1 Chronicles 24:10 Meaning and Explanation

The seventh lot comes to Hakkoz and the eighth to Abijah. This eighth course is the one to which the priest Zacharias belonged -- the father of John the Baptist, who was serving in his course when the angel announced his son's birth.

A name on an ancient list quietly reaches into the Gospel story. The faithful keeping of these turns, century after century, set the stage for the herald of the Lord. God works through the patient ordinary so that, in the fullness of time, the extraordinary may come. Nothing recorded here is wasted.