Wednesday, August 31, 2011

A voice in the wilderness

"A voice cries out, “In the wilderness clear a way for the Lord; construct in the desert a road for our God." Isaiah 40:3 





In the wilderness there is no one who can hear you, in the phrase "the voice of one crying in the wilderness" there is no one who will listen. John the Baptist is the person referred to here, and he complains that, although he is preaching of the coming of the Lord, no one (or few) will pay attention. It is the same today in the 21st century concerning the second coming of the Lord.