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Matthew is doing something quite brilliant in the early chapters of his accounting of the Gospel. Notice how Matthew draws a parallel between the announcement of the arrival the labor delivery and eventual birth of the Messiah and his early years and how they parallel The Exodus story. In fact Matthew quotes the prophet Hosea (Matthew 2:14-15 And he rose and took the child and his mother by night and departed to Egypt15 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.”) when he references that God's son was coming out of Egypt Jose was referring specifically to Israel and the Jewish readers at the time made that connection what Matthew is doing is showing how Jesus arriving on the scene is very much akin to Israel being welcomed into the Promised Land in fact you may have recalled and several messages I've preached in the past how God's connection with his people in the Old Testament was very much aligned with the land not in when Israel inhabited the promised land when things were going well in the promise land it was a sign of Israel's favor with the Lord and when they were ever exiled or foreign Invaders came in and took control of the land it was always clearly sign of Israel having falling out of favor with God well what better way to draw attention to the fact that for the Jewish reader the Messiah is here in the person of Jesus and drawing a connection between Israel's salvation and deliverance into the promised land and paralleling that with Christ birth and early years and the person of Christ becomes the embodiment of the promised land that is real salvation during the Covenant with the fathers was found in their connection to the land and now they're found salvation will be found and their Covenant with Christ.

The second half of chapter for Christ begins his ministry and he starts by declaring that the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand this is the theme of Christ's Ministry and teaching as observed and recorded by Matthew we see this phrase appear again and again throughout Christ's teaching and the work that he does as Matthew work or is it the Kingdom of Heaven the kingdom of God the Kingdom of Heaven the kingdom of God again and again. Chapters 5 through 7 are the teachings of Christ this is where we begin to truly understand price perspective on how Humanity should live in such a way as to embody the intersectionality Between Heaven and Earth. Christ teachings lead the way for how we can embrace our humanity and still live as God's kingdom is here for us on Earth
Matthew is doing something quite brilliant in the early chapters of his accounting of the Gospel. Notice how Matthew draws a parallel between the announcement of the arrival the labor delivery and eventual birth of the Messiah and his early years and how they parallel The Exodus story. In fact Matthew quotes the prophet Hosea (Matthew 2:14-15 And he rose and took the child and his mother by night and departed to Egypt15 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.”) when he references that God's son was coming out of Egypt Jose was referring specifically to Israel and the Jewish readers at the time made that connection what Matthew is doing is showing how Jesus arriving on the scene is very much akin to Israel being welcomed into the Promised Land in fact you may have recalled and several messages I've preached in the past how God's connection with his people in the Old Testament was very much aligned with the land not in when Israel inhabited the promised land when things were going well in the promise land it was a sign of Israel's favor with the Lord and when they were ever exiled or foreign Invaders came in and took control of the land it was always clearly sign of Israel having falling out of favor with God well what better way to draw attention to the fact that for the Jewish reader the Messiah is here in the person of Jesus and drawing a connection between Israel's salvation and deliverance into the promised land and paralleling that with Christ birth and early years and the person of Christ becomes the embodiment of the promised land that is real salvation during the Covenant with the fathers was found in their connection to the land and now they're found salvation will be found and their Covenant with Christ. The second half of chapter for Christ begins his ministry and he starts by declaring that the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand this is the theme of Christ's Ministry and teaching as observed and recorded by Matthew we see this phrase appear again and again throughout Christ's teaching and the work that he does as Matthew work or is it the Kingdom of Heaven the kingdom of God the Kingdom of Heaven the kingdom of God again and again. Chapters 5 through 7 are the teachings of Christ this is where we begin to truly understand price perspective on how Humanity should live in such a way as to embody the intersectionality Between Heaven and Earth. Christ teachings lead the way for how we can embrace our humanity and still live as God's kingdom is here for us on Earth read more read less

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