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1 | His star in the East | NT general Archive 1 | retxar | 27673 | ||
Hi Tim, I don’t remember when or where, but I heard a story once that the bright star the wise men may have saw was in a constellation called “The Virgin”. Supposedly the bright star did not appeared over Bethlehem, but appeared where her abdomen would have been. Being astronomers, they interpreted this as news that the Christ Child was born. This was supposedly verified thru astronomy. Have you, or anyone else ever heard of such a story, or did I dream it? Thanks, retxar |
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2 | His star in the East | NT general Archive 1 | ashestobeauty | 27737 | ||
Sure would be neat to research it... Care to take on that assignment? :o) | ||||||
3 | His star in the East | NT general Archive 1 | retxar | 27741 | ||
I found it! Thanks for prodding me Ashestobeauty! “And so the Magi went looking for this infant king to the capital city of the Jews, Jerusalem, and the Jews sent them into Bethlehem, a place from which the Jewish scriptures prophesy a king would come. Dr. Martin says that in the late December sky of 2 BC, these astrologers going from Jerusalem to Bethlehem would have noticed the constellation Virgo, the virgin girl, with the king planet Jupiter in the middle of her belly. Martin thinks the constellation represented the Virgin Mary and Jupiter the baby Jesus when he was in his mother's womb some months prior to the Magi's arrival. And Jupiter could have been perceived as, overhead, the home of Mary and Joseph, enabling these astrologers to find Jesus and Mary, who would surely have explained to them all about her son's kingship.” www.christianity.com/CC/article/1,1183,PTID2546(shift-backslash)CHID(shift-backslash)CIID143926,00.html (we need to run all these illegal characters off of Lockman’s web site!) retxar PS. This is a very intriguing story. I’m just posting what Ashestobeauty encouraged me to research. I would have to know a whole lot more than I do to verify as truth. So just keep things in that perspective. Thanks, retxar. |
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4 | His star in the East | NT general Archive 1 | retxar | 27742 | ||
I decided to post the complete aritcle as I realized the cripled link I had to give was too confusing. Star of Wonder: In Search of the Christmas Star CBN.com - Writers across the century have been fascinated by the Star of Bethlehem. Was it a star, a comet or simply a miracle? Some astronomers and historians are teaming up to give a logical yet miraculous explanation. CBN News reporter Gailon Totheroh has the story. Gailon Totheroh, Reporter " The Star of Bethlehem that we read about in the Bible is actually the planet Jupiter," says historian Ernest Martin. Jupiter? That's a planet, not a star. "The term was used for both in the first century," says Dr. Martin. The Bible records that Magi, or wisemen, came searching for Jesus about 2,000 years ago, guided by a star. But who were these original star-crossed individuals seeking Jesus? What about them could have led them on a star trek? Author of The Christmas Star, astronomer John Mosley, says they were not exactly the reputed kings of the East. "They seemed to be astrologers, Magi, or magicians of the sky," says Mosley. "And we know this both from the account of them where they're called Chaldeans, which is Magi or astrologers, but also, the interest they had in the sky would suggest they were astrologers, too." Astronomers like Mosley can recreate what the sky looked like to the Magi. But astronomers need dates from history to tell them when to look for the birth of Jesus. For the last 100 years, most experts had said that Jesus was born about 7 BC, contradicting what the early Christian writers had said, about 3 BC. Enter historian Dr. Ernest Martin, author of The Star That Astonished The World. He says a 3 BC date for the birth of Christ makes more sense, historically, biblically and astronomically. From August of 3 BC to June of 2 BC, there were five conjunctions. "A conjunction is when one planet passes another and, as seen from Earth, they line up," says Martin. "The planets aren't actually close together. One lies in front of the other, but briefly, for one night, the two planets are together in the sky, they're in conjunction, and to an astrologer their--their magic is magnified." These five conjunctions occurred around the constellation Leo the lion and involved the planet Venus, the planet Jupiter and the star Regulus. To the Babylonians, the lion represented Israel, Venus was motherhood, Jupiter stood for fatherhood or kingship and Regulus symbolized royalty. Put mother, father, royalty and the Jewish nation together in the Babylonian mind-set and what do you get? The message for the Magi may have been like a billboard in the sky, "A Mighty King Has Been Born In Israel!" And so the Magi went looking for this infant king to the capital city of the Jews, Jerusalem, and the Jews sent them into Bethlehem, a place from which the Jewish scriptures prophesy a king would come. Dr. Martin says that in the late December sky of 2 BC, these astrologers going from Jerusalem to Bethlehem would have noticed the constellation Virgo, the virgin girl, with the king planet Jupiter in the middle of her belly. Martin thinks the constellation represented the Virgin Mary and Jupiter the baby Jesus when he was in his mother's womb some months prior to the Magi's arrival. And Jupiter could have been perceived as, overhead, the home of Mary and Joseph, enabling these astrologers to find Jesus and Mary, who would surely have explained to them all about her son's kingship. New Testament scholar Peter Jones of the Westminster Theological Seminary says the Magi must have been so transformed by the star and Mary's explanation that they may have been among the first converts to Jesus Christ. "We Christians have become so engaged in organizing our Christmases to turn around ourselves that we forget that the first Christmas there was, in fact, the celebration of evangelism," says Jones. "And it was the bringing to faith of three whacko gurus from the East." Merry Christmas all!! retxar |
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