Welcome to part 2 of Dr. Jeff Chadwick on the topic of Christmas.

Go back to verse 1 of chapter 2 in Matthew, which says,

When Jesus is born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod,

there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem.

There's an immediacy in that verse.

It doesn't say two years later they came to Jerusalem.

It says, When Jesus was born, wise men came to Jerusalem.

God asked, Where's the King of the Jews?

We've seen a star in the east.

Now the east is going to be Mesopotamia.

It's going to be either Babylon area or Persia area.

By the way, who were the wise men?

We always debate this.

They're called Madgye, which means magicians, really.

But it actually means mystics.

There were Jewish mystics even back then.

I think the wise men were Jewish.

They were maybe Persian or Babylonian Jews.

But nobody else was reading Hebrew scripture other than Jews.

Nobody else is going to know the prophecy of a star rising in the east that you see,

like say from numbers 24 or other places.

We know there was a real star.

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