DANIEL 2:43 PROJECT - Who Are 'They'? by Casey Green - Entities of the NWO

 

FaceLikeTheSun

"A couple months ago, I was contacted by someone who said they had been doing research into things concerning the Vatican, Pope, and the Alien phenomenon. With so many topics to discuss in the "conspiracy community" I believe we have forgotten, or been distracted from what the true Great Deception will be."

Childhoods End – The Coming Great Deception…

L.A. Marzulli's Blog

December 15, 2015 / lamarzulli

Please take a good look at the picture.

Now take a look at the Baphomet statue which was unveiled this year.

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Similarities anyone?

This is where we are as a culture, where we are constantly being bombarded by the media, pop culture, the record industry, movies and TV.  Now, Arthur C. Clarke’s, Childhoods End, is being televised on the SCI-FI channel.  I’m going to watch it on the net at some point today.

In my Nephilim Trilogy, the third book is called, The Revealing. It is the last book in the series and it ends with hundreds of UFOs appearing in the skies above earth.  The character Johanen tells the protagonist MacKenzie, or Mac, that they—these “intruders”—will tell the world they created us, genetically manipulated us, started the world’s first civilizations and religions and now at this critical juncture in human history they, The Overlords (although I don’t refer to them as that in the book, I’m using Clarke’s verbiage.) are here and they will usher mankind into a golden age.

The problem is this, the overlords or what I believe are the entities that are in the craft, are from the second heaven and are in fact, in my opinion, The Fallen Angels.  They are—as Jacque Vallee states—messengers of deception.  They come bearing gifts and knowledge but with a price.

We are told in The Biblical Prophetic Narrative that there will be a one world religious system at the end of days.  When we look at the global religious tension, and realize the disparity between religious ideology this prophecy seems to be absurd!  Yet, what was written will come to pass. What was foretold will unfold.

It’s going to happen and I would posit the way it does maybe will be with a scenario just like Childhoods End, depicts.

In closing todays post.  If these are the last days, and I believe they are, then we’re right on track and events are proceeding as planned.  The Fallen One and those who serve him, will reveal themselves at some point.  We are in the midst of a Cosmic Regime Change.  The King is going to return because that’s the only way to oust the evil entities who control the planet and wish to destroy mankind.  The Fallen Cherub wants to be worshipped.  He will set his man, The Anti-Messiah, in the rebuilt temple in Jerusalem.  In the end, The Rider on the White Horse, Yeshua/Jesus will return with the armies of heaven riding with Him.  This is the only solution to what mankind faces.  He will set up his Millennial kingdom on earth and once more, He will rule from Jerusalem. 

Zionist TV Commercial shows Demons beheading 'Sheeple'

R$E

Oct 26, 2015

Scion TV Commercial / Anti-Christian Propaganda featuring demons coming up from under the earth through the manhole, wolves in sheep's clothing, red car to represent the beast or red horse of the apocalypse, beheading of the sheep.

End Time Current Events: 7-7-15

scan over this and check out the links - - while some of the links are to sites that I would consider fear-mongering shills, etc, there is also a lot of information that is useful

End Time Current Events: 7-7-15  Contending For Truth - Scott Johnson

Greece Votes NO – Let The Chaos Begin…
Marc Faber: Greek 'Contagion' Likelihood Very High - 'Wake Up, Greece Will Come To Your Neighborhood Very Soon' 
PAPER: GREEK BANKS PREPARE TO RAID DEPOSITS
WARNING! “Economic Armageddon just hit Europe.”
Caution Some Language: Greek Anarchists Beat Up And Kick Out Riot Police
Bill Fleckenstein – 'There Is No Time Left' As Greek Crisis Is Poised To Go Global, Plus A Bonus Q&A 
Zimbabwe To Make You Think…'They went from set for life here in Zim to not being able to afford a loaf of bread in 2 days.' 
There Is NO WAY Out Of A Pan-Global Economic Collapse--By Gregory Mannarino
 
Officials: US jets scramble to intercept Russian bombers off California, Alaska coasts on July 4
 
Exterminating 40 Million Americans In Re-Education Camps Is the Goal: Do you think that mall conversions and school conversions to FEMA camps coupled with stadium and arena conversions add up to 80 million Americans incarcerated &..! 
 
