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Please read Mat. 2:9 and give your observation about a star.?
This is for thinking, serious readers of God's Holy Bible: who or what directed the star, made the star stop, and what was the purpose. Please reason from the scriptures (Acts 17:2b).
Please DO reason on the subject like only one or two have done.
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- Anonymous10 years agoFavorite Answer
Lets start in the begining 2:1 starts out about Jesus already been born. there it talked about the astrologers (or the three wise men that man religions call them) trying to find Jesus. Well 2:3, King Herod having heard this was angered, for only he was King. So he told the wise men to find Jesus and then report back o him, he wanted to kill Jesus. 2:9 tells how a mysterious star appeared and led them to Jesus. This star made sure the astrologers could find Jesus. Why? because if the astrologers told Herod where to find him, Jesus would be killed. So the star is not God or an Angel. Rather it was Satan the Devil, looking to kill Jesus. But God stopped his plan 2:12, 13-15
Hope this helps.
Source(s): Watchtower.org - JeanLv 510 years ago
God controlled the star, causing it to lead the wise men to where the Christchild lived.
These men studied the stars and watched for the star of the scriptures, that prophecied His birth.
Not that God needed a star to lead them, but it influenced these wise men, who represent the Gentiles, to travel, probably from Babylon to worship Him. The Jews, when held captivity in Babylon took with them their scriptures. These wise men knew the OT scripture concerning the birth of the Messiah.
The star could have been especially created for the sole purpose of directing the magi to Bethlehem, just as God had created a "great fish" for the purpose of sheltering Jonah.
This star was from God because the magi said " We have seen HIS star".. (not the devil`s star)
- oldermanLv 710 years ago
As we all know, from experience, a celestial body, in the night sky, appears to go ahead of us.
Normally this just continues indefinitely. The Magi were believed to be astrologers.
The would have been familiar with how stars continue to keep ahead in the sky.
So, for one to stop in place at a certain location was profoundly supernatural.
God alone, could cause a star to behave so. I feel fairly confident that
the Magi knew their stars as well or better than most.
Source(s): reason - Anonymous10 years ago
When the Devil plotted to destroy the babe Jesus in the days of Herod the Great, whom did he use? Astrologers! Yes, the so-called wise men from the East were astrologers. Says the Bible: “Astrologers from eastern parts came to Jerusalem, saying: ‘Where is the one born king of the Jews? For we saw his star when we were in the east and we have come to do him obeisance.’ Then Herod secretly summoned the astrologers and carefully ascertained from them the time of the star’s appearing, and, when sending them to Bethlehem, he said: ‘Go make a careful search for the young child, and when you have found it report back to me.’” “The star they had seen when they were in the east went ahead of them, until it came to a stop above where the young child was.”—Matt. 2:1, 2, 7-9.
This star phenomenon that guided the astrologers was not from God. The astrologers were tools of Herod, who was determined to murder the newborn babe; so he asked the astrologers to report back to him. How was Jesus saved from the murder plot? God intervened and gave the astrologers divine warning not to return to Herod. (Matt. 2:12) The star was of demon origin, it being a light used by the Devil to guide astrologers in his scheme to locate Jesus for destruction by Herod.
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- ?Lv 710 years ago
The same word used for "star" is often translated to angel in other places.
Rev 1:20 ...The seven stars are the angels ...
It was to guide the magi to Jesus.