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Once we are old enough to start courting we are asked are you dating any yet?
Then after you start dating they start asking when are you going to get married?
Right after you get married, the ink on the marriage certificate is not even dry yet and people start asking when are you going to have children?
There is something special about having children.
Second only to the announcement of someone accepting Jesus as Savior is the announcement of a pregnancy or the birth of a child.
As you may know I can’t wait to be a Grandfather.
I don’t know why I long so much for this.
Especially this time a year.
Maybe it is because Christmas is some much more fun with kids around.
Last week we focused on the this prophecy in Isaiah of the coming Messiah.
700 years from Isaiah’s prophecy of the coming Messiah and the birth of Jesus.
400 of those years were silent.
400 years separate the time of Malachi (the last Old Testament prophet) and the time of Jesus.
During those 400 years, we have no record of any prophets or inspired writers in Israel.
This 400 year period is called the “400 years of silence” or the “Intertestamental Period.”
So you can imaging the great discouragement and great anticipation of the greatest baby announcement in all of human history.
I have walked with many friends and people during the discouragement phase of wanting a baby of their own.
When the announcement finally arrives it is amazing.
- Jeremy and Jen.
Who is usually the first person to find out about the pregnancy?
The mother bearing the child of course.
First announcement of the baby.
- Mary
This was a creative act of the Holy Spirit, not the sort of divine-human cohabitation sometimes seen in pagan mythology.
Hercules was the son of Zeus, king of the gods, and the mortal woman Alcmene.
Zeus, who was always chasing one woman or another, took on the form of Alcmene's husband, and visited Alcmene one night in her bed, and so Hercules was born a demi-god with incredible strength and stamina.
This is a miracle from the Holy Spirit.
The child to be born was the Son of God and would live a sinless life.
Jesus knew no sin (2 Cor.
5:21), He did no sin (1 Peter 2:22), and He had no sin (1 John 3:5) Jesus could not do this unless He was the true Son of God.
Fully human yet fully God.
Scholars assume Mary’s age at this time was 13-16 years old.
- I walked at my graduation with a friend who had a son that was five when we graduated.
Second announcement: Elizabeth
Vs. 39: Mary hurried.
Why? Young and scared / She was to be married
This was a miracle and she knew the one person that would understand a miracle pregnancy would be her cousin Elizabeth who was unable to have a baby until she was at least 60 years of age.
An Indian woman may be the world's oldest to give birth after delivering her first child at the age of 70, her doctor says.
Jivunben Rabari and her husband Valjibhai Rabari, 75, from Kutch in western Gujarat India, welcomed their first child – a son named Lalo – delivered by Caesarean section last month.
The couple, who have been married for 45 years, had been unsuccessfully trying for a baby for decades before conceiving their first child through In-Vitro Fertilisation.
Many women choose to delay announcing a pregnancy at least until the end of the first trimester (12 weeks into their pregnancy).
This is usually because of concerns about the risk of miscarriage (pregnancy loss) during this time.
The bible does say if Mary told Joseph about the angel and the pregnancy before going to see her cousin Elizabeth.
Many bible scholars assume that Mary told Joseph after she returned home.
Third announcement: Joseph
The announcement from Mary must have been devastating.
Not only has she committed adultery, and pregnant but she is lying about who the father is.
Then Joseph gets the surprise of his life.
It is true and you are going to be the step Dad of God Himself.
Fourth announcement: Shepard’s
Vs. 10: Do not be afraid.
I bring you good news.
Vs. 11: The Messiah is born.
In addition, the expression “Jesus is Lord” implies all the sovereignty and authority associated with One who is God.
For “Lord” in Luke 2:11, the angel used the Greek word kurios, which expresses an authority that is valid and lawful.
The ultimate lawful authority in the universe is God, and the angel announced Jesus’ lawful authority as the Son of God.
The Greek translators of the Old Testament and the writers of the New Testament used kurios so often to refer to God that the word became synonymous for the name of God.
When the angel declared Jesus to be Lord, he declared Him to be the true God, the One who possesses all authority and sovereignty.
Again Immanuel!
- God with Us!
Vs. 13: great company of heavenly host: host.
A term used to describe an army encampment.
No one ever has or ever will top the birth announcement of God the Father at the birth of His Son, our Lord Jesus Christ.
As soon as the angel’s announcement was given, “a great company of the heavenly host appeared with the angel, praising God and saying, ‘Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace to men on whom his favor rests.’”
That was a birth announcement that will never be matched.
Fifth announcement: Magi
MAGI (Măʹ ġī) Eastern wise men, priests, and astrologers expert in interpreting dreams and other “magic arts.”
Men whose interpretation of the stars led them to Palestine to find and honor Jesus, the newborn King.
The magi who greeted Jesus’ birth may have been from Babylon, Persia, or the Arabian Desert.
This announcement came in the sky in the form of a star.
The Starry announcement the Magi would have seen was the planet Juniper the biggest planet and Venus the brightest planet, so closely aligned, that they looked like one big bright star.
Back then it would have been the brightest star that anyone had ever seen.
The Star of Bethlehem on Youtube.
- Frederick A. Larson
Sixth announcement: Herod
A few Countries that don’t celebrate Christmas.
China, Egypt, Mongolia, Morocco, Qatar
These countries may not celebrate Christmas but the celebration of Christmas will still be celebrated.
Roughly 9.6% of Qatar's population is Christian
estimates are between 93 million and 115 million Christ followers in China
Roughly 10% of Egypt's population is Christian
In Mongolia estimates have ranged as high as 85,000 Christ followers.
Christmas is forbidden in North Korea.
But it is reported that 300k Christ followers live there.
If our brothers and sisters in Jesus can and will celebrate Christmas in hostel countries how much more can we and should we celebrate and announce the Savior was born?
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