The Angel Gabriel

Sunday School January 9, 2011. 
The subject was the first chapter of Matthew and the first chapter of Luke.  The teacher was going over the visitations of the Angel Gabriel when I begin to have a game of "Would You Rather" in my head.

If I were the angel would I rather go to the old woman and tell her she's pregnant or a teenage girl and tell she's going to become pregnant without knowing a man or the superfun third choice of telling the teenage boyfriend that his girlfriend's going to get pregnant and he should marry her anyway?  What would you have to do while you were alive to deserve that task as an angel?  Oh yeah,  the fourth visit to the old man wasn't exactly easy either.  He had to strike him dumb.  All in a day's work for God's messenger.

See, it's no wonder that I think my brain is wired differently than other peoples'.  Right?

The other thing I thought about was that on one page the angel is telling Zacharias that his baby will be full of the Holy Ghost while still in the womb.  On facing page we can read the fulfillment of an angelic prophecy when John leaped in the womb while Elisabeth and Mary were talking.  Cool.  It's great to live in the day when it's so easy to have access and read scripture whenever you want.