Key Insights on Divine Genealogy and John the Baptist from Gospel Studies

men until it says that this light incarnates in a person, descends into Jesus Christ. So unlike other Genealogies, here we have the genealogy of God in Man. That is, first God in Himself, when it says "In the beginning was the Word, the Word was with God, and the Word was God. It was in the beginning with God." Then we have God who, before reaching Man, passes through Creation: "All things were made through it; and without it nothing was made." Then it becomes life, then it becomes light and finally it becomes flesh. So we have the progression Sound-Life-Light and finally Flesh. "In it was life, and the life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. There was a man sent from God, whose name was John." [...] "And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us for a time, full of grace and truth." But why does it make this genealogy? Because it says that to those who believed in Him, He gave the possibility to cut with their genealogy and acquire this one. So we are in a situation even from an effective point of view with karmic debts, credits, a genealogy that is transmitted... but what the Gospel of John says is that instead for those who manage to obtain this transmutation can cut all bridges with their old genealogy and acquire this new one of Christ. And then it tells how this incarnation happens and says "and there came a man sent from God, his name was John," here we enter the Gospel of Mark. In fact, the Gospel of Mark begins by saying "this is the beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ" and speaks of John the Baptist. Everything begins with John the Baptist, a character that... we have seen that the evolution of the Jewish people somehow managed to produce a character, John the Baptist was an Essene, probably the teacher of righteousness of the Essenes, perhaps a great master who had this baptism, this baptismal rite, he is an angel. Origen speaks of an angel and when he speaks of it he refers to Isaiah and says "I am the voice of one..." the voice means someone who makes himself an instrument of a power that is still unmanifest, this one, one is also a divine name Echad, who baptizes in the desert, since the Essenes lived in the desert it can also refer to them, it referred precisely to their community, so preparing the way in the desert can also mean that he prepared the way in the esoteric community as well as doing many other things but also this fact that he prepared the way for the Messiah so much that then at a certain point he does not come to baptize Jesus Christ.