Tom DeLay Knows Of Secret DOJ Memo To Legalize '12 New Perversions,' Including Bestiality And Pedophilia
The Ten Plagues Of Gay Marriage: Conservatives Warn Of Terrorist Attacks, War And Prison Due To SCOTUS Ruling
Tom DeLay Urges Americans To Defy The 'Ten' Justices Of The Supreme Court
 
EU Security Head: “Political Islam” is the Future of Europe
SLAUGHTER IN THE AMPHITHEATER:
ISIS forces child executioners to shoot Syrian soldiers...
Carried out in front of bloodthirsty crowds at ancient ruin...
Militants claim fired rockets at Israel from Sinai...
Pennsylvania Public School Teachers Attend Mosque To Better Serve Muslim Students
 
California Family Supports 4-Year-Old’s Decision To Transition From Male To Female
California’s rural poor hit hardest as groundwater vanishes in long drought 
California dumping water because they conserved too much
 
Oregon launches program to tax drivers by the mile...
Oregon declares war on Christian faith 

Video: Man Gets 8 MONTHS in Federal Prison For Driving Away From Internal Checkpoint yet illegal aliens are allowed to pour into America everyday and given every incentive to do so!!!
 
Where is the Mainstream Media Outrage?? BRUTAL FOOTAGE of Unsuspecting Navy Veteran Walking with a Cane Knocked Out by a Black Thug in “Knockout Attack” (VIDEO) The Navy veteran NEVER saw it coming.
HORROR! Black Youths Mock and Laugh at Unconscious and Bloody Victim After July 4th Beatdown (VIDEO)--Police had to rescue the man from an attacking mob of about forty Black people
 
Illegal Alien Confesses to Murdering Wife with Hammer in Texas -- Deported Four Times...
La Raza to host national conference...Hillary to address...
110,000 African immigrants resettled in Minnesota (many Muslim)...Townhall gets heated...
Screaming Illegal Aliens Disrupt Ann Coulter Signing...Destroy books...
She Fires Back: 'At least they weren't molesting any 4-year-olds'...
Trump defends inflammatory comments & asks: Who is doing the raping?
WASH POST LEAD FRIDAY: Obama goes for integration over deportation for illegals...
'Infectious disease pouring across the open border'...
 
Kenyan lawmaker warns Obama not to push abortion during trip
Pioneering doctor reveals the science behind abortion reversals - and the babies saved
REPORT: Schools implant IUDs in 6th grade girls -- no parental notice...
Judge blocks KS ban on 2nd-trimester abortion procedure
 
Reunification Rumors Swirl As Pope Francis Makes Overtures To Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill
 
The Kennel--By: Elijah Green, a.k.a.: Kent Hovind--Kent Hovind Exposes the United States Prison System... From the Inside
 
New eAudio: End Time Current Events: 7-5-15
End Time Current Events: 7-2-15
 
Lifetime TV’s “Preach” – False Prophetesses of The End Times
CW’s ‘The Messengers’ – End Times Deception
Preacher’s Daughters Season 3: Children of Blasphemy
 
From: LA
Subject: Temple Mount news...
Dr. Johnson, This is  the Temple Institute Facebook page - apparently, they have a big news announcement in July 12! (news is near the top right hand) https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Temple-Institute/22738684968
 
From: AHB
Subject: Woman Faces Jail Time for Heroically Saving Dog on Tracks
http://www.lifewithdogs.tv/2015/07/woman-faces-jail-time-for-heroically-saving-dog-on-tracks/ "Who knew that inanimate train tracks could be put into such jeopardy, and are afforded more protection than living beings?"
 
From: LA
To: Scott Johnson
Subject: Could you add this to your next ETCE newsletter?
bro Scott, I just saw this gospel tract exposing the gap theory through and through - it is excellent! http://creation.com/images/pdfs/flyers/gap-theory.pdf
It really pains me that this damnable heresy has caused a lot of confusion and divisions among the KJB body of Christ, as KJB ministries like Greg Miller are really pushing it now. And this heresy is also in KJB commentaries like Peter Ruckman's and David Hoffman's. Believe me, I am staunchly KJB, but again it really pains me to see contending for the faith KJB ministries pushing it now. The truth about this heresy needs to be exposed! bro Steven
 
10 Faraday Cages You Can Make at Home

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“The Plan”, the organization, Pre-existence, Lucifer and his hierarchy expelled from the heavenlies, Atlantis, Mind Control, DID, programmed alters, Alice Bailey, ascended masters and more.

Beyond the Physical Realm

Momentary Zen with Zen Garcia, Dan Duval and Carolyn Hamlett Part 1

This painting of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon 

very much resembles the Atlantis I was transported to.

