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“June 24th as the feast day for John the Baptist is critically important because of who John the Baptist was. He is actually known as John the Baptist and John the Evangelist and he is venerated in masonic lore because he represents a duality. On one hand he represents passionate religious zeal, he was after all the man that the Archangel Gabriel came to and spoke of the coming birth of the messiah. On the other hand he represents knowledge and education.”
It’s pretty easy to check out that John the Evangelist was an Apostle and a different person than John the Baptist, and an angel appeared to Mary and later, Joseph. In fact, John the Baptist could not have received the announcement of the Messiah as he was in utero at the time, his mother being Elizabeth.