He will also go before Him in the spirit and power of Elijah, ‘to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children,’ and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just, to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.” Luke 1:17
Echoing the final words of the Old Testament, from Malachi 4:5,6, the angel takes little John and lays a whopper of a job on him. Moses griped about his stutter, Gideon complained of smallness, and Isaiah had those unclean lips, but John the Baptist hasn't been conceived yet. What is the not-yet-a-baby to say to, oh, turning the disobedient to the wisdom of the just? Those who believe in Jesus today fight to walk that path constantly as disobedience always tempts us. One way to look at prophecy is not as a whopper of a job or an impossible mountain to tote, but as a promise of the Lord of where each of us will go. John did indeed grow up to go before Jesus in the spirit and power of Elijah. The Christ Child himself would take John's job and run with it, and it continues in us today. The angel did not say that the baby with mountains to tote would have to do it alone, God went with John all the way.
The grace of God fulfills prophecy in us too!
Bucky
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