Topics covered on this program: “The Plan”, the organization, Pre-existence, Lucifer and his hierarchy expelled from the heavenlies, Atlantis, Mind Control, DID, programed alters, Alice Bailey, ascended masters and more. Part 2 will be in about a month. 

THE BABYLON CODE: KEY TO UNDERSTANDING THE COMING ONE WORLD ECONOMIC, GOVERNMENTAL, AND RELIGIOUS SYTEM

By Paul McGuire
June 2, 2015

NewsWithViews.com

Our entire planet is convulsing from the massive changes coming to our economic, political, and religious systems. Watching our television news and social media, millions of people are simply overwhelmed by events; it is as if our collective unconscious is being infected with dread and despair.

Images of ISIS terrorists wearing black robes and masks beheading journalists and innocent women in their attempt to establish a new Islamic caliphate are both horrific and barbaric. In response to this terrorist threat from an extreme Islamic religious sect, Pope Francis and the Vatican and a rising number of “Evangelical’ churches are calling for a more inclusive one world religion where all faiths merge.

Economic news of the potential for Greece to default on its loans and the rising practice of “bank bail-ins” where banks are now seizing the deposits of the common man in order to pay off their debts, threatens to move across the EU like falling dominoes and eventually into the U.S. To prevent the possibility of a global economic collapse a New International Economic Order is being set in motion where the dollar will not be the de facto world’s currency, but something like the BRICS nations (Brazil, Russia, India, and China) proposed basket of competing currencies, which would constitute a new one world currency.

Simultaneously, Denmark is its way on to being the world's first cashless society, as the government proposes new laws that will allow retailers to refuse cash payment.

Already a third of the population uses the Danske Bank app called MobilePay, which links your mobile to other users' phones and allows you to confirm payments with a simple swipe on your smartphone's screen. In the UK, cashless technologies like Paym, and in the U.S. Google Wallet allow people buy and sell without cash. Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, and Iceland are now leading the world in cashless payments, from small purchases for a pack of gum to large purchases. Five of Sweden's six big banks now operate cashless branches and some predict the country could become cashless by 2030.

Clearly, other countries around the world, including the U.S., are quickly moving to a global cashless economic system. The final step would be the use of some kind of microchip or nano-chip implant…and a person could not buy or sell without this technology.

As we look at all these crises a common theme seems to be emerging: the “solutions” being implemented and proposed all contain the elements of globalism and the creation of some kind of new global economic, political, and religious order. It is as if history is repeating itself because thousands of years ago Mankind attempted to deal with similar problems by creating the world’s first one world religion, one world government, and one world economic system at the Tower of Babel in ancient Babylon, founded by Nimrod. Ancient Babylon was a globalist society built on mysterious but real science, technologies, and spiritual systems that have been passed on for many thousands of years through a secret priesthood. This is why it is no accident that a Babylonian commercial and economic system known as Mystery Babylon is prophesied to return, in the Book of Revelation 17:5.

Although I have been researching Babylon for many decades, I began the most intensive pursuit of my life about five and a half years ago when I partnered with Troy Anderson, a Pulitzer Prize-nominated journalist, in deciphering the coding system imbedded in the Tower of Babel and being implemented today by a secret priesthood who plan to radically restructure our society based on the “Mystery Religions” of ancient Babylon. We believe that we have uncovered some of these “mysteries,” which can explain what is going on behind the scenes in the world today. We have co-written our research in a new book that is coming out in October called The Babylon Code.

Our research has uncovered a secret coding system passed on by secret societies who plan to recreate the one world religion, one world economic system, and one world government developed by Nimrod and recorded in Genesis 11. This secretive elite has passed on this prophetic code and occult teaching in Egypt, Rome, China, Europe, and the U.S. Our research has uncovered the secret of the ancient god-kings who ruled the world’s most powerful empires. In fact, the ancient pre-flood super civilization Atlantis provided the science and technology which allowed ancient Babylon to flourish, and while many in in the so-called higher levels of our society would ridicule such ideas, the men and women who compromise what Aldous Huxley termed the Scientific or Technocratic Elite, who currently rule our global system, have always been avid students of the science, geopolitics, and governmental structure of Atlantis, primarily through reading the Greek Philosopher Plato’s writings.

On a global cultural level the lower classes, middle class, and managerial classes, which includes prime ministers, presidents, senators, CEO’s, scientists, and college professors are clueless about what is really happening because they suffer from a socially engineered myopia and they cannot connect the dots because their brains have been programmed from youth to be left brain dominant. This means that they are good at thinking inside of the box and following orders. But due to social engineering they are unable to access their right brain, which is creative and could ask the big questions and connect the dots. When the neurological pathways are trained from childhood to bypass the right brain, eventually people become hollow shells who are able to conform to the artificial norms of society and are programmed to serve their scientific or technocratic masters.

