January 13

Read Psalm 105:23, Hosea 11:1, and Matthew 2:13-15

OBSERVATION: WHAT DOES THE TEXT SAY? 

23 Then Israel entered Egypt; 

Jacob resided as a foreigner in the land of Ham.

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1 “When Israel was a child, I loved him, 

and out of Egypt I called my son.

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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]

INTERPRETATION: WHAT DOES THE TEXT MEAN?

APPLICATION: HOW SHOULD THIS AFFECT ME?