Introduction
- What are some of the things your family does to get ready for Christmas?
- Jesus wasn’t the only one foretold about in the Old Testament. This Christmas season, we are going to talk about one of the main characters in the story of Jesus, John the Baptist and how he prepared hearts and lives for the coming of the Messiah.
- Read Isaiah 40:3-5. We will find that John the Baptist used these words when speaking about Jesus. He knew the importance of getting rid of everything in the way of the Messiah coming.
- Read Malachi 4:5-6. What did Elijah do?
- 1 Kings 18. How are Elijah and John the Baptist similar? In the midst of unbelief and fake gods, Elijah stood for God and what he believed in. John the Baptist stood in the midst of all the false messianic movements. He lived in a world full of Gentile influence.
- 1 Kings 19:9b-18. In their darkest, times, both of them needed reassurance that they were doing the right thing, and pointing the right way.
- 2 Kings 2:11. Okay, so this is maybe where the similarities end.
- Why is this significant that this verse is the last verse in the Old Testament? Yes a bunch of men decided where these books were going, but I trust that God was working through men to leave a cliff hanger here. There were 400 years between this period and the first capital letter of the Gospels. The deal is this, Elijah, John the Baptist, they are coming to present this fact: come to God, or things are going to get bad.
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