Matthew 2:14 ~ I called My Son

Matthew 2:14

14 And he rose and took the child and his mother by night and departed to Egypt 15 and remained there until the death of Herod. This was to fulfill what the Lord had spoken by the prophet, "Out of Egypt I called my son."


God goes to amazing lengths to know how deeply He Loves you. Treasured. Planned. Created. Helped. Sustained. Encouraged. Abba Loves us as we really are.

Eve's Mitochondrial DNA is a reality and comes from the Continent of Africa. God adores Africa and places Jesus in Africa.

Exodus 38:26
The number of men 20 years of age and older who could serve in the army as 603,550

Total Israelite population of God's Planned Exodus - estimated - 2 to 3 million.
Begin with 70 of Joseph's Family in the Land of Goshen.
140 people after 27 years
280 people after 54 years
560 people after 81 years
1,120 people after 108 years
2,240 people after 135 years
4,480 people after 162 years
8,960 people after 189 years
17,920 people after 216 years
35,840 people after 243 years
71,680 people after 270 years
143,360 people after 297 years
286,720 people after 324 years
573,440 people after 351 years
1,146,880 people after 378 years
2,293,760 people after 405 years

I'm astonished to realize the Children of Israel didn't even know the name of the God they served as God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. For all of our love of Jews and God's Children, they were the Goy. No Word of God. No Bible. No Temple. No Land. No Messiah. No Name for their God. No Sabbath. This brings to perspective the reason so many fell back in the Exodus from lack of Faith. The Egyptian 'gods' were all powerful. Why this One?

Seti II, Pharaoh of the 19th Dynasty, c. 1250 B.C., records something Egyptian historians would not realize Jesus would speak of. And King Hezekiah.

Seti II expanded the copper mining in Edom - Edom, most of its former territory is now divided between Israel and Jordan - building an important temple to Hathor, the cow goddess, in the region. It was abandoned in the late Bronze Age collapse, where a part of the temple seems to have been used by Midianite nomads, linked to the worship of a bronze serpent discovered in the area.

Mount Nebo is in Jordan and has a beautiful view of the Promised Land, where Jesus would choose to dwell in all of Judah. Mount Nebo is where Moses' watched the Children of Israel go forth to God's Promises.

Why would God use a Serpent on a Pole?

God created the Universe.

Isaiah 42:5
Thus says God the LORD, Who created the heavens and stretched them out, Who spread out the earth and its offspring, Who gives breath to the people on it And spirit to those who walk in it

Father God would use whatever means needed to convey Love.

Mark 7:31-37

Then Jesus left the vicinity of Tyre and went through Sidon,
down to the Sea of Galilee and into the region of the Decapolis.
32There some people brought to him a man who was deaf and could hardly talk, and they begged Jesus to place his hand on him.

33 After he took him aside,
away from the crowd,
Jesus put his fingers into the man's ears.
Then he spit and touched the man's tongue.

34 He looked up to heaven and with a deep sigh said to him, "Ephphatha!" (which means "Be opened!").  35 At this, the man's ears were opened, his tongue was loosened and he began to speak plainly.


The Children of Israel wander unsure, faithfully, grumbling. God gives them something they can relate to. Something a native of Egypt could understand. A crowd of the Children of God who had no touchstone to God. Just as Aaron is invited into God's own earthy seat in the Holy of Holies - God fully knowing Aaron is going to make a mess.


Jesus comes to us - to cover our sin. Our flaws. Our weaknesses. The people of God want God to reign in Holiness.

Romans 8:28
All things work together for Good - for those who love the Lord - and work according to His Purpose.

Oh, what Jesus would Choose.

Our Father,

We will pray for a blessing and
ask Jesus to pray with us from Isaiah's 44th Chapter.

Now hear, O Israel - We the People of God are those, whom He has chosen!

Thus says our Father Lord God who made you,
He formed you from the womb and will help you:

Fear not, His servants, we are His whom He has chosen.

For our Father God will pour water on the thirsty land,
and streams on the dry ground;
Father God will pour His Spirit upon our offspring,
and His blessing on our descendants.

They shall spring up among the grass like willows by flowing streams.
This one will say, 'I am the LORD's,'
another will call on the name of Jesus,
and another will write on his hand, 'The LORD's,'
and name himself by the name of Israel."

Thus says the LORD, the King of Israel
and Our Father's Son, our Redeemer, Jesus,
He is the LORD of hosts:
"I am the first and I am the last; besides me, there is no god.
Who is like me? Let him proclaim it.
Let him declare and set it before me since I appointed an ancient people.
Let them declare what is to come, and what will happen.

Fear not, nor be afraid; have I not told you from of old and declared it?
And you are my witnesses!
Is there a God besides our God?
No.

Abba, Father God, We would ask You to always be our Foundation.
We would ask You to be our Rock.
We would ask Jesus Christ to be our ever Blessing and Flowing Living Water.
Always Present,
Always Loving,
Your Holy Spirit ever Increasing.
Our God the Almighty,
Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
Doing more than we could ask or imagine.

Thanking You, Father.
Blessed be the Lord, who daily loadeth us with benefits,
even the God of our salvation. Selah.

In Jesus Christ, Amen.