[Alberta's Child]

It was a supernatural miracle of divine origin.

It seems to me that this would contradict just about everything else about the birth of Jesus that we read in Scripture. One of the defining characteristics of the Incarnation was that it was ordinary in almost every sense as humans would understand it. Jesus didn't just appear on earth as a grown man and begin His ministry. He was born to a human mother, and under ordinary and modest circumstances (not as a royal figure).

I find it far more remarkable that the Magi were driven by signs in the sky that were visible to everyone but whose meaning was only known to a select few. In the case of the Magi, they were likely acting on information that had been passed down from the prophet Daniel during the Babylonian captivity. As astrologers they would have been familiar with the night sky, and would have looked there for signs of what Daniel had foretold.

Everything about this narrative would be indicative of how Jesus lived on this earth for a brief period of time -- as the Son of God living and working miracles in plain sight among ordinary people, with ordinary disciples following Him.

[Ezekiel]

What was the Star of Bethlehem?*

Ironic, considering that it's not just a footnote of history. It's the subject of an annual search party! Diligent.

Alberta's Child: I find it far more remarkable that the Magi were driven by signs in the sky that were visible to everyone but whose meaning was only known to a select few.

Anything outside of the conventional, established, accepted consensus trajectory-that-identifies-as-a-path-to-insight gets the boot. Just ask Joseph what happened to him when he shared his dreams. Gone!

Twinkle, twinkle, little star
How I wonder what you are
Up above the world so high
Like a diamond in the sky
Twinkle, twinkle, little star
How I wonder what you are

menatznetz kokhav katan
beshamayim ohr lavan...

Twinkle Twinkle Little Star in Hebrew For Kids ("Babee")

sidenote: kokhav katan, little star [כוכב קטן] = 207 = ohr, light [אור]

Matthew 2:9 When they had heard the king, they departed; and, lo, the star, which they saw in the east**, went before them, till it came and stood over where the young child was:

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8

And when they were come into the house [בית],

Koch Snowflake:

"There's a mathematician named Gunter Janek. You know him?"

Cryptography systems are based on mathematical problems...

...so complex they cannot be solved without a key.

Janek figured out a way to solve those problems without the key...

...and he hard-wired it into that chip. - Turn it off.

kokavit [כוכבית]: asterisk, "little star"

Matthew 2⁸ And he sent them to Bethlehem***, and said, Go and search diligently for the young child...

 

"The letter U (יו) is the twenty-first letter in the Latin alphabet."

Shines a whole new light on the graphic, because

U: yud-vav (יו), is the holy name that is close to God's name and not meant to be used as just a number.

Janek figured out a way to solve those problems without the key..

10 When they saw the star, they rejoiced with exceeding great joy. 11 And when they were come into the house, they saw the young child with Mary his mother:

Number pad on laptop

"There isn't a government on this planet that wouldn't kill us all for that thing."

Janek is the diminuitive of Jan, i.e. John. John could be anyone, even an Alias. John Dough. He had the key, in any case. Elias:

According to Anthony Wood, the collection filled twelve wagons when it was transferred to Oxford. It would have been more, but a large part of Ashmole's own collection, destined for the museum, including antiquities, books, manuscripts, prints, and 9,000 coins and medals, was destroyed in a disastrous fire in the Middle Temple on 26 January 1679.

Elias_Ashmole -- Ashmolean_Museum

Example of how destroyed valuables can be saved, replaced by something even more valuable.

The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.

You want it fast or you want it good? You no rush Michelangelo:

In 1501, on Rosh Hashanah, 5262,

He began carving the statue early in the morning on 13 September, a month after he was awarded the contract. He would work on the massive statue for more than two years.

"Observe my statues!" ~ Michelangelo

The 8th day is the first day, one level up.

It goes on. ∞

Forget what you knew
We'll start life anew
Down on the Corner of Love.

☞ STARS OVER BAKERSFIELD:

Joseph dropped out of sight. He was presumed dead because history repeats.
As it turned out, he returned safe and sound in the end. He was not only wealthy, he was a just man because in all that time, he got the chance to be himself. Therefore, he could get anything that he asked for. Anything.

The digital root of a star number is always 1 or 4, and progresses in the sequence 1, 4, 1, but those who won't hear Moses and the Prophets (great name for a band) won't be persuaded though one rose from the dead.

I wonder how many presume that the videos I link will lead to Bible lessons, i.e. some guy up on a stage going on and on. They do... to the songs of famous artists. Three minutes give or take. To new heights on the shoulders of giants.

King David has a real vision for the singers and musicians. He passed it all along to Solomon...

Love Letters in the Sand

sand: חול, see also
outside the land: חו"ל

because who ever reads the fine print?

*Probably not a star.
** asterisk
*** "house of bread"; bread (lechem, לחם) = 78