Traditionally a Jewish woman who gave her life to the Lord, would consider herself provillaged amongst women, to be bestowed such honour from God.
No one in their rightful mind can impose the primary discourses of today's sick society on the God fearing society of those days.
The sickness of today's society, especially the sick race wars and the sick gender wars that are happening in the times that we are living in, are all part of Satan's doing and his purpose of bringing about chaotic disharmony, so that he can deceptively draw humanity into his androgenyous antichristos society.
If we consider scripture we can discern how those two women Elizabeth and Mary, who gave their lives to the Lord wanted to be his handmaiden and this quote below further suggests just that....
24After this his wife Elizabeth became pregnant and for five months
remained in seclusion.
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.” (Luke 1:24-25)
Notice when she was pregnant she
remained in seclusion. Meaning that, previous to her pregnancy she already was seclusion, which means that she had offered herself to the Lord, as would a nun do. She also declares that the Lord has answered her prayers and taken away her disgrace. It becomes obvious that Elizabeth went into seclusion, that is she lived a reclusive hermit life because of the disgrace she experienced all her life of not being able to have a child.
The Angel tells Mary that she too has found favour, that is her prayers have also been granted. So what did Elizabeth and Mary who lived reclusive lives within the temple walls as virtually nuns want?
Favour, meaning a blessing from God.
So God delivered on that favour and it appears what God did for Elizabeth he also did for Mary......
Even Elizabeth your relative is going to have a child in her old age, and she who was said to be unable to conceive is in her sixth month.
It becomes obvious that Mary wanted a child from God, a child like onto David, hence her marriage to Jospeh was the step to realise that goal, where by all her prayers to God were all about, knowing fully well her genealogy that traced back to David. What Mary didn't expect is, that like Elizabeth, her preganancy would be a miraculous conception and that she inquired how this would come about, since she has not yet married a man for her to realise this.....
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How will this be,” Mary asked the angel, “since I am a virgin?”
Then, the Angel follows it by saying that even Elizabeth is having a miraculous conception just like you. When Mary meets Elizabeth, she immediately goes into a praising hym that validates what Mary wanted in the first place.
To impose today's sick society's primary discourses on the Jewish society of those days, is a preposterous act to say the least and borders on dishonesty and rebelliousness against God.
Miraculous conception of John the baptists would therefore be confirmed by Jesus as follows....
I tell you, among those born of women there is no one greater than John;
Greater, points to the nature and so since John wasn't born of a human father and was miraculously conceived of the Holy Spirit, then John as the servant to prepare the way for the Messiah, was not Zechariah's biological son, hence John was not born with the inherited sin of Adam, henceforth he was filled with the Holy Spirit, meaning no original sin. That is why Jesus said there is no one born of women that is greater by nature than John, because he did not inherit the original sin. Think for a moment,
how can John who came to prepare the way for the sinless Christ have inherited the original sin?
He couldn't have, hence this is the plan of God and how he executed it, by two willing women who were praying for a child, Elizabeth being without child wanting her disgrace to be removed and Mary wanting a child of God, likened onto David, which guided her to marry Jospeh for that sole purpose of carrying the gift of God. She wanted it alright, she was the happiest woman that ever lived, when she was told that she had been favoured, that is her prayers were granted.
John was not greater than Jesus, because the Messiah is the only one who could bring people to God the Father, yet John was already with the Father himself, because he had no earthly father.