John the Baptist echoed the message of the angels. “Speak comfort to Jerusalem, and cry out to her, that her warfare is ended, that her iniquity is pardoned; for she has received from the Lord’s hand double for all her sins” (Isaiah 40:2). Any sense of war between God and man is over due to the fact that sins have been doubly paid.
Yohana mbatizaji aliunga mkono ujumbe wa malaika. ”Semeni na moyo wa Yerusalemu, kuambieni kwa sauti kuu ya kwamba, vita vyake vimekwisha, uovu wa wake umeachiliwa; kwa kuwa amepokea kwa mkono wa BWANA adhabu maradufu kwa zake zote” (Isaiah 40:2) Kila hali ya vita kati ya Mungu na mwanadamu vimekwisha kusudi ya dhambi zimelipiwa marudufu.