Out of Silence, Salvation

For 400 hundred years God left his people Israel without a prophet, without a word. Then on an ordinary day, with an ordinary priest, God burst onto the scene with the proclamation of salvation. In total disbelief, Zechariah was silenced for 9 months as he awaited the birth of his son. Out of his silence came shouts of praise to God for the deliverance of his people through the forgiveness of their sins.