Category:Forerunner

Fore*run"ner, n.

1. A messenger sent before to give notice of the approach of others; a harbinger; a sign foreshowing something; a prognostic; as, the forerunner of a fever. Whither the forerunner in for us entered, even Jesus. Hebrews 6:20. My elder brothers, my forerunners, came. Dryden.

2. A predecessor; an ancestor. [Obs.] Shak.

3. (Naut.)

Defn: A piece of rag terminating the log line.

- ---excerpt from the Illustrated Bible Dictionary

Forerunner - John the Baptist went before our Lord in this character (Mark 1:2, Mark 1:3). Christ so called (Hebrews 6:20) as entering before His people into the holy place as their head and guide.