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| ELIZABETH ENDNOTES OF SCHOLARLY SOURCES���� | |||||||||||||||||
| {Where document name is cited first, it is quoted} | |||||||||||||||||
| 1.� THE BIBLE, PSALM 89:4, 27 [PREDICTED ABOUT 1000 YEARS BEFORE JESUS] - I will establish your line forever and make your throne firm through all generations....I will also appoint him my firstborn, the most exalted of the kings of the earth. | |||||||||||||||||
| 2.� THE BIBLE, MALACHI 3:1 [PREDICTED ABOUT 430 YEARS BEFORE JESUS] - "See, I will send my messenger, who will prepare the way before me.� Then suddenly the Lord you are seeking will come to his temple, the messenger of the covenant, whom you desire, will come," says the Lord Almighty. | |||||||||||||||||
| 3.� THE BIBLE, LUKE 1:5 - During the rule of Herod, King of Judea, there was a priest assigned service in the regiment of Abijah.� His name was Zachariah.� His wife was descended from the daughters of Aaron.� Her name was Elizabeth.� [See also VOLUME II, DREAM MAKER, Hesitant Herald] | |||||||||||||||||
| NOTE: There were so many priests (descendants of Levi) in Bible times, they had to be divided into 24 groups, each serving one month every other year, then going back home (1 Chronicles 24:10, 19). | |||||||||||||||||
| 4.� THE BIBLE, LUKE 1:23 [NIV] - When his time of service was completed, he returned home.� AFTER THIS his wife, Elizabeth became pregnant.� | |||||||||||||||||
| 5.� THE BIBLE, LUKE 1:6-8 - Together they lived honorably before God, careful in keeping to the ways of the commandments and enjoying a clear conscience before god.� But they were childless because Elizabeth could never conceive, and now they were quite old. | |||||||||||||||||
| 6.� THE BIBLE, LUKE 1:13 - But the angel reassured him, "Don't fear, Zachariah.� Your prayer has been heard.� Elizabeth, your wife, will bear a son by you.� You are to name him John." | |||||||||||||||||
| 7.� THE BIBLE, LUKE 1:18-20 - Zachariah said to the angel, "Do you expect me to believe this?� I'm an old man and my wife is an old woman."� But the angel said, "I am Gabriel, the sentinel of God, sent especially to bring you this glad news.� But because you won't believe me, you'll be unable to say a word until the day of your son's birth.� Every word I've spoken to you will come true on time - God's time." | |||||||||||||||||
| 8.� THE BIBLE, LUKE 1:24 [NIV] - After this his wife Elizabeth became pregnant and for five months remained in seclusion. | |||||||||||||||||
| 9.� THE BIBLE, LUKE 1:16-17 - "He will turn many sons and daughters of Israel back to their God.� He will herald God's arrival in the style and strength of Elijah." | |||||||||||||||||
| 10.� See the Bible, 1 Kings 18:18 | |||||||||||||||||
| 11.� THE BIBLE, LUKE 1:24 [NIV] - �After this his wife Elizabeth became pregnant and for five months remained in seclusion. | |||||||||||||||||
| 12.� THE BIBLE, LUKE 1:25 - "The Lord has done this for me," she said.� "In these days he has shown his favor and taken away my disgrace among the people." | |||||||||||||||||
| 13.� THE BIBLE, LUKE 1:26-27 - In the sixth month of Elizabeth's pregnancy, God sent the angel Gabriel to the Galilean village of Nazareth to a virgin engaged to be married to a man descended from David.� His name was Joseph, and the virgin's name, Mary. | |||||||||||||||||
| 14.� THE BIBLE, LUKE 1:36-37 - "And did you know that your cousin Elizabeth conceived a son, old as she is?� Everyone called her barren, and here she is six months pregnant!� Nothing, you see, is impossible with God." | |||||||||||||||||
| 15.� THE BIBLE, LUKE 1:39 - Mary didn't waste a minute.� She got up and traveled to a town in Judah in the hill country. | |||||||||||||||||
