When the Morning Comes

Matthew 2:19-23 But when Herod was dead, behold, an angel of the Lord appeareth in a dream to Joseph in Egypt, Saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and go into the land of Israel: for they are dead which sought the young child's life.  And he arose, and took the young child and his mother, and came into the land of Israel.  But when he heard that Archelaus did reign in Judea in the room of his father Herod, he was afraid to go thither: notwithstanding, being warned of God in a dream, he turned aside into the parts of Galilee: And he came and dwelt in a city called Nazareth: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophets, He shall be called a Nazarene.

I note Jesus' young life was preserved five times by dreams.  First of all, in Matthew 1:20 Mary's future husband, Joseph, is told in a dream to “fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife.”  If he had not taken her as his wife, it was the custom to stone an unmarried pregnant woman, so Jesus when he was a fetus would have died in the stoning.  Later wise men were warned in a dream not to return and give information to Herod.  Joseph was warned in a dream to flee with the child to Egypt because Herod would try to kill him; and Joseph had a dream telling him to return to Israel after the death of Herod.  He was warned again when he returned to Israel and turned aside into the Galilee region.