This claim that Hosea is speaking of Jesus is indeed found in Matthew 2:14 -- but it is not supported by Bamidbar / Numbers 24 or Hosea 11:1 -- both of which are both speaking of the Jewish people (Israel). And both speak of leaving Egypt -- not a flight "to" Egypt. Bamidbar / Numbers 24: "Balaam saw that it pleased the L-rd to bless Israel. . . How goodly are your tents, O Jacob, your dwelling places, O Israel! G-d, Who has brought them out of Egypt with the strength of His loftiness " Bamidbar / Numbers 24:1 - 8. "For, when Israel was young, I loved him, and from Egypt I called My son." Hosea 11:1. The Jewish people (Israel). Not Jesus. All it takes to debunk the claim in the Christian bible (and the list maker) is to actually read the passages! Matthew 2:14 - 15 says "When he rose, he took the young Child and His mother by night, and departed into Egypt, 15 and remained there until the death of Herod, to fulfill what the Lord had spoken through the prophet, “Out of Egypt I have called My Son.”" This is misusing and distorting the words of the T'nach -- the bible. When Matthew claims that when Jesus left Egypt he fulfilled Out of Egypt I called My son (Hosea 11:1). Matthew does not reference the beginning of Hosea's verse which reads, "For, when Israel was young, I loved him." Hosea calls Israel, not Jesus, G-d's son. Hosea is not making a prediction about anyone but remembering Israels exodus from Egyptian slavery at the hand of G-d so long before. . . Hosea goes on to say that this son of G-d is not so righteous after all. "The more they called to them, the more they went away from them; to the Baalim they would slaughter sacrifices, and to the graven images they would burn incense." Hosea 11:2) The son of G-d from verse 1 (the Jewish people) sacrificed to the Baalim, and burnt incense to graven images. . . Notice the plural usage? Not one person -- but one people -- the Jewish people. If Jesus is the son in verse 1 he is also the son in verse 2-- so is Jesus a personification of idol worship? Cherry picking verses and taking them out of context does NOT make a prophecy! Hosea goes on to say "He shall not return to the land of Egypt, but Assyria is his king, for they have refused to repent." Hosea 11:5 Was Jesus ever ruled by Assyria? Nope. This is not about Jesus! Missionaries do a cut-and-paste job, taking things out of context -- using types and shadows and ignoring the p'shat (plain meaning). Yet prophecy is based on p'shat -- plain meaning! A principle of the Talmud that Rashi quotes several times states that אֵין מִקְרָא יוֹצֵא מִידֵי פְשׁוּטוֹ -- in English this would be "A verse cannot depart from its plain meaning." (Treatise Shabbat 63a, Treatise Y'vamot 11b, 24a; quoted by Rashi at B'réshıt / Genesis 15:10, 37:19, Sh'mot / Exodus 12:2).
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