The point is not that Jesus could not have set foot on earth any other way, its that he chose to identify with us by actually being born a human in order to take on our life and redeem it with his. Moses was in the wilderness for 40 years, working as a shepherd, before God called him back to Egypt to deliver his people. They spent a lot of time in Sun also. Did Jesus ever visit Egypt? how old was jesus when they fled to egypt. Interesting. The aforementioned art work is interesting. For the 430 years that Israel was in Egypt! Where they lived after Jesus born. Humphreys and Waddington therefore suggest a scenario where Jesus was crucified and died at 3pm on 3 April AD 33 , followed by a red partial lunar eclipse at moonrise at 6.20pm observed by the Jewish population, and that Peter recalls this event when preaching the resurrection to the Jews (Acts of the Apostles 2:1421). May our lord Jesus Christ and the holy mother Virgin Mary be with you and family at all times. for we have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him. Matt. I do not believe the comment is fair to Muslims, who, I find, have a profound respect for history and culture, even if it predates the founding of their religion. You can also download them to your computer, phone, or tablet. All he had to do was to explain to us that we needed to repent and apologise for our sins, otherwise we would be killed. 1260 days is EXACTLY 3.5 years using the Jewish calendar of 360 days per year. Change). Should a man desire to learn of them, let him ask for understanding. Herod the King was known as Herod the Great, and was made King by the Romans in the year 43 BC Historians tell us that his death occurred approximately 4 BC According to Matthew Henrys commentary on the book of Matthew, page 10, Christ was born in the 35th year of Herod the Greats reign. Perhaps Matthew is shielding the identity of a community that sheltered Jesus and his family to protect them from potential reprisals even so many years after the events. He says, for example, that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christrestoring a broken relationship. The Wise Men/Toddler Jesus crowd agree with Herod's conclusion. So what exactly was Jesus death all about? 8 AD approx. Will God really give us anything we ask for if we ask in Jesusname? Thankyou. Return from Egypt Sometime after Herod had died, the holy family returns from Egypt . So 12 Stars around Mother Mary head indicaes 12 months and 12 jesus followers. Jess was in Egypt for 1,260 days rev.12:4-5-6. Can you please explain further so that we can understand better? The Israelites set out towards Succoth (the ancient Egyptian town of Tjeku in the Wadi Tumilat). Im not saying he sinned. When Jesus was still an infant, King Herod of Judea ordered him to kill all "firstborns.". 2, p.8). Jesus was brown to olive skinned, not white. The flight into Egypt is a story recounted in the Gospel of Matthew (Matthew 2:13-23) and in New Testament apocrypha.Soon after the visit by the Magi, an angel appeared to Joseph in a dream telling him to flee to Egypt with Mary and the infant Jesus since King Herod would seek the child to kill him. How about Islamic occupation of Jerusalem being the reason there are less records that we would hope. What is important is that he came to save us. A reader has submitted this comment through the Ask a Question page on this blog: It could have been done in the home. Beautiful, brought tears to my eyes. So the length of their sojourn in Egypt was probably about a few months. Here is my question, if the Magi began their journey at the birth of Jesus and it took 2 years to reach Him, and the visitation and giving of gifts took place in a manager, wouldnt that suppose that Jesus lived in a manger after His birth for 2 years? (Revelation 1:13-15). Father Joesph had his trade there as a carpenter. The allegation that Matthew and Lukes accounts are contradictory is actually based on an assumption: the skeptic assumes that Matthew and Luke each included all of the whereabouts of Jesus family during His early life. It is not true that the people of Israel are brown. Answer (1 of 6): Right after Jesus was born, Saint Joseph took baby Jesus and his Mother Mary to Egypt! Pyramids of Giza. The Hebrew is Yehoshua, which means Yahweh saves. Its usually translated Joshua in the Old Testament, and its sometimes said as Yeshua today. The writer cited Luke and Mathew as a reference. Joseph and Mary did not actually flee to Egypt until two years after Jesus was born. So the Lords birth, the visit by the Magi, the flight to Egypt and the return to Nazareth all had to take place between 6 and 4 BC. like theirs, but bright with heavenly grace, Joseph, acting with complete docility, rose up, took the Child and his Mother by night, and fled into Egypt (Mt 2:14). But a part of me does hope he was black. . The longer I study the Bible the more I come to the conclusion that God is not in time,cas we think of time, and many events seem to repeat, or even be happening concurrentlysuch as John the baptist being Elijah who is to comeif you can receive it. Soon after the visit by the Magi, an angel appeared to Joseph in a dream telling him to flee to Egypt with Mary and the infant Jesus since King Herod would seek the child to kill him. This was before news, media, and the web. Scholars believe that he was born around b.c. He was active in parish and student ministry for twenty-five years. Should the Bible be read and studied in the order it waswritten? The Gospels were written after Jesus time and by people who never met Jesus. Are we not created in his image and did Jesus not tell us he was just a man? Why must all questions, regardless to its relevance, lead to race? And so Paul explains it in several ways: Beyond this, no one knew while Jesus was growing up that his life would turn out to be the most important thing that ever happened on earth. 