The Blessed Virgin Mary was a remarkable person. She is an early teen determined to obey God's messenger, the Archangel Gabriel, no matter the cost, no matter the risk.
Twice in Luke, she is called "Blessed among women" (Luke 1:28, 42), an ascription found of only one other woman in the Bible, Jael, who "nailed" Sisera, the enemy of God's people (Judges 5:24). How happy and prosperous are these two women who were used by God to deliver his people from their enemies!
Mary's cousin, Elizabeth, exclaims that Mary is the mother of her Lord (Luke 1:43). Mary is the Theotokos, the "God bearer," the Mother of God, Mater Dei, not of Jesus' divine nature, of course, but only of his human nature.
Because the Holy Spirit came upon Mary as the Shekinah Glory of God just as he had the Tabernacle (Exodus 40:34-35), the Lord Jesus can be called the Son of God (Luke 1:35).
But in his human nature, the Lord Jesus is legally the Son of David through his legal father Joseph (Luke 1:27), and biologically through his mother, he is both descended from King David (1:32) and the High Priest Aaron (Luke 1:5, 36). |
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