The Annunciation: The Supernatural Prelude to God’s Greatest Gift to Humanity

Luke 1:26-45; 46-56: The Announcement from Shock to Singing.

In God’s time and manner God sent one of His best Archangels, Gabriel to manifest His divine purpose to a 14 year old virgin, in a small poor town, called Nazareth pledged to an equally poor man named Joseph. The message was a shock to this young girl that left her dumbfounded. Gabriel prophesied the impossible, alongside of his earlier message to Zechariah and Elizabeth, also impossible: Young Mary would experience the miraculous virgin birth of the
Son of God and old Elizabeth gave birth to His prophet.
I think that she, a nobody, a virgin, would be part of God’s greatest creative event
inhuman history, past, present and future, would be a stretch by any human calculation. The incarnation, I believe, was even greater then Genesis 1:1-2. It was the incarnation of actual deity (Philippians 2:5-11) not a pagan god masquerading as a human. Again God in HIs infinite power and compassion usually chooses the weak, powerless to perform impossible parts of His purposes (1 Corinthians 1:18).