2:13-23 points to migration as a divinely sanctioned or divinely ordained way of life, and that it underlines the . Blessings. The story of Gods faithfulness to my late wife and me during the 4 1/2 years when she battled ALS (Lou Gehrigs disease) with unfailing faith, joy, and courage. Verse 13. 1-43,44-49,50-53) and connected them with the Greek conjunction de (but or and), which has no specific chronological implications. Heres why. Jesus was a refugee in Egypt and this is the cave where he stayed with Mary and Joseph. On December 25th, Christians around the world commemorate the events surrounding the birth of Jesus Christ and His early years, such as the Holy Family's flight into Egypt. So therefor Jesus was black. una Iniciacion digamos Esoterica a el y a Maria su madre . All of these explanations capture some vital aspect of what Jesus does for us. And of course, we have four gospels which all more or less agree the details of his ministry for the last 3+ years of his life. One of my favorites was about the Moses fish, where fish have only half their bodies, and the stories of those people say it happened when Moses parted the water. Then they continued traveling to Mostorod, a city north of Cairo. O lay aside each earthly thing Dont know that I agree. Scholars dont believe the visit happened on the night of the Lords birth because Matt. But in other cases a writer might use this notation to avoid just the type of confusion you pointed out, with Christ being born before Christ. I think we should assume up front that people have constructive motives unless they specifically express hostility. And that reminds us in this season when we are anticipating the Feast of the Incarnation (Christmas) that he truly did come to earthas you say, to save us. 2:13 says that they fled to Egypt after the Magi visited. That is, he paid a price to buy us out of slavery, because we were enslaved to things that by nature are not gods. Keep in mind that the Bible is a book that covers approximately 4,000 yearsfrom Creation to the end of the first century A.D. Gods purpose in giving us His Word was not to tell us about everything that every person ever did up to that point in time. Jesus, the Chief Shepherd of our souls, fasted 40 days and 40 nights before beginning his ministry. In Matthew's Gospel, Joseph fled to Egypt with Jesus and Mary, and remained there until Herod died. At this site the Church of Abi Serja, within the walls of the Fortress of Babylon, was built years later. On a recent visit to Cairo ,I visited a place where it was claimed Jesus lived with his parents. Jesus said that only God knew the time but God always warns us. They lived in Egypt about 3 1/2 years. It seems not then unlikely to me that Jesus' family, with a lineage traced to the great king David (Matthew 1; Luke 3.23-38; Romans 1.3; 15.12), opted to flee from Bethlehem, long-standing residence of the kingly line and their original home. Some of them are quite white. The only possible reason for requiring the birth to be of a virgin, it said so in the Old Testament but the prophecies of the Messiah in the OT got so many details of his coming wrong, that a large proportion of Jews to this day, do not accept him as The Messiah Since the Old Testament statement is not a direct reference to Christ, it is apparent that the writer, Matthew, saw this prophecy as a type of Christ (Liberty Bible Commentary, Vol. But the gospel of Matthew primarily wants us to take away from this episode an appreciation for how Jesus recapitulated the history of Israel in his own life. Today, the University has over 11,400 students on campus with 39,000 in the Distance Learning Program (now Liberty University Online), and he is the Dean of the School of Religion.Dr. If Jesus family were in Egypt for much less than a year, why then does it say in the Revelation Prophecy of the Woman with 12 stars round her head, generally interpreted (incorrectly I believe) as Mary giving birth to Jesus, that she was transported to a place prepared for her for 1260 days, which equates to nearly 3 and a half years? Alfred Plummer, in his exegetical commentary on the Gospel according to Matthew, notes that, We know neither how old the child Christ was when He was taken into Egypt nor how long he remained there. The tree is still there after thousands of years in the middle off desert with nothing around it. They made it into cakes, boiled it, and ground it into flour. As we saw in Session 14, this concept is so rich in meaning that it needs to be seen from more than one perspective to be fully appreciated. - And (Revised Version, now) when they were departed.The flight was not by their advice, and they were not even entrusted with the secret. How long did Jesus parents hide him in Egypt? 2 + 3 = 5 before the death of Herod in Jericho at the end of March or beginning of April in 4 BC. Rally I agreed Woman with 12 stars round her head Alan Peters opinion 12 Stars indicaes around Mother Marys Head is true as per the old testment Abraham grand Son JOCOB having 12 Sons, at time of critical stage they went to Egypt for morethan 400 years and 12 generations brought from egypt to Jerusalem 12 generations under leadership of Moses. According to Matthew, after Herod killed John the Baptist, When Jesus heard what had happened, he withdrew by boat privately to a solitary place. Its unlikely that this solitary place was Egypt because: (1) Jesus wouldnt have gone there by boat, but rather on foot; by boat suggests across the Sea of Galilee, as the context in Matthew confirms (when they went back to the other side, they landed at Gennesaret, on the northwest shore of the Sea of Galilee, and (2) a solitary place suggests an unsettled place like the far shore of the Sea of Galilee, not a major civilization such as Egypt. . Dr. Elmer Towns is a college and seminary professor, an author of popular and scholarly works (the editor of two encyclopedias), a popular seminar lecturer, and dedicated worker in Sunday school, and has developed over 20 resource packets for leadership education.His personal education includes a B.S.
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