John the Baptist's Witness and the First Disciples Lesson 2

Passage: John 1:19-51 Why did God choose to use a harbinger or herald of Jesus's arrival with John the Baptist? Couldn't Jesus just come to His people without a herald? Today, we'll take a look at this question and many others we often take for granted. To whet your thinking, remember that John is the last of the long line of important prophets of the Old Testament. Furthermore, he is the final and most important prophet to point directly to Jesus and describe to us what The Messiah will do. By doing so, John the Baptist makes it very clear that Jesus is the Messiah that makes sense of all that God had revealed throughout the Old Testament Scriptures especially in the Psalms and in Isaiah. This is what it means that God fulfills in Jesus all that is promised to humanity as prophecied by Moses and the Prophets. John is here to make it explicitly clear that Jesus is the One they have been waiting for.