Christmas:
The Miracle of Pregnancy in a Teenager Who Loved God
By
Julio
Severo
2,000
years ago, teenage pregnancies normally occurred within marriage. Mary’s case
was problematic because while she was engaged to Joseph, God sent an angel to
her to say that she had been chosen to be the mother of Jesus Christ.
It
was not a prophetic message for a future pregnancy. As soon as Mary said “yes”
to God’s choice, she became pregnant. And she was about 14 years old, by the Christian
tradition. Even a few years ago, marriage and pregnancy at that age were not a
rarity. My wife’s grandparents married at the age of 14, in a Lutheran church.
The
problem, in Mary’s case, was that her pregnancy happened directly from the Holy
Spirit, leaving Joseph with several suspicions against her. After all, what is
the groom who would calmly accept the bride to explain to him: “Dear, as Jews,
we practice sexual abstinence until the official wedding date, but God decided
to get me pregnant and I accepted it. Now, I’m pregnant. Isn’t it a blessing?”
I
don’t know Joseph’s exact reaction, but I doubt he was happy. In this
situation, Joseph could adopt two attitudes: Reveal to everyone that Mary
became pregnant without him, outside of marriage, thus exposing her to public
shame and dishonor, including punishment, or a secret separation.
The
Bible says that he chose the second option.
“Now
the birth of Jesus Christ took place in this way. When his mother Mary had been
betrothed to Joseph, before they came together she was found to be with child
from the Holy Spirit. And her husband Joseph, being a just man and unwilling to
put her to shame, resolved to divorce her quietly. But as he considered these
things, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, ‘Joseph,
son of David, do not fear to take Mary as your wife, for that which is
conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit. She will bear a son, and you shall
call his name Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins.’” (Matthew
1:18-21 ESV)
It
took the supernatural visitation of an angel to convince Joseph that Mary had
not betrayed him by sleeping with any other man. The angel made it clear to him
that Mary’s pregnancy was really God’s work. Joseph believed the angel’s word
and welcomed Mary into his home.
But
the Talmud, a document that contains Jewish traditions outside the Bible, has
another version, which is much more malicious. The Talmud says:
“After she had been driven out by her husband and while she was wandering about
in a disgraceful way she secretly gave birth to Jesus.”
The
Talmud, written by religious Jews who hated Christianity, makes it appear that
Mary became pregnant after being expelled by Joseph and living on the street.
If
Mary had become pregnant outside of marriage in Greece, Italy or in any pagan
country 2,000 years ago, there would not be too many problems. But unlike pagan
societies, Jewish society had strict moral laws.
I
don’t understand the reasons why God decided to put a teenager in such a
dilemma, but who am I to question His wisdom? He always knows what He does,
even when we don’t understand.
Today,
Mary’s dilemmas would not be less. Modern laws, created largely by socialists,
flood adolescents with comprehensive immoral sex education, including all kinds
of birth control devices. The message is clear: They can have sex at will,
every day, every week, every month. Teenage sex is not a crime. What is
considered a crime is getting married and getting pregnant in adolescence.
If
Mary lived today, her case would end at the Children Protective Services, which
could decide on an abortion for her, as every pregnancy of a girl aged 14 or
younger is presumed to be the result of rape. Joseph, as a man of legal age,
would be arrested as a rapist.
Both
the teenager Mary and the man Joseph were God-fearing and followed God’s
guidelines for sex, marriage and pregnancy. But such obedience from them would
now place them in direct conflict with the modern socialist laws that dominate
society.
Mary
would be placed in the custody of the socialist State, which would totally
reject a “pregnancy of the Holy Spirit,” treating such pregnancy instead as a “venereal
disease.” And Joseph would be arrested for “rape” of a teenager.
These
are socialist laws made many times by depraved men in the Brazilian Congress.
Men who do not hesitate to sexually abuse teenage girls. In fact, in the 1990s,
in the middle of Collor’s right-wing administration in Brazil, I was walking
through the corridors of the Brazilian Congress and my friend pointed out the
pimp that brought teenage girls to representatives and senators.
He
told me that everyone there knew about this crime, but nobody did anything.
In
modern socialist society, adolescent Mary would have a lot of freedom, but only
for depravities. She could use contraceptives and no law and the Children
Protective Services would bother her. She could attend sexual binges, and the Children
Protective Services would not bother her.
However,
if she chose the decent path and, as a teenager, decided to marry and become
pregnant, the Children Protective Services would intervene without fail to
cause serious problems for her and her baby.
However,
God is not absent when great state, religious and even demonic powers try to
prevent God’s will.
God’s
angels and their supernatural interventions are above the Talmud and its
anti-Christian prejudices.
God’s
angels and their supernatural interventions are above socialist tendencies,
even when enshrined in law, which oppose teenagers who choose the right sex
life through marriage and pregnancy.
I
don’t know how many teenagers there are today who love God to the point that
they would say “yes” to a divine mission that is rejected by a society that
rejects God and His purposes. I only know that when they say “yes,” the angels
take action. Miracle after miracle happens.
If
it had depended on the Children Protective Services and their draconian
socialist laws in favor of free sex among teenagers, but against teenage marriage
and pregnancy, the first Christmas would never have happened.
The
first Christmas, with a teenage girl giving birth to baby Jesus, was a miracle.
This
miracle continues today to challenge the minds of those who do not understand
or accept how God can impregnate a teenager when socialist laws are so clear
that this kind of marriage and pregnancy is a “disease” or even a “crime.”
Portuguese version of this article: Natal:
o milagre da gravidez em uma adolescente que amava a Deus
Source:
Last Days Watchman
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