Isaiah 35:8
35:8 A thoroughfare will be there –
it will be called the Way of Holiness.
The unclean will not travel on it;
it is reserved for those authorized to use it –
fools will not stray into it.
Isaiah 57:14
57:14 He says,
“Build it! Build it! Clear a way!
Remove all the obstacles out of the way of my people!”
Isaiah 62:10-11
62:10 Come through! Come through the gates!
Prepare the way for the people!
Build it! Build the roadway!
Remove the stones!
Lift a signal flag for the nations!
62:11 Look, the Lord announces to the entire earth:
“Say to Daughter Zion,
‘Look, your deliverer comes!
Look, his reward is with him
and his reward goes before him!’”
Malachi 3:1
3:1 “I am about to send my messenger,
who will clear the way before me. Indeed, the Lord
you are seeking will suddenly come to his temple, and the messenger
of the covenant, whom you long for, is certainly coming,” says the
Lord who rules over all.
Malachi 4:5-6
4:5 Look, I will send you Elijah
the prophet before the great and terrible day of the
Lord arrives.
4:6 He will encourage fathers and their children to return to me,
so that I will not come and strike the earth with judgment.”
Luke 1:16-17
1:16 He
will turn
many of the people
of Israel to the Lord their God.
1:17 And he will go as forerunner before the Lord
in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers back to their children and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just,
to make ready for the Lord a people prepared for him.”
Luke 1:76-77
1:76 And you, child, will be called the prophet of the Most High.
For you will go before the Lord to prepare his ways,
1:77 to give his people knowledge of salvation through the forgiveness of their sins.