The LORD sends signs to help us to prepare for the coming of Jesus.
You were destined, it is written, in time to come
to put an end to wrath before the day of the LORD,
To turn back the hearts of fathers toward their sons,
and to re-establish the tribes of Jacob.
We do not prepare on our own. We cannot make the preparation we need without God's help. Yet the preparation is also not done for us without any involvement of our will. It is possible to ignore the messengers God sends us. It is possible to allow ourselves to become distracted by the world and miss the message from God.
Elijah will indeed come and restore all things;
but I tell you that Elijah has already come,
and they did not recognize him but did to him whatever they pleased.
So also will the Son of Man suffer at their hands.
We need our hearts to be made ready for Jesus. The power of Elijah to cry out in the desert of our hearts is real. We need to be willing to visit this desert to hear the call so we can know just how to prepare our hearts for the coming king. We need to be willing to hear John the Baptist as he calls us to repent. This is how we prepare to see this face of the LORD.
O shepherd of Israel, hearken,
From your throne upon the cherubim, shine forth.
Rouse your power.
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