Part 2
Psalms 40 vs 7
Then I said, “Behold, I have come; in the scroll of the book it is written of me:"
God pre-ordained your life. The star that appeared to the wise men appeared some time before the master's birth because when it appeared they had to travel a great deal before they would see Jesus in the city of David.
The wise men arrived shortly after the master's birth yet the star that announced his birth appeared months before. When you look at every person who participated in Jesus' life, it seems like they where following a well-written script.
Neither Joseph nor the wise men made a mistake. Step by step, the Bible would confirm their success.
Mathew 2 vs 12
Being warned of God in a dream that they should not return to Herod, they departed into their own country another way.
The wise men were able first to read the star that announced the birth of Jesus. I Wrote in my book, Theophany, about how God uses nature to conmunicate to us and gave biblical examples. In the Jewish culture, they understood the language of the stars and yet, as Christians, we have ignored the basic language of nature.
By reading the signs provided by God through nature, the wise men were able to understand the plans of God. In Joel Chapter 2, the Bible speaks of signs like...
1. Wonders in the heavens and in the earth (blood, fire and pillars of smoke).
2. The sun shall be turned into darkness
3. The moon into blood
These are signs that shall appear before the great and the terrible day of the LORD.
The star appeared over Bethlehem and though the Bible does not say it appeared and was visisble to many, the wise men were the only ones who could read and understand its meaning.
When Herod was told the time it appeared, he was able to calculate the probable age of the Master yet when the star appeared he missed it. The Lord's voice is in many things and he uses so many objects to communicate to us.
The wise men were also warned in a dream not to go back to Herod. How many times have you ignored his voice or even missed it? I rememeber one day I woke up with a painful blister on my finger. It was so bad I had to absent myself from work that day. The company vehicle had an accident and the strange thing was that the following day my finger was normal. Could it have been the Lord's way of preserving my life? One of my workmates had to spend three months in hospital as a result of the accident.
The Lord's wisdom is beyond simple human understanding and he can use anything and anyone to communicate or pass on his message.
In this series, we want to look at his various methods of speaking and we also focus on dreams and the symbols locked up in each dream.
God bless you!
Apostle Humphrey
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