Sharper Iron From Kfuo Radio

Rev. Jeff Hemmer, pastor at Bethany Lutheran Church in Fairview Heights, IL, joins host Rev. Timothy Appel to study Matthew 2:13-23. The shadow of Jesus’ incarnation, death, and resurrection casts over all the events of the Old Testament. Israel’s time in Egypt and rescue in the Exodus had happened as a shadow of the fight of the Holy Family into Egypt and their subsequent return to Israel. In this, Jesus shows Himself to be the faithful Son of God that Israel never was. King Herod viciously attacked this true Son of God. His response to the Magi’s deception was utterly wicked. In an attempt to protect himself, he slaughtered the boys of Bethlehem, an event that finds a sobering, awful parallel in the legality of abortion in our own time. There is no escaping the tragedy of this situation; only in Jesus can we find any comfort. His blood was spared for the moment in order that He could willingly shed that same blood later by His death on the cross to forgive our idolatry and then rise three days later to tri