Your Listening To: What My Eyes Have Seen - Jody McBrayer & Rachel Lampa
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~~ Gabriel Visits Mary ~~
God sent the Angel Gabriel to her.
At the sight of the heavenly messenger,
the girl shook with fear.
Why was she, of all people,
being visited by an angel of God?
The angel saw that Mary was terrified and tried to calm her,
saying:"Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God" (Luke 1:31).
Then he gave her an amazing message.
She was going to have a child,
a baby boy, and she was to name him Jesus.
Mary was very confused.
She asked the angel how all that was possible:
she was still a girl and not yet married.
But Gabriel assured her that these things would take place through the power of the Holy Spirit.
"Therefore the child to be born will be holy;
he will be called the Son of God" (Luke 1:35).
Gabriel also told Mary
that her cousin Elizabeth would have a child.
In fact, some six months earlier
Gabriel appeared to Elizabeth's husband,
Zechariah, and told him that he and Elizabeth would have a son,
John the baptist.
When Zechariah protested that his wife
was too old to have a child,
Gabriel said "Nothing will be impossible with God"(Luke 1:37).
Her question having being answered, Mary replied simply:
"Here am I, the servant of the Lord;
let it be with me according to your word" (Luke 1:38).
Did you know?
Gabriel's first words to Mary were,"Greetings, favored one!" appear as "ave Maria" ("Hail,Mary") in the Latin Bible. Many hymns celebrating Mary and her child include this angelic greeting.
~~ Birth of Jesus ~~
a law was passed requiring all Jews
to return to their ancestral homes so that
the Romans could take a census.
This ruling meant that Joseph and Mary,
Jesus' parents, were forced to make a
strenuous 70-mile trip from their home in
Nazereth to Bethlehem.
(Joseph was a descendant of King David, from Bethlehem.)
When Joseph and Mary arrived at this
hillside village very exhusted from the
weeklong trip, they found that
there was no room for them in the local inn,
and the innkeeper had to turn them away.
Having nowhere else to go,
Mary and Joseph finally found shelter in a nearby stable.
They settled in as comfortably as they could.
Later that night Jesus was born,
and Mary probably washed the infant and rubbed
him with salt to prevent infection.
She then wrapped him tightly in strips of linen cloth.
This was an ancient practice,
done to keep infant's arms and legs
from moving so that they would grow straight and strong.
Then Mary laid the baby Jesus
on a bed of straw in a manger,
where the animals ate.
The scene was stark and moving.
Jesus the Son of God, had come into the
world as a helpless baby boy and was lying in a manger.
Suddenly the night sky filled with light,
and the nearby shepherds came to see the newborn child.
But only Mary knew who he truly was.
Did you know?
Not only did Jewish prophets say that the Messiah would come from the family of David, but the Prophet Micah said that he would come from Bethlehem.
(Mic 5:2).
~~Angel - Definition~~
Both the Hebrew and the Greek literally
Angels are also termed as "sons of the true God"
Not being creatures that marry and reproduce their own kind,
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mean "messenger." From the first book of
the Bible to the last, the word Angel occur nearly 400 times.
When spirit messengers are indicated,
the words are translated "angels,"
but if the reference is to human creatures,
it renders "messengers."
(Genesis 16:7; 32:3; Jas 2:25; Revelations 22:8)
The book of Revelations is somewhat
an exception because of certain references to angels
may indicate human creatures. (Revelations 2:1; 8,12,18, 3:1,7,14.)
"morning stars," and "holy myraids" (or "holy ones").
(Job 1:6; 2:1; 38:7; Deut. 33:2.)
the angels were individually created by Jehovah through his firstborn Son,
"the beginning of the creation by God."
(Matt.22:30; Rev.3:14) "By means of him
[this firstborn Son, the Word] all other things
were created in the heavens.....the things invisible...Also, he is before all other things
and by means of him all other things
were made to exist." (col.1:15-17; John1:1-3)
The angels were created long before
man's appearance, for with the
'founding of the earth,'
"the morning stars joyfully cried out together,
and all the son's of God
began shouting in applause."(Job 38:4-7)
As for the number of the angelic hosts of heaven,
Daniel said he saw
"a thousand thousands that kept ministering
to [God], and ten thousand times ten thousand
that kept standing right before him."
(dan.7:10; Heb. 12:22; Jude 14.
Last Updated on: September 7th,2003