Okay, so here's the truth. I promise that there is going to be no more Herod stuff, but there's a little more Herod stuff to go with a whole lot of Jesus stuff this time around.

So here's a deal. We're in Matthew

chapter two. We're looking at Jesus and his family getting ready to come back

from their time hiding out in Egypt where it was probably really easy to

blend in with that giant Jewish population

and you're beyond the reach of this murderous Herod jerk and then Herod the great dies

and now it's finally time to come home and picking it up in verse 19 it says after Herod died an

angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt and said get up take the

child and his mother and go to the land of Israel for those who are trying to take

the child's life are dead.

So all of that happens in a dream and once again we know Joseph is very responsive to this kind

of thing.

This is how God has communicated with him in the past and has been right every time so Joseph of course is very

faithful gets up and does exactly what he's supposed to do it says so he got up

took the child and his mother and went to the land of Israel.

But when he heard that Arkelus was reigning in Judea in place of his father,

Herod, he was afraid to go there.

Having been warned in a dream, he withdrew to the District of Galilee.

I should have counted this in advance.

I don't know how many dreams that is.

It's going to be like what, five, six at this point.

But it's interesting here that Joseph doesn't totally wait for the dream. He's already thinking,

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