- Mr 1:6 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;
- John wore a costume that would remind people of Elijah in order to hint to them, using a kind of dinner theater that he was fulfilling prophecy.
- 2Ki 1:8 And they answered him, [He was] an hairy man, and girt with a girdle of leather about his loins. And he said, It [is] Elijah the Tishbite.
- He also suggested that John was role playing the four-fold word of God in the voices of the Judge, King, Priest and Prophet:
- camel’s hair:
- The authority (hair) of a judge (camel)
- girdle of a skin
- Kings girdle אזור of righteousness (skin עור is a pun to lightאור )
- about his loins
- as a gift מתן (Elijah was righteous as a gift)
- locusts:
- The increase/hidden/church ארבה. He ate the body of Christ. This is a symbol of the priest.
- wild honey
- camel’s hair:
- John wore a costume that would remind people of Elijah in order to hint to them, using a kind of dinner theater that he was fulfilling prophecy.