Shawn Ryan
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And the answer is probably not.
It's a town of 500.
So how many kids under two would there be?
Maybe a dozen or so.
And it was in the middle of nowhere.
I mean, it was not on a major highway.
It wasn't a major city.
And Herod was a bloodthirsty king.
He killed members of his own family.
He was killing everybody.
And so it wouldn't be news that he decided to kill a bunch of babies.
And it took time for news to get out back then.
There was no CNN.
There was no Fox News.
There was no satellite coverage.
And so this took place in an obscure little town.
And yeah, a couple of dozen kids were killed, which was, by the way, prophesied in the Old Testament as well.
So this is another fulfillment of prophecy.
How?
There was a problem trying to think of the exact reference, but there was a prophet about the weeping that was taking that would take place.