EP: 383 The True Star of the Magi with Caleb Jones

Blurry Creatures

Science, Nature, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 4.5K Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2025

⏱️ 110 minutes

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Summary

What was the Star of Bethlehem? A miraculous light? An angel? A comet? Attorney and biblical researcher Caleb Jones brings a library of books and years of astronomical study to the basement to present the most compelling answer we've ever heard: the Star of the Magi was the combined light of Jupiter and Venus merging into a single point of light in the sky, not once, but twice.On August 12, 3 BC, a rare planetary conjunction appeared in the eastern sky for just ninety minutes before dawn and was visible only to those whose job it was to watch the stars. Ten months later, on June 17, 2 BC, an even more spectacular once-in-a-millennium conjunction occurred, visible to everyone, setting over the hill of Bethlehem at the exact location tradition holds as the house of Joseph and Mary.Caleb walks us through astronomy, ancient calendars, the chronology of Herod's death, the census of Quirinius, and why the world still counts time based on the reign of Jesus Christ. This isn't just about solving a Christmas mystery. It's about how God speaks to people where they are and even through systems He told Israel not to use. The Magi were pagan astrologers doing pagan astrology, and God used the very stars they were watching to lead them to His Son. They arrived with gold, frankincense, and myrrh, and they worshiped. The star wasn't magic. It was astronomy. And somehow, that makes it even more miraculous. Merry Christmas from Blurry Creatures! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The Star of the Magi is the combined light of Jupiter and Venus into a single point of light in the sky.
0:06.0	And so whenever the scripture talks about the star, it's talking about Jupiter and Venus that are so close together
0:15.0	that they look like a single point of light in the sky.
0:18.0	The history of our Earth is so different from what we can imagine.
0:23.6	The Smithsonian, that if they found out about a large skeleton somewhere, was to go get it.
0:31.6	I'm going to assume at least one person is right, because if one person's right to bust the paradigm it all goes back to
0:39.3	the fallen chair and the problem with the modern day church they have a very truncated view of
0:43.9	the supernatural this backdrop that's just pregnant with all kinds of meaning associated with this
0:49.5	mount hermond event and this guy defects from the kingdom event.
0:56.2	And this guy defects from the kingdom.
0:58.6	That's a big deal.
1:05.3	All right.
1:06.7	It's Christmas time.
1:08.3	Again.
1:09.4	Again.
1:09.7	It's Groundhog Day. Yeah. And the good news is I haven't heard Mariah Carey yet. And, but it's coming. We all know it's coming. But we got Caleb Jones in here. We're going to do a blurry Christmas episode. I wish we had some sort of, we should have decorated the studio in Christmas gear, but welcome the show show. Thank you. We're excited.
1:27.7	We're going to do the star of Bethlehem today.
1:29.5	We are.
1:30.2	And get into it.
1:31.6	But first, you listen to the show.
1:33.4	So you can tell us a little bit about yourself.
1:36.0	And then what are your thoughts on Bigfoot?
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