Welcome, we're Scott and Moring Proctor, and this is Mordyan Magazine's Come Follow Me podcast,

and this week's lesson is Prepare ye the Way of the Lord.

So we'll be studying Matthew chapter 3, Mark chapter 1, and Luke chapter 3.

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This week's lesson is about John the Baptist, what a radiant, powerful voice that attracted

crowds to leave Jerusalem and come to the wilderness to hear him.

And here's why, this had been a period of silence of revelation and prophecy, at least

as far as we know it, Malachi is the last verse of the Old Testament, and we don't have

any information on those 400 years, until the coming of John the Baptist, about revelation

or prophecy being received.

We also know that Rome was in control of Judea.

Anas and Caiaphas were the high priests, and who had put them in place, the Romans.

That gives you a sense of how different that world was.

It was not the spiritual world that these children of the covenant had been set up to have.

So then, all of a sudden, there's a voice coming named John.

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