“And John was clothed with camel's hair, and with a girdle of a skin about his loins; and he did eat locusts and wild honey;”
Mark 1:6 KJV
John wore a rough garment made from camel hair, with a leather belt around his waist, and he ate locusts and honey. John wore what Elijah had worn. With a diet of locusts, John points back to the four varieties of locusts mentioned by the prophet Joel earlier. Locusts (grasshoppers) are an emblem of intimidation that keep believers from taking their inheritance by faith. Israel thought themselves to be grasshoppers in their own eyes because of the intimidation of the fierce inhabitants of the land. John the Baptiser arrives on the scene and makes locusts his food, eating up that symbol of intimidation (devouring the devourer). He drank honey, which is a biblical metaphor of the revelation of God’s Word that is sweeter than honey. John’s ministry was a prophetic statement from God that a new day had come, a day of leaving dead formalism and embracing new life in Jesus Christ without intimidation. Amen!
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