This Advent season we have focused on the dreams God used to communicate with Joseph and the Wisemen. Five dreams ensure the direction, the protection, the provision for the infant Jesus. With those, there are five citations of Scripture that Matthew uses to support the idea that the story he is telling is intimately connected with the past. God is faithful, and this is no dream. The Messiah has come, and as readers - even the first readers - the reality is that the Mission of the Messiah has been completed. The world has changed.