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about to hap-       banished  from  society  or
                         pen  to  her,       even  stoned  to  death.  But
                         “And  the  an-      nothing  in  Scripture  alludes
                         gel  answered       to  Mary,  ever  once,  consid-
                         and  said  to       ering  the  dreadful  circum-
                         her,  “The  Ho-     stances  that  she  was  facing,
                         ly  Spirit  will    had  thoughts  of  aborting  or
                         come      upon      terminating  the  Purpose,            shall call His Name Imman-
                         you  and  the       Plan and Destiny of her Ba-           uel.”
       power of the Highest will over-       by’s [Jesus] Life.
       shadow  you,  therefore,  also,                                             Jesus’s  Birth  is  celebrated
       that  Holy  One  who  is  to  be      Mary  chose  to  believe  God         all over the world and in the
       born  will  be  called  the  son  of   and His Divine plan for her          Western  part  of  the  World,
       God.”  After  being  told  this       and  Her  Baby’s  life  [Jesus]       especially The United States
       additional  news  from  the           and  nine  Months  later,  The        of America, His Birth is cel-
       angel,  Gabriel,  we  see             Savior  of  the  world  was           ebrated  on  December  the
                                                                                      th
       Mary’s  response  in  Luke            born.  The  prophecy,  given          25 ,  a  National  Holiday
       1:38,  which  is  most,  re-          by  Isaiah  that  was  prophe-        called  Christmas.  Whether
       markable!  She  simply  said,         sied  over  700  years  before        or  not  Jesus  was  born  on
                                                                                                       th
       “Behold the maidservant of the        had  come  to  pass!  God’s           December the 25  is of little
       Lord, let it be to me  according      Redemption  Plan  for  all  of        importance  compared  to
       to your words.”                       mankind  had  been  birthed           knowing  the  truth  of  His
                                             into the earth!                       coming.  The “Truth”  that  is
       There  is,  absolutely,  noth-                                              most  important  is  that  the
       ing  in  Scripture  that  says                                              prophecy  that  Isaiah  had
       anything else that Mary said                                                prophesied  concerning  Je-
       concerning  this  life  chang-                                              sus’s  divine  conception  and
       ing news from God that she                                                  the  virgin  that  would  birth
       was  “Highly  Favored”  and                                                 Him  into  the  Earth’s  realm
       that she would be the one to                                                came  to  pass  just  as  God
       birth  the  Son  of  God  into                                              had said.
       the  world.    Her  only  re-
       sponse  was,  “Behold  the
       maidservant  of  the  Lord,  let  it   Again, Mary was facing dire
       be  to  me  according  to  your       consequences because of her
       words!”  There  is  nothing           status  of  being  betrothed  to
       recorded in Scripture to say          Joseph,  unmarried  and
       that  Mary  was  emotionally          pregnant;  the  thoughts  of
       distorted.    Nothing  saying         aborting, The Purpose, Plan
       that  Mary  feared  for  her          and  Destiny  of  her  Baby,
       life.  For  at  this  time  in  his-  Jesus’s  Life,  never  entered           Born with Purpose!
       tory:  being  unmarried,  be-         her  mind.  Mary  believed
       trothed  and  being  pregnant;        God  and  Jesus,  The  Savior             ...and that purpose is
       warranted  dire  consequenc-          of  the  world,  was  born!              you!  How well do you
       es.  This  is  a  situation  that     Therefore, the Lord Himself
       would  lead  Joseph,  her  be-        will give you a sign, behold,               know Him?  He’s
       troth,  to  have  her  either         the  virgin  [Mary]  shall  con-        available to you today!
                                             ceive  and  bear  a  Son  and
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