Matthew 2:9-12

This is the day the Lord has made let us rejoice and be glad in it!!

We will never totally understand the depravity of the world that exists without Jesus…but we were placed here to be a beacon of light not darkness. Listen carefully to the Holy Spirit who will direct your path and protect you from all evil.

This unusual activity demonstrates that the star is a supernatural phenomenon. Matthew does not identify the warning’s origin. Throughout his narrative, he commonly ascribes dreams to God and His emissaries. Faithlife Bible.

The wise men undoubtedly would have been discouraged by their failure to find the King in Jerusalem, by the lack of knowledge concerning the birth of the Messiah among the leaders, by the disinterest among Israel, and by the weariness from the long journey. The reappearance of the star must have brought great joy and encouragement to them. Their gifts provided the financial resources for Mary and Joseph’s flight to Egypt. NKJ Bible.

Matthew 2:9–12 (NKJV)

⁹ When they heard the king, they departed; and behold, the star which they had seen in the East went before them, till it came and stood over where the young Child was. ¹⁰ When they saw the star, they rejoiced with exceedingly great joy. ¹¹ And when they had come into the house, they saw the young Child with Mary His mother, and fell down and worshiped Him. And when they had opened their treasures, they presented gifts to Him: gold, frankincense, and myrrh.

¹² Then, being divinely warned in a dream that they should not return to Herod, they departed for their own country another way.

Job 33:15 (NKJV)

¹⁵ In a dream, in a vision of the night,

When deep sleep falls upon men,

While slumbering on their beds,

Matthew 1:20 (NKJV)

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.