Matthew 2:12-15

(Matthew 2:12-15)

And being warned of God in a dream that they should not return to Herod, they departed into their own country another way.  And when they were departed, behold, the angel of the Lord appeareth to Joseph in a dream, saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and be thou there until I bring thee word: for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him. When he arose, he took the young child and his mother by night, and departed into Egypt:  And was there until the death of Herod: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying, Out of Egypt have I called my son.


"It might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying, Out of Egypt have I called my son." The prophet quoted by Matthew is Hosea. In Hosea 11:1

My son means a young Israeli community. It is to tell how God called the Israelites from Egypt in the past to "Israel apostate through Baal." “Called out of Egypt” means that God delivered the people from Egypt's oppression through Moses, and spiritually the Exodus event frees the sinners bound to Satan. By the way, Jesus (Jehovah) is the one who called out in Matthew 2:12-15.

When the young Jesus was in danger and fled to Egypt, Matthew said by quoting the prophet. So, God is saying this through Jesus to the covenant people in Jesus Christ.

At the time of Jesus, Israel was almost in captivity to Egypt, so the Jews did not consider themselves liberated, and there was a strong sense that the Messiah would be free from this oppression.

However, what Matthew intended, Jesus was like Moses to Israel, oppressed by King Pharaoh, and as Moses led the Israelites out of Egypt, Jesus, the Messiah, liberates the covenant people from Roman oppression like Egypt and Herod's oppression, and further from Satan's chain.

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