“Mary said to the angel, ‘How can this be, since I am a virgin?' … The angel answered and said to her…. ‘For nothing will be impossible with God'” (Luke 1:34, 35a, 37).

It can hardly be coincidental that Gabriel's reassuring words to Mary as she pondered the impossibility of God's promise for a son from a virgin womb are a nearly verbatim citation of God's words to Abraham as Sarah pondered the impossibility of God's promise for a son from an aged womb: “And the LORD said to Abraham, ‘Why did Sarah laugh, saying, “Shall I indeed bear a child, when I am so old?” IS ANYTHING TOO DIFFICULT FOR THE LORD? At the appointed time I will return to you, at this time next year, and Sarah will have a son'” (Gen 18:13-14).

Yeshua's birth is not the beginning of a new story. It is the continuation of, in fact the fulfillment of the ancient story.

One would hardly expect that the birth of Israel's Messiah would be any less miraculous than the birth of Abraham's son Isaac. Yeshua's birth is not the beginning of a new story. It is the continuation of, in fact the fulfillment of the ancient story. I find it terribly tragic, therefore, that the Jewish people consider Yeshua's birth the holiday of a different religion. O that would God open the eyes of his ancient people to see Yeshua's birth for what it truly is: an expected and characteristically recognizable birth miracle for the God of impossibilities!

“Now Abraham and Sarah were old, advanced in age; Sarah was past childbearing. Sarah laughed to herself, saying, ‘After I have become old, shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also?” (Gen 18:11-12).

“Mary said to the angel, ‘How can this be, since I am a virgin?'” (Luke 1:34).