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When was Jesus Christ Born? The Bible says September 11th 3BC, The Feast of Trumpets.
The birth of Jesus Christ is the one of the most significant events
in all of history and when we understand the truths regarding the true
date of his birth it will thrill and inspire your heart. Tradition has
made December 25th the birthday of Jesus. but the Bible clearly reveals he was not born on that day. It was not until the 4th century after Christ that December 25th began
to be celebrated as the day of Christ’s birth. It was the old pagan
holiday celebrating the winter solstice and the birth of the sun god and
celebrated when the days began to get longer. In Rome it was the
festival called Saturnalia and later the Roman Empire baptized it and
began to celebrate it as the birth of Jesus. All biblical scholars know
that Jesus was not born on December 25th. Tradition is never an accurate measurement for truth.
God has a significant meaning in everything He does and this does not
exclude the birth of His only begotten Son, Jesus Christ. The subject
of the entire bible is Jesus Christ and his first coming was
prophesied first in the book of Genesis right after Adam and Eve sinned
in the Garden of Eden. This prophecy of the future coming of Christ
became the polestar of the Old Testament. When it seemed that all was
lost and the devil had succeeded in ruining Adam and Eve, God promised a
coming Savior, who will redeem mankind from the penalty of sin and
ultimately crush the devil into oblivion. This was a promise of hope,
goodness, and salvation, as God would not leave the world helpless, but
would give them His only begotten Son. What a God of love and goodness
to promise this to His children who had just committed high treason
against Him. God threw the glorious light of His Word right back at the
serpent, as the coming redeemer would not only restore everything Adam
and Eve lost in the garden, but utterly destroy the devil and all his
works. This was the final death blow of the curse of God on the devil
that was boldly pronounced in the garden. God heralded forth this good
promise so every fallen angel, including the devil himself, would hear
about His magnificent goodness and shudder about their ultimate defeat.
Genesis 3:15 (Rotherham’s Emphasized Bible):
And enmity shall I put between thee and the woman, and between thy
seed and her seed,-He shall crush thy head, but thou shall crush his
heel.
This is a declaration of war! This verse sets forth the fulcrum point
of all history and defines the ceaseless battle that has raged since
Adam’s fall in the Garden of Eden. This verse is the central theme of
all scriptures, as the red thread of the coming Redeemer is interwoven
into every book of the Old Testament. Its message is even written in the
heavens, as each night the stars proclaim the sufferings and glorious
triumph of Christ.
Who is the seed of the woman? In conception the seed comes from the
male, but God’s Word clearly refers to the woman’s seed here. Seed
implies birth, and this verse indicates a virgin birth of a man who
would crush the arch-enemy of God. This man is the Savior, the Redeemer,
the Liberator, the Messiah, the Second Adam, and the Conqueror over sin
and death. This man is the Christ, the Son of the living God. Satan has
raging hostility toward the second Adam, for he knows that his head
will be crushed by him. This is a fatal blow from which there is no
recovery. Once a serpent’s head is crushed, he cannot inject his poison
into the world anymore or operate his schemes and deceptions on all
mankind. The devil knew that there was a genealogical Christ line that
would pass through Eve, as the seed of the woman would have to be born.
Later, the Word of God was more specific that this Christ line would
pass through Abraham and King David. The entire Old Testament is a
record of the fierce attempts of the devil to wipe out the Christ line,
and prevent Jesus Christ, the seed of the woman, from ever being born.
It is a record of God’s magnificent works and actions that repeatedly
delivered the Christ line from extinction. Sometimes the survival of the
Christ line rested on the faith of one individual like Noah, Joseph,
Abraham, and Esther. Read the Old Testament with this truth in mind, and
the Word of God will come alive in new and wonderful ways.
There is not enough space in this article to go into detail of the
countless schemes and plots of the devil to destroy this Christ line,
and God’s miraculous protection of it. The salvation and redemption of
the human race depended on the preservation of the Christ line. The
devil started with the murder of Abel and was absolutely relentless to
try to destroy the Seed of the woman who would utterly crush and defeat
him. He was not going to go out without a vicious and violent battle
where he marshaled all his evil forces to bring about the destruction of
the Christ line.
O what a day his birth would be! It had been anticipated and
prophesied about for about 4000 years. How glorious it must have been
when the angel of the Lord pronounced to the shepherds in the fields:
Luke 2:11-14 (NIV 1984):
Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is
Christ the Lord. This will be a sign to you: You will find a baby
wrapped in cloths and lying in a manger.”
