The Wilderness

The year of the wilderness temptation of Christ is the very beginning of Daniel’s seventieth week which was in appriximately 27 A.D.  It starts at the baptism of the Lord Jesus, and then immediately goes into the wilderness temptation.

Matthew 3:1

In those days came John the Baptist, preaching in the wilderness of Judaea.

Judaea was one of the three Roman provinces in what later became known as Palestine. In the south was Judaea, in the center was Samaria, and to the north was Galilee. John is baptizing here in the wilderness of Judaea. It’s believed that he was baptizing just east of the city of Jericho, in the Jordan River, which would have been north and east of Jerusalem.

This is where the Pharisees came to John and John refused to baptize the Pharisees and the Sadducees.

Matthew 3:7

But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come? 

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