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Matthew 2:12

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KJV ORIGINAL

And being warned of God in a dream that they should not return to Herod, they departed into their own country another way.

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✦ MADE SIMPLE

God warned the wise men in a dream not to go back to Herod, so they took a completely different route home to their own country.

⚡ THE BOTTOM LINE

Sometimes God redirects your path to protect you from what you can't see coming.

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After that, Jesus showed up looking completely different to two of his followers while they were walking out to the countryside.

God, you're completely in the right here, but we? We're walking around with shame written all over our faces. That goes for everyone in Judah, everyone in Jerusalem, and honestly all of Israel — whether they're close by or scattered across different countries where you sent them. And it's because we messed up against you, plain and simple.

I'm going to leave Egypt completely empty — more barren than all the other destroyed nations around it. For forty years, Egypt's cities will be ghost towns among all the other ruined cities. I'll scatter the Egyptian people everywhere, spreading them out across different countries and nations.

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