John The Baptist

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the calling of God would become clear. Specifically, the Nazarite vow states that they must abstain from wine and other fermented drink, must not drink vinegar, or grape juice, or eat grapes or raisins. A Nazarite must not touch anything from the grapevine, or cut his hair or go near a dead body (Numbers 6:1-12 NIV). This vow explains and fulfills the words that Gabriel spoke; AHe is never to take wine or other fermented drink.@
The Nazarite vow separated John from the other boys, but one thing set him apart even more. Gabriel said that this boy was to be filled with the Holy Spirit even from his mother=s womb (Luke 1:8 NIV). Since his parents knew of his calling, Zechariah taught the boy John the law and the Old Testament preparing him for the priesthood or for his God given call. John=s father and mother must have told him what his duty was to be. It isn=t everyday that two people who are barren are now the parents of a child, a child with a specific purpose. Roy Smith ...

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Nazarite vow. It wasn=t long after that Zechariah went home also (Smith 72-77).
With both of his parents gone, John was now the man of the house. His father had been a priest therefore it was expected of him to continue the tradition and follow in his father=s footsteps. That would mean that he would have to close his eyes to the sin that surrounded the temple including bribes to the Romans and the prostitution of the holy things to the greed of the Sadducees. About a year after his father had been in the grave, John decided to forego the tradition and go into the desert thus fulfilling the prophet Isaiah, A A voice of one calling in the desert...@ (Isaiah 40:3 NIV).
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