An example of how this programming works is the social engineering system called Common Core, which is designed to create people who are capable of group think and connecting with the hive mind and “World Brain,” but not capable of thinking as empowered individuals.

As Anderson and I began to delve deeper into our research we were able to interview people who are part of this Scientific Elite, such as world class economists, the heads of NSA psy ops programs, military generals, presidents, prime ministers, and high ranking members of the Freemasons and Illuminati because we found as a general principal that these individuals were hiding nothing…everything was “hidden in plain sight” and out in the open for anyone to see. But due to their programming most people cannot see what is actually in front of them.

What we discovered and extensively document is that the chaos we see in our nation and world is largely scientifically engineered, inspired by one of the primary coding systems from Babylon, which is “Order Out of Chaos.” The fact that the U.S. dollar openly displays Illuminati symbols like the all-seeing Eye of Horus and the words “New World Order” in Latin on the base of a picture of a pyramid is evidence of the fact that no one is hiding anything! It is all in plain sight. But through extensive interviews and examination of historical documents, we found that this ancient code explains many contemporary current events.

For example, we are seeing a steady increase in the number of race riots in America and across the world. Jesus Christ spoke of this when he talked about the signs of the times, and referred to “war and rumors of wars” and said that “nation will rise up against nation,” meaning racial or ethnic groups. So Jesus Christ is telling us that in the last days there will be an increase in race wars. But what is causing those race wars in the United States are highly trained activists working behind the scenes, agents who specialize in “manufactured crisis” or chaos. In order for a new order to be established they have to destroy the old with chaos.

Now to this add hard economic realities. The Republicans in the 1990s passed a whole string of trade treaties like NAFTA and GATT and promoted the WTO, which has created an annual trade deficit of $500 billion, which caused a loss of four million jobs in places like Baltimore. In addition, the U.S. economy in 2015 shrank by around .7% which represents a massive hit on the once most powerful economy in the world. The trade deficits, which are set to continue with the TTP promoted by both Republicans and Democrats, will further destroy America’s inner cities like Baltimore. Jobs that were once available to Americans, such as manufacturing autos, mobile phones, clothing, and furniture no longer exist in cities like Baltimore.

Baltimore, like many American cities, was once a place where tens of thousands of blue collar workers could earn a good living in industries building cars, airplanes, steel, etc. But just like what happened to Detroit, these good paying jobs and industries moved to China, Mexico, and other Asian nations. The Technocratic Elite and their foot soldiers like Newt Gingrich and others did this deliberately. So now American inner cities are like war zones that look like Iraq and are ripe for the agents of manufactured crisis.

If you study the system of the Technocratic Elite established at Babylon and passed on through the ages in places like Egypt, which had millions of slaves operating under their god-king system, you see that on a global level the god-king system is emerging once again. But one of the most powerful secrets of The Babylon Code is that this secret priesthood is not hiding anything. They have learned that through sorcery, or what would now be called scientific mind control, the masses can be conditioned to love their slavery.

This is what Aldous Huxley referred to when he said “In a truly effective Scientific Dictatorship men and women can be trained to love their servitude or slavery.” When the Book of Revelation refers to the return of “Mystery Babylon” in the last days, it is talking about a global economic, religious, and governmental system that uses modern economics, science, and technology, but also uses the same occult systems that controlled the original Babylon, and that means under this “world system” the masses willingly surrender their wills to this collective hive mind. This is one of the mysteries revealed by the pyramid with the all-seeing eye of Lucifer above it and below it the words “new world order” on the back of the U.S. dollar.

Race riots, the transfer of the wealth of the middle class, and social and moral anarchy are intensifying. Events are spiraling downwards ever more rapidly and things will get much worse before they get better…we are in for a rough ride. But, at the end of it all, there will be a divine intervention, something completely unexpected is about to arrive. 

