Most Christians Don’t Know THIS About the Christmas Star

It seems hard to imagine Mary having to walk close to 100 miles while 9 months pregnant but my great grandmother walked from Idaho to Portland, Oregon, over 500 miles, while pregnant with twins. Women used to be much tougher than me!

Let us remember this is God and nothing is impossible for Him

The song doesn't say Orientar. It says Orient are. The Orient is a term for the East in relation to Europe, traditionally comprising anything belonging to the Eastern world. It is the antonym of the term Occident, which refers to the Western world.

I recovered from mainstream Babylonian Mystery Religion dogma years ago when I began actually studying the Bible for myself rather than just believing unbiblical traditions. I’ve found that it is not easy to unlearn erroneous beliefs from childhood, but well worth the effort.

This video is 41m long and you get soo close to answering the question ‘What was the Christmas Star?’ When the answer is plain to see in Luke 2:9 ‘An angel of the Lord shone around them,’. Many times in scripture Angels appear as very bright lights. This same light 1000ft in the air will look like a star. It is the best explanation for leading people, seeming to move it stay still and turning on and off.

Actually…. In the desert, dark is best to travel… if they saw the star, they traveled by moonlight and constellation. Generally, weather calms down in the desert after dusk. So it is a perfect time to travel.

I appreciate the conclusion: We can accept it as a miracle, a supernatural event, like we do the other circumstances of Jesus' birth. Thanks for the insights.

PS Also everyone I know understands that the creche (the manger scene) is put together from the many parts of the scripture. We also know that St. Francis was the first one to set up a creche on Christmas Eve one year as a way of remembering that story. In those days most people were not literate and the images from scripture, including objects like the creche contained all the story elements not to suggest they all happened at once, but as things to point to for the viewer to recall and remember each point from the Gospel story. It helps to know church history.

Dr. Arnold Fruchtenbaum of Ariel Ministries explained , and I quote from his essay, The Visit of the Magi, that this 'star' appears and disappears. It moves from East to West, also from North to South. This star hovers over one single house in Bethlehem., pointing out the exact location of the Messiah. It is very evident that this cannot be a literal star, as we know that any such star hovering over a single house would destroy the whole planet. The Greek word for 'star' simply means ' radiance' or ' brilliance'. With this star coming in the form of a light, we have the appearance of the Shekinah Glory.-the visible manifestation of God's presence. Whenever God became visible in the Old Testament , such a manifestation was referred to as the Shekinah Glory. This eexplanation makes more sense to me, especially as Dr Fruchtenbaum was Jewish.

I actually bought a telescope specifically to view the 2020 conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn. It was very amazing being able to see them both in the telescope at the same time!

If you're going to talk about miraculous possibilities, consider this one. What if the Christmas star was a window in heaven so the saints that have passed on could see their Savior? I don't know how the light came to be. However, that's my favorite possibility to think about.

No astronomer or astrologist here, but I hear God is the SAME as He was back in earlier days & I ask myself: how did God move people through the desert before? A pillar & a cloud, apparently moving fire & smoke? Moving & hanging out over a specific spot could be handy since Bethlehem is small & the east is far. Redhead science.

It was something to be seen at night and daytime. Shekinha Glory. It had to hover within the atmosphere otherwise the earths rotation would have taken the travelers far off course. This “star” was supernatural and disappeared after.

At the time I saw a documentary 20 or so years ago there were still very old houses in Bethlehem built in traditional style, with a stable and storage on the ground floor and family accommodation on the upper floors.

I like your thorough analysis of this and, as always, pointing us back to scripture. I would comment that it isn't "We Three Kings of Orientar" but "We Three Kings of Orient Are"- the Orient being the East from Europe/Middle East and it being a poetic, old English way to say we are three kings from the orient (even though they probably weren't kings).

Dr. Danny Faulkner.. I liked to hear your thoughts on this “Since John the Baptist was born on Passover, the 15th day of Nisan (the 1st Jewish month), Jesus would have been born six months later on the 15th day of Tishri (the 7th Jewish month).  The 15th day of the 7th month begins the Feast of Tabernacles (Lev. 23:34-35), also known as Sukkot.  Jesus was born on the 1st day of the Feast of Tabernacles!  In the year 5 BCE, this fell in the month of September.” “It is probable, because of the circumstances shown in Luke 1, that Mary conceived during the last two weeks of Elizabeth’s sixth month. Thus, John was born in the spring of 4 BC, probably between March 18 and 31. By projecting forward another six months to Jesus’ birth, the most probable time for His birth occurred between September 16 and 29.” " Gabriel is still speaking to Mary, and notice that Elisabeth is the cousin of Mary. This is important to note that part of blood line is to the Levites, as Zacharias and Elisabeth were both of the lineage of Aaron. Mary had asked Gabriel how it would be possible for her to bear this child, and he is reminding her that Elisabeth is in the sixth months of Pregnancy with her child. Elisabeth was well known to be very old and far beyond child bearing years. This time of Mary's  >>>conception <<< was six months after Elisabeth's conception with John, so this pinpoints the date of Christ's conception to be December 25th. This then would pinpoint Jesus actual birth to be in September on the feast of the tabernacles, as it was prophesied, and should be. This is pointed out in the Companion Bible in appendix 179.

The manger was most likely in a cave in Bethlehem where they raised sheep for the temple sacrifices. They used swaddling cloth to wrap the lambs to keep them from getting hurt from the cave walls. I was in one that was said to be typical of what was used almost five years ago. I had never considered the fact a cave could have been the place of birth. But everything fits…

I really hope the Orientar thing was a joke, cuz the line is "We 3 kings from Orient are." Which just means they're from the east

Matthew 2:9,10 When they had heard the king, they departed; and, lo, the star, which they saw in the east, went before them, till it came and stood over where the young child was. 10 When they saw the star, they rejoiced with exceeding great joy.

Orientar? I hope you were joking, but, here are the lyrics for those who don't know. We three kings of Orient are bearing gifts we traverse afar... So they are from the Orient according to the song.