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Matthew 2:13-18

The Escape to Egypt

13 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 to kill him.”

14 So he got up, took the child and his mother during the night and left for Egypt, 15 where he stayed until the death of Herod. And so was fulfilled what the Lord had said through the prophet: “Out of Egypt I called my son.”[a]

16 When Herod realized that he had been outwitted by the Magi, he was furious, and he gave orders to kill all the boys in Bethlehem and its vicinity who were two years old and under, in accordance with the time he had learned from the Magi. 17 Then what was said through the prophet Jeremiah was fulfilled:

18  “A voice is heard in Ramah,

    weeping and great mourning,

Rachel weeping for her children

    and refusing to be comforted,

    because they are no more.”[b]

Footnotes

a Matthew 2:15 Hosea 11:1
b Matthew 2:18 Jer. 31:15

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Our Father in Heaven

Blessed and Glorious is Your Most Holy Name!

You Are the King of the Universe,

The Ancient of Days,

and The One True God of Abraham!

All the Forces of nature are in obedience to You,

and not one atom can move without Your permission.

 Abba, Father,

we Pray for Mountains to Move

and Seas to part during this present darkness.

We Pray for an end to the lies and slander

against those who Love You.

Let all that has been Concealed
Be Revealed.

Father, We Pray For The Peace Of Jerusalem,
According To Your Will and Promise.
We Pray That You Will Forgive The Sins
of Our Own Nation,
and Lead us all to Godly Repentance.
Create in Us Clean Hearts, Oh LORD,
and Renew a Right Spirit Within Us.

This we Pray Together,
As We Await Your Messiah,
Blessed Be He,
To Set Up His Kingdom,
And Make All Things Right.

”The Greatest Of these Is Love.”

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Countdown To The New Year

Matthew 2:13-18

The Escape to Egypt

13 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 to kill him.”

14 So he got up, took the child and his mother during the night and left for Egypt, 15 where he stayed until the death of Herod. And so was fulfilled what the Lord had said through the prophet: “Out of Egypt I called my son.”[a]

16 When Herod realized that he had been outwitted by the Magi, he was furious, and he gave orders to kill all the boys in Bethlehem and its vicinity who were two years old and under, in accordance with the time he had learned from the Magi. 17 Then what was said through the prophet Jeremiah was fulfilled:

18  “A voice is heard in Ramah,

    weeping and great mourning,

Rachel weeping for her children

    and refusing to be comforted,

    because they are no more.”[b]

Footnotes

a Matthew 2:15 Hosea 11:1
b Matthew 2:18 Jer. 31:15

New International Version (NIV)

Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV® Copyright ©1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.® Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.

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The Following is something I wrote a few years ago, as we studied The Gospel of Matthew. It's the saddest part of the Christmas Story, but Matthew didn't leave it out:

The evil dictator Joseph Stalin had some remarkable artists under his boot. One of these was filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein, who pioneered Special Effects and Montage Filming techniques. Along with the brilliant composer Sergei Prokofiev, some great art was produced, but was unfortunately in the service of the Totalitarian State. Although the propaganda wasn't as blatant as that of Nazi filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl, it was still there.

There was an Eisenstein Film Festival being held in the Colonial-Era African Meeting House on Beacon Hill back in the 1970s, and as an artist/musician/filmmaker, I just HAD to attend. The series started with "Potemkin", trudged through "Alexander Nevsky", and ended with the four-hour Epic "Ivan The Terrible". The word "Terrible" in Ivan's name did not mean the same as it does now. We speak of a terrible first date or a terrible movie. In Ivan's day it meant that he was so fierce and powerful that he inspired TERROR.

Just like Herod the Great, Ivan killed his own son Dmitri. It is possible that Ivan killed his wife too. We know Herod did, as he murdered one of his wives, the unfortunate Mariamne.

Just as there were lots of Ivans in the Russian Royal Family, there were a lot of Herods in the First Century. At least three are mentioned in the New Testament. The one in this Chapter is the first of the line, Herod the Great. He was not a "great guy" at all. In fact, he was pretty TERRIBLE, in the Ivan sense of the word.

Like Stalin, Herod had some amazing artists under his boot. The architecture of this period is even named after Herod and includes Palaces, Public Buildings, Mountain Resorts, and, the most crowning achievement of all, The Second Temple. The Temple that was rebuilt under Ezra, Nehemiah, and Zerubbabel was vastly improved and expanded by Herod. The "Herodian Stonework" still exists today in the Western Retaining Wall and the structure around the Cave of Machpelia.

But, just as Eisenstein's film-making and Prokofiev's music do not excuse Stalin's purges and mass murders, neither does the architecture excuse Herod's evils. Liberal scholars may dispute The Slaughter of the Innocents, but it was well within Herod's capabilities to order such a massacre and not even have it recorded in the public record. Josephus doesn't mention it, but that doesn't mean it didn't happen. We have Matthew's account, and there is that strange little cave in Bethlehem where hundreds of infant bones were discovered.

St. Jerome lived in that very cave for a while, where he translated the Bible into Latin, so everybody could read it for themselves.

Latin was the ordinary language of the common people at the time, so the translation is called "The Vulgate".

One can imagine the spirits of the little ones urging St. Jerome onward.

"Don't leave us out. Tell our story."

I've been in St. Jerome's cave in Bethlehem, and I believe EVERY WORD of this Story.

Come and Pray For the Peace of Jerusalem, For Our FRiends in Need, For Persecuted Believers, and For Our Beloved Nation.

