THE SHINY OBJECT

I have written before, several times, about the meaning of the gifts of Jesus. [1] Gold, frankincense, and myrrh were given to Adam by the Word in the beginning, according to the Books of Adam and Eve, and presented to them at their marriage. Now they were given to Jesus for His marriage to the Church.

Briefly, gold represents the royalty of Jesus, frankincense points toward the sacrifice of Jesus — the bitters, and myrrh the healing by the blood that Jesus sacrificed.

In review, as far as the “star” is concerned, in the previous commentary, I wrote that the “Star” was Jesus himself. Now that is further validated, to wit: “I, Jesus, have sent My angel to testify to you these things in the churches. I am the Root and the Offspring of David, the Bright and Morning Star” (Rev 22:16).

A scotoma is a failure to see the obvious in the field of vision. For centuries, theologians and astronomers have sought the star of Jesus. According to the revelation of John, it was Jesus who was the “Bright and Morning Star.”

At the dawning of the Age of Pisces — the Christian Era — there was a convergence, or apparent motions, wherein the Sun, Moon, planets, and stars appear to align in the celestial sphere. A conjunction occurs when two or more celestial bodies appear to meet in the night sky from a specific location on Earth. Hence, viewed from Israel, in 6 B.C. the planets Jupiter, Saturn, the Sun, and the Moon would in the constellation, Aries. Hence, as Aries wanes, Pisces would rise in the Spring of 6 B.C., some say on April 17. (O'Callaghan 2022).

With that said, the “wise men” would have predicted the exact day without seeing the convergence because it was calculated, based on the Jewish festivals by Jonathan Cahn to have been on March 20, 6 B.C.

Herod died in 4 B.C. Jesus would have been two years old or younger, given a 6 B.C. birthdate. Scripture is correct in that (Mat 2:16).

Jesus was born in March and in April the convergence would have pointed at Jesus in Bethlehem. Herod was alive in 6 B.C. The wise men sought Jesus, asking His whereabouts of Herod. The convergence had passed, so sometimes between April of 6 B.C. and 4 B.C. (either March 4 or April 4), (Encyclopedia Britannica n.d.), was when the astrologers came from the East to Jerusalem.

Herod wrote a will that would condemn the innocents, according to Josephus, that would be operationalized upon his death without revealing that he was already dead. Hence, Herod, even in death, sought to massacre the innocents and specifically to destroy the infant Jesus.

It is therefore plausible that Jesus was the “Star” that the other celestial bodies aligned with or converged upon.  Therefore, the convergence was really the Sun, the Moon, Jupiter, Saturn, and Jesus in Aries and after the Aries waned, the convergence was gone, and the astrologers found themselves in Pisces — the Christian Era.

The morning in “Bright and Morning Star” is specifically orthrinos, meaning “dawning” (Strong 1890). It was not referring to the dawning of a new day, but the dawning of a new age — the Age of Pisces of which Jesus was the “Star.” He was the “Shiny Object” not some far away astral body! With His birth, time passed from the Age of Abraham’s Ram to the Lamb of God whose astral sign is the fish… Jesus was the fisher of men. 

So, all the time that astrologers were looking for the “shiny object” in the heavens, the “Bright and Morning Star” came to Earth, ironically to the “celestial axis” and the “naval of the world” — Judah as was prophesied: 

But you, Bethlehem, in the land of Judah,

Are not the least among the rulers of Judah;

For out of you shall come a Ruler

Who will shepherd My people, Israel. (Mat 2:6)

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[1] https://kentuckyherrin.blogspot.com/search?q=gold+frankincense+myrrh