KING HEROD BIBLE STUDY
Welcome to our Christianity Oasis Bible Characters study program. This is our King Herod Bible study. The truth within this SON-derful King Herod Bible study will truly enhance your be-YOU-tiful Christian walk.
When baby Jesus was born, there was a great new star in the
Heavens and all saw it.
Wise men from the east came to Jerusalem and
said, Where is the baby that has been born King of the Jews?
We saw
His star in the east and we've come to worship Him.
As you may well imagine, Herod, the king at the
time, was very jealous when he heard the news that a NEW king was just
born. He gathered all of his top men together and insisted to know
where this Christ child was supposedly born because there was prophecy
in scripture that foretold of all of the events taking place. They
answered, in Bethlehem of Judea, for it is written by the prophet ( Micah
5:2), And thou Bethlehem, in the
land of Juda, art not the least among the princes of Juda: for out of
thee shall come a Governor, that shall rule my people Israel.
So, secretly ... Herod asked the wise men what time the
star appeared and then he sent them to Bethlehem saying, Go look for the
child and when you find Him, come back and tell me so I can come and
worship Him too. He was actually deceiving them and had sinister
thoughts and plans in mind.
The wise men left and the star that they saw in the
east led them until it stopped over where Jesus was and they fell down and worshipped Him. They gave Him
presents of gold, frankincense and myrrh.
Then God warned these wise
men in a dream that they shouldn't go back to Herod, so they went back
to their home country by a different route.
Now, here is a lil fact for ya ... In almost every book and movie you read or
watch there are three wise men. However, the Bible does NOT say there were
three wise men. The reason people say that there were three wise men is because they gave
the baby Jesus
three different types of gifts, being gold, frankincense and myrrh. There very well may have been three wise men or maybe
three hundred.
But, again ... It matters lil how
many wise men were LED BY GOD by a star to see Jesus ...
Just that God led em by a NEW STAR
and that was yet ANOTHER SIGN that ...
JESUS IS LORD !!!
MORE PROPHECY
The Angel of the Lord appeared again to Joseph in a
dream and said, Get up and take the young child and His mother and
flee into Egypt. Stay there until I let you know. Herod will look for
the young child to kill Him. Joseph woke up and took the baby Jesus
and Mary in the middle of the night and left for Egypt. They were
there until Herod died and what the prophet Hosea said was fulfilled (Hosea
11:1), Out of Egypt have I called
my Son.
Meanwhile ... During the time that
the holy family was in Egypt, before Herod's death, Herod realized that he was tricked by
the wise men who never returned. He was burning mad and had all the
male children from two years old and under killed in Bethlehem and the
surrounding area hoping to kill this NEW king. This fulfilled what the
prophet Jeremiah had written
Jeremiah
31:15, In Ramah there was a
voice that was heard. Sadness and crying and mourning. Rachel weeping
for her children, and she would not be consoled because they are dead.
Ramah was in the area of Israel that God gave to the tribe of
Benjamin, and Joseph's two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.
Years later, When Herod died, an Angel of the Lord
appeared in a dream to Joseph, who was living in Egypt with his family
as he was warned, and said, Take the young child and His mother and go
into the land of Israel. Those who tried to take the child's life are
dead. So Joseph took Jesus and Mary back to Israel, but when he heard
that Herod's son Archelaus inherited the kingdom in Judea, he was
afraid to go there, however, being warned by God in a dream, he went
into Galilee. They settled in a city called Nazareth (That is why you
have heard the saying ... Jesus of Nazareth) and the prophecy
was fulfilled that was spoken by the prophets, He shall be called a
Nazarene (Isaiah
11:1). And Jesus grew and became
strong in spirit, filled with wisdom and the grace of God was with
Him.
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