Notes for Wednesday Dec.28

1) Read Mt. 2:1-12 for tomorrow.
2) Look at Is. 60
3)Look at Ps. 72.What led the early church to link these passages with the story of the Magi?
4) Why do you think the Magi-wise men in the gospel but the singular is a magician is Acts?
5) Is the story against, or in favor of, astrology?
6) Herod did kill his own children if he felt that they threatened his power.
7) What does it tell about Herod that he would use such a wide age range to murder?
8) Is he being compared to the Egyptian ruler of the Exodus?
9) The star may refer to the star of Jacob in Num 24:7, 17-19.
10) Bethlehem falls back to the quoted Micah 5:2 and Jer. 23:5. We have a negative referral to Galilee in John 7:42 that the messiah arises from a different quarter.
11) I have heard the gifts refer to royalty, worship, and anointing for death. They appear together in Ex. 30:5, ,7 and 34, 23 and 34. Notice a registration is mentioned at 11.