In the end times just as in the beginning of CHRISTianity the Holy Spirit will direct our footsteps with dreams and visions. He will tell us which way to go and what to say when we arrive.
Our lives are ordered by God and within our grasp if we listen closely.
Five dreams of divine guidance emphasize God’s orchestration of these perilous events.
Wycliff puts it here: “An answer taken in sleep.”
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann
Here is another instance of divine intervention to frustrate the bloodthirsty designs of Herod toward the Savior. It does not appear from the text that the simple trustfulness of the wise men had given way to suspicion as to the king's intention, and that they had asked God for a sign. It is simply narrated that by command of God they received an earnest admonition, an emphatic warning, not to turn back on their steps over Jerusalem. Whether each individual member of the party had the vision; or whether their leader alone received God's command, is immaterial. Enough that they complied with the request. They departed, they withdrew, and thus escaped into their own country by taking a different caravan route, away from the dangerous neighborhood of Herod. Their object had been gained, they had seen the light of the Gentiles; their hearts were filled with the content of the believing soul that has seen the salvation of the Lord.
Matthew 2:12 (NKJV)
12 Then, being divinely warned in a dream that they should not return to Herod, they departed for their own country another way.
15 In a dream, in a vision of the night, When deep sleep falls upon men, While slumbering on their beds,
Job 33:15
16Then He opens the ears of men, And seals their instruction.
Job 33:16
20 But while he thought about these things, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, “Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take to you Mary your wife, for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit.
Matthew 1:20
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