Suddenly a great company of the heavenly host appeared with the
angel, praising God and saying, “Glory to God in the highest, and on
earth peace to men on whom his favor rests.”
The question becomes when was the “Today” that the angel proclaimed
his birth? The book of Revelation gives us critical information in
determining the day of the birth of Jesus Christ and it is so amazingly
accurate that we can pinpoint the birth of Jesus Christ to a specific
day and even that it occurred sometime within a time frame of eighty one
minutes during that day.
Revelation 12:1-5 (KJV):
And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars:
And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered.
And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red
dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his
heads.
And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast
them to the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman which was
ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born.
And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with a
rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and to his throne.
The Greek word for “wonder” in verse 1 means “sign” and God’s Word
declares that there will be a sign in the heavens when Mary went into
labor and gave birth to Jesus Christ. The Word of God is written across
the heavens and in the stars. The signs of the Zodiac were originally
not used in astrology but each one signified a characteristic of the
life and ministry and kingship of Jesus Christ, the promised Savior and
Son of God. The sign of the women that the Bible is referring to here is
to the constellation Virgo. Revelation 12 further states that this
woman was “clothed with the sun” another celestial body. The sun, as it
appears to travel through the ecliptic each year, enters into the
mid-body between the neck and the knees of the constellation Virgo,
clothing her with the sun for approximately a 21 day period during any
given year. In the year 3 B.C. which we later show by other celestial
events in the heavens to be the year of the birth of Jesus Christ, the
sun was in this position from August 27th through September 15th.
Revelation also declares that “the moon was under her feet.” With these
two specific details, we can pinpoint the birth of Christ very
precisely. In 3 B.C. the sun and the moon in Virgo occurred on only one
day and that was September 11.
The configuration of the sun and the moon
was visible in Palestine between sunset and moonset, this twilight
period being called “night” in the Bible. On September 11, 3 B.C.,
sunset was at 6:18pm and moonset at 7:39pm. Jesus Christ was born on
September 11, 3 B.C sometime in that eighty-one minute span of time
between 6:18pm and 7:39pm. Amazingly this corresponds to Tishri 1 on the
Jewish Calendar which is the First day of the festival of the Feast of
Trumpets. We will discuss the wonderful significance of this in a minute
but I also wanted to share that was another significant astronomical
display on September 11, 3 B.C.
From sunset of September 11, 3 B.C. to September 11, 3 B.C. Jupiter
and Regulus could be seen approaching conjunction before dawn. Although
the precise astronomical conjunction occurred on September 14, the angle
of observation and Jupiter’s slow apparent motion would have made their
close rendezvous obvious as early as the predawn hours of Thursday,
September 12, within hours of the Messiah’s birth. At that time the king
planet Jupiter could be seen approaching the king star Regulus in the
constellation of Leo, the sign of Judah from whose seed the Messiah, the
promised seed came.
Exactly one month before (on August 12) the world would have
witnessed the close conjunction of Jupiter (reckoned astrologically as
the Father) and Venus (the Mother) when they were only .07 degrees from
one another when they appeared as morning stars on the eastern horizon.
This was a very close union. But then, nineteen days later (August 31),
Venus came to within .36 degrees of Mercury in a very similar
astronomical display. Then, on September 11th, the New Moon
occurred which represented the Jewish New Year. This happened when
Jupiter (the King planet) was then approaching Regulus (the King star).
And, on September 14, Jupiter and Regulus came to their first of three
conjunctions in this extraordinary year. Then, over an eight month
period, Jupiter made its “crowning effect” over the King star Regulus.
There could hardly have been a better astronomical testimony to the
birth of the new messianic king from the Jewish point of view. Why?
Because every one of these celestial occurrences I have mentioned
happened with the Sun or planets being positioned within the
constellation of Leo the Lion (the constellation of Judah — from whence
the Messiah was destined to emerge) or in Virgo the Virgin. The apostle
John may have seen importance in these extraordinary occurrences when he
symbolically showed that Jesus was born at the New Moon of Tishri, the
Day of Trumpets (Revelation 12:1–3).
