Guided reading · 7 passages
In the fullness of time
Promises with dates: a child from a virgin sign, a town named Bethlehem, a throne that had been empty, a messenger after centuries of silence.
Genesis 3:15
The seed of the woman
3:15I will put enmities between you and the woman, between your offspring and her offspring. She will crush your head, and you will lie in wait for her heel.
Isaiah 7:14–16
The virgin shall conceive
7:14For this reason, the Lord himself will grant to you a sign. Behold, a virgin will conceive, and she will give birth to a son, and his name will be called Immanuel
7:15He will eat butter and honey, so that he may know to reject evil and to choose good
7:16But even before the boy knows to refuse evil and to choose good, the land that you detest will be abandoned by the face of her two kings
Micah 5:2
From Bethlehem
5:2And you, Bethlehem Ephrata, are a little one among the thousands of Judah. From you will go forth he who shall be the ruler in Israel, and his landing place has been set from the beginning, from the days of eternity
2 Samuel 7:12–16
The promise to David
7:12And when your days will have been fulfilled, and you will sleep with your fathers, I will raise up your offspring after you, who will go forth from your loins, and I will make firm his kingdom
7:13He himself shall build a house to my name. And I will establish the throne of his kingdom, even forever
7:14I will be a father to him, and he shall be a son to me. And if he will commit any iniquity, I will correct him with the rod of men and with the wounds of the sons of men
7:15But my mercy I will not take away from him, as I took it away from Saul, whom I removed from before my face
Malachi 3:1
I send my messenger
3:1Behold, I send my angel, and he will prepare the way before my face. And presently the Sovereign, whom you seek, and the angel of testimony, whom you desire, will arrive at his temple. Behold, he approaches, says the Lord of hosts
Luke 1:26–35
The Annunciation
1:26Then, in the sixth month, the Angel Gabriel was sent by God, to a city of Galilee named Nazareth
1:27to a virgin betrothed to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the name of the virgin was Mary
1:28And upon entering, the Angel said to her: “Hail, full of grace. The Lord is with you. Blessed are you among women.
1:29And when she had heard this, she was disturbed by his words, and she considered what kind of greeting this might be
Galatians 4:4–5
In the fullness of time
4:4But when the fullness of time arrived, God sent his Son, formed from a woman, formed under the law
4:5so that he might redeem those who were under the law, in order that we might receive the adoption of sons