”Let us acknowledge the LORD; let us press on to acknowledge him. As surely as the sun rises, he will appear; he will come to us like the winter rains, like the spring rains that water the earth.” (Hosea 6:3 NIV)

Blessings To All Who Visit This Garden of Prayer.

!עם ישראל חי
(The Spirit of Israel Lives!)

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

ML/LTOS

[NEWwoman]

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Joining in prayer for the Peace of Jerusalem and for our beloved America.

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Thank You, NEWwoman, For Your Prayers For the Peace of Jerusalem, For Our FRiends in Need, For Persecuted Believers, and For Our Beloved Nation.

”Let us acknowledge the LORD; let us press on to acknowledge him. As surely as the sun rises, he will appear; he will come to us like the winter rains, like the spring rains that water the earth.” (Hosea 6:3 NIV)

Blessings To All Who Visit This Garden of Prayer.

!עם ישראל חי
(The Spirit of Israel Lives!)

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

ML/LTOS

[Lakeside Granny]

Amen!

Praying for a productive meeting between President Trump and Bibi today.

Joining you and all in prayer for the Peace of Jerusalem and the US.

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Praying for a productive meeting between President Trump and Bibi today.

Amen.

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Thank You, Lakeside Granny, For Your Prayers For the Peace of Jerusalem, For Our FRiends in Need, For Persecuted Believers, and For Our Beloved Nation.

”Let us acknowledge the LORD; let us press on to acknowledge him. As surely as the sun rises, he will appear; he will come to us like the winter rains, like the spring rains that water the earth.” (Hosea 6:3 NIV)

Blessings To All Who Visit This Garden of Prayer.

!עם ישראל חי
(The Spirit of Israel Lives!)

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

ML/LTOS

[norsky]

Amen to your prayer. Yes that is a difficult scripture to digest. But they are all in heaven, yet still the Lord avenges the death of his saints.

[etabeta]

My prayers always. God bless.

[redryder_90]

Amen

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...yet still the Lord avenges the death of his saints

Herod the Not-So-Great is probably Bunkmates with Ivan the Really Terrible, in a place where the worm doesn't die and the fire isn't quenched. AND...both of them were driven to insanity before they even left this earth. So, you are correct.

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Thank You, norsky, For Your Prayers For the Peace of Jerusalem, For Our FRiends in Need, For Persecuted Believers, and For Our Beloved Nation.

”Let us acknowledge the LORD; let us press on to acknowledge him. As surely as the sun rises, he will appear; he will come to us like the winter rains, like the spring rains that water the earth.” (Hosea 6:3 NIV)

Blessings To All Who Visit This Garden of Prayer.

!עם ישראל חי
(The Spirit of Israel Lives!)

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

ML/LTOS

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Rest on the Flight into Egypt,
Painted by Luc Olivier Merson (1846-1920)
Painted in 1879,
Oil on canvas
© Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Thank You, Etabeta, For Your Prayers For the Peace of Jerusalem, For Our FRiends in Need, For Persecuted Believers, and For Our Beloved Nation.

”Let us acknowledge the LORD; let us press on to acknowledge him. As surely as the sun rises, he will appear; he will come to us like the winter rains, like the spring rains that water the earth.” (Hosea 6:3 NIV)

Blessings To All Who Visit This Garden of Prayer.

!עם ישראל חי
(The Spirit of Israel Lives!)

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

ML/LTOS

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"Flight Into Egypt" by Eugene Giradet

Thank You, redryder_90, For Your Prayers For the Peace of Jerusalem, For Our FRiends in Need, For Persecuted Believers, and For Our Beloved Nation.

”Let us acknowledge the LORD; let us press on to acknowledge him. As surely as the sun rises, he will appear; he will come to us like the winter rains, like the spring rains that water the earth.” (Hosea 6:3 NIV)

Blessings To All Who Visit This Garden of Prayer.

!עם ישראל חי
(The Spirit of Israel Lives!)

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

ML/LTOS

[DarthVader]

Amen!!! <>< (NOTE:We must pray this daily from here on out. Getting obvious now!)

Psalm 91

1 You who live in the shelter of the Most High,
who abide in the shadow of the Almighty,*
2 will say to the Lord, ‘My refuge and my fortress;
my God, in whom I trust.’
3 For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler
and from the deadly pestilence;
4 he will cover you with his pinions,
and under his wings you will find refuge;
his faithfulness is a shield and buckler.
5 You will not fear the terror of the night,
or the arrow that flies by day,
6 or the pestilence that stalks in darkness,
or the destruction that wastes at noonday.

7 A thousand may fall at your side,
ten thousand at your right hand,
but it will not come near you.
8 You will only look with your eyes
and see the punishment of the wicked.

9 Because you have made the Lord your refuge,*
the Most High your dwelling-place,
10 no evil shall befall you,
no scourge come near your tent.

11 For he will command his angels concerning you
to guard you in all your ways.
12 On their hands they will bear you up,
so that you will not dash your foot against a stone.
13 You will tread on the lion and the adder,
the young lion and the serpent you will trample under foot.

14 Those who love me, I will deliver;
I will protect those who know my name.
15 When they call to me, I will answer them;
I will be with them in trouble,
I will rescue them and honour them.

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Thank You, DarthVader, For Your Prayers For the Peace of Jerusalem, For Our FRiends in Need, For Persecuted Believers, and For Our Beloved Nation.

”Let us acknowledge the LORD; let us press on to acknowledge him. As surely as the sun rises, he will appear; he will come to us like the winter rains, like the spring rains that water the earth.” (Hosea 6:3 NIV)

Blessings To All Who Visit This Garden of Prayer.

!עם ישראל חי
(The Spirit of Israel Lives!)

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

ML/LTOS