| 16.� THE BIBLE, LUKE 1:40 - ....straight to Zechariah's house, and greeted Elizabeth. | |||||||||||||||||
| 17.� THE BIBLE, LUKE 1:41 - When Elizabeth heard Mary's greeting, the baby in her womb leaped. | |||||||||||||||||
| 18.� THE BIBLE, LUKE 1:42-43 - She was filled with the Holy Spirit, and sang out exuberantly, "You're so blessed among women, and the babe in your womb, also blessed!� And why am I so blessed that the mother of my Lord visits me?" | |||||||||||||||||
| 19.� THE BIBLE, LUKE 1:44-45 - "The moment the sound of your greeting entered my ears, the babe in my womb skipped like a lamb for sheer joy.� Blessed woman, who believed what God said, believed every word would come true!" | |||||||||||||||||
| 20.� THE BIBLE, LUKE 1:46-49 - "I'm bursting with God-news; I'm dancing the song of my Savior God.� God took one good look at me, and look what happened - I'm the most fortunate woman on earth!" | |||||||||||||||||
| 21.� THE BIBLE, LUKE 1:50-53 - He bared his arm and showed his strength, scattered the bluffing braggarts.� He knocked tyrants off their high horses, pulled victims out of the mud.� The starving poor sat down to a banquet; the callous rich were left out in the cold. | |||||||||||||||||
| 22.� THE BIBLE, MALACHI 4:5-6 [PREDICTED ABOUT 430 YEARS BEFORE JESUS] - "See, I will send you another prophet like Elijah before the coming of the great and dreadful judgment day of god.� His preaching will bring fathers and children together again, to be of one mind and heart." | |||||||||||||||||
| 23.� Because Elizabeth and Mary quoted scriptures when they first met each other (Psalm 34:2f; 138:6; 71:19; 111:9; 103:17; 98:1-3; 107:9; 132:11; Isaiah 40:10; Genesis 17:19), they probably leaned heavily on searching the scriptures regarding their babies during Mary's entire stay. | |||||||||||||||||
| 24.� DOES GOD EXIST?, VOL. 18, NO. 1, PG. 23 - The eye's development....In the third week the embryo is about half the size of a rice grain....As the embryonic brain develops a furrow of tissue on each side grows toward the [eye's] ectoderm....the lens of the eye is induced to develop.� During the fourth and fifth weeks, the end of each optic vesicle...doubles back of itself to form a cup....By the middle of the sixth week the other end of the optic vesicle...is connected to the brain....The eye is an incredible complex device but its formation seems to be even more miraculous and speaks eloquently of the wisdom and design that god has built into all reproductive systems. | |||||||||||||||||
| 25.� THE BIBLE, DEUTERONOMY 22:13-22 - If a man marries a girl, then after sleeping with her accuses her of having had premarital intercourse with another man, saying, "She was not a virgin"....if the man's accusations are true...shall stone her to death....If a man is discovered committing adultery, both he and the other man's wife must be killed; in this way evil will be cleansed from Israel. | |||||||||||||||||
| 26.� THE BIBLE, DEUTERONOMY 23:2 - A bastard [illegitimate child] may not enter the sanctuary, nor any of his descendants for ten generations. | |||||||||||||||||
| 27.� THE BIBLE, LUKE 1:57 - When Elizabeth was full-term in her pregnancy, she bore a son. | |||||||||||||||||
| 28.� See VOLUME 4, FOLK HERO, Hesitant Herald | |||||||||||||||||
| 29.� THE BIBLE, LUKE 1:59, 63-64, 56 - On the eighth day....Asking for a tablet, Zachariah wrote, "His name is to be John."� That took everyone by surprise.� surprise followed surprise - Zachariah's mouth was now open, his tongue loose, and he was talking, praising God....Mary stayed with Elizabeth for three months and then went back to her own home. | |||||||||||||||||