“Paul's First Letter to Timothy — Prisoners of Hope — Part 4”

“Prisoners of Hope”, is our continuing theme today and our focus will be on a great man of God who was also a priest, and his wife, a godly woman, named Elizabeth.  Their son, born in their advanced age, would be given in God’s good timing and would be named “John” as the angel Gabriel announced directly to Zachariah.  John would go forth in the spirit and power of Elijah according to the last prophecy given to Israel before the 400 year cessation in prophecy begins after Malachi’s prophecy.  That prophecy would begin to be fulfilled by John as God sends him forth to “prepare the way of the Lord” and to make “a people for his name”.  Elizabeth’s great “song of praise” is central to this chapter and her confidence as “a prisoner of hope” is so telling.