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The Forerunner and the Refiner
Malachi's last promise answered four hundred silent years later in John the Baptist: my messenger before me, the refiner's fire, and an Elijah to come before the great and terrible day.

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Hebrews 6:20
where Jesus our forerunner has entered on our behalf. He has become a high priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.

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John the Baptist
The forerunner sent to bear witness to the light; he hailed Jesus as "the Lamb of God" and said "He must increase, but I must decrease" (John 1:29; 3:30).

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Forerunner
A heading of Nave's Topical Bible (1896): every passage it gathers, quoted.

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Johann Arndt
A German Lutheran pastor whose devotional book True Christianity taught a faith lived out in repentance and the following of Christ; the Pietists counted him their forerunner.

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Wisdom of Solomon 12:8
Nevertheless even those thou sparedst as men, and didst send wasps, forerunners of thine host, to destroy them by little and little.

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G4274πρόδρομος pródromos — a runner ahead, i.e. scout (figuratively, precursor)G910Βαπτιστής Baptistḗs — a baptizer, as an epithet of Christ's forerunner

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“shepherd”“Isaiah 53”“Abraham”“covenant”“Psalm 23”“hesed”

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