Christ’s Birth Announcement

How exciting is the birth of a new baby! The thrilled parents eagerly make phone calls to friends and relatives letting them know of the wonder of a new child entering the family. Surely there is no prouder time in the life of a newly married couple than the birth of their first child.

So we would expect that God’s announcement of the birth of His Son would be grand indeed. Yet how did this great announcement of the birth of the Savior begin? Not with great fanfare and ceremony, nor with the inspired proclamations of a prophet or the songs of a psalmist. No, this announcement began rather with the visit of an angel to a young Israelite girl in the city of Nazareth.