The Voice of One Crying in the Wilderness

       In preparation for Christ’s first coming as the incarnate God in the flesh, God sent a voice crying in the wilderness—John the Baptist. He came not only to prepare God’s people with a call to repentance, he also came to mark the pivotal shift from the Old Covenant to the New Covenant. That is, to mark the early part of God’s prophetic week (time past) to the current part of His prophetic week (these last days).
       “God, who at various times and in various ways spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets,  has in these last days spoken to us by His Son, whom He has appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the worlds; who being the brightness of His glory and the express image of His person, and upholding all things by the word of His power, when He had by Himself purged our sins, sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high, having become so much better than the angels, as He has by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they” (Heb. 1:1-3, emphasis added).
     What signaled this shift in God’s timetable? Jesus’ baptism. Needless to say, Jesus didn’t need to repent of any sins as the perfect Son of God, fully divine. Yet as the Son of Man, God in the flesh, He chose to operate on this earth as we do—by the anointing of God. He came to show us that we can likewise minister to others through the power of His anointing and God’s Spirit in us (Lk. 9:1, 10:19; Mk. 16:15-18).
        Now as the end of these last Days draws near, God is intent on bringing another comforting message: we need not fear what lies ahead when we know the hope of our calling. “That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him, the eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that you may know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints” (Eph. 1:17-19).
       This message has to do with the end-time highway of God for this time. Like our earthly highways, this one has fallen into disrepair, compliments of the various inaccurate end-time doctrines that we’ve inherited and have become so attached to over the years. We have not seen clearly because we have been seeing dimly as in a mirror (1 Cor. 13:12). Our hearts were intent on knowing God’s Word, but it was not yet time to see it clearly, for the time was “not at hand.”
       Now is the time to make things straight, level, and smooth concerning the highway of God’s prophetic end-times restoration (Is. 40:1-5). It is a message of comfort, hope, and victory. It is time to be assured of what must shortly take place.
        END-TIME LESSON: Throughout the Bible we find that God always brings the light of revelation just before the appointed time in His plan comes. Operating under our earthly calling, the Church has only known in part. We are all on the journey of  renewing our minds to God’s Word and growing in our knowledge of God and Christ. As such, we have functioned as parrots, sharing the Gospel recorded in the New Testament with all the world so they can be saved as well.
         But shortly we shall see fully, face to face (1 Cor. 13:12). We shall be fully conformed to Christ’s image (Rom. 8:29). As the appointed time draws nearer and nearer, God brings more revelation and disperses the clouds of confusion. Yet it is up to us to keep looking and not let the traditions of men dictate what we believe (Mk. 7:13). We are meant to have eagle eyes.
        As Isaiah prophesied about this end-time, we are meant to be eagles, given God’s overcoming strength and power to overcome death through resurrection. We are living at the close of the 6th great Day in God’s prophetic week of His plan of redemption. We were born for such a time as this!
       It is time to make ourselves ready for our Bridegroom. Our heavenly calling as the Heavenly Esther awaits us. For we are destined to be united as one new Man in marriage. We shall rule with Him as joint-heirs, as the immortal heavenly court ruling from above, by virtue of being likewise resurrected (Acts 17:31; Rom. 8:17). We have suffered persecution for being His. Shortly we shall be glorified, receiving our fully sanctified  immortal bodies.