The Wise Men from Babylon worshipped Jesus when He was about 1 or 2 years old.
Matthew 2;1-12…………amplified bible

Verse 1
Wise men (astrologers) from the East ………..from Babylon or beyond

Verse 2
Where is the King of the Jews? We have seen His star in the East at it’s rising, and have come to worship Him.
These men are from the learned class, advisors to the Kings.
They are (perhaps) from Babylon, ………….perhaps descendants of the Exiled Jews , who stayed in Babylon,………..or Gentiles who obtained the OT Scriptures from the Exiles and Daniel.
The OT Scriptures were the finest literature ever produced in the world’s history,………and

the history of Sodom and Gommorah, Pharoah, Moses, and the Exodus, and King Cyrus let the Jews go home from the exile ,…………..these great, notorious events of history (and other Bible stories) were fresh and famous in the minds of these men,………they had studied the OT Scriptures with fascination, and they knew the OT Messianic Prophecies.
The ruins of the Tower of Babel were in Babylon at that time.
The history of the Flood was proverbial throughout the world.

The Exploits for God by David and others were proverbial and famous, world-wide, for centuries. These Wise Men knew the history of the OT Scriptures,……..and they knew the secular history of the world, which jived with the Scriptures.

It had been only about 500 years since Daniel had served in Babylon among the Wise Men, so they had the King’s records of Daniel.
The Wise Men kept their own records, and passed them down to successive generations.

So, these Wise Men knew a lot.
They had high standing, for they had access to enter Herod’s Throne-room.
They traveled with a large group of soldiers, to protect themselves and their treasures from the bandit-infested lands.

And they wanted to see the Messiah.

Verse 3
The whole city of jerusalem was stirred up, when they entered.

Verse 7
The Star rose in the East and guided the Men to the Child’s home…………This was a super-natural star.

Verse 10
When they saw the star (over the place where the Child was), they were thrilled with ecstatic joy.
This was super-natural.

Verse 11
The 3 gifts have meaning.
Gold = royalty……..Jesus is King

Incense = prayers of the high priests rising up to heaven
Jesus is our great High Priest

Myrrh = burial oil………….the Death of Christ is THE PURCHASE PRICE PAID FOR OUR SALVATION FROM SIN!
Savior!

so, Jesus Christ is King, Priest, Savior!

The 3 gifts were expensive and valuable……….they probably financed the family’s trip into Egypt……..Matthew 2;13-15




Why didn't Israel get excited about Jesus, at this time?
Why didn't they see the Star?
They were un-repentant, and were un-interested in God.............God had closed their Spiritual understanding and eyes and ears.

Remember, the Pharisees were "children of the devil".

And , it was not the TIME for the Messiah to be revealed.
God had a specific Plan to work, and God worked His Plan.



Lord Jesus, please open our eyes , so we can see what we should see.
And thank you for what you have revealed to us!

You mentioned "Supernatural Star" a couple of times..

Other than the fact that many people think it was a UFO.. (make me laugh) It was more than likely an Angel, glowing like a star in the night.

This does make sense though, thanks for the indepth analasys!

thanks, jason

i hadn't thot of the star being an angel

Many Jews did not desire to return to Jerusalem. "The Nethinims" were willing to. Why did Ezra call for an actual Levi
to be sent for, when none where found! Futhermore why did he send a Nethinim to find them, when previously the Nethinim
were just servants to the real priests of Levi. There were already 392 Nethinim accounted for in the first wave of
settlers, 220 more joined them for a total of 612. Yet, there were only 38 Levites and they had to be asked to join.

Ezr 8:15-20 And I gathered them together to the river that runneth to Ahava; and there abode we in tents three days:
and I viewed the people, and the priests, and found there none of the sons of Levi ... And I sent them with commandment
unto Iddo the chief at the place Casiphia, and I told them what they should say unto Iddo, and to his brethren the Nethinims
... that they should bring unto us ministers for the house of our God ... And by the good hand of our God upon us they
brought us a man of understanding, of the sons of Mahli, the son of Levi, the son of Israel; and Sherebiah, with his sons
and his brethren, eighteen ... And Hashabiah, and with him Jeshaiah of the sons of Merari, his brethren and their sons,
twenty; Also of the Nethinims, whom David and the princes had appointed for the service of the Levites, two hundred and
twenty Nethinims: all of them were expressed by name.

Fausset's Bible Dictionary
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Iddo - Chief of those who met at Casiphia (between Babylon and Jerusalem) to join in the second caravan returning under
Ezra in the reign of Artaxerxes Longimanus, 458 B.C. Iddo was one of the 220 Nethinims who joined in the return.

The Nethinims use to dwell with the Amalekites (Haman might have been, very possibly) before they moved to Hamath (Hemeth)
or Syrian Ecbatana. Num 24:18-22.

