The King is Coming

Luke 1:26-38

You will call his name “Jesus”.

• He will be great;
• He will be called the Son of the Most High;
• He will be given the throne of his father, David;
• He will reign over the house of Jacob forever;
• There will be no end to his Kingdom. (v31b-33)

Luke 1:24-25

“Thus has the Lord done to me in the days in which he looked at me, to take away my reproach among men.” (v.25)

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Today I read about Elizabeth, Zechariah’s wife, who was in her old age and barren, and God told Zechariah that you was going to have a child.

After realising that she had conceived, she said: “Thus has the Lord done to me in the days in which he looked at me, to take away my reproach among men.” (Luke 1:25)

This reminded me how children are a blessing from the Lord.

Luke 1:5-23

“He will go before him (the Messiah) in the spirit and power of Elijah, ‘to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children,’ and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to prepare a people prepared for the Lord.” (v17)

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I was reading today the first chapter of Luke’s gospel, and the story of Zaccariah, the father of John the Baptist.

While he was in the temple of the Lord an angel appeared to him, and told him that his wife, Elizabeth (an old woman), was going to have a child, and he was to call him John.

Here is part of what the angel said about John (and the part that struck me):