavens is greater than he is.
KJV...Verily I say unto you, Among them that are born of women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist: notwithstanding he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.
Answer:
He doesn't go to heaven.
If you read Hebrews 11, you see it is talking about all the Old Testament saints--John is included in with them. The last verse says:
They (the OT saints) with out us (The Faithful Christian) cannot be made perfect, God having something BETTER for us.
So if the Christian gets something better than the OT saints, what is it?
Jesus' death provided a "New and Living way". What does that mean? It means that there is a new opportunity in the Gospel Age that was never ever offered before and will never be offered again.
So if those before Jesus' death in AD 33 were not given this offer, why do we try to apply that offer to them instead of looking for what they do get.
Psalm 149 talks about the fathers (OT saints) becoming the sons and being made princes in all the earth.
Who do they become sons to? In Isaiah we find that Jesus will become the "Everlasting Father" The resurrected world of mankind will be sons of the Second Adam and second Eve (His Bride). The Ancients (OT Saints) will be princes and in Hebrews we find that they will be resurrected perfect. They will be the visible representations of the Spiritual ruling powers: Jesus and his Bride as they reign as Kings and Priest during the Millennium or the Kingdom which all Christians pray for. "Thy Kingdom Come..."
(Matthew 11:11) . . .Truly I say to you people, Among those born of women there has not been raised up a greater than John the Baptist; but a person that is a lesser one in the kingdom of the heavens is greater than he is.
KJV...Verily I say unto you, Among them that are born of women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist: notwithstanding he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.
Answer:
He doesn't go to heaven.
If you read Hebrews 11, you see it is talking about all the Old Testament saints--John is included in with them. The last verse says:
They (the OT saints) with out us (The Faithful Christian) cannot be made perfect, God having something BETTER for us.
So if the Christian gets something better than the OT saints, what is it?
Jesus' death provided a "New and Living way". What does that mean? It means that there is a new opportunity in the Gospel Age that was never ever offered before and will never be offered again.
So if those before Jesus' death in AD 33 were not given this offer, why do we try to apply that offer to them instead of looking for what they do get.
Psalm 149 talks about the fathers (OT saints) becoming the sons and being made princes in all the earth.
Who do they become sons to? In Isaiah we find that Jesus will become the "Everlasting Father" The resurrected world of mankind will be sons of the Second Adam and second Eve (His Bride). The Ancients (OT Saints) will be princes and in Hebrews we find that they will be resurrected perfect. They will be the visible representations of the Spiritual ruling powers: Jesus and his Bride as they reign as Kings and Priest during the Millennium or the Kingdom which all Christians pray for. "Thy Kingdom Come..."
