After the Old Testament prophets, the Holy Spirit was silent for four hundred years. When Elizabeth greeted Mary, that silence was broken. Alistair Begg teaches us that Mary’s song of response to the news of Jesus continues a long line of prophetic songs proclaiming the great things God has done. God’s power brings down the mighty from their thrones, but in His mercy, He redeems the lowly and those who cannot redeem themselves.
39In those days Mary arose and went with haste into the hill country, to a town in Judah,
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