Yes my apologies, I read it wrong or fat fingers one or the other lol,,, you actually said a year and a half, my bust.
Which Jesus Early Days Story is Correct?
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Yes my apologies, I read it wrong or fat fingers one or the other lol,,, you actually said a year and a half, my bust.
You may find this interesting 
Hosea 11:1 states, “When Israel was a child,
I loved him, and out of Egypt I called my son.”
Is this verse a Messianic prophecy?
The context of this verse speaks of the relationship the Lord had with the nation of Israel. The Lord loved Israel (Exodus 4:22-23) and rescued the people from slavery under Pharaoh, bringing them into the Promised Land. The analogy is that of God as the father and Israel as the child.
Jewish readers would have clearly understood this important statement. God’s supernatural power served as the basis of the nation’s freedom from Egypt and escape to a new land. The parallelism in the verse is Israel/child/son and loved/called. In both clauses, “I” (God) is the One initiating the action.
Matthew 2:13-15 provides further insight: “Now when they had departed, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, ‘Rise, take the child and his mother, and flee to Egypt, and remain there until I tell you, for Herod is about to search for the child, to destroy him.’ And he rose and took the child and his mother by night and departed to Egypt and remained there until the death of Herod. This was to fulfill what the Lord had spoken by the prophet, ‘Out of Egypt I called my son.’”
Matthew uses Hosea’s statement to show that the coming of the Messiah is an extension of the Lord’s love to His people. Matthew does not say that Hosea had Jesus in mind when Hosea 11:1 was originally written. Instead, Matthew says that the experience of Jesus matched what Hosea had written about Israel. Jesus was God’s Son, and He made a trip from Egypt to the land of Israel. Matthew was showing that Jesus completed what began with the exodus, connecting Jesus with the promise of Abraham and the leadership of Moses. The “calling” of God’s “son” (Israel) began in ages past and found its completion in the coming of Christ to fulfill the Law and the Prophets. https://www.gotquestions.org/Hosea-11-1-Messianic.html
Hosea 11:1 states, “When Israel was a child,
I loved him, and out of Egypt I called my son.”
Is this verse a Messianic prophecy?
The context of this verse speaks of the relationship the Lord had with the nation of Israel. The Lord loved Israel (Exodus 4:22-23) and rescued the people from slavery under Pharaoh, bringing them into the Promised Land. The analogy is that of God as the father and Israel as the child.
Jewish readers would have clearly understood this important statement. God’s supernatural power served as the basis of the nation’s freedom from Egypt and escape to a new land. The parallelism in the verse is Israel/child/son and loved/called. In both clauses, “I” (God) is the One initiating the action.
Matthew 2:13-15 provides further insight: “Now when they had departed, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, ‘Rise, take the child and his mother, and flee to Egypt, and remain there until I tell you, for Herod is about to search for the child, to destroy him.’ And he rose and took the child and his mother by night and departed to Egypt and remained there until the death of Herod. This was to fulfill what the Lord had spoken by the prophet, ‘Out of Egypt I called my son.’”
Matthew uses Hosea’s statement to show that the coming of the Messiah is an extension of the Lord’s love to His people. Matthew does not say that Hosea had Jesus in mind when Hosea 11:1 was originally written. Instead, Matthew says that the experience of Jesus matched what Hosea had written about Israel. Jesus was God’s Son, and He made a trip from Egypt to the land of Israel. Matthew was showing that Jesus completed what began with the exodus, connecting Jesus with the promise of Abraham and the leadership of Moses. The “calling” of God’s “son” (Israel) began in ages past and found its completion in the coming of Christ to fulfill the Law and the Prophets. https://www.gotquestions.org/Hosea-11-1-Messianic.html
Here's something that I think is quite profound about a time line of when the magi came to Jerusalem, they said they saw the star rise after the birth of Jesus, now I don't think they were a year or more out from Jerusalem whe they saw the star rise. It may have took them a couple of months to get there but over a year seems to imply the magi was halfway around the world, they were in the east but were they that far out from Jerusalem it took them over a year to get there. that doesn't seem logical.
Their travel time for a year and a half computes to about 2,400 miles. What countries that were known to have rich kings who were astronomers and knew Jewish history (obviously Orientals were that developed) would fall into that mileage range in an Eastward direction?
That would be about in Iran. Of course they COULD have come from as far away as Shanghai (8,000 miles) since it is a straight shot across solid land.
Arabia was the country east of Jerusalem, the whole swat of land east was Arabia, now if they came from the middle of the country or farther east than the middle than ok it could have been that far. So on horse back they could have traveled 50 miles a day, so roughly that would be around 48 days or so. Let's say they walked 25 miles a day, then that would be what 96 days little over 3 months. if they just walked a mere 12 miles a day would still be only about little over 6 months worth of walking.
and those churches were in the land called turkey today, back then it was minor Asia.
You make me laugh. I can tell you know absolutely nothing about traveling the way they traveled. They would be VERY lucky to make more than 60 miles a week........ and that would be a "forced march" that would have killed both men and animals in a month.
you make me laugh, I didn't know you rode with them,,, I am jk,
let's keep it real they covered a lot of ground in short times frames, people in those days knew how to travel quite well, you don't give them any credit of traveling, I have know idea were you got that info from, but I'm willing to learn if you got some solid info on how they traveled and at what speed they could.
I can tell from the little you have written that it would take a far better teacher than I, to school you in how kings traveled in that back country. They were not driving Chevys on the interstate.