Why was John the Baptist born 6 months before Jesus? [Bible Study 20]

Through whom can we believe in Jesus?

It is through John the Baptist.

We must properly understand and believe in the reason why John the Baptist was born as recorded in the four Gospels, who he was, and his ministry, so that we can clearly know and believe in the Gospel of salvation that Jesus has accomplished for us.

Today’s sermon message is based on the content written in the first book “Have You Truly Been Born Again of Water and the Spirit?” by Pastor Paul C. Jong, God’s servant of The New Life Mission, and it is a sermon message delivered based on the biblical evidence about John the Baptist recorded in the Scripture.

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When we understand well about John the Baptist, we can clearly understand and believe in the gospel of the redemption of Jesus.
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In Malachi 3:1, it is written, “Behold, I send My messenger, and he will prepare the way before Me.”

You have to read the Bible carefully. Why did God send His messenger before Jesus? Why was John the Baptist born 6 months before Jesus?


We have to understand what the Bible is all about.

There is a section in the Old Testament on the ministry of the high priest Aaron. Aaron was the elder brother of Moses. He and his sons were anointed as priests by God. The other Levites worked under them, bringing them assorted utensils, mixing the batter for the bread and such, while the sons of Aaron offered the sacrifice inside the holy tabernacle.

So the sons of Aaron were anointed to share the equal amount of work among themselves, but on the Day of Atonement, the tenth day of the seventh month, the high priest alone offered the sacrifice of atonement for his people.


In Luke 1:5, there is a story about the lineage of John the Baptist.

We have to understand correctly about this messenger of God to understand Jesus correctly. We tend to think a lot about Jesus, but ignore much about John the Baptist, who came before Him. I would like to help you understand.

‘The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. As it is written in the Prophets: “Behold, I send My messenger before Your face, who will prepare Your way before You”’ (Mark 1:1–2).

The gospel of heaven always starts with John the Baptist.

When we understand well about John the Baptist, we can clearly understand and believe in the gospel of the redemption of Jesus. It is similar to listening to the ambassadors we have dispatched all over the world in order to understand the situations of all nations. When we know about John the Baptist, we can understand the redemption of God very well.

What a pity it is, however, that so many Christians these days do not see the importance of John. God didn’t send John the Baptist because He was bored and had nothing else to do. All the four Gospels of the New Testament talk about John the Baptist before talking about the redemption of Jesus.

But the evangelists of today ignore John the Baptist completely and tell people that just believing in Jesus is enough to be saved. They are in fact leading people to live as sinners all their lives and end up in hell. If you just believe in Jesus without understanding the role of John the Baptist, Christianity becomes just another religion to you. How can you be redeemed of your sins if you do not know the truth? It is impossible.


The gospel of redemption is neither that simple nor that easy.

So many people think that redemption lies in our faith in the Cross because Jesus died on the Cross for us. But if you only believe in the crucifixion without knowing the truth of the passing on of sins, no amount of faith will lead to complete redemption.

Therefore, God sent John the Baptist to let the world know how redemption was to be accomplished and how Jesus would take away the sins of the world. Only if we know the truth will we understand that Jesus is the Son of God who took all our sins on to Himself.


John the Baptist tells us about the truth of redemption.

He tells us how he came to testify to the divinity of Jesus, and how people would not receive Him when the Light came down to this world. It is also testified in John 1 that John the Baptist was the one who prepared the gospel of redemption by baptizing Jesus Christ.


If we didn’t have the testimony of John the Baptist about redemption, how could we believe in Jesus?

We have never seen Jesus, and when we come from different cultures and religions, how is it possible to believe in Jehovah?

Having such diverse religions throughout the world, how could we know Jesus Christ? How could we know that Jesus was in fact the Son of God who redeemed us by taking all the sins of the world upon Himself?

Therefore, we have to look into the Old Testament to find from the beginning the words of redemption and to come to know that Jesus is our Savior. We have to obtain the correct knowledge to believe correctly. There’s nothing we can do without true knowledge. In order to believe in Jesus and be saved, we have to know the gospel of the redemption that John the Baptist testified to and his role in it. To have complete faith in Christ, we have to know the truth about redemption.

Therefore, as Jesus said, “And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free” (John 8:32), we have to know the truth of redemption in Jesus.


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Our faith must originate from the Bible, which is the Word of God, not from human thoughts or worldly religious teachings.

God clearly testifies about John the Baptist through the Bible.

And John the Baptist, as mankind’s last high priest, passed all the sins of the world to Jesus through baptism by baptizing Jesus, and then testified while looking at Jesus who bore the sins of the world, saying “Behold! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!” (John 1:29).

As these testimonies show, because Jesus took on all our sins through baptism,

because all our sins were passed to Jesus through baptism which is like the laying on of hands in the Old Testament, He was crucified and took upon Himself the judgment for those sins on our behalf.

This is the “Gospel of water and the Spirit” that removes all the sins of the world.

For those who wish to gain proper knowledge of the Bible and complete salvation, I strongly recommend that you read Pastor Paul C. Jong’s sermon collections “Have You Truly Been Born Again of Water and the Spirit?” Series Volume 1, and Volumes 2, 3, and 9.


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