A couple of generations back on my mom's side of the family. There is this

dude from whom I am directly descended so his blood courses through my veins who was a complete

monster he did horrible things to people in his family and as a result everybody's just

trying to forget his name and his existence and all record of him has been as purged as possible from history.

On my dad's side of the family, and in fairness there are awesome people on both sides of the

family, but on my dad's side of the family there's this guy named Uncle Abe, who is referred to as, quote, a

prince of a man. I think it actually said that in his obituary. And all the

stories about Uncle Abe or about this quiet nobility and sense of

decency and goodness that he possessed and that is kind of his legacy

moving forward into history and nobody wants to forget him. In Matthew chapter 2

verses 13 through let's call it 18 that's what we're gonna look at today we get a

contrast between a complete monster and a prince of a man.

The prince of the man we read about in verse 13.

Says 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 and kill him. So the phrase that opens this

passage when they had gone is referring back to the Magi, the Christian space

wizards who'd somehow through primitive astrology

slash the miraculous work of God figured out where Jesus was at and figured out

how to thwart the plans of evil murderous Herod and come on it's not like we're

ascribing those characteristics to Herod unfairly after the fact he murdered his way into

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