When the Magi had gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream. “Get up!” he said. “Take the Child and His mother and flee to Egypt. Stay there until I tell you, for Herod is going to search for the Child to kill Him.”Now when they had departed, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream, saying, “Arise and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and stay there until I tell you, for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him.”And when they were departed, behold, the angel of the Lord appeareth to Joseph in a dream, saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and be thou there until I bring thee word: for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him.Now when they were departed, behold, an angel of the Lord appeareth to Joseph in a dream, saying, Arise and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and be thou there until I tell thee: for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him.
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… this Feast of the Holy Family. When the Magi had departed, behold, the angel of the Lord, there's one of the good angels, appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, Rise, take the child and his mother, lead Egypt, stay there until I tell you. Why? Because Herod is going to search for the child to destroy him. Now, link this, everybody, link this passage to what we just heard. From the moment of his birth, there's this great dragon. symbolic of the dark power, the dark invisible power, the enemy of the human race. As I've been saying, that power has minions throughout the world, Caesar Augustus being one of them. And here we see one of his nastier minions, Herod, this pathetic figure, spending his whole life clinging to power, destroying his enemies, even his own family, putting his own sons to death. And he's threatened because he's heard about this baby king. And this is too much. Even though he's an old man, the end of his life, it's too much. …
… Chapter 2, verses 13-15 and verses 19-23. When the Magi had departed, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, Rise, take the child and his mother, flee to Egypt, and stay there until I tell you. Herod is going to search for the child to destroy him. Joseph rose and took the child and his mother by night and departed for Egypt. He stayed there until the death of Herod, that what the Lord had said through the prophet might be fulfilled. Out of Egypt I have called my son. When Herod had died, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt and said, Rise, take the child and his mother, and go to the land of Israel, for those who sought the child's life are dead. He rose, took the child and his mother, and went to the land of Israel. But when he heard that Archelaus was ruling over Judea in place of his father Herod, he was afraid to go back there. …
… So Jesus was a little older at this time. And 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, says King Herod, is going to search for the child to kill him. So he got up, took the child and his mother during the night, and he left for Egypt. 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. Now that's Hosea's prophecy, hundreds of years before Jesus was born. And people might've thought, wait a minute, the prophet says that Jesus is gonna be born in Bethlehem and this prophet says he's gonna come out of Egypt. Is it Bethlehem or Egypt? Is it Bethlehem or Egypt? These prophets, they need to get their story straight, right? No, it's Bethlehem, but they didn't know about Herod. …