Luke 3:10LUK 3:10
How much there is that is striking in the chapter from which the above text is taken, as well as in the chapter preceding it. The Lord's land was parceled out among Gentiles: the rightful Heir to it had just been born and placed in a manger, and an anomalous condition existed in the religious polity of Israel— two high priests. Then a voice breaks in on this state of things, but it is not the Ram's-horn trumpets of Joshua's day, claiming the land for the Lord. That would not have been confessing the ruined condition and the sins of Israel. John is not driving back the waters of Jordan to prepare the way of the Lord, but he is calling a people down here to confess their sins. It is taking the true place before the Lord of utter failure, and Jesus joins this remnant. He can attach Himself in grace to such, and when taking that position He was sealed by the Holy Ghost, and owned by the Father's voice. How good it is to be in the secret of the Lord! (See Psa. 25:14.) In later days He writes the name of His God, and the name of the city of His God, and His own new name, on the lowly remnant who hold fast His word and do not deny His name. "HE THAT HATH EARS TO HEAR, LET HIM HEAR."