Advent - Prophesied 2

Out of Egypt

"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.”

So he got up, took the Child and His mother by night, and withdrew to Egypt, where he stayed until the death of Herod. This fulfilled what the Lord had spoken through the prophet: “Out of Egypt I called My Son.” Matthew 2:13-15

Continuing from the previous message - Prophesied Messiah, today we will look at how Matthew, the gospel writer and one of the early followers of Jesus stated that Jesus fulfilled another old messianic "prophecy".

This one was of another lesser known prophet named Hosea, who prophesied about 750 years before Jesus was born

"When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called My son." Hosea 11:1

Scholars have stated that Matthew have taken liberty in saying that Jesus fulfilled this prophecy, which might not even be a prophecy in the literal sense, because this was a "retelling" of the Moses story of how he led out of Egypt, God's suffering people, from out of slavery into freedom and the Promised Land.

The New Seen Through the Old

What some people might be missing is that the stories in the Old Testament bible point to Jesus or the Jesus story. They were a foreshadowing of the Messiah, in effect the New Testament is the Old Testament revealed or the Old Testament is the New Testanent concealed.

Moses is a type of Christ, much like many other personalities in the Old Testament.

As we talked about (from the preceeding message in this series) that Jesus being born in one of the unlikeist of places, on top of that He was also called out of an even less plausible place -- just two out of the many things prophesied* or written (spoken) about and recorded about Him, hundreds of years before He was born, but were fulfilled in the life of one person -- Jesus of Nazareth.

Out of Egypt

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*let those who have eyes to see, see and those who have ears to hear, hear