Welcome to Everyday Truth with Kurt Skelly.

We believe the Bible is true and relevant to everyone, everywhere, every day.

This Christmas season, we're revisiting a series called Advent,

where Kurt leads us through the Christmas story in a deeper, more meaningful way.

We hope it encourages you to see that Christmas is all about Jesus.

Now, here's today's episode.

Mary has spent three months with her cousin, Elizabeth.

Elizabeth has now had her baby, John the Baptist.

Mary is traveling home at the exact same time.

She arrives back in Nazareth.

What do we know? Well, what we know is that Mary received the

announcement from Gabriel three months before. So she's three months pregnant. Now, ladies, you know

that the third month of pregnancy typically is when it's difficult to hide it anymore.

You know, people are noticing, you're beginning to have a little bit of a belly,

and that's what's happening here.

So when Mary goes home, she's pregnant.

So just put those events together.

So here you are.

You are espoused to be married this is in a special time to determine and validate the chastity of the bride she goes on a three-month vacation ostensibly

now she comes home joseph has been faithfully working day by day as a husband,

already a husband, but a husband that's going to take unto him his wife physically within a

short period of time. This is an important time, and now that mary has returned she's pregnant now one thing we have

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