Brutal King Herod was not in the line of David. Young Jesus was. And God His Father made sure to deliver His Son Jesus from the death of the innocents just as He promised to deliver His ‘Son’ Israel. And one day God the Father would deliver His Son Jesus to death as an innocent in order to bring about the hope of the New Covenant for many. Brutal King Herod. Faithful Father God.[1]
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“Rachel may weep in despair at the loss of her sons, but the loss is not forever.” [2] What lies beyond? The New Covenant hope in Christ Jesus!
In an utterly saturated-by-sin world, Harod was a chief exemplar of the representative of evil. The kind of king he was oozed out at every point of his rule. Evil permeated him and all he did.
Not so with God the Father. The Father protected His Son from the tyrant king – not so that He could escape death, but to guarantee the death which Jesus came to die. A death to end all death. A death for sins not His own. Why? So that the undeserving would be saved by His sacrifice.
Jesus came to destroy the works of the devil (1 John 4:8). The reign and rule of tyrants who represent the tyrant; the bloodlust of the evil one for the lives of little ones; the sway he holds over mankind through the hissed lie of Genesis 3… Jesus came to destroy him and all he does!
Thank God that Jesus storms out hearts by His love! Not sparing His own Son, and then raising Him so that we could rise in Him, what glorious victory is this! In the deep darkness of that Bethlehem massacre, the Savior of the world was sparred to die.
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[1] Peter Mead, Pleased to Dwell,
[2] Peter Mead, Pleased to Dwell,
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