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here’s not a greater were married, Mary had a and behold, you will conceive in
prophecy fulfilled divine visitation from the an- your womb and bring forth a
than the prophecy gel Gabriel. God’s message son, and shall call His Name
con
T cerning the di- that Gabriel delivered to Jesus. He will be great and will
vine conception of our Lord Mary is found in Luke 1:28- be called the Son of the Highest;
and Savior, Jesus Christ. 33 (NKJV), “And having come and the Lord God will give Him

The Prophet Isaiah, prophe- in, the angel said to her, Re- the throne of His Father, David
sied Jesus’s birth approxi- and He will reign
mately seven hundred years over the house of
before it actually came to Jacob forever and
pass. Isaiah, the Prophet, of His Kingdom
said, “Therefore the Lord there will be no
Himself will give you a sign, end.”
Behold, the virgin shall con- After hearing
ceive and bear a Son, and this profound
shall call His name, Imman- message that the
uel” (Isaiah 7:14 NKJV). angel, Gabriel
The name “Immanuel” is had delivered,
translated as, “God with us” one would have
or “God among us.” t h o u g h t t h a t
joice, highly favored one, the
Mary was the virgin named Lord is with you, blessed are Mary’s reaction would have
in Isaiah’s prophecy. Mary you among women But when been more dramatic. Instead
was a young Jewish woman, Mary saw the angel, she was Mary ask, only one question,
born in First Century B.C. troubled at his saying and con- “How can this be, seeing
Nazareth of Galilee, who sidered what manner of greeting that I have known not a
was engaged to a man name this was; then the angel said to man?” In Luke 1:35, we see
Joseph, of the house of Da- her, Do not be afraid, Mary, for the angel, Gabriel, tell
vid. Before Mary and Joseph you have found favor with God Mary, in detail, what was