Jesus Was Born on the Day of Trumpets
If one can realize that the New Testament shows Jesus born on the Day
of Trumpets (the first day of Tishri ― the start of the Jewish civil
year) an impressive amount of symbolic features emerge on the biblical
and prophetic scenes. Before the period of the Exodus in the time of
Moses, this was the day that began the biblical year. It also looks like
this was the day when people were advanced one year of life ― no matter
at what month of the year they were actually born.
Notice that the patriarch Noah became 600 years of age “in the first month [Tishri], the first day of the month [later to be called the Day of Trumpets]” (Genesis 8:13). That was the very day when “Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry” (v. 13). This was not only Noah’s official birthday, it became a new birth after the Flood for the earth as well.
((NOTE - This passage does not state that this was his birthday, nor does it matter as a new birth. This really does not contribute to the overall case being made, nor take away from it. Also, this first day of the first month would put us in Nidan, not Tishri.))
There is more. Even the first day of creation mentioned in Genesis
1:1–5 could be reckoned as being this very day. The early Jews discussed
whether the actual creation took place in spring or in autumn. But
since the autumn commenced all biblical years before the Exodus (Exodus
12:2), and since all the fruit was then on the trees ready for Adam and
Eve to eat (Genesis 1:29; 2:9, 16–17), it suggests that the month of
Tishri was the creation month, beginning near the autumn. If so, then
the first day of creation mentioned in Genesis was also the first of
Tishri (at least, Moses no doubt intended to give that impression). This
means that not only was this the birthday of the new earth in Noah’s
day and what was later to become the Day of Trumpets on the Mosaic
calendar, but it was also the day which ushered in the original creation
of the heavens and the earth.
As shown before, among the Jews this day was called Rosh ha-Shanah (the
Feast of the New Year). The majority belief of Jewish elders (which
still dominates the services of the synagogues) was that the Day of
Trumpets was the memorial day that commemorated the beginning of the
world. Authorized opinion prevailed that the first of Tishri was the
first day of Genesis 1:1–5. It “came to be regarded as the birthday of the world.” It was even more than an anniversary of the physical creation. The Jewish historian Theodor H. Gaster states,
“Judaism regards New Year’s Day not merely as an anniversary
of creation ― but more importantly ― as a renewal of it. This is when
the world is reborn.”
Gaster’s insight is so germane to the interpretation of the
significance of biblical festivals that I will be referring to his
research several times in my following references.
When Was the “Last Trump”?
The matter does not stop there. Each of the Jewish months was
officially introduced by the blowing of trumpets (Numbers 10:10). Since
the festival year in which all the Mosaic festivals were found was seven
months long, the last month (Tishri) was the last month for a festival
trumpet. This is one of the reasons that the day was called “the Day of
Trumpets.” The last trump in the seven months’ series was always sounded
on this New Moon day. This made it the final trumpets’ day (Leviticus
23:24; Numbers 29:1).
This was the exact day that many of the ancient kings and rulers of
Judahreckoned as their inauguration day of rule. This procedure was
followed consistently in the time of Solomon, Jeremiah, and Ezra . The
Day of Trumpets was also acknowledged as the time for counting the years
of their kingly rule. Indeed, it was customary that the final ceremony
in the coronation of kings was the blowing of trumpets.
- For Solomon, “Blow ye the trumpet, and say, ‘God save king Solomon’” (1 Kings 1:34).
- For Jehu, “And [they] blew with trumpets, saying, ‘Jehu is king’” (2 Kings 9:13).
- At the enthronement of Jehoash, “The people of the land rejoiced, and blew with trumpets” (2 Kings 11:11).
There could well be a reflection of this symbolic feature in the New
Testament. The Day of Trumpets was the time for the start of the seventh
month (since the time of Moses), and the time for the “last trump” to
introduce festival months. Note that in the Book of Revelation, we have
the record of a heavenly angel who will blow the seventh and last
trumpet blast. And recall what happens at the exact time this “last
trump” is sounded.
“And the seventh angel sounded [blew the last trump]; and
there were great voices in heaven, saying, ‘The kingdoms of this world
are become the kingdoms of our Lord and of his Christ; and he shall
reign forever and ever [for the ages of the ages].’”Revelation 11:15
In New Testament parlance this shows the time of the coronation of Jesus, and it
In New Testament parlance this shows the time of the coronation of
Jesus, and it happens at the seventh (or last) trump in the Book of
Revelation ― the Day of Trumpets.
