Finally, the moment in history arrived. The angel, Gabriel, appears to Mary, and proclaims that it was time for God to send the Promised One. And, because God said in Scripture – a prophetic indicator – that the Promised One would be born of a virgin, the Holy Spirit would come, and create the baby in her womb. And Mary agreed in obedience.
Then, because of a Roman ordered census, she and Joseph, her espoused husband, traveled to Bethlehem – another prophetic indicator. The baby was born in humble circumstances. Mary needed to use, an animal feeding trough as a cradle.
In one way, it must have seemed that nothing of consequence had happened. An ordinary birth, in an ordinary town, to ordinary parents. But an angel army appeared to a group of shepherds. A star appeared to a group of scholars in the East. And prophetic words were spoken to two older people, proclaiming the arrival of God’s Anointed One.
In reality, the world system has just flipped upside down, and inside out.
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