A fellow-member of a Facebook Group Posted this recently. I thought it's really good:
Something dawned on me the other day and I thought it was pretty profound. But I thought I’d see what others think...The angel Gabriel is only mentioned three times in scripture: once when appearing to Mary and twice when appearing to David to talk about the eternal kingdom and the future of Israel. So when we see Gabriel appearing to Mary, do you think God is deliberately highlighting that Jesus is the fulfilment of Daniel’s visions? Of course he is, but do you think that that moment in Luke 1 is making that link explicit? In other words, when we’re reading Luke 1 and we see Gabriel has come to Mary, are we supposed to think. “Oh, this is it!”?
