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Now how about this, you know John the Baptist it's so important that our Old Testament Actually finishes off with the prophecy with the prophecy of him coming I mean literally the Old Testament finishes off talking about John the Baptist Look at it says in verse 5 behold I send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord and He shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children and the heart of the children to their fathers lest I come and smite the earth with a Curse now, here's the thing is that obviously when we read this this is referring to end times Bible prophecy Okay, and in its most literal sense, it's referring to those two women one of those two witnesses which I believe one of them is Elijah because it's talking about the great and Dreadful day of the Lord referring to the rapture and that is exactly when the two witnesses come to the earth They come a little bit prior to the second coming of Christ And so this is literally referring to Elijah returning back, but this is later reiterated in the Gospels referring to John the Baptist Because the day of the Lord could also be referred to as the visitation of the Lord Referring to the second the first coming of Jesus Christ and we know that John the Baptist came in the spirit of Elijah, right? Now Samson on the other hand, he wasn't prophesied of But he was mentioned in the Hebrews Hall of Fame So that still says something let me read to you from Hebrews 11 32 it says and what shall I more say for the time would fail me to tell of Gideon and of Barak and of Samson and of Jephthah of David also in Samuel and of the prophets who through faith subdued kingdoms wrought righteousness Obtained promises look what it says stop the mouths of lions, which is exactly what Samson did He rent a lion and twain giving us a spiritual application that we as Christians can also Overcome Satan Satan a lion is obviously a picture of Satan Now I'm going to show you some similarities between the two and make some applications to them go with you if you would to Luke chapter number one Luke chapter number one What are some similarities between the two well number one both of their parents were childless and barren Now both of the parents were godly as well because Samson had Manoah his mother who Manoah and his mother who you know, there were godly parents. They loved the Lord They were serving God and they wanted a child and God granted them that petition there and you know What John the Baptist had the same thing Elizabeth and Zacharias who were godly people who were simply, you know, they weren't Special in the sense of you know, they weren't preaching God's Word They weren't mentioned a whole lot in the Bible But there were godly parents who wanted to raise up a child unto the Lord now Let me read to you from Judges chapter 13 verse number 1 it says in the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the Lord and the Lord delivered them into the hand of the Philistines 40 years and There was a certain man of Zora of the family of the day-night whose name was Manoah and his wife was barren and bare Not and the angel of the Lord appeared unto the woman and said unto her behold now thou are barren and barest Not but thou shalt conceive and bear a son so we see the similarity with Jesus Christ that an angel comes to Mary and says that she shall be with child in like manner an angel comes to Manoah and tells them Hey, you shall conceive you shall have a child. You see that symbolism there now look at Luke chapter 1 in Verse number 1. It's our verse number 5 Excuse me It says there was in the days of Herod the king of Judea a Certain priest named Zechariah of the course of Abia and his wife was of the daughters of Aaron and her name was Elizabeth And they were both righteous before God Walking and all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless now look folks, you know Not much is said about these parents, but just to have that one phrase right there that one verse that one sentence says a lot You know, it's like when God Saw fit to describe Eglon as a very fat man Is that he gets that one little phrase, but there's a lot of packed into that one little phrase pun intended, right?