AD – two mums effect world history

In those days Mary arose and went with haste into the hill country, to a town in Judah, and she entered the house of Zechariah and greeted Elizabeth. And when Elizabeth heard the greeting of Mary, the baby leaped in her womb. (Luke’s AD 60 research report re Jesus: Chapter 1: 39-56)

The year is immediately before AD 0. The place is Israel. “Mary” is a relative of "Elizabeth”. Miraculously “Elizabeth” has a child in the womb despite being well past child-bearing age. A few days earlier, the angel Gabriel had revealed to “Mary” that she also will have a son in due course through the “Holy Spirit” and the overshadowing of “the power of God”. That son, as yet unconceived, “will be called the Son of the Most High.” In fact, Mary’s son will be given “the throne of his father David” and “there will be no end” to “his kingdom”. Will all this come to be? Mary decides to go and see if her very elderly relative, Elizabeth, is indeed with child. Elizabeth gets the first shock. And Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit, and she exclaimed with a great cry, “Honoured - you among women - and honoured - the fruit of your womb. And why is this granted to me that the mother of my Lord should come to me? For behold, when the sound of your greeting came to my ears, the baby in my womb leaped for joy. And blessed is she who believed that there would be a fulfillment of what was spoken to her from the Lord.”
Mary gets the second shock when Elizabeth speaks out “with a loud cry”. Through “the Holy Spirit”, Elizabeth knows that Mary is indeed pregnant. More importantly, she actually identifies the embryo when she states that Mary is “the mother of my Lord”. The mother of Elizabeth’s Lord...	.
Elizabeth also commends something special about Mary herself. “Blessed is she who believed that there would be a fulfillment of what was spoken to her from the Lord.” That was indeed a special blessedness. And Mary said, “My life magnifies the Lord, and my spirit rejoices in God my Saviour, for he has looked upon the humble estate of his servant. For behold, from now on all generations will declare me blessed; for he who is powerful has done great things for me, and holy is his name.” In reply to Elizabeth, Mary speaks of her “life" and of her “spirit”. The former means her whole being; the latter means what gives life to her whole being. Her praise of – and thankfulness to – the Lord cannot be greater than it is. “He who is poweerful has done great things for me, and holy is his name.” For her, the greatest blessing was to haveJesus within. “And his mercy is for those who fear him from generation to generation.” And Mary's blessedness – “his mercy” – is for “those who fear him from generation to generation.” “He has shown strength with his arm; he has made waste the proud in the thinking of their hearts; he has brought down the mighty from their thrones and exalted those of humble estate; he has filled hungry ones with good things, and rich ones he has sent away empty.” Watch out if you are proud or mighty or rich. The Lord exalts “those of humble estate” – those in low circumstances. The Lord fills “the hungry with good things”. Good things. “He has helped his servant Israel, in remembrance of his mercy, as he spoke to our fathers, to Abraham and to his offspring into the aeon.” The Lord, in Mary’s son, was remembering “his mercy” towards “his servant Israel”, whose grandfather was “Abraham”, and their "offspring."
In fact Mary stayed with her about three months and returned into her house.	'
By the time Mary left Elizabeth, Mary was three months pregnant with Jesus and Elizabeth about to give birth to John the Baptist, the one who would “make ready for the Lord a people prepared.”

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