As he spake to our fathers, to Abraham, and to his seed for ever. And Mary abode with her about three months, and returned to her own house. (Luke 1:55-56)
Our hearts our so encouraged because God both ‘spake’ this world into existence and then ‘spake’ His word into existence, through the lives of pens of living ‘fathers’ of flesh and blood, such as ‘Abraham’. None of ‘our fathers’, even ‘Abraham’, in and of themselves were good enough to stand in God’s presence because they and we must all trace ourselves to our first parents, who brought sin upon the human race. God would have been entirely right and just to have cast us all into hell; but He did not. No, He would not abandon us but speak to us, through the Spirit through the Word.
‘Abraham’, or father of many, was spoken to by God in a way in which every called-out believer in ‘his seed’, Christ, would be throughout time. Mary would be the one to bear this ‘seed’ in her womb, and John the Baptist would be the one to pronounce and proclaim the coming of this ‘seed’. Nevertheless, all who call themselves believers have had a germination in their souls, in which they turned from themselves and towards the promised seed of Genesis 3.
The wheel has come full circle; man has done his best, Satan his worst, and yet that singular ‘seed’ has been implanted, has grown, to conquer and to rule. Man has his nuclear weaponry and biological warfare; his nano-technology and satellite exploration. God simply has ‘his seed’. He simply deigned to enter our world in person, live a perfect life, lay down His life, pick it up again and ascend back into heaven, whence He came. All who look to Him will be saved. There is no doubt about it. If we are of this ‘seed’ then we have a citizenship in heaven and will be in a place to which we have no right, ‘for ever’.
‘Mary abode with her’. Equally, Christ Jesus would abide with us. Typologically, Christ the God-man would rub shoulders with us image bearers for some three decades. He would minister to us, doing miracles and uttering parables for some three years. He would be permitted to dwell with John the Baptist, whilst both were in the womb for ‘about three months’. The enormity of this condescension cannot be put into words; we will surely be singing and talking about it.
Momentously, though, Christ ‘returned’ to heaven, a place in which He had for ever, before creation was. He ‘returned’ to his ‘own house’ for He had no place to lay His head upon this wretched, moribund earth. Even the best man woman ever bore cannot dwell with the God-man, in typological terms displayed in this verse. Mary, the bearer of the ‘seed’ from heaven, cannot abide any longer with Elizabeth, the bearer of the seed from earth. The God-man must go away, must complete His work of salvific triumph, so that the best man, vain and profitable at his best, can dwell with Him.
Because we cannot dwell in a place of infinite and eternal glory in our own right, the life of the God-man must be accounted to us, remotely, so that we may dwell with Him for ever, in a place which “… Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.” (1 Corinthians 2:9).
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