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The things that happened in Matthew Chapter 2 happened under the direction of the intervention of God. The bible never tells us that there were three wise men. We don't know how many there were but it was probably much more than three. The number three is tradition and it comes from the three gifts that were presented. These men were a cast a Persian priests. They were sorcerers and magicians and they always traveled in large groups, so it is highly unlikely that there were only three of them.
But if you remember, Herod said come back and tell me so that I can come and worship Him also? The Magi had no idea they were being deceived. They had no idea that Herod was setting up a plot to kill Jesus.
But God intervened and warned them. He instructed them. That's what the term "divinely warned" means. It means they were instructed by God not to go back the same way they came, but to go back a different way.
So they did not go back to Jerusalem, and they did not go back to tell Herod.
Matthew 2 Herods Efforts to kill Jesus - In Reply - 3 years ago
Matthew 2:8
Herod wanted to murder Jesus
[The three wise men]
12 And being Warned of God in a dream that they should not return to Herod, they departed into their own country another way.
13 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 murder him.
The things that happened in Matthew Chapter 2 happened under the direction of the intervention of God. The bible never tells us that there were three wise men. We don't know how many there were but it was probably much more than three. The number three is tradition and it comes from the three gifts that were presented. These men were a cast a Persian priests. They were sorcerers and magicians and they always traveled in large groups, so it is highly unlikely that there were only three of them.
But if you remember, Herod said come back and tell me so that I can come and worship Him also? The Magi had no idea they were being deceived. They had no idea that Herod was setting up a plot to kill Jesus.
But God intervened and warned them. He instructed them. That's what the term "divinely warned" means. It means they were instructed by God not to go back the same way they came, but to go back a different way.
So they did not go back to Jerusalem, and they did not go back to tell Herod.
Herod wanted to murder Jesus
[The three wise men]
12 And being Warned of God in a dream that they should not return to Herod, they departed into their own country another way.
13 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 murder him.
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