In every wedding, there is a crescendo at the end of the ceremony where the minister says, "I now declare you husband and wife!" I have made this declaration many times over people as their friends and family applaud and cheer. They have been announced and declared no longer as two separate individuals, but as a married couple. It is a privilege to make announcements like those! In Luke 2, we find the announcement of all announcements! What generations of people had been waiting for had finally come.