Shawn Ryan
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The Bible doesn't go into a lot of detail.
But Magi were not looked well upon by Jewish people in the day.
Daniel, in his book in the Old Testament, trashes them.
What were they?
They were astrologers.
They were divinators.
They were magicians.
They studied the stars.
They were astrologers, that kind of thing.
And Daniel called them enchanters.
He trashed them, which tells us that
uh matthew and talking about the magi he wasn't making this up because you'd never make up the magi coming to worship because they didn't like the magi so the magi were from the far east we don't know exactly where persia maybe probably and um so they come seeking the christ child why because they saw a star
Now, what was the star?
The word in Greek there for star is flexible.
It could mean any celestial body.
It could mean a comet.
It could mean a planetary conjunction.
It could mean a star.
It was kind of a flexible word.
But it was a star that told them that the Hebrew Messiah, so to speak, is coming.