Further Significance of the Day of Trumpets
The early Jews also recognized that the Day of Trumpets was a
memorial day for considering those who had died. It was not a simple
type of “Memorial Day” that we moderns are accustomed to. Gaster said it
was a symbolic time when “the dead return to rejoin their descendants at the beginning of the year.” Such
a day was a time when Israel would rally to the call of God for the
inauguration of God’s kingdom on earth. Gaster also states this was the
time that became “a symbol of the Last Trump.” Since
the apostle Paul was Jewish, it is possible that his reference to the
“Last Trump” and the resurrection from the dead was also connected with
the same biblical theme. The “Last Trump” of the early Jews was when the
dead were remembered. To Paul the “Last Trump” was the time for Jesus’
second advent and the resurrection of the dead (1 Corinthians 15:52; 1
Thessalonians 4:16).
Truly, the Day of Trumpets theme is that of kingship. There may even
be a reference to this in the elevation of the patriarch Joseph to
kingship on this New Moon day which began the month of Tishri. Notice
that he had been in a dungeon for “two full years” (Genesis 41:1). It was not simply a two year period which Moses was intending, but the passage of two full years.
The implication is that the story of Joseph’s rise to kingship happened
on a New Year’s Day. This is manifest in Psalm 81, a New Year’s psalm
commemorating Joseph’s royal enthronement (Genesis 41:40). As with
Jesus, in Revelation 11:15, the kingdoms of the world became Joseph’s on
the day intended for coronations ― the day that later became the Day of
Trumpets. Of course, Pharaoh retained top leadership, but as the New
Testament shows, God the Father still maintains supreme rule over Jesus
even when Jesus is prophesied to rule the kingdoms of this world.
The Crowning of Kings
As we have shown from the Bible, the blowing of trumpets was the sign
that kings could then begin to rule (1 Kings 1:34; 2 Kings 9:13;
11:11). Jewish authorities long acknowledged this royal import to the
Day of Trumpets. Gaster states, “The Sovereignty of God is a dominant theme of the occasion [and] it is one of the cardinal features of New Year’s Day.” The
main issue that prevailed in the significance of the day was the
triumph of God as a king over all the forces of evil. The symbolic motif
of the Day of Trumpets, as Gaster shows, was God
“continually fighting His way to the Kingdom, continually
asserting His dominion, and continually enthroning Himself as sovereign
of creation. At New Year when the world was annually reborn that
sovereignty was evinced anew.”
The theological thrust of the early Jews within their synagogue
services for the Day of Trumpets was the fact that God rules over all
and that he is the King of kings. On Trumpets it was common to quote
Zechariah 14:16. “The king, the Lord of hosts.” Indeed, some scholars have suggested that psalms which begin “Yahweh is become king [or ‘The Lord reigns’]” (Psalm
93 and 97) were originally designed for recitation at the New Year
festival.” Recent study shows this to be true. It is postulated by many
scholars that in Israel, Yahweh was crowned annually at the “New Year feast of Yahweh.” The scholar Mowinckel has argued that the “enthronement psalms”
(Psalms 47, 93, 96–99) in which Yahweh reigns were a part of the
liturgy of the ancient synagogues. There is no doubt that this is true.
This was also the very day when Jesus was born.
Jesus as the King of Kings
The central theme of the Day of Trumpets is clearly that of
enthronement of the great King of kings. This was the general
understanding of the day in early Judaism and it is certainly that of
the New Testament. In Revelation 11:15, recall that the seventh angel
sounds his “last trump” and the kingdoms of this world become those of
Jesus. This happens at a time when a woman is seen in heaven with twelve
stars around her head and the Sun mid-bodied to her, with the Moon
under her feet. This is clearly a New Moon scene for the Day of
Trumpets.
And note: Professor Thorley who reviewed the first edition of my work
has shown that there are exactly twelve stars surrounding the head of
Virgo as we see them from earth. And indeed there are. If one will look
at Norton’s Star Atlas, twelve visible stars will be seen around Virgo’s
head. They are (according to astronomical terminology): (1) Pi, (2) Nu, (3) Beta (near the ecliptic), (4) Sigma, (5) Chi, (6) Iota — these six stars form the southern hemisphere around the head of Virgo. Then there are (7) Theta, (8) Star 60, (9) Delta, (10) Star 93, (11) Beta (the 2nd magnitude star) and (12) Omicron
— these last six form the northern hemisphere around the head of Virgo.
