Matthew 3 describes 3 types of baptism. Baptism by water, which represents repentance, which also requires confession and good fruit, or else one is thrown into the furnace of fire (Matthew 13:39-42), referred to as the "wrath to come" (Matthew 3:7), or "thrown into the fire" (Matthew 3:10). The baptism of the "Holy Spirit and fire" executed by "My beloved son" (Matthew 3:12-17). John preached the "kingdom of heaven is at hand". As for John the Baptist, there were no recording healings by John. The healings were done by Yeshua. I am not sure where you get your information, but it is false, and Yeshua never called Abraham "the father of the lie".
The furnace of fire, wrath to come, is man's wrath in man made Thermonuclear WW3 that fills the heaven= sky=air we breathe (where fowl/birds fly explained in Genesis 1), to stay alive with smoke and radiation that kills people. The radiation will be in the air = heaven.
People are spoken of as a unit when the word kingdom is used not individuals so it is their influence on future generations of their bloodlines that will continue to believe in the same principles as their fathers believed. Our forefathers are the seed of the condition of strife in the world today especially in conflict of religious beliefs based on belief in the liar Abraham; Jews, Pauline Christians and Muslims.
The baptism of the Holy Spirit is Love, Jesus said God is Love, understanding to have peace one must be peaceful even toward people perceived as an enemy.
To be one with Jesus and God is to Love one another as Jesus loves us.
This is symbolically called a "baptism of fire" (Jesus wants no one to burn alive!) because Truth destroys lies completely and Love destroys hate so it ceases to exist just as Peace destroys war. Love cleanses the Spirit making it Holy, acceptable to God. People must believe what Jesus said when he said love everyone as beloved family during the time they are water baptized having their sins removed. It is often difficult to love people that are aggressively hateful. One must love the person wishing them no harm but stand firm against the hate in that person agreeing to not be hateful to them in return. It is good to remain calm in the face of adversity but often very difficult to do.
HAND is the key word to "the kingdom of heaven is at hand". It is the hand of man that kills people so they can not breathe. The God given right at birth to air= heaven, the right to life, can be taken by force when a person is killed.
Just sin removal is not enough for salvation, and yes John never physically healed people as Jesus did. But John leads people to follow Jesus that leads people with his parables and prophecy to the path to the kingdom of God. Those that are baptized and believe what Jesus taught, the Words of God, are saved.
The first thing people need to learn for salvation is to reject belief in blood sacrifice for sin removal.
1 Peter 2:10
Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy."
The Hebrews that believed in blood sacrifice for sin removal claimed they were the people of God, but were not and they had no mercy on the people they killed for not paying them money for sin removal.
Matthew 5:7
Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy."
Jesus was innocent, teaching the truth and commanding people to forsake belief in blood sacrifice by accepting merciful water baptism for sin removal.
The Temple priests refused water baptism because blood sacrifice made them rich with power over the people by death threats if they didn't pay money for sins (laws they made up out of man's imagination defined as sin to not obey the law, like women were sinful for having a baby and had to pay money to the rich temple priests to have that sin removed! That is not a law of God, that is a vile man-made law that especially punished the poor that had no money to pay.) They had no mercy for Jesus that taught against their man-laws claimed to be from God but were not and Jews demanded Jesus die for not agreeing with them.
Have no mercy on Jesus , receive none from God His Father.
Matthew 9:13
But go ye and learn what that meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance."
The water baptized disciples of Jesus were cleansed of sin, thus righteous. The sinners were the people that believed in killing an innocent life to remove sin because sin cannot be transposed from the guilty making the innocent be punished for it. That is inequity, unjust and impossible. God rejects it. Loving God with water baptism is more than all the blood sacrifices the pagan Hebrews that died in their sins ever did.
