Something Needs to Change About His Name

Now Elisabeth's full time came that she should be delivered; and she brought forth a son. And her neighbours and her cousins heard how the Lord had shewed great mercy upon her; and they rejoiced with her. And it came to pass, that on the eighth day they came to circumcise the child; and they called him Zacharias, after the name of his father. And his mother answered and said, Not so; but he shall be called John. And they said unto her, There is none of thy kindred that is called by this name. And they made signs to his father, how he would have him called. And he asked for a writing table, and wrote, saying, His name is John. And they marvelled all. And his mouth was opened immediately, and his tongue loosed, and he spake, and praised God. And fear came on all that dwelt round about them: and all these sayings were noised abroad throughout all the hill country of Judaea. And all they that heard them laid them up in their hearts, saying, What manner of child shall this be! And the hand of the Lord was with him. And his father Zacharias was filled with the Holy Ghost, and prophesied, saying, Blessed be the Lord God of Israel; for he hath visited and redeemed his people, And hath raised up an horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David; As he spake by the mouth of his holy prophets, which have been since the world began: That we should be saved from our enemies, and from the hand of all that hate us; To perform the mercy promised to our fathers, and to remember his holy covenant; The oath which he sware to our father Abraham, That he would grant unto us, that we being delivered out of the hand of our enemies might serve him without fear, In holiness and righteousness before him, all the days of our life. And thou, child, shalt be called the prophet of the Highest: for thou shalt go before the face of the Lord to prepare his ways; To give knowledge of salvation unto his people by the remission of their sins, Through the tender mercy of our God; whereby the dayspring from on high hath visited us, To give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace. And the child grew and waxed strong in spirit, and was in the deserts till the day of his shewing unto Israel.-Luke 1:57-80***Abraham (Abram the Hebrew) was 86 years old when Ishmael was born to him and Hagar, the maidservant of Abraham's wife Sarah (Sarai). When Abraham was 100 years old, Isaac was born to Abraham and 90-year-old Sarah. When Isaac was 40 years old, he became the husband of Rebekah, Abraham and Sarah's grandniece. When Isaac was 60 years old, Isaac and Rebekah's only children, fraternal twin sons Esau (Edom) and Jacob (Israel), were born. Decades thereafter, Jacob was married to Rebekah's nieces Leah and Rachel, the daughters of Rebekah's brother Laban the Syrian (Aramean).  Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar Zebulun, and daughter Dinah were born to Jacob and Leah. Dan and Naphtali were born to Jacob and Bilhah, Rachel's maidservant. Gad and Asher were born to Jacob and Zilpah, Leah's maidservant. Joseph and Benjamin were born to Jacob and Rachel. The 12 sons are the forefathers of the 12 tribes of Israel. However, Joseph's tribe was eventually represented by the tribes of the 2 sons, Manasseh and Ephraim, born to Joseph and his wife Asenath after Jacob proclaimed Manasseh and Ephraim to be his own sons. Over 875 years after Judah and his siblings were born, David was born into the tribe of Judah. When David was 30 years old, he began to reign as king only over the tribe of Judah in the Promised Land. When David was 37 1/2 years old, he became the 2nd king to reign over all of the Israelites in the land that the Lord God promised to give to Abraham, and Isaac, and to Jacob, and their descendants. Over 850 years after 70-year-old David died and his body was buried in the City of David, Zechariah (Zacharias) and Elizabeth (Elisabeth) were born into the tribe of Levi. When Zechariah was an elderly priest in a childless marriage to elderly Elizabeth, Zechariah was visited by the angel Gabriel. The angel Gabriel spoke to Zechariah of the son who would be born to Zechariah and Elizabeth, and told Zechariah to name the son John, and spoke to Zechariah of Zechariah's temporary inability to talk. Six months thereafter, the angel Gabriel visited Elizabeth's relative Mary, a virgin, and told Mary that there would be a son conceived of the Holy Spirit in Mary's womb. The angel Gabriel told Mary to name the child Jesus. After Jesus was conceived of the Holy Spirit in Mary's womb, an angel spoke to Joseph in a dream and told Joseph about the child in Mary's womb. The angel told Joseph to continue with the upcoming marriage to Mary and told Joseph to name the son in Mary's womb Jesus. Months after John the Baptist was born, Jesus the Christ, the Son of God, was born into the tribe of Judah to Mary and Joseph when Mary was a virgin. on the 8th day after John the Baptist was born he was circumcised, and on the 8th day after Jesus the Christ was born, Jesus was circumcised, according to the covenant of circumcision that the Lord God gave Abraham when Abraham was 99 years old.-Genesis 11:26-50:26, Exodus, Numbers 20:1-29, 27:12-23, Deuteronomy 31:1-30, 32:44-52, 34:1-12, Joshua 1:1-4:24, 23:1-24:33, Judges 1:1-2:23, 1 Samuel 1:1-3:21, 8:1-31:13, 2 Samuel, 1 Kings, 2 Kings, 1 Chronicles 1:1-34, 2:1-17, 3:1-24, 6:1-81, 8:1-40, 9:35-29:30, 2 Chronicles, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Acts 1:1-26    

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