Strange These Wise Men!
What reward could these Wise Men reap by worshipping a freshly-born king in a faraway land?
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Strange These Wise Men!
It’s the strangest story ever told.
What reward could these Wise Men reap by worshipping a freshly-born king in a faraway land?
A thousand deaths they bring down on themselves coming to a city already under a king, professing another ruler besides the one who then reigned.
And what benefit could they gain by honoring a baby Who if, when reaching worldly power would punish them for bringing such danger upon Himself, as they must have foreseen?
For in a jealous rage, Herod—considering himself mocked of the Wise Men—slew all the male children of Bethlehem two years old and younger.
It gets stranger.
The star.
I mean, it’s no star at all, but an invisible force transformed into the likeness of a star.
For by its course and occurrence it defies any similarity to a common star.
No star moves from north to south as this does from Persia to Palestine.
Nor does any star shine in midday as this with the sun blazing forth.
And what star appears and then hides?
For on the Wise Men’s way to Palestine, the light guides them.
But when arriving in Jerusalem, it hides.
When they leave, it comes again, all of which is not the motion of a common star, but of a power endowed with reason.
By this power of reason, it hovers over a shed, so tightly confined that no common star beaming over a wide expanse can do.
And what the prophets could not do—whose foretelling of a special king to arise was ignored by the Hebrews—barbarians from an idolatrous country can do by silent reproof.
“We have seen His star,” the Wise Men tell Herod.
Joining their mystic learning of the ascending “Star of Jacob” with the Messianic “Scepter of Kingship”—as once divined by the soothsayer Balaam in the writings of Moses—of whose writing learned men of Persia would be not be unaware, the reproof to the Hebrews sets in.
Yet, not the slightest interest of knowledge of these things do these Hebrews possess.
Troubled by a pending competing king, Herod gathers the chief priests and scribes demanding where Messiah should be born.
Unrolling the Hebraic scroll to the oracle of the prophet Micah, Herod is told: [Clip]
[“In Bethlehem of Judea. For so it is written by the prophet, “And you, O Bethlehem in the land of Judah are by no means least among the rulers of Judah, for from you shall come a Ruler Who shall shepherd my people Israel.”]
Flattering the king, the scribe deliberately leaves out, “Whose going forth has been from everlasting,” marking the Divinity of the Messiah.
Not only is Herod troubled, but all Jerusalem with him, that is, his court, his staff, his lackeys.
Power once gained is not easily surrendered, even if it’s to God.
Herod calls the Wise Men secretly feigning he’ll come to worship the Child, requesting they relate the site of the Child’s birthplace.
His murderous craft lies hidden under the guise of piety.
The star takes up its course once again.
Guiding the Wise Men directly to the shed, hovering over the young Child’s head, they fall down and worship the newborn babe.
Opening their treasures they present gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh.
What can be stranger than this?
The contrast of gold with a child in a feeding trough, a mother undistinguished, and a father of common stock, would confound even the ox and donkey looking on.
These strange gifts of frankincense and myrrh used in ritual prayer and the anointing of priests would doubtless bewilder the Child’s parents.
The mystic import is buried deep in the Gospel narration.
I was raised in Judaism, educated in Mosaic rituals.
Now as an Orthodox Christian I offer prayer to this King, whose royal diadem is of precious gold, adoring Him as Messiah God.
The true mystic must worship before presuming to preach.
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I like your transcripts of your divine WORDS. Thank you so much for your work and God Bless you.
The INESCAPABLE TRUTH OF BIBLE PROPHECY; consider:
Deuteronomy 31:29
“For I know that AFTER my death ye will UTTERLY corrupt yourselves, and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will befall you in the LATTER days; because ye WILL do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger through the work of your hands.”
Thank You!!
On an old video you said a Jewish historian said the number killed in the holocaust was 60K. What was his name?