For the next months only Elizabeth knew what was going on. She could feel John kick and elbow, she could see Zechariah smiling silently, the scroll of Malachi stretched out on their table, the look of wonder still in his aging eyes.[1]
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The hope for the Messiah – who He was, what He would be like, what He would do – was grounded in the Old Testament and was bursting at the seems to be fully revealed in Jesus of Nazareth.
O to be Zechariah and Elizabeth, to see what’s coming. I wonder if they had the same anticipation that a child has when seeing a present under the Christmas tree with his name on it. Maybe it was something like that – expectant wonder of a joyful certainty.
Whatever they felt, we can get a taste of it! Seeing all that pent-up expectation through the Old Testament then fulfilled in Jesus of Nazareth – what a privilege we have!
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[1] Peter Mead, Pleased to Dwell,
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