Day 29: Joseph takes Jesus to Egypt
Read Matthew 2:13-15


Hosea 11:1 - When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called my son.

Many prophesies have several meanings. Our verse above is both a reminder to the Jews of that day when they had been servants and slaves many hundreds of years earlier, and also a prophecy for the future of the Messiah having to go to Egypt and being called back home from there.

Joseph also received a dream from God, a warning to leave Bethlehem immediately to go to Egypt. Joseph woke his family right away, and they left town during the night. The gifts from the Wise Men provided for things they needed along the way and for living while they stayed in Egypt. God always provides everything we need when He asks us to go somewhere or do something. We should never worry about our own needs (Matthew 6:33).

Egypt is also a reminder to us that Jesus did not come to earth to live a life of comfort and ease. In His trial before Pilate, He said He came to earth to show people Truth (John 18:37). He said He IS Truth (John 14:6). In the first temptation in the Garden of Eden, Satan told Eve there are no consequences to sin (“you will not surely die” – Genesis 3:4). God says sin’s penalty is always death (Romans 6:23). Jesus says He is our only Way back to God (John 14:6).

*What happened when you believed the lie that sin has no consequences?