Matthew 12:6

The voice of one who calls out, “Prepare the way of Yahweh in the wilderness! Make a level highway in the desert for our God.

For this is he, of whom it is written, ‘Behold, I send my messenger before your face, who will prepare your way before you.’

For all the fullness was pleased to dwell in him,

Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and terrible day of Yahweh comes.

The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.

As it is written in the prophets, “Behold, I send my messenger before your face, who will prepare your way before you:

I and the Father are one.”

And you, child, will be called a prophet of the Most High; for you will go before the face of the Lord to prepare his ways,

He said to them, “Why were you looking for me? Didn’t you know that I must be in my Father’s house?”

There came a man, sent from God, whose name was John.

But if I do them, though you don’t believe me, believe the works, that you may know and believe that the Father is in me, and I in the Father.”

Without controversy, the mystery of godliness is great: God was revealed in the flesh, justified in the spirit, seen by angels, preached among the nations, believed on in the world, and received up in glory.

But who is able to build him a house, since heaven and the heaven of heavens can’t contain him? Who am I then, that I should build him a house, except just to burn incense before him?

In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them. In his love and in his pity he redeemed them. He bore them, and carried them all the days of old.

Yahweh says, “Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. What kind of house will you build to me? Where will I rest?

The people of Nineveh believed God; and they proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from their greatest even to their least.

For this is he who was spoken of by Isaiah the prophet, saying, “The voice of one crying in the wilderness, make the way of the Lord ready! Make his paths straight!”

The Queen of the South will rise up in the judgment with this generation, and will condemn it, for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and behold, someone greater than Solomon is here.

This is he of whom it is written, ‘Behold, I send my messenger before your face, who will prepare your way before you.’

Are you greater than our father, Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his children and his livestock?”

We know that the Son of God has come, and has given us an understanding, that we know him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life.

I will raise them up a prophet from among their brothers, like you. I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I shall command him.

“If there is beside him an angel, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to show to man what is right for him;

Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin will conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.

Tell those who have a fearful heart, “Be strong! Don’t be afraid! Behold, your God will come with vengeance, God’s retribution. He will come and save you.

“Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and shall give birth to a son. They shall call his name Immanuel;” which is, being interpreted, “God with us.”

The men of Nineveh will stand up in the judgment with this generation, and will condemn it, for they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and behold, someone greater than Jonah is here.

They asked him, saying, “Why do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?”

She said to him, “Yes, Lord. I have come to believe that you are the Christ, God’s Son, he who comes into the world.”

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

Don’t you believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? The words that I tell you, I speak not from myself; but the Father who lives in me does his works.

In that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you.

Paul said, “John indeed baptized with the baptism of repentance, saying to the people that they should believe in the one who would come after him, that is, in Jesus.”

namely, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, not reckoning to them their trespasses, and having committed to us the word of reconciliation.

But of the Son he says, “Your throne, O God, is forever and ever. The scepter of uprightness is the scepter of your Kingdom.

By faith, Noah, being warned about things not yet seen, moved with godly fear, prepared a ship for the saving of his house, through which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.

For there are three who testify:

Pay attention to him, and listen to his voice. Don’t provoke him, for he will not pardon your disobedience, for my name is in him.

There I will meet with the children of Israel; and the place shall be sanctified by my glory.

Behold, to Yahweh your God belongs heaven, the heaven of heavens, and the earth, with all that is therein.

“But will God indeed dwell with men on the earth? Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens can’t contain you; how much less this house which I have built!

Who may ascend to Yahweh’s hill? Who may stand in his holy place?

For a child is born to us. A son is given to us; and the government will be on his shoulders. His name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

No weapon that is formed against you will prevail; and you will condemn every tongue that rises against you in judgment. This is the heritage of Yahweh’s servants, and their righteousness is of me,” says Yahweh.

Yahweh said to me, “Backsliding Israel has shown herself more righteous than treacherous Judah.

