Angel warns Joseph in dream, Holy Family flees to Egypt

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After the wise men left, Joseph was again visited by an angel in a dream. This time the angel warned Joseph to get up and flee from Bethlehem. Read it for yourself in Matthew 2:13-18.

“Get up,” the angel said, “and flee to Egypt.” In Joseph’s dream the angel told him of Herod’s plan to destroy their child. If Joseph thought traveling from Nazareth to Bethlehem was a long trip, the idea of traveling to Egypt must have been overwhelming. But Joseph and Mary wasted no time in leaving for Egypt that very night.

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Wise men present gifts to Christ Child and return home a different way

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The wise men left King Herod in Jerusalem and started toward Bethlehem when they spotted their special star ahead of them in the sky.  Read it for yourself in Matthew 2:9-12.

What joy! The wise men were delighted to see their star, and it lead them to the very house where they found Mary and the Christ Child. They bowed down and worshiped the child and presented their gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh. The wise men’s long journey and faithful search was rewarded as God led them directly to the Christ Child.

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Wise men and King Herod

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The wise men traveled to Jerusalem and began asking the people where they might find the newborn king of the Jews. Read about this from the Bible in Matthew 2:1-8.

The wise men traveled to Jerusalem and began asking the people where they might find the newborn king of the Jews. Read about this from the Bible in Matthew 2:1-8.

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Baby Jesus circumcised – prophets recognize him as the Messiah

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The Christ Child was presented in the temple in Jerusalem when he was eight days old. He was circumcised and given the name Jesus. Two turtle doves were offered for a sacrifice for his purification. You can read about this in Luke 2:21-24.

We learn from the sacrifice of two doves that Mary and Joseph were poor. Had they been wealthy they would have sacrificed a lamb.

Two prophets recognized baby Jesus as the Christ while they were in the temple. One of them was Simeon, a righteous and devout man. The Holy Spirit had revealed to Simeon that he would not die before he had seen the promised Messiah.

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Wise men discover star

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Wise men from a distant country from the east saw a bright star in the heavens and believed it meant the new king of the Jews was born. Read about it for yourself in Matthew 2:1-2.

Who were these wise men and where did they come from? The Bible only tells us they came from eastern lands. Many scholars speculate that they may have come from the country of Babylon, the country where the Jewish people lived in captivity for 70 years. Their knowledge of the promised Messiah may have been passed down from the time of their captivity in Babylon more than 500 years before the birth of Christ. The Israelite prophet Daniel, who had been made head of the royal wise men in Babylon, often wrote about the promised Messiah.

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