1:28,29
The angel declares to Mary that she is “favoured”, and the the Lord is with her. Not surprisingly this rather troubled Mary. Life was just life, she had no reason to think that she was special. We have no idea what the Lord is going to do next, and the most wondrous things can spring from the most mundane of situations. Mary wanted to discern or understand what the angel was on about.
1:30,31
As with Zechariah, the angel told Mary not to be afraid. God had chosen her for a special purpose. Then Mary gets what was probably the shock of her life, the angel tells her she will conceive and give birth to a son. She was to call him Jesus, just as Zechariah was to name his son John.
1:32,33
This boy would be great and called Son of the Most High. He would be given the throne of his father David. So Jesus would be the king forever, the promised Messiah. Then the angel then goes on to say that Jesus would reign over Jacob’s descendants forever, and His kingdom would never end. There are unmistakable messianic reference here, especially to Isaiah. This was to be no ordinary baby, so it is fitting that he was not conceived in an ordinary way. Now imagine how all this would have sounded to Mary. First, becoming pregnant at all, and then the nature of the child she would have. Genesis 14:18-22 talks about “God Most High”, Melchizedek was said to be priest of God Most High.
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