THIS IS THE LORD'S DOING
“The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God .” (Isaiah 40:3). “Go through, go through the gates; prepare ye the way of the people; cast up, cast up the highway; gather out the stones; lift up a standard for the people .” (Isaiah 62:10). John the Baptist was that voice crying in the wilderness which the Prophet Isaiah was speaking of. When John came of age, he literally went into the wilderness to preach the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins. John’s message was so compelling that multitudes came to hear him from Jerusalem and all of Judea. This was because it was not his own words that he spoke, but those of God, for the scripture says, “The Word of God came unto John the son of Zacharias in the wilderness.” (Luke 3:2). John challenged those who came to hear him with the words of God. He confronted the hypocritical religious leaders of his time, saying, “O generation