The Birth of Jesus - The Flight Into Egypt
PSALM 91:9 “Because You O Jehovah, (are) my refuge; you make the Most High your habitation not shall befall you evil [of divinely sanctioned punishment], and plague [associated with legal liability and civil prosecution] not shall come near your tent. For His angles [divine mediators assigned with the special task of caring for the nation Israel] He [Jehovah] will order for you [unavailing and disclosing hidden things, revelations concerning the consummation of God’s eternal kingdom] and to keep you [safeguarded] in all your ways, on their palms they shall bear you up, least you dash your foot on a stone.”
God would command to His angels to protect the Messiah, proving that the righteous, or those who were the friends of God, might rely confidently on His protection.
Cook Commentary.- “They shall bear you up in their hands.” Take the same care of you as a nurse does of a weak and tender child, least you receive any kind of injury, or be prevented from pursuing your path with safety.
God would command to His angels to protect the Messiah, proving that the righteous, or those who were the friends of God, might rely confidently on His protection.
Cook Commentary.- “They shall bear you up in their hands.” Take the same care of you as a nurse does of a weak and tender child, least you receive any kind of injury, or be prevented from pursuing your path with safety.
The advent of Jesus was announced by angels. His actual birth occurred in a place and time that seemed to be no place and time for a baby to be born. Angels announced. Shepherds heard, came, and wondered. Magi came later to bring gifts. A wrathful and jealous King (Herod) killed many innocent children hoping to find the right one. The “right one” escaped to Egypt.
Matthew 2:1-8 “After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, during the time of King Herod, Magi from the east came to Jerusalem and asked, ‘Where is the one who has been born king of the Jews? We saw his star in the east and have come to worship him.’”
“When King Herod heard this he was disturbed, and all Jerusalem with him. When he had called together all the people’s chief priest and teachers of the law, he asked them where the Christ (the Messiah, the "Mighty God") was to be born. In Bethlehem in Judea, they replied, ‘For this is what the prophet has written: ‘But you Bethlehem, in the land of Judah, are by no means least among the rulers of Judah; for out of you will come a ruler who will be the shepherd of My people Israel.’”
“When King Herod heard this he was disturbed, and all Jerusalem with him. When he had called together all the people’s chief priest and teachers of the law, he asked them where the Christ (the Messiah, the "Mighty God") was to be born. In Bethlehem in Judea, they replied, ‘For this is what the prophet has written: ‘But you Bethlehem, in the land of Judah, are by no means least among the rulers of Judah; for out of you will come a ruler who will be the shepherd of My people Israel.’”
“Then Herod called the Magi secretly and found out from them the exact time the star had appeared. He sent them to Bethlehem and said, ‘Go and make a careful search for the child. As soon as you find him, report to me, so that I too may go and worship him.’"
McGee Commentary.- The wise men had assumed that Herod was sincere and wanted to come down and worship him. However, he would have killed the child had not an angel of the Lord warned the wise men to go back to their own country by a different route.
The angel of the Lord appeared also to Joseph and told him that it was time to get the child out of Bethlehem because Herod would attempt to murder him.
The angel of the Lord appeared also to Joseph and told him that it was time to get the child out of Bethlehem because Herod would attempt to murder him.
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