Men from the East showed up asking for directions. “Where is He who was born King of the Jews? For we have seen HIS STAR in the East and have come to worship Him?” Matthew 2:2.
“His Star?” Jesus had a star? Did anyone else in the Bible have a star? What is going on?
Herod asked about the star—like it was the most normal thing. He never says, “Wait. A star? A star moved around in the sky and led you here? How?”
Think about it. Have you ever followed a star? How exactly does one follow a star?
Then the wise men head toward Bethlehem and the star reappears! “When they saw the star they were overjoyed beyond measure” and it led them to the house where Jesus was. But how? Stars are unimaginably far away—there is nothing further. The nearest star is 25 trillion miles from earth. How could a star have led the wise men from the Orient, Babylon perhaps, to Jerusalem? And in Bethlehem, it led them to a specific house?
How? The star would have to be close, it would have to reach down like a man leaning over his toy railroad village, and point at the exact house. And that’s what happened. Imagine a stage in a darkened theater. The star is God’s SPOTLIGHT illuminating Jesus the Baby born to save the world. Never before in scripture—never before or after in all of human history—but that night, God turned on His spotlight and lit the place up, pointing the entire world to Israel, to Bethlehem, to this newborn Son of David, born to save His people from their sins.
“Then God said, ‘let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night. They will serve as SIGNS for festivals and for days and years” Genesis 1:14.
This supernatural star was the greatest of stars, the ULTIMATE SIGN, announcing the Messiah’s birth not only to the Jews but to everyone.
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