December 15, 2009

This event may have taken place as many as two years after Jesus’ birth. It’s a fascinating event. Bethlehem is a tiny, tiny village, smaller than West Grove. Herod was the magnificent visionary King of the region, ruler over all of Judea. He had built coliseums, palaces and fortresses. His huge military fortress towered above Bethlehem. It’s kind of a tale of two kings. One temporal, the other eternal. The former with temporal power and wealth, the latter a lower class citizen of a (in a wordly sense) meaningless nation. Who is it that these magi, representatives of the rest of the world, seek? And who is it who feels threatened. Add all of this up and you will learn much about how God comes to us individually and how God sets about righting the world.