OUR FATHER WHO COMFORTS HIS PEOPLE

Isaiah chapter 39 40 verse 9 1 says this;

Comfort, comfort my people, says your God.

This verse records the words of the Lord comforting His people.

After the days of the  hardship of judgement are over, the Lord speaks tenderly to His people as verse 2 says;

Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and proclaim to her that her hard service has been completed, that her sin has been paid for, that she has received from the Lord’s hand double for all her sins.

The Lord tells His prophet to speak gently to Jerusalem and it is with this tone that the prophecy of the one who was to come as a voice in the wilderness to make straight the way of the Lord is pronounced in verse 3;

A voice of one calling: “In the wilderness prepare the way for the Lord; make straight in the desert a highway for our Lord.

Amen.

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