Memoir
Mary had a visitation of an angel and a sequence of events followed. There was not much time left to process what was happening around her. It all happened too quickly. Luke records twice in the same chapter that, “Mary treasured up all these things and pondered them in her heart”. (Luke 2:19, and then 51) There was a silent period of 400 years between the Testaments. Nothing much happened. Or did it happen, and it was not written down? It could be possible. During that period, two unknown remnants were waiting for the Messiah in the temple – Anna and Simeon. God had spoken to them. They silently waited. We see Zachariah faithfully serving God. These are just a few. There might be others too. When Elijah said, he was alone, God gives him the pattern of how He is going to work now and also adds, “Yet I reserve seven thousand in Israel—all whose knees have not bowed down to Baal and whose mouths have not kissed him.” (1 Kings 19:18) But we do not read about their stories. In t...