Shawn Ryan
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When the Magi came and said, hey, we're looking for the king of the Jews.
Where is he?
And they figured maybe Jerusalem, right?
And Herod says, hold on a minute.
Gets his Jewish advisors and says, where is the king of Jews going to be born?
Bethlehem, OK.
And then he's the one that told the Magi, go to Bethlehem.
And they saw the star that confirmed it.
Because of Micah chapter 5, verse 2.
Really?
Yeah, the ancient prophecy.
They studied these prophecies.
They knew them.
They lived by them.
And they were living in anticipation that the Messiah would come.
Daniel, the prophet Daniel.
So did the advisors think this was a bad thing?
No, they probably would have been excited, I'm guessing, that these magi are coming and looking for, yeah, because it's like, they were Jewish.
So the only hatred for Jesus that Herod had was for a power struggle.
It was a power struggle.