angie wyatt

In fact, Matthew 2, which chronicles part of the Christmas story, mentions four accounts of dreams.  The scene starts with King Herod who wants to kill the infant Jesus.  Herod meets the Wise Men who are following a star to find Jesus.   He tells them to bring back the news so that he can also worship Jesus.  But, the Bible says, “having been warned in a dream not to go back to Herod, they returned to their country by another route.”  The story immediately adds, “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.’”  Joseph stayed with his family in Egypt until Herod died.  Then, in another dream, an angel tells him,  “Get up, take the child and his mother and go to the land of Israel, for those who were trying to take the child’s life are dead.”  So, he packed up his family and headed to Judea.  When he heard that Herod’s son was reigning there, he decided to take a new route.  The Bible tells us, “Having been warned in a dream, he withdrew to the district of Galilee, and he went and lived in a town called Nazareth.  So was fulfilled what was said through the prophets, that (Jesus) would be called a Nazarene.”