All these stars are visible and could have been witnessed by observers
on earth.
Thus, the description of the apostle John describes a perfectly
normal heavenly scene that could be recognized by all people. Here was
Virgo with twelve stars around her head, while the Sun was in uterine
position and the Moon under her feet. And again, the only time this
could have occurred in 3 B.C.E. was on the Day of Trumpets. This is when
the “king of kings” was born.
Another explanation of the Twelve Stars around the head of Virgo is
that it represents the headship position (the “head” of Virgo is
situated in the last ten degrees of Leo) for the beginning of the story
found within the Twelve Constellations as reckoned in the biblical
Zodiac. In the biblical Zodiac, the tribe of Judah (the Lion, or Leo)
was situated around the Tabernacle directly east of its entrance. This
meant that half of the tribe of Judah was south and the other half north
of the east/west line from the Holy of Holies through the court of
Israel and then eastward through the camp of Israel (in this case,
Judah) to encounter the altar outside the camp where the Red Heifer was
burnt to ashes. This means, unlike some Gentile reckonings which started
their zodiacal story with the zero line between Cancer and Leo (that
is, at the very commencement of Leo), the biblical Zodiac that Drs.
Bullinger and Seiss were talking about began with the 15th degree
of Leo (ofJudah). This signifies that the first constellation to be met
with in this celestial story would have been the “head” of Virgo the
Virgin which occupied the last ten degrees of Leo. So, John began his
story at this point.
The Significance of Being Born on New Year’s Day
The Day of Trumpets in the biblical and Jewish calendars is New
Year’s Day for commercial and royal reckonings (just as we have January
the first on our Roman calendar as the start of our New Year). This New
Year’s Day signified a time of “new beginnings” to all those in
Israelwho accepted the teachings of the Bible. As a matter of fact, the
Jews over the centuries have held to the belief that the Day of Trumpets
was a cardinal date in the history of Adam (our first parent). It was
the very day when Adam and Eve came to the recognition of whether to
obey God or to defy him (see The Complete Artscroll Machzor,
p.xvi). But that was not all that occurred on that day. No day in the
year could be reckoned as being of more esteemed value and symbolic
influence than Rosh Ha-Shanah. That day is important for the birth of the Messiah in several ways that are very profound in Jewish symbolism.
The book The Complete Artscroll Machzor gives some
chronological details that the early Jewish theologians and scholars
worked out from indications in the Old Testament to show when important
individuals were born or major events happened in association with their
lives. And what an array of significant things occurred on the Day of
Trumpets and the month of Tishri. The book gives a summary of accounts
found in the Jewish Talmud (Rosh Ha-Shanah 10b–11a).
Note what the Machzor states about this particular Day of Trumpets. The quotes are interesting and of value,
“The Patriarchs Abraham and Jacob were born on Rosh Ha-Shanah. Abraham was a new beginning for mankind after its [mankind’s] failure
to realize the promise of Adam and Noah. Jacob was a new beginning for
the Jewish people, for it was with him that Jews advanced from the
status of individuals to that of a united family on the threshold of
nationhood”
- Artscroll Machzor, p.xvi, italics and bracketed word mine
The Machzor does not stop with Abraham and Jacob. Look at the following quote,
“On Rosh Ha-Shanah God remembered three barren
women, the Matriarchs Sarah and Rachel, and Hannah the mother of the
prophet Samuel and decreed that they would give birth. Not only was Rosh Ha-Shanah a turning point in the lives of these great and worthy women, but the births of their children were momentous events for all Jewry, because they were the historic figures Isaac, Joseph, and Samuel.”
- Ibid., italics mine
If the Jewish people would realize that the New Testament in the Book
of Revelation (chapter 12:1–5) also places the birth of Jesus on the
very same Day of Trumpets, they might begin to understand just how
important Jesus is in a Jewish sense as well as to the world. The New
Testament states that he is the Messiah. He shares many similarities
with the births of Abraham, Jacob, Isaac, Joseph and Samuel. People
should begin to realize the significant coincidences of the birthdays of
these prominent men as understood by the Jewish people. And standing
out above them all, is the teaching of the apostle John that Rosh Ha-Shanah is also the birthday of Jesus.