The CERN Conspiracy - Anthony Patch with Canary Cry Radio (May 07, 2015)

[  a very interesting, and probably important, interview about CERN and the possible/probable occult intentions to use it for bringing in dimensional changes to this world . .   ]

The DAY OF THE LORD is a future time when God will dissolve and recede the heavens like a scroll, when the barrier between the spiritual, and the physical world will be no more. While this will usher in God’s wrath on earth, there are some today who are attempting to pierce the veil with very large, and expensive machines. If you’ve been following Gonz’ YouTube channel,Facelikethesun, you’d know that he’s been doing a series of videos called CERN WATCH, with an eye on the Large Hadron Collider, which is a particle accelerator situated deep underground in a 27 kilometer magnetic ring, on the border of Switzerland and France in the town of Geneva. In those videos, Gonz has tackled several items from updates coming out of CERN itself, to the various propaganda material, pushing portals and extra dimensions in mainstream entertainment media. One man who was featured on the CERN WATCH videos is Anthony Patch. Anthony has been featured on Ground Zero with Clyde Lewis, he’s the author of the novel “Covert Catastrophe” and “2048: Diamonds in the Rough” and has become the voice of reason regarding CERN and the LHC by the greater alternative community of truth seekers. On this episode, Anthony Patch and the guys dive deep into the topic of CERN and the conspiracy surrounding it with the planet Saturn, as well as the third strand of DNA in conjunction with the Mark of the Beast.

LINKS

Anthony Patch Website [http://anthonypatch.com]LOFI Download [Click HERE]

Demonic Possession and God's Shield. The Pineal Gland

BPEarthWatch

 

 

Published on Jan 22, 2014

The Pineal Gland,The End Time Delusion of those who take the mark of the beast. Today's Blogtalk Radio Show with Michael and Anthony Patch. http://www.blogtalkradio.com/bpearthw...

 

Decoding "The Giver" (2014)

"The Giver (2014) has a lot to say about the programmed state of our world that is the result of the control exercised over the versioning of history. Mostly, it's concealing and revealing, spilling the beans about the global recollection that will come as memories are implanted as a beaming of historical events comes through the opened portal."

The Giver (2014) Trailer



Aaron and I just watched the film, The Giver (2014). It's yet another remix of “the plot," a shuffle and deal of a few of the key elements. It's a veiled allegory picturing what we've been interpreting from other media vehicles. The film revolves around an aspect of what is going to be the world's biggest hoax. No one will be exempt from the impact of this event in the segue to the revealing of the lawless one, when the world will be deceived and the faith and hope of most of the saints will be undermined. The film cryptically illustrates the role that a global release of collective memories will have.

The official site for the film is at this address: ReceiveYourDestiny.org. Think about it. That's a very plain declaration. See the following for more insight. A series of posts could certainly be done on this Illuminati vehicle because it's such a rich allegory.

Part 3 - Sochi Winter Olympics 2014 - The Ultimate Hoax
The Lying Report - A Supernatural Multimedia Hoax (The Sign for the Bride)

The most concise characterization of the goddess is played by the songwriter and singer Taylor Swift. She's a receiver/giver of memories named Rosemary. Her presence in the film's present time is as a holographic projection of a recording. A holographic Rosemary is a Marian apparition, like Our Lady of Fátima, Guadalupe or Lourdes. The naming of Rosemary is a transparent code for the blessed Virgin Mary, the rose goddess. The film has some blatant symbolism of the goddess, with lots of apple scenes and a key scene featuring the stinging bee. A compass rose-Star of Innana-Ishtar is featured on the floor of the library, which has a spiral staircase like the library at the Vatican. That temple-like space with the half-round window plays as the Akashik Record.

The film has symbols of stargate transits with one really vivid wormhole clip that was inserted without any explanation of its relevance. There's mark of the beast symbols, including the special map of their special utopian circle realm that is crossed by the folded creases. There's plenty of ritual sodomy illumination and mind control programming imagery too. If you know that the waterfall is a signal construct that Illuminati handlers program into their slaves that triggers the loss of specific memories, that fact will help you interpret some of the scenes. Also, note that Jonas = Jonah. The biblical sign of Jonah is what this is about, a messianic birth/death resurrection scenario.

The Giver (2014) has a lot to say about the programmed state of our world that is the result of the control exercised over the versioning of history. Mostly, it's concealing and revealing, spilling the beans about the global recollection that will come as memories are implanted as a beaming of historical events comes through the opened portal. What will be received from "The Giver" in a few more months time will be perceived as documentation of the truth straight out of history. It will actually be a porting through from what's known as the Akashik Record, of reinterpreted events and characters. That is, lying signs and wonders.

