John Spoke When Born

St. John with the Lamb by Bartolome Esteban Murillo

When the priests came to name John the Baptist, it was the infants lips that were unsealed by God, and it was the infant who made signs, and wrote his name.

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59] On the eighth day they came to circumcise the child, and they
were going to name him after his father Zechariah, [60] but his
mother spoke up and said, “No! He is to be called John.”

[61] They said to her, “There is no one among your relatives who has
that name.”
[62] Then they made signs to his father, to find out what he would
like to name the child. [63] He asked for a writing tablet, and to
everyone’s astonishment he wrote, “His name is John.” [64]
Immediately his mouth was opened and his tongue was loosed, and he
began to speak, praising God. [65] The neighbors were all filled with
awe, and throughout the hill country of Judea people were talking
about all these things. [66] Everyone who heard this wondered about
it, asking, “What then is this child going to be?” For the Lord’s
hand was with him.
[67] His father Zechariah was filled with the Holy Spirit and
prophesied:

Every Jewish male born is a candidate for the SECOND COMING of
Elijah. For this reason the eight day old child is circumcised
in `Elijah’s Chair’. It was believed that while in the womb an angel
teaches the unborn child the Torah, and just before birth, the angel
touches the child’s lips with his forefinger, and the child forgets
all knowledge of the Torah. But, this would not be the case with the
return of Elijah who will emerge from his mother’s womb with perfect
understanding of the Torah, not only in its written form, but in the
spoken form known as the Talmud. It was for this reason Zachariah,
the priest, took a vow of silence, and his wife and kin, as John’s
parents are descended from Aaron and Moses, and thus the Levite
priesthood. Elisheba is titled a “daughter of Aaron”. For the reason
the Torah has been altered, and some very important meanings lost, it
was concluded the only hope of SALVATION for the Lord’s chosen
children, was the RESTORATION of the true Torah.

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