According to the Gospel of Matthew, Jesus birth was proclaimed by the celestial bodies or constellations as a lesser light declaring the greater ‘Light of the World’ in a shining display and wonderment to His heavenly glory as the ‘Star who was born’, Isaiah 9:1-7, Numbers 24:17.
I’m not sure what this star really represented as this word could have been used to refer to other bright objects in the sky. Some academicians report the “Star of Bethlehem” to have been a planetary alignment while others believe it to be a comet, supernova, or some other kind of miraculous heavenly body.
Whatever the occurrence, it is more astounding to consider the correlation between the Son as the Creator of Light, who under the Sun, is given to enlighten everyone’s path, John 1:9, as offering them hope and yet the very eyes which He formed to reveal His light, were blinded to His identity, as a king, a people, and a ruling nation tried to extinguish Him like a smoldering wick, John 1:10-14.
Though these inanimate space rocks would praise Him, Luke 19:40, those who were created in His very image would use such stones as an attempt to condemn Him finally leading to His mocking exaltation as a King who was only worthy of a crown of thorns and a wooden throne of a cross as a pledge of allegiance and solidarity in their lifting Him up. Yet remarkably, the One who would die would utter the characteristic words of His salvific mission of forgiveness resulting in good will towards men, the likes of who gave them life, Luke 2:14, 23:34, Mt.1:21.
Though it was according to the Father’s plan for the Christ to suffer and die for a specific purpose at a precise time and place, yet even after this event, His death sentence is proclaimed through murderous acts of martyrdom to banning His person from of a Holiday which bears His title.
For some, the memory of Jesus, at best, is represented only in seasonal songs or perhaps a play as keeping Him in a far away place a long time ago as confining Him to the nurture of a mother as a helpless and poor child who was born in a manger all on a ‘Silent Night’.
Either way, Christ as heralded by angels or by the prophetic voice of Isaiah may be an unbelievable message for some or a message about unbelief for others, as treated indifferently by the former or hostilely by the latter, nonetheless from the prestigious wise men to the humble shepherds, they saw the Light as believing the message with great joy, Isaiah 53, Luke 2:10. Do you?
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