Zechariah is ministering in the temple when an angel appears. The angel tells Zechariah that his wife will bear a son: one who will go before the Lord Jesus. Zechariah and Elizabeth are old and have no children: similar to how Abraham and Sarah were before the birth of Isaac.
It was a sad thing in those days to have no children. In their culture, having no children meant that your family line ended—Old Testament characters like Job and Jacob were blessed with many children.
But being childless was a shameful thing. But the angel who visits him does mention that he had prayed to have a son Lk In similar fashion, when the angel tells Zechariah that his wife will bear a son in her old age, Zechariah does not believe it. Zechariah asks how he can be sure that such an outlandish promise will come to pass. The 12 tribes were all related. Hi, thanks for the bible study. My question: If Elizabeth is from the priestly line, the tribe of Levi, how can she be related to Mary, the mother of Jesus, who is from the line of David, the tribe of Judah?
Theresa, I dig into this question on my list of facts about Mary. Which makes sense, since marriage and fatherhood was the main way they tracked lineages. Your answer was incredibly dismissive and, frankly, non-responsive. David, did you read the post I linked to earlier in this thread?
Like you say, two gospel stories begin with a claim that Jesus is a descendant of David—an appeal to the Davidic lineage. That lineage was traced through the fathers. Because Zechariah was from the tribe of Levi.
Luke In the days of Herod, king of Judea, there was a priest named Zechariah, of the division of Abijah; and he had a wife of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth.
God did communicate to him as he was a prophet. At a younger age Zechariah married another Levite, named Elizabeth. His wife was barren though and they were unable to have children until their old age.
They prayed for some time to be able to have children, but it would not be until years later before it was fulfilled. Zechariah lived to an old age.
In his older years he continued to serve as a priest, obeying all the LORD 's commands. The Angel, revealing himself as Gabriel startled Zechariah and he became fearful. After Zechariah was told to not be fearful, he was promised that a son would be born to him, who must be named John and be a nazirite. Zechariah questioned this in disbelief and in uncertainty since he and his wife were beyond age.
Since he did not believe, Gabriel muted him and told him he would be unable to speak until the prophecy was fulfilled. After this Zechariah came outside to the assembled worshippers who were relieved to see him after he had been inside so long. Zechariah could not speak to anyone, but he made signs with his hands instead. Seeing this, the people realized he had seen visions. Once Zechariah's appointed shift was over he returned home and his wife Elizabeth conceived.
Upon returning home, Zechariah would have had to make a difficult adjustment. Suddenly he was unable to speak, with no way to explain this to his wife. Somehow possibly by writing Zechariah would have explained the prophecy to Elizabeth. He may have remained in seclusion with his wife for five months, [5] or continued working while his wife stayed out of the public eye.
During the sixth month of Elizabeth's pregnancy she finally allowed her cousin, Mary to visit her. While he was offering incense in the Temple, the angel Gabriel appeared to him, and told him that his wife Elizabeth who had been barren for many years would give birth to a son, and the son's name would be John.
Zechariah, who was an old man, did not believe the angel, and because of his disbelief, was struck dumb unable to speak, until the prophecy was fulfilled. When the time came for Elizabeth to give birth, she did bear a son. On the eighth day when the child was circumcised, they were going to name him Zechariah, after his father, but Elizabeth said "No, he is going to be called John. They then asked Zechariah, who was still mute, what name he wanted to give his son.
He asked for a writing tablet and wrote, "His name is John. Luke During that era, many Jews were returning from the Babylonian Captivity to rebuild Jerusalem and the Temple, which had been destroyed by the Babylonians. Zechariah, the son of Iddo, was instrumental in inspiring his fellow Jews to rebuild the Temple see Ezra
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