From the moment John the Baptist stepped out of the wilderness, his voice shattered the silence of four hundred years with a message that demanded attention: “Prepare the way of the Lord.” His cry was more than a call to repentance — it was the announcement that Israel’s God was drawing near in an unprecedented way.
John’s mission as the forerunner only makes sense when seen through the lens of the oneness of God: the eternal Yahweh was coming to His people clothed in human flesh. John the Baptist’s ministry points directly to the mystery and majesty of the incarnation — that “God was in Christ reconciling the world unto Himself,” and John’s role was to prepare hearts for the arrival of the Son of God, who is the visible expression of the one true God Yahweh.
John the Baptist was unique, for he pointed a nation to the Son of God. The Son was going throughout the land doing miracles, claiming that it could only be the Father Yahweh working the miracles (John 14:10).
The miracles gave life, for Life was in the Son of God. “And the Life was the light of men” (John 1:4). John the Baptist was “not that Light but was sent to bear witness of that Light” (v. 8). The voice of one was crying in the wilderness, telling all to repent, for the Son of God—the Light—had come. He had studied the words of the Holy Spirit, the Comforter—words through the pen of Isaiah (Isaiah 40:1-5).
“Comfort, comfort my people, says your God.” This shows us that the Comforter, the Holy Spirit, is come. “But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceeds from the Father, he shall testify of me.” He will testify the truth as to who I am. (John 15:26).
The Spirit of truth will reveal secrets concerning just who the Son of God is. The secret is this: The Son is the Father clothed in human form. Proof: Isaiah 9:6 speaks of Christ, the Son of God, calling Him the “Everlasting Father.”
The Way of Yahweh Is Yahweh’s Way
In Isaiah 40: 3, the voice of the Comforter’s forerunner cries in the wilderness saying, “Prepare the way of the LORD—Yahweh, Yahweh in human form.
We are on the way of Yahweh when we “make straight in the desert a highway for our God. [He is speaking of a desert highway for the Christ, the Son of God.] Every valley [the lowly and humble] shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill [the proud nations] shall be made low, and the crooked shall be made straight…and the glory of Yahweh shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together, for the mouth of Yahweh has spoken it” (verses 3-5).
The voice of the forerunner commands us, “Prepare the way of the LORD, who is Yahweh.” John the Baptist was speaking of Yahshua of Nazareth, of course. Therefore, the Son of God is the “way of Yahweh.” For Yahshua said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life—of Yahweh.”
The Son of God is the way of Yahweh. He is Yahweh’s way to manifest love unto this world. The Son is Yahweh’s way to provide forgiveness of sins. The Son is Yahweh’s way to give man hope in the resurrection. The Son, the appearance of Yahweh in human form, is the way that Yahweh makes Himself known to His creation (“I and my Father are one… If you have seen me you have seen the Father.”)
John the Baptist was that voice of one,” the forerunner of Yahweh, who came in the Son of God. “Prepare the way of Yahweh. Make His paths straight.” The Savior Yahshua is the path, the way, that leads us from death to life, from mortality to immortality.
The Spirit said to prepare the way of Yahweh. And sure enough, Yahweh came right after John the Baptist’s announcement. Yahweh came in human form, in the form of a servant, a humble man “acquainted with grief.” And He wept over His creation, for He had created them, and they had gone astray and were scattered as “sheep without a shepherd.”
And so, it goes on today. The everlasting Father is reaching out to whomsoever will come. Who will believe that it is the Father Creator God Himself who walks in human form among us? Who will believe that He “tasted death for every man. He then was raised from the dead, His body changed into a spiritual body which matches the original spirit body that He created everything in, in the beginning.
But “few there be to find this way of truth.” Yahweh’s way. How important is all this? The Son said, The only way that one may worship God is “in spirit and in truth.” The truth about God, His nature, where He is found, how He reveals Himself—all this is the truth. And the Son said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life.”
Conclusion
John the Baptist’s ministry forms a vital bridge between Israel’s prophetic hope and the revelation of God in Christ. His message prepared the hearts of the people for more than a teacher or miracle‑worker; it prepared them for the arrival of Yahweh in human flesh. Through the lens of the oneness of God, John’s role becomes even more astonishing: he was announcing that the God who promised to come to His people had finally arrived, not through another, but in His own incarnate presence. John’s voice still echoes today, calling us to behold the Lamb of God — the Son who reveals the Father because He is the very presence of the one true God among us (John 20:28; 1 Timothy 3:16). Kenneth Wayne Hancock
Study Guide–John the Baptist’s Forerunner Role
• “Prepare the way of the Lord” — Isaiah 40:3; fulfilled in Matthew 3:3, Mark 1:2–3, Luke 3:4, John 1:23
• John’s baptism of repentance — Mark 1:4, Luke 3:3
• John preparing for the One who would baptize with the Holy Ghost — Matthew 3:11, Mark 1:7–8, Luke 3:16, John 1:33
• John as the divinely sent forerunner — Malachi 3:1, Malachi 4:5–6, echoed in Luke 1:17
The Oneness of God Revealed in Christ
• “God was in Christ reconciling the world unto Himself” — 2 Corinthians 5:19
• Jesus as the visible image of the invisible God — Colossians 1:15
• The fullness of God dwelling bodily in Christ — Colossians 2:9
• The Word was God and became flesh — John 1:1, John 1:14
• Jesus/Yahshua as the express image of God’s person — Hebrews 1:3
• “I and my Father are one” — John 10:30
• “He that hath seen Me hath seen the Father” — John 14:9
John’s Testimony About Jesus/Yahshua
• “Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world” — John 1:29, John 1:36
• John declaring Jesus “preferred before me” because He “was before me” — John 1:15, John 1:30
• John saying he is unworthy to loosen Jesus’ sandal — Matthew 3:11, Mark 1:7, Luke 3:16, John 1:27
• John identifying Jesus as the Son of God — John 1:34
Christ as Yahweh Come in the Flesh
These passages support the theological claim that Jesus is Yahweh revealed:
• Prophecy of Yahweh coming to His people — Isaiah 40:3, Isaiah 35:4–6
• Jesus identified as Immanuel (“God with us”) — Matthew 1:23
• Jesus forgiving sins (a divine prerogative) — Mark 2:5–7
• Thomas’ confession: “My Lord and my God” — John 20:28
• The mystery of God manifested in the flesh — 1 Timothy 3:16
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