KJV) God wanted Joseph to know he was living in the fulfillment of God’s word to his people. Mary’s pregnancy was not a mistake; it was a miracle of God’s fulfilling prophecy. Mary, his Mary, was the one God had chosen to be the virgin with child. And the God-chosen name Immanuel, who was to be born of Mary, did not just mean “God was now with us” in physical presence, but it also and most importantly meant that because a Savior had come, God was with us and no longer against us! Because Immanuel