John Hagee Denies Jesus as the Messiah

(poor little Israel . . they can do no wrong, right?. . . as a whole, they rejected Jesus then, and for the most part, now . . and they have used people like John Hagee to form the Christian Zionist movement, which is very, very prevalent in the US . .  Hagee probably defends even the Jews who said "His blood be on us, and on our children." in Matthew 27:25 . . . )

Hagee says that "the Jewish people as a whole did not reject Jesus as the Messiah," that, "Jesus did not come to earth to be the Messiah," and that, "Jesus refused by word and deed to claim to be the Messiah." These comments and others demonstrate the danger of the Christian Zionist movement in changing the Gospel in order to defend Jewish people.

Privately with His disciples Jesus asked, "But whom say ye that I am?" And Simon Peter answered and said, "Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God." And Jesus answered and said unto him, "Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven." (Matthew 16:15-17). In another private conversation with the woman at the well, the woman said to Jesus, "I know that Messias cometh, which is called Christ: when he is come, he will tell us all things." Jesus said to her, "I that speak unto thee am he" (John 4:25,26). When under oath before the Jewish leaders, the high priest asked him, and said to him, "Art thou the Christ, the Son of the Blessed?" And Jesus said, "I am: and ye shall see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven" (Mark 14:61,62). When the Jews round about him, and said to him, "How long dost thou make us to doubt? If thou be the Christ, tell us plainly," Jesus answered them, "I told you, and ye believed not: the works that I do in my Father's name, they bear witness of me" (John 10:24,25). Jesus' public claims about being the Messiah may not be as plentiful as most Christians think, but Hagee's claims dangerously contradict what Jesus clearly said and taught.

The Star Of Bethlehem

 

From http://www.bethlehemstar.net/  click the link for footnotes, etc

It’s an astronomical mystery. A strange star is claimed to have appeared at the birth of Jesus of Nazareth. This site is an investigation of the story found in the Biblical Gospel of Matthew, a story often called the ‘Star of Bethlehem.’ It brings the words of Roman and Jewish historians alongside the visions of ancient prophets. It mixes “modern” mathematicians with murderous turmoil in the Roman imperial court. It combines all these with astronomical facts which no one disputes. And it concludes that the star was a real event. Come solve this age-old mystery for yourself…

Part 1: Setting the Stage

JOHANNES KEPLER paved the way for rediscovery of the Star. He puzzled out the math which drives the heavens. He even used his formulae to search for the Star we seek. But unlike we, Kepler had no computer. With software incorporating Kepler’s equations, we can animate ancient skies over the Mid East with great precision. When we do that, the sky comes alive…

THE BIBLE blasts worship of the stars. It even declares the death penalty for star-abuse! So, by seeking the Star of Bethlehem, are we doing something the Bible itself forbids? Actually, the Bible encourages attention to the stars, but only attention of a very specific type…

NEARLY EVERYTHING in the sky has been proposed as the Star of Bethlehem at one time or another. Why? Because investigators often grant surprisingly little regard to clues found in the Bible. But, a close reading of the Book of Matthew uncovers nine specific features of the Star. These qualifications become primary tools in our investigation…

THE NINE CHARACTERISTICS of the Star eliminate most celestial objects as candidates. They just don’t measure up. We quickly see what the Star cannot have been. These ancient clues narrow our search dramatically and yield an hypothesis we can test…

Why are we hearing this now?

If the Star was a real historical event, why are we learning of the evidence only now? Why isn’t it common knowledge? A few minutes considering these things will intensify your experience and understanding of what you will learn on this site. We’ll look at three of the most important factors leading to modern rediscovery of the Star: Johannes Kepler’s discovery of how the solar system works, improvements in our knowledge of first century history and the spread of computers.

Kepler’s discovery

Johannes Kepler (1571–1630) was one of the great mathematical minds of human history (1). As Arthur Koestler wrote in The Sleepwalkers, “Kepler and Galileo were the two giants on whose shoulders Newton stood.”

A German by birth, Kepler began his professional career in Graz, Austria teaching mathematics. His views in the Protestant/Catholic contest then raging got him banished from Graz after only a few years, but this actually worked for his good.

The reason is that about the time of his ouster, the earnest, middle-class, 28 year-old Kepler had attracted the attention of one Tycho Brahe (1546–1601). Apart from their advanced math skills, the two men had little in common. Brahe was a wealthy, eccentric, aristocratic, overbearing, hard-partying Danish nobleman who served in Prague as Imperial Mathematician. He was also the acknowledged “prince of astronomers” due to the unprecedented accuracy of his vast collection of astronomical observations. And he could be a wildman. When Brahe lost his nose in a college-years duel, he did better than our modern fashion of piercing noses. He had a complete replacement nose molded of gold with silver. This he wore the rest of his life.

