Nope

And this is the record of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, Who art thou? And he confessed, and denied not; but confessed, I am not the Christ. And they asked him, What then? Art thou Elias? And he saith, I am not. Art thou that prophet? And he answered, No.-John 1:19-21***John the Baptist was born to Zechariah (Zacharias) the priest and Elizabeth (Elisabeth), Israelites from the tribe of Levi, descended from Abraham (Abram the Hebrew) and Sarah (Sarai), Isaac and Rebekah,  Jacob (Israel) and his 1st wife Leah, and Jacob and Leah's 3rd born son Levi. John the Baptist was sent according to the will of the Lord God, and was filled with the Holy Spirit from birth to get people ready for the arrival of Jesus the Christ, the Son of God. Jesus was conceived of the Holy Spirit in the womb of Elizabeth's relative Mary, a virgin. Months after John the Baptist was born, Jesus was born into the tribe of Jacob and Leah's 4th born son Judah to Mary and her husband Joseph when Mary was a virgin. John the Baptist preached of repentance, with crowds confessing their sins and being baptized by him in the Jordan River, and at a place beyond the Jordan, and at Aenon near Salim. When questioned regarding the specifics of his identity, John stated that he was not the Christ, and he was not Elijah, the prophet who was taken up into heaven by a whirlwind over 800 years earlier, and he was not the prophet whom Moses proclaimed over 1,400 years earlier would be raised by the Lord God from among the Israelites.-Genesis 11:26-50:26, Exodus, Numbers 20:1-29, 27:12-23, Deuteronomy 18:15-22, 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, 2 Samuel, 1 Kings, 2 Kings 1:1-2:25, 1 Chronicles 1:1-34, 2:1-17, 3:1-24, 6:1-81, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Acts 1:1-26

             *****************************

And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God: and the prisoners heard them. And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken: and immediately all the doors were opened, and every one's bands were loosed. And the keeper of the prison awaking out of his sleep, and seeing the prison doors open, he drew out his sword, and would have killed himself, supposing that the prisoners had been fled. But Paul cried with a loud voice, saying, Do thyself no harm: for we are all here. Then he called for a light, and sprang in, and came trembling, and fell down before Paul and Silas, And brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved? And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house. And they spake unto him the word of the Lord, and to all that were in his house. And he took them the same hour of the night, and washed their stripes; and was baptized, he and all his, straightway. And when he had brought them into his house, he set meat before them, and rejoiced, believing in God with all his house. And when it was day, the magistrates sent the serjeants, saying, Let those men go. And the keeper of the prison told this saying to Paul, The magistrates have sent to let you go: now therefore depart, and go in peace. But Paul said unto them, They have beaten us openly uncondemned, being Romans, and have cast us into prison; and now do they thrust us out privily? nay verily; but let them come themselves and fetch us out.-Acts 16:25-37***Paul (Saul) was an Israelite from the tribe of Benjamin, descended from Jacob (Israel) and his 2nd wife Rachel, and their 2nd and last son Benjamin. Sometime after Jesus the Christ, the Son of God, was betrayed, arrested, crucified, buried in a tomb, resurrected, and returned to heaven, Paul began going throughout Jerusalem, persecuting and imprisoning any Israelite who believed Jesus to be the Christ. When Paul was journeying to the synagogues in Damascus, Syria, to find, bind and take to Jerusalem any Israelite believers he found, Paul and those with him saw a light from heaven flash around them. Paul heard the voice of Jesus speaking to him, and Paul spoke to Jesus and obeyed Jesus. In Damascus Paul was baptized. From thenceforward, Paul the apostle journeyed and wrote divinely inspired letters teaching Israelites and Gentiles, people not born into the israelite tribes, the good news of Jesus the Christ and everlasting life. Paul stood in synagogues and spoke to Israelites about Jesus, and Paul continued preaching even after being pelted with stones and dragged away. Paul had the faith to know that a lame man could be healed and a demonic spirit could be commanded by him to come out of an enslaved young woman. After Paul and Silas, a fellow Israelite, believer, and Roman citizen, were imprisoned and about to be released, Paul boldly sent officers back to the magistrates with terms of his own.-Genesis 11:26-35:29, 1 Chronicles 1:1-34, 2:1-17, 3:1-24, 8:1-40, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Acts 1:1-26, 6:1-8:4, 9:1-31, 11:19-28:31

Click the link below to read more posts in this category:

http://biblecategorizer.blogspot.com/2014/12/nope.html