The Train Has Not Goed Off the Tracks

Matthew sees Old Testament as a collection of predictions about things that would happen in Jesus. And so we have some kind of thing in our head like Hosea, 800 years before Jesus, he saw Joseph and Mary and Jesus escaping into the desert at night. This is actually a part of the pattern of how God is that work in history. Look what Matthew says. When Israel was a child, I loved him. And out of Egypt, I called my son. But the more they were called, the more they went away from me. They sacrificed to the Baal's, other gods. It was I who taught Ephraim to walk, taking them by the arms but they didn