In Genesis 18, YHWH visits Abraham. He is not just a human apparition, for he eats butter, milk and meat. Because Abraham and Sarah can’t have children, God announces a miracle for them. They will have a son.
Elizabeth and Zechariah had a similar experience with their son, John the Baptist. It was a miracle to have a child at their age.
Jesus’ birth was also a miracle. For only a virgin birth can be a sign from God, as predicted in Isaiah 7:14: “Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.”
If God could come to Abraham as a man, he can come to us through Jesus. Immanuel means: “God with us”.
When Jesus was talking to the scribes, they asked him: Continue reading God visits Abraham