The Time Had Come

^{Mark 1:2-3 (NIV)
2}It is written in Isaiah the prophet:
   "I will send my messenger ahead of you,
      who will prepare your way"
 ³"a voice of one calling in the desert,
   'Prepare the way for the Lord,
      make straight paths for him.' "
The messenger would be the last of the prophets that would speak for God prior to the arrival of Jesus. God had not spoken through a prophet for a very long time. Now the silence would be broken. The Old Testament serves as testimony of another wilderness journey that took place. God chose a people out of the wilderness to make Himself known, to prepare the world for His coming.
The time had come.