The Day of New Beginnings

Out of Egypt I Called My Son

 

Hos. 11:1:
  When Israel was a youth I loved him, And out of Egypt I called My son.
 
Mat. 2:
12  And having been warned by God in a dream not to return to Herod, the magi left for their own country by another way.
13 ¶  Now when they had gone, behold, an angel of the Lord *appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, "Get up! Take the Child and His mother and flee to Egypt, and remain there until I tell you; for Herod is going to search for the Child to destroy Him."
14  So Joseph got up and took the Child and His mother while it was still night, and left for Egypt.
15  He remained there until the death of Herod. This was to fulfill what had been spoken by the Lord through the prophet: "OUT OF EGYPT I CALLED MY SON."
 
The first time the phrase, “Out of Egypt I called My son” appears, it refers to natural Israel. Later on, Mathew applies the passage prophetically to Jesus. Through this we see that the passage of Scripture has more than one fulfillment. 
 
There is yet another fulfillment to this verse. It is the fulfillment that is now taking place in the body of Christ. On this higher realm of the Kingdom of God, Egypt not only represents the world people come out of when they accept Jesus Christ, but more importantly, it represents the old, Adamic nature. It’s the bondage of the old nature we are concerned about at the present time. There is to be a great deliverance from the bondage of the old nature that keeps us dull and unaware of the Lord’s presence. We are not talking about the forgiveness of sin here, for we have been cleansed by the blood of Christ if we have opened our hearts to Him. But there remains a release from the nature itself, not just its works. Who can say at this point they are fully free from the downward pull of the Adamic nature in their lives. No one. But we have a promise: “Out of Egypt I called My son.” 
 
At the present time, if Christ is in us, and we are contending earnestly for the faith once delivered to the saints (Jude 3), we are finding great conflict within us. That’s because the Christ within wars to bring into subjection everything of the self life. The Scripture, “Every knee shall bow and every tongue confess that He is Lord” (Phi. 2:11), takes place first in us before it’s ever manifested in the world. 
 
God is calling His son out of Egypt. The co-existence of two natures must give way to the Lord Jesus Christ being fully exalted in us. Christ doesn’t stay in Egypt forever. The religious antichrist aspect of our old nature (Herod) is put to death and inwardly we become the land of Israel in which Christ is manifested.