The Lord's statement, "Behold, I will send my messenger, is significant, for johns birth was a direct result of the overruling providences of God. The circumstances parallel to some extent the experience of Abraham and Sarah in connection with the birth of Isaac, in that Zacharias and Elizabeth, who became the parents of John, both were now well stricken in years, " and Elizabeth was "barren.
The miracles associated with the birth of John convinced Zacharias, his father, a priest in Israel, that momentous thing in the plan of God was happening. This conclusion was confirmed when his wife's cousin, Mary, visited them and they learned of the angel Gabriel's announcement to her that she was to be the mother of Jesus, who would be the promised king to sit on " the throne of his father David.
The child, shalt be called the called prophet of the Highest: thou shalt go before the face of the Lord to prepare his ways to give knowledge of salvation unto the people of God by the remission of their sins. Through the tender mercy of our God: this is that the highest hath visited us, to give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.
In these days came John the Baptist, preaching in the wilderness of Judea. And in other verse of Matt 3:1-5 then went out to him Jerusalem and all Judea, and all the region round about Jordan.
This indicates that John did not go from place to place went to him . when they did, they found a man with raiment of camel's hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins and his meat was locusts and wild honey.
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