Yes, the Holy Ghost/Spirit. What is the point?
I would think that God would work through His Holy Spirit not only to Mary, Ever Virgin and Mother of Christ, but to the intimates…especially with Elizabeth carrying St. John the Baptist! When Christ was baptized at the River Jordan by St. John the Baptist, John and his followers witnessed the Theophany of God causing an event on earth. It was a theophany when the Israelites were delivered from Pharoah by being led by the Pillar of Fire and the Parting of the Red Sea.
At the baptism of Jesus, St. John the Baptist and his followers witnessed a great Theophany. St John and his followers see a dove – the symbol of the Holy Spirit hover above Jesus, and with the Holy Spirit, the witnesses heard God speak from heaven, ‘This is my beloved Son of Whom I am well pleased’, also revealing Godis the Father of Jesus through the Holy Spirit.
And it also foretells something about the value of family…Father, Son, Holy Spirit, and the Virgin birth…
The baptism of Jesus does not mean He needs to be washed by water to clean Him.
Christ’s baptism was the ritual used to begin His ministry! And the saving nature of Jesus was symbolically represented in the parting of the waters of the Red Sea that saved the Chosen People, that Christ’s death and resurrection separated the power of death from new life found in Him.
We follow Christ’s baptism by being baptized to be incorporated into Him, into His body. Everytime we go into a Catholic church, we recall the saving water of our baptism by blessing ourselves with the sign of the Cross and renewing our faith in the Lord.
This is why you see Christians as happy…because we have the new life of Jesus in us, we forgive and are forgiven, and each day is brand new to begin again.
It was God through the Holy Spirit Who allowed Elizabeth to be with child despite her old years.
So, with Elizabeth with child because of God choosing her and the working of the Holy Spirit through God, she is with child. And this child, in union with the Holy Spirit of God, leaps for joy in the womb of Elizabeth when Mary arrives pregnant with the Messiah. So again, what is happening is that the Holy Spirit is also united with Jesus, and through the Holy Spirit is the Son of God. The mission is about to start with the Jesus now among mankind!
What we have is not interpretation but actual events demonstrating 3 personhoods in one God, we call this sacred mystery of God the Holy Trinity.
Again, God called Jesus His Beloved Son…and this also fulfills the ancient desire of God found in Scripture that there is nothing more pleasing to Him when neighbors have love towards each other as brethren…as family.
So in Catholicism, with our insistence that all come over the Head of Peter, we are to be family…and as Christ said, what good is it if we only help our own blood, or we forgive just so many times?..we must love our neighbor as ourselves, we must love those who are not our family, and we must forgive all the time and stay united.
Hamba, you are using Scripture to prove the Holy Spirit, Who Was and Who Is…the relational nature of Three Persons in One God…!!!
The purpose being that in the end of Revelation—Jesus Christ as Prophet…the Good News and Salvation, Jesus as King…and we share in His kingdom as members and living in union with His dignity, and as Messiah…we are now joined with Christ through His life, death and resurrection…as new people…not just the Jews but all mankind.
And furthermore, through Jesus Christ we Gentiles especially are now grafted onto the Olive Tree, the saved and redeemed children of Israel.
You must read the Gospels from a Catholic/orthodox source to understand properly…
Blessings!