I will overturn, overturn, overturn it. This also will be no more, until he comes whose right it is; and I will give it.” ’

“Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach against it, for their wickedness has come up before me.”

Then Haggai, Yahweh’s messenger, spoke Yahweh’s message to the people, saying, “I am with you,” says Yahweh.

and I will shake all nations. The precious things of all nations will come, and I will fill this house with glory, says Yahweh of Armies.

For the priest’s lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth; for he is the messenger of Yahweh of Armies.

“Behold, I send my messenger, and he will prepare the way before me; and the Lord, whom you seek, will suddenly come to his temple; and the messenger of the covenant, whom you desire, behold, he comes!” says Yahweh of Armies.

“Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!”

Don’t think to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham for our father,’ for I tell you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones.

and said to him, “Are you he who comes, or should we look for another?”

and the Holy Spirit descended in a bodily form like a dove on him; and a voice came out of the sky, saying “You are my beloved Son. In you I am well pleased.”

I didn’t know him, but for this reason I came baptizing in water: that he would be revealed to Israel.”

You yourselves testify that I said, ‘I am not the Christ,’ but, ‘I have been sent before him.’

that they may all be one; even as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be one in us; that the world may believe that you sent me.

Won’t the uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfills the law, judge you, who with the letter and circumcision are a transgressor of the law?

He who descended is the one who also ascended far above all the heavens, that he might fill all things.

looking for the blessed hope and appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ,

But Christ having come as a high priest of the coming good things, through the greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this creation,

“Behold, I send an angel before you, to keep you by the way, and to bring you into the place which I have prepared.

But will God in very deed dwell on the earth? Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens can’t contain you; how much less this house that I have built!

Now therefore don’t let Hezekiah deceive you, nor persuade you in this way. Don’t believe him, for no god of any nation or kingdom was able to deliver his people out of my hand, and out of the hand of my fathers. How much less will your God deliver you out of my hand?”

How much more, those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth!

How much less will I answer him, And choose my words to argue with him?

Lift up your heads, you gates! Be lifted up, you everlasting doors, and the King of glory will come in.

You have ascended on high. You have led away captives. You have received gifts among people, yes, among the rebellious also, that Yah God might dwell there.

Yahweh says to my Lord, “Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool for your feet.”

Don’t allow your mouth to lead you into sin. Don’t protest before the messenger that this was a mistake. Why should God be angry at your voice, and destroy the work of your hands?

Oh that you were like my brother, who nursed from the breasts of my mother! If I found you outside, I would kiss you; yes, and no one would despise me.

For the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy, says: “I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.

Can anyone hide himself in secret places so that I can’t see him?” says Yahweh. “Don’t I fill heaven and earth?” says Yahweh.

If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!

For there is born to you today, in David’s city, a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.

Coming up at that very hour, she gave thanks to the Lord, and spoke of him to all those who were looking for redemption in Jerusalem.

He was teaching daily in the temple, but the chief priests, the scribes, and the leading men among the people sought to destroy him.

But he spoke of the temple of his body.

For this cause therefore the Jews sought all the more to kill him, because he not only broke the Sabbath, but also called God his own Father, making himself equal with God.

Are you greater than our father, Abraham, who died? The prophets died. Who do you make yourself out to be?”

The Jews answered him, “We have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God.”

This is he who was in the assembly in the wilderness with the angel that spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers, who received living revelations to give to us,

The God who made the world and all things in it, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, doesn’t dwell in temples made with hands.

I know a man in Christ, fourteen years ago (whether in the body, I don’t know, or whether out of the body, I don’t know; God knows), such a one caught up into the third heaven.

For in him all the fullness of the Deity dwells bodily,

I heard a loud voice out of heaven saying, “Behold, God’s dwelling is with people, and he will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God.

I saw no temple in it, for the Lord God, the Almighty, and the Lamb, are its temple.