1Sa 15:6-9 And Saul said unto the Kenites, Go, depart, get you down from among the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them:
for ye shewed kindness to all the children of Israel, when they came up out of Egypt. So the Kenites departed from among the
Amalekites. And Saul smote the Amalekites from Havilah until thou comest to Shur, that is over against Egypt. And he took
Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword. But Saul and the
people spared Agag, and the best of the sheep, and of the oxen, and of the fatlings, and the lambs, and all that was good,
and would not utterly destroy them: but every thing that was vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly.

1Ch 2:55 And the families of the scribes which dwelt at Jabez; the Tirathites, the Shimeathites, and Suchathites. These are
the Kenites that came of Hemath, the father of the house of Rechab.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambyses_II
The death of Cambyses
Meanwhile in Persia the king's brother Smerdis (Bardiya) rose against him and was acknowledged throughout Asia, although it
was later claimed by Darius, after he had killed him and claimed the throne for himself, that this was not in fact the
genuine Smerdis but an impostor, a Magian (Magi) named Gaumata, Smerdis having been murdered some three years previously.
Cambyses attempted to march against him, but, seeing probably that success was impossible, died by his own hand (March 522).
This is the account of Darius, Cambyses' lance-bearer at the time, which certainly must be preferred to the traditions of
Herodotus and Ctesias, which ascribe his death to an accident, although it has also been speculated that Cambyses may in
fact have been murdered by Darius as the first step to usurping the empire for himself. According to Herodotus (3.64) he
died in the Syrian Ecbatana, i.e. Hamath; Josephus (Antiquites xi. 2. 2) names Damascus; Ctesias, Babylon, which is
absolutely impossible. Cambyses was buried in Pasargadae. The remains of his tomb were identified in 2006.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magian
The Magi (singular Magus, from Latin, via the Greeks; Old English: Mage; from the Old Persian magus) were a tribe from
ancient Media, who prior to the conquest of the Medes by the Achaemenid Empire in 550 BC were responsible for religious and
funerary practices. Later they accepted the Zoroastrian religion, not without changing the original message of its founder,
Zarathustra (Zoroaster).

Haman was a very cunning and determined man. The fact this took a generations to play out as relating to the cause, is even
more interesting.

Deu 25:19 Therefore it shall be, when the LORD thy God hath given thee rest from all thine enemies round about, in the land
which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance to possess it, that thou shalt blot out the remembrance of Amalek from
under heaven; thou shalt not forget it.

Est 3:1 After these things did king Ahasuerus promote Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, and advanced him, and set his
seat above all the princes that were with him.

Several different commentaries
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The Agagite - The Jews generally understand by this expression “the descendant of Agag,” the Amalekite monarch of 1 Sam. 15.
Who was spared by Saul, but destroyed by Samuel; whom both the Targums make to descend from Amalek, and to be of the stock or
family of Agag, the common name of the kings of Amalek; as Josephus states.

Est 3:5-6 And when Haman saw that Mordecai bowed not, nor did him reverence, then was Haman full of wrath. And he thought
scorn to lay hands on Mordecai alone; for they had shewed him the people of Mordecai: wherefore Haman sought to destroy all
the Jews that were throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus, even the people of Mordecai.


The Kenites are the Sons of Cain, the Nephinim, and the Magi are the same, and that these returning scribes have tryed to
skew the Bible, to show themselves in a more favorable light! But there still the tares.

Matt 13:24-43
¶ Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed
in his field: But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way. But when the blade
was sprung up, and brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares also. So the servants of the householder came and said
unto him, Sir, didst not thou sow good seed in thy field? from whence then hath it tares? He said unto them, An enemy
hath done this. The servants said unto him, Wilt thou then that we go and gather them up? But he said, Nay; lest while
ye gather up the tares, ye root up also the wheat with them. Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of
harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather
the wheat into my barn.Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard
seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field: Which indeed is the least of all seeds: but when it is grown, it is the
greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof.

Another parable spake he unto them; The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three
measures of meal, till the whole was leavened. {measures: the word in the Greek is a measure containing about a peck
and a half, wanting a little more than a pint

All these things spake Jesus unto the multitude in parables; and without a parable spake he not unto them: That it might
be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things which have
been kept secret from the foundation of the world.

Then Jesus sent the multitude away, and went into the house: and his disciples came unto him, saying, Declare unto us the
parable of the tares of the field. He answered and said unto them, He that soweth the good seed is the Son of man;
The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one;
The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels. As therefore
the tares are gathered and burned in the fire; so shall it be in the end of this world. The Son of man shall send forth
his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity; {things...: or,
scandals} And shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.Then shall the righteous
shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.
¶