Satan Tried to Kill the Child Jesus, Part 1 (TMF:625)

Peace to Live By: Satan Tried to Kill the Child Jesus, Part 1 (TMF:625) - Daniel Litton
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       We don’t have to go very far into the life of Jesus to see Satan trying to stop God’s plan in action. To get started, if we go to Matthew chapter 2 we can see Satan working through King Herod. Remember, King Herod was very concerned about the birth of the Christ, for he was afraid the King of the Jews would be born, grow up, and try to overtake him. We find in Matthew chapter 2 that Herod was asking the chief priests of Israel and the scribes where the Christ would be born, and of course they told him Bethlehem. And he tried to get in on the good side with the wise men who had seen the great star in the sky, which was to lead them to Jesus. Herod wanted the wise men to tell them where the Christ was, because really, in reality, Satan was working through him to try to kill the child. We understand that after the wise men had visited with Jesus, giving him their gifts, that they were warned in a dream not to return to King Herod, and they obey the Lord and did not. Then we read in Matthew chapter 2, in verse 16, “Then Herod, when he saw that he had been tricked by the wise men, became furious, and he sent and killed all the male children in Bethlehem and in all that region who were two years old or under, according to the time that he had ascertained from the wise men” (Matthew 2:16, ESV).