1671.-John the Baptist a Type. Mark 1:6

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · May 24, 1905

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 31, No. 21.

1671.—John the Baptist a Type. Mark 1:6.

Is John the Baptist a type of the people living in the last days? Mark 1:6. "He did eat locusts and wild honey." Was this locust an animal or vegetable food?

Elijah is a type of both John the Baptist and God's remnant people. John the Baptist is a type of the remnant people. But neither of them is a type as respecting his parentage, his birth, the manner of his labor, his dress, or his food; but in the character of the men, and the nature and object of the work of reform each did. The locust John ate was, in all probability, an animal food, to eat which the law gave him permission. Lev. 11:22. That, doubtless, was the best he could do.