{"id":1206677,"date":"2022-09-18T13:11:52","date_gmt":"2022-09-18T13:11:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/18\/the-only-african-country-that-jesus-has-ever-visited-stayed-for-3-years-according-to-the-bible\/"},"modified":"2022-09-18T13:11:52","modified_gmt":"2022-09-18T13:11:52","slug":"the-only-african-country-that-jesus-has-ever-visited-stayed-for-3-years-according-to-the-bible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/18\/the-only-african-country-that-jesus-has-ever-visited-stayed-for-3-years-according-to-the-bible\/","title":{"rendered":"The Only African Country That Jesus Has Ever Visited, Stayed For 3 Years According To The Bible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p>It&#8217;s self-evident that if you tell someone that Jesus Christ visited Africa during his time on this planet, they&#8217;ll tell you it&#8217;s not true.<\/p>\n<p>This is because they are well aware that Africa is not mentioned in the Bible. Thank God the country he visited didn&#8217;t change its name.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Bible, baby Jesus and his parents sought safety in Egypt, a North African country.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/881e1258e6d64795bbac62f129ed5362\"\/><\/p>\n<p>In the New Testament, it is stated that Both gospels agree that Jesus was born in Bethlehem and later migrated to Nazareth with his family.<\/p>\n<p>The story of Joseph, Mary, and Jesus fleeing to Egypt to avoid Herod the Great&#8217;s massacre of the infant boys at Bethlehem is told in Matthew&#8217;s Gospel.<\/p>\n<p>2:13<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Take the tiny child and his mother and flee to Egypt. Until I send thee word, Herod will pursue the tiny boy to destroy him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>They stayed in Egypt for three years, until Joseph had a dream that it was safe to return to Israel following Herod&#8217;s death.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\ufeff<\/strong><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/103bf58ce66046379b814846adb85687\"\/><\/p>\n<p>2:19-23<\/p>\n<p>When Herod died, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in Egypt in a dream and told him, &#8220;Get up, take the child and his mother, and go to the land of Israel, for those who were seeking the kid&#8217;s life have perished.&#8221; Then Joseph rose, grabbed the infant and his mother, and journeyed to Israel.<\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: Gifty2562 (via  Opera<br \/>\nNews )<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p class=\"copyright hide\">\n<span class=\"content\">    ,  .   ,     .       () , , , , , , , , .      \/ ,  and\/or  .     ,  , and\/or  ,      and\/or     <\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"see-more\"><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<section class=\"tags\">\nAfrica<br \/>\nEgypt<br \/>\nJesus<br \/>\nNew Testament<br \/>\nNorth African<br \/>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s self-evident that if you tell someone that Jesus Christ visited Africa during his time on this planet, they&#8217;ll tell you it&#8217;s not true. This is because they are well aware that Africa is not mentioned in the Bible. Thank God the country he visited didn&#8217;t change its name. According to the Bible, baby Jesus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1206681,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[461,10528,1721,5088,11689,3480,1151],"class_list":["post-1206677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-african","tag-bible","tag-country","tag-jesus","tag-stayed","tag-visited","tag-years"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1206677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1206677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1206677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1206677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1206677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1206677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}