Tycho Brahe

Brahe invited the expelled Kepler to Prague to collaborate in study of the solar system, which at the time was still poorly understood. Many still thought of planets as “wandering stars.” Both men were brilliant and keen to unravel the mystery of planetary motion, but their temperaments were so different that they mixed about like cats and dogs. The professional relationship was decorated with verbal warfare and walk outs. The personality conflict was heightened by Brahe’s intent to remain the top dog astronomer—he would not allow Kepler full access to his library of observations. Instead, he dribbled out the data to maintain personal control. But when Brahe died suddenly of a urinary tract problem in 1601, Kepler found himself promoted to his master’s position. Kepler himself became Imperial Mathematician with full access to Brahe’s library. That changed everything.

Kepler set out to prove that the planets travel in perfect circular solar orbits. This presented a kind of mathematical beauty which particularly attracted him. But try as he might, he could not force the mathematics of circular orbits to align with what he saw in the sky each night. And Brahe’s meticulous records proved inconsistent with the theory of circles. In an inspirational flash, Kepler saw that the planets might travel in elliptical orbits and finally found the perfect mathematical fit. In 1609, he published the First and Second Laws of Planetary Motion and ten years later, the Third Law (2). These are still used by astronomers, NASA, the European Space Agency and everyone else studying the stars today. These laws do not change.
With his brand new mathematical tools, Kepler held keys to the heavens and time. He could do things no astronomer had ever done. With enough pens, ink and time he could calculate sky maps showing the exact positions of all of the stars and planets in the night sky. Not just for that evening’s observations, but for any day in history, as viewed from any place on the surface of the Earth. Being a religious man, Kepler soon set his equations grinding on the mystery of the Star of Bethlehem. It’s almost tragic that he didn’t find the phenomena discussed on this web site, because he pushed very hard in his search for the Star and even published on the topic (3). He would have been delighted to see what you will see. But Kepler was working from a flawed understanding of first century history, and that threw him off the track.

So the first piece of the Star puzzle is that, thanks to Kepler, we now have the ability to locate celestial objects with great precision at any point in history and from any viewing point. For example, we can calculate what the sky looked like over Jerusalem 2000 years ago. But that raises the question of dates. For what years should we be scanning the sky?

Dating Christ’s birth

A Roman bust said to be of Flavius Josephus

The great majority of ancient chronographers held that Christ was born in 3 or 2 BC (4), and none held that Jesus was born before 4 BC. The ancients were correct, as we shall see, but by Kepler’s day that earlier and better understanding had been laid aside. Kepler and his contemporaries concluded (as have many present day historians (5)) that Christ was born before 4 BC. The reasons for that misunderstanding are complex and fascinating, but a major factor was their interpretation of the writings of the ancient Jewish historian, Flavius Josephus (37 AD-95 AD) (6).

Josephus’ life was a wild ride worth a little detour here. (Don’t worry, we’re getting where we’re going). Josephus was born just a few years after Christ’s execution. A member of the Jewish Pharisee sect, he rose to political prominence in Judea by the time he was in his late twenties. In 66 AD the Romans, who occupied Judea at that time, were thrown into a war rage by what they saw as growing Jewish arrogance and treachery. Josephus martialed Jewish forces to defend against an enemy that soon grew to the proportions of a tidal wave. Roman troops, horses and siege engines poured into the region in simply overwhelming numbers.

Resistance proved futile. Josephus and a fighting unit of 40 men were cornered by Roman forces and retreated to a cave where they made a suicide pact to avoid capture (7). 38 men died in that cave, but Josephus and one other had second thoughts and were taken prisoners. That’s a twist, but here’s a tighter one: Josephus wound up winning the favor of Vespasian (9 AD-79 AD), who was then commander of the Roman expedition in Judea. He was drafted into the Roman war effort against his own Jewish people, and ultimately served as the interpreter for Vespasian’s son, Titus (39 AD-81 AD). Titus had orders to besiege Jerusalem and destroy the Jewish temple. This he did in 70 AD, in apparent fulfillment of a 500 year-old vision recorded by the Jewish prophet Daniel (8).

After the war, Josephus could not remain in Judea. He would have been assassinated on sight. So he was taken to live in Rome. There, his attentions appear to have turned to regaining the acceptance of his Jewish countrymen. Perhaps to achieve this reinstatement, he wrote extensive histories of the Jewish people and ancient times. These histories offer important clues in the search for the Star. In one of his works, Antiquities, Josephus mentions Jesus, John the Baptist and other New Testament characters, including the murderous King Herod of the Gospel of Matthew, Chapter 2.

