Mk
1:2a ... As it has been written in Isaiah the prophet ...
Verse 2 and 3 should be one verse. God is speaking
to Jesus through
a literary technique called midrash in which an author
borrows words, phrases, and themes from a well known classic and incorporates
them in his own work. The image of words coming from an Old
Testament Book (as in the previous verse) is sometimes a sign to make
a diagram from the gematria value of the words in the text. The OT
text is telling the audience that God is sending Elias the prophet
down to earth to pave the way for Jesus.
Mk
1:2b ... Behold,
I send my messenger before your face who will prepare "the way"
for you.
The
gematria value of the words in red = 8,467
units
This
verse paraphrases two Old Testament verses to fulfill the prophecy
that God would send an Angel to prepare the way for a "raised
Sun of Justice" (meaning Jesus, the Christ).
See,
I am sending a messenger before you, to guard you on "the way"
and to bring you to the place I have prepared.
(Exodus 23:20).
Behold,
I am sending my messenger to prepare "the way" before
me ... Behold, I will send you Elias the prophet ...
(Malachi 3:1, 24)
The
Malachi prophecy alluded to in this verse "prepares the way"
for the real words of Isaiah in the next verse.
The
gematria value of the above words above is 8,467 units, the same number
as the perimeter of the red cross that converges on a square enclosing
a circle with a circumference of 2220 units, the gematria value of
John the Baptist! [actual = 8,479.7, 99.85% accurate]
This large "cross" is the "highway" predicted
by Isaih 40:3. According to gematria, Elias is John the Immerser.
John comes in verse 2 ... Jesus comes later in verse 8. This fulfills
the Malachi Prophecy.
Fundamentalists
have always had a problem with verses like this. The Greek word ang'-el-os
(aggeloV) means "angel" or
"messenger" but virtually every bible in the world prefers
the word "messenger" because they need John to be a real
historical figure. They reason, if Pontious Pilate, the apostles,
and all the other people mentioned in the gospels are real people
how could John the Baptist be an "angel" ... even if that's
what the literal translation says!
Jesus
will later say ... “when people rise
from the dead they become like angels in the heavens”
(Mk 12:22). Jesus will later link John the Baptist with rising from
the dead, the prophet Elias, death at the hands of enemies, and being
set at zero in the story of the Transfiguration (Mark 9:11-13).
The
gospel of Mark seems to be an historical report of a real life Jesus
but it contains a number of magical and gnostic themes. The Gnostics
believed in reincarnation and this is the first of many gematria diagrams
that equate John the Baptist as the reincarnation of the prophet Elias.
Mk
1:3a ... A voice crying out in the wilderness ...
The
"good news" announcer now holds up his Isaiah sign. The
Greek text that follows is a sacred geometry riddle that will reveal
Jesus (888) and the "highway" created by John the Baptist
(2220).
Mk
1:3b ... Prepare "the way" of the
Lord! ... make his "paths" straight!
The
gematria value of the words in quotes = 10,514
units
The
gematria value of the Greek words that were cried out (10,514 units)
is equal to the perimeter of the two red crosses (10,514 units) that
form eight "straight paths" that converge on Jesus (888).
[actual = 10,506.81, 99.9% accurate] The large
cross is the "highway" predicted by Isaih 40:3. The smaller
cross, like a "path" or "a way," is "immersed"
in the "place" (the white square) created by his "messenger"
John the Immerser (2220)!
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