Tuesday, January 27, 2015

MORE ON THE STAR OF BETHLEHEM

Are you ready to witness the star that signals the coming of the Son of Man once again?

Here is the description of what the first signal was like:
" New stars have appeared again and again. It was in 125 BC that a star, so bright as to be seen in the day-time, suddenly appeared. It was this that caused HIPPARCHUS to draw up his catalogue of stars, which has been handed down to us by PTOLEMY (150 AD). This new star would show the latitude, passing at that time immediately overhead at midnight, every twenty-four hours; while the prophecy would give the longitude as the land of Jacob. Having these two factors, it would be only a matter of observation, and easy for the Magi to find the place where it would be vertical, and thus to locate the very spot of the birth of Him of whom it was the sign, for they emphatically called it "His Star." - E.W Bullinger 1893 The witness of the stars-

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