Matthew 2:13-18 13 When they had gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream. “Get up,” he said, “take the child and his mother and escape to Egypt. Stay there until I tell you, for Herod is going to search for the child to kill him.” 14 So he got up, took the child and his mother during the night and left for Egypt, 15 where he stayed until the death of Herod. And so was fulfilled what the Lord had said through the prophet: “Out of Egypt I called my son.” 16 When Herod realized that he had been outwitted by the Magi, he was furious, and he gave orders to kill all the boys in Bethlehem and its vicinity who were two years old and under, in accordance with the time he had learned from the Magi. 17 Then what was said through the prophet Jeremiah was fulfilled: 18 “A voice is heard in Ramah, weeping and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children and refusing to be comforted, because they are no more.”
The escape to Egypt
Here we see that the Lord knew everything and he knew that Herod was going to look for the child and wanted to kill him, so the angel of the Lord, appeared to Joseph in a dream and told him to take the child and his mother and flee to Egypt. The Lord used different ways to communicate with people. Here we see that he used a dream to instruct Joseph. Nowadays the Lord still uses dreams and other means to communicate with people. Here we also see the importance of knowing and obeying the leading of the Lord, sometimes it related to life and death.
out of Egypt I called my son. (Hosea 11:1)
The Old Testament prophesied that the Son of God would live in Egypt, and that God would call His Son out of Egypt.
When Herod found that the magi did not return to him to report the child’s situation, he became very angry and sent people to kill all the boys in Bethlehem and its surrounding areas, who were under two years old. Here we see that Herod was very cruel.
This is what the LORD says: “A voice is heard in Ramah, mourning and great weeping, Rachel weeping for her children and refusing to be comforted, because they are no more.” (Jeremiah 31:15)
In the Old Testament Jeremiah prophesied that children would be killed. Ramah is a town near Bethlehem. Rachel was the wife of Jacob, the ancestor of Israel. She wept for her children because they were gone.
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