Monday, December 5, 2011

When God became man: Day 5

The promises of His coming: The promise to a childless priest
It is he who will go as a forerunner before Him in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers back to the children, and the disobedient to the attitude of the righteous, so as to make ready a people prepared for the Lord (Luke 1:17).
After hundreds of years of no revelation from God to his people, an angel of the Lord spoke to a priest, as recorded in Luke 1:5-25. Zacharias and his wife, Elizabeth, were not only childless but, because their age, were without any realistic hope of having a child. That changed when Zacharias presented an incense offering in the temple. The angel Gabriel appeared to him with a miraculous message. Zacharias’ wife would not only give birth to a son who would be named John, the angel said, but he would be a great man with a great mission – to go before the One who would be the Messiah and to prepare the people for His coming. God had spoken again. His promises from long ago were about to be fulfilled. A miraculous reproduction would prepare the way for an even more miraculous birth.

Song: “It Came Upon the Midnight Clear”

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