More Significance of the Day of Trumpets
Jewish chronological evaluations show other important events associated with the Day of Trumpets (Rosh Ha-Shanah). The Machzor continues,
“On Rosh Ha-Shanah, Joseph was freed from an
Egyptian prison after twelve years of incarceration. He became viceroy
of Egypt, provider to the world during the years of famine, and the
leader of Jacob’s family. God’s plan called for Joseph to set in motion
the years of exile and enslavement that were the necessary preparation
for Israel’s freedom, nationhood, and emergence in a blaze of miracles
to accept the Torah and march to the Land of Israel.”
- Ibid.
This shows Rosh ha-Shanah as a day of freedom. There is more on the theme of freedom. The Machzor continues:
“On Rosh Ha-Shanah, the Jewish people in Egypt stopped their slave labor [they began their time of liberty and freedom], while they waited for the Ten Plagues to play themselves out so that Moses could lead them to freedom”
- Ibid., words in brackets mine
The Final Festivals of Israel
As I stated, this day at the beginning of the month of Tishri was the
day when the seventh trump (or the last trump) was sounded to introduce
the final month when the festivals of God ordained at the time of Moses
would be held. This last trump is mentioned by the apostle Paul as
heralding the events associated with the Second Advent of Christ back to
this earth (1 Corinthians 15:52 and 1 Thessalonians 4:16–17). This last
or final trump is also mentioned by the apostle John in Revelation
11:15 as the warning sound that theKingdomofGodwill soon be coming to
earth. And soon after, the seven angels of the Book of Revelation will
bring on the seven last plagues (in the same fashion as the Jewish
analyzers of chronology saw that from the same day of Rosh Ha-Shanah the
Ten Plagues were sent forth on Egypt in the time of Moses).
What is certain is the fact that the Book of Revelation (with its
teaching that Jesus was born on the Day of Trumpets) is giving us in a
symbolic way the time for the nativity of Jesus whom Christians
considered to be the king of the world. He was prophesied to lead all
people into a time of freedom and profound peace. This is the central
reason why the apostle John in Revelation 12:1–5 shows that the birth of
Jesus occurred within the first few minutes (the twilight period) of
the Day of Trumpets that works out to be September 11th in 3 B.C.E.
This occurs on Tishri 1 in the Fall (Sept.-Oct.). On this day the High Priest blows the ram’s horn announcing the beginning of the New Year. Jewish Tradition gives this day a fourfold meaning:
- New Years day.
- The day of remembrance.
- The day of judgment.
- The day of blowing the Shofar.
On this day Isaiah 60-61 is read in the Synagogues to teach the lesson that eventually the Lord will be revealed as King and
be accepted as the ruler of the world. Isn’t it amazing that Jesus read
from section of scripture in the synagogue atNazareth for his first
sermon as he described his ministry?
Luke 4:16-21 (NIV): He went to Nazareth, where he had been brought
up, and on the Sabbath day he went into the synagogue, as was his
custom. He stood up to read,
And the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him. Unrolling it, he found the place where it is written:
“The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to
proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for
the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to set the oppressed
free,
To proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.”
Then he rolled up the scroll, gave it back to the attendant and sat
down. The eyes of everyone in the synagogue were fastened on him.
He began by saying to them, “Today this scripture is fulfilled in your hearing.”
So on September 11, 3 B.C. Jesus Christ, God’s only begotten Son was
born in Bethlehem. Unknown to the people, the trumpet sounds which blew
from morning to evening in Jerusalem heralded the birth of the King of
Kings and Lord of Lords. What a glorious day in the redemption of
mankind for unto this world a Savior was born.
The Magi or wise men did not come to see Jesus until he was about one
and one half years old as they begin to track six astronomical events
in Leo that captured their attention. These events are as follows:
1. Jupiter and Venus in conjunction in Leo: August 12, 3 B.C.
2. Jupiter and Regulus in conjunction in Leo: September 14, 3 B.C.
3. Jupiter and Regulus in conjunction in Leo: February 17, 2 B.C.
4. Jupiter and Regulus in conjunction in Leo: May 8, 2 B.C.
5. Jupiter and Venus in conjunction in Leo: June 17, 2 B.C.
6. Massing of planets Jupiter, Mars, Mercury, and Venus in Leo with Jupiter and Mars in conjunction: August 27th 3 B.C.
The final comjunction in Leo with its massing of planets convinced
the Magi that a king had been born in Judea. They began to journey to
find the king of the Judeans shortly after this last event. The
Bible makes one breathless in its accuracy and integrity.
