Monday, December 17, 2018

Star? What Star?

When they heard the king, they departed; and behold, the star which they had seen in the East went before them, till it came and stood over where the young Child was. When they saw the star, they rejoiced with exceedingly great joy. Matthew 2:9-10

Herod wanted to know where the new born king was staying in Bethlehem, but why didn't he just follow that star? Something about that 'star' is not what we have been taught in school, if King Herod and his soldiers could not simply go the same way as the wise men and look under the star in Bethlehem. Was not the star a huge, bright light in the sky like a supernova or a planet moving through, between, or around a constellation? I have heard those given as explanations, and the scribes in Jerusalem had the prophecy of Micah too. It seems that the Christ child should be very easy to find! Something is not as the world teaches here.

The star was a sure guide to the wise men who did not know the area of Jerusalem and Bethlehem. They needed a guide to find and worship the Christ, and a guide was provided, and it was not a stationary light way up there kind of over toward the east. This star was not a giant ball of hot gases either it would seem, else the wise men and the earth and all in it would have been burnt up and gone and we wouldn't be doing this thing right now. This star was not what we think we know of stars at all.

Why didn't Herod just follow the star? It would seem that the star was not for him.

Merry Christmas!
Bucky

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