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<font face="TimesNewRoman" size=3> :[[Mr 1Category:2Mark]] As it is written in the prophets, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee.
:[[Mr 1:3]] The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.
==The voice==
Compare John, who is called the voice to Jesus who is called the Word. <ref>[[Joh 1:1]] ¶ In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.</ref>
:==Wilderness==John was not really all that far in the wilderness. Crowds were coming to see him. But the wilderness is the place of desolation. It is a metaphor for the earth without the word of God. It is the dry land of Ge 1. <ref>[[Mr Ge 1:39]] The voice of ¶ And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one crying in place, and let the wilderness, Prepare ye dry [land] appear: and it was so.</ref> ==the way of the Lord==As mentioned in Mr 1:2, make the way is the way back. John is doing something to prepare the way back for Jesus. What would hinder his paths straight.way back to Glory?
=It is written in the prophets=make his paths straight==Mark combines 'Way' and 'path' are two prophesies into aspects of onething. First he quotes from MalachiThe path is the walk in the flesh. The way is the spiritual life. The life in the flesh, for Jesus, was filled with peril.Even more-so than for you or I.
Straight - smooth so that one does not twist his ankle. Metaphorically, so he does not stumble in sin.
:[[Mal 3:1]] ¶ Behold, I will send my messenger, and Jesus was constantly faced with the temptation of who he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lordwas. We are mere humans, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come who by our universal sin (called original sin by some) make ourselves to his temple, even be God by choosing what is good and evil for ourselves. This is the messenger domain of the covenant, whom ye delight God. We set ourselves at war with God without even thinking about it by going about in: behold, he shall come, saith the LORD of hostslife living instinctively.
Jesus was very God of God. If he chose to do what he wanted, he would not sin. He is the one to whom judgement belongs. But if he grasped at what rightly belonged to him, he would forfeit being out high priest. He could not save us. He had to be tempted in every way that we are, and without advantage.
:He also did not want to die. No one said he had to die except himself in the covenant he made with man before he even created man. <ref>[[Isa 40Re 13:38]] ¶ The voice of him And all that crieth in dwell upon the wildernessearth shall worship him, Prepare ye whose names are not written in the way book of life of the LORD, make straight in Lamb slain from the foundation of the desert a highway for our Godworld.</ref>
There are many things that would continue to tempt Jesus to avoid the death on the cross. His own wilderness experience ([[Mt 4]]),his friend Peter <ref>[[Mr 8:33]] But when he had turned about and looked on his disciples, he rebuked Peter, saying, Get thee behind me, Satan: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but the things that be of men.</ref> and even the death of his friend Lazarus ([[Joh 11]]), tempted him to avoid the cross.
John is helping Jesus prepare for those temptations. Can you see which elements in the events of his baptism would encourage him to have confidence in who he is and what he must do?
Next [[Mr 1:4]]
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