Welcome to a year in the Bible with Daily Grace.

This year, we want to spend a few minutes with you every day walking through our study Christ and all of Scripture.

Each week we will dive deeply into two passages of Scripture, one from the Old Testament and one from the New,

seeing how they connect and point to Jesus.

Whether you are doing the study yourself or just following along with us here, we are

hopeful that through studying these passages each week, you will see how Christ is not only present

throughout the entire biblical story, but the center of it.

Hey friends, welcome back to another episode of a year in the Bible. My name is Alexa, and I'm here

with my co-host for the week, Katie.

Hi, everyone. This week, we are making the Christ connections between the Old Testament passage. We looked at this week, 2 Samuel 7, 12 through 16, and the new Testament passage,

we looked at Luke 1 32 through 33. So, Alexa, will you start off our discussion? Yeah, I really love that we got to read Luke 1 32-33 this week, not only because of this connection with 2nd, 7, 12, through 16, but also because it reminds us of the conversation we had a couple of weeks when we looked at 1 Samuel 2 1 through 10

and Luke 1 46 through 55. So God's promises to David point us back to Hannah's prayer when she

talks about God's anointed king. But they also point us forward to Mary, who would give birth to

this anointed king. So before Mary sings her

song of praise in Luke 1.46 through 55, she is visited by the angel Gabriel, who tells her that

she is going to conceive a son through the power of the Holy Spirit, and that this son is to be named

Jesus. Luke 1 32 through 33 continues Gabriel's words to Mary as he

declares the son's greatness and that he will be the one who will rule over God's kingdom forever.

So Mary would have likely understood Gabriel's words immediately. God's people, the Israelites,

had been waiting for the promised king ever since God made his promise to David.

God's people longed for a deliver, someone who would overpower their enemies and bring them restoration.

They longed for this deliverer, particularly during the time of the exile, when they were displaced from their home because of their sin. But even years later, during Mary's time, the Israelites longed

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