The Bible recounts that Herod learned of the Messiah’s birth from astronomers who had seen the Star of Bethlehem. He tried to kill the child, so, obviously, the Bible records that Herod was alive at Jesus’ birth. Remember that this mattered to Kepler, because historians of his time apparently inferred from Josephus’ history that Herod died in 4 BC (9). Necessarily, Kepler assumed Christ was born before that date, perhaps 5 BC or earlier. So, those are the years for which he scanned the skies for the Star. Even with the power of his newly discovered laws of planetary motion, he didn’t find the phenomena we will examine here. He searched the skies of the wrong years.

An English copy of the works of Josephus from 1602

But modern scholarship has deepened our understanding of Josephus’ manuscripts. A recent study was made of the earliest manuscripts of Josephus’ writings held by the British Library in London, and the American Library of Congress. It revealed a surprise that allows us to target our mathematical telescopes better than could Kepler (10). It turns out that a copying error was a primary cause of the confusion about the date of Herod’s death. A printer typesetting the manuscript of Josephus’ Antiquities messed up in the year 1544. Every single Josephus manuscript in these libraries dating from before 1544 supports the inference that Herod passed in 1 BC. Strong recent scholarship confirms that date (11). Knowing this, and since Herod died shortly after Christ’s birth, our investigation turns to the skies of 3 and 2 BC.

So, we have the second factor allowing us to “find” the Star today. We newly know for which years we should examine the skies.

Enter the power of computers

One more factor accounts for your hearing about the Star now instead of long ago: computers. When Kepler calculated a sky map, it was laborious. Plenty of pens and ink. And when the calculations were complete, he had a picture of the sky at a single moment of time. If he had selected the wrong day to search for the Star, he might find nothing. More pens and ink. But Kepler’s Laws of Planetary Motion are playthings for a computer. The equations are solved almost instantaneously by modern astronomy software available to anyone for about $50 (12).

With software which incorporates Kepler’s equations, we can create a computer model of the universe. In minutes we can produce thousands of the sky maps which were a great labor before computers. We can animate the universe in real time at any speed we choose, make months pass in moments or wind back the clock. We can view the sky precisely as it moved over Jerusalem 2000 years ago.

And when we look up, examining the correct years, we find remarkable things.

The stars and the Bible

Even if you are not of a traditional Christian or Jewish faith, you might feel a bit uneasy searching for signs in the stars. Many people have concluded that there isn’t anything to astrology—or if there is something to it, it’s a “something” they want no part of. So, are we doing astrology here?

A reasonable question with a short answer. No. That’s not what we’re doing here. Astrology holds that stars exert forces on men.

Astrology is a… form of divination based on the theory that the movement of the celestial bodies—the stars, the planets, the sun and the moon—influence human affairs and determine the course of events.” (1)— The New Columbia Encyclopedia

By contrast, the Bible refers to the celestial objects as carrying signs from the Almighty. But it prohibits worship of what we see above or even holding such things in too high regard. For example, we read in the Book of Job, Chapter 31:

26 if I have regarded the sun in its radiance or the moon moving in splendour, 27 so that my heart was secretly enticed and my hand offered them a kiss of homage, 28 then these also would be sins to be judged, for I would have been unfaithful to God on high.— Job 31:26–28

The Old Testament even decrees the death penalty for star worship (2).

Still, the Bible does make a surprising number of references to signs in the heavens. Both Old and New Testaments assume that what happens up there matters. If we are interested in following the counsel of the Bible, we must hold a distinction in mind. Astrology assumes that stars are causes of earthly events. The Bible assumes that they can be messages about earthly events. It may be useful to think of this as a thermometer distinction. A thermometer can tell you if it’s hot or cold, but it can’t make you hot or cold. There is a big difference between a sign and an active agent. This is the difference between “astrology” and what the Bible holds forth.

Scholars believe that the Book of Job is the oldest Biblical text, likely originating before the time of Abraham and the founding of the Jewish nation. It’s interesting, then, to find that this oldest book speaks of the stars and the constellations with respect. It states that God set them in place. And it references the same constellations we know today. Even considering ancient literature other than the Bible, it appears that the configurations of the constellations and what they represent may be older than the oldest surviving texts of any language (3).

In the Book of Job, Chapter 9, Job credits God with creation of the stars and constellations:

He is the Maker of the Bear [Ursa Major] and Orion, the Pleiades and the constellations of the south.— Job 9:9

And in Job Chapter 38, God makes much the same point. He, not man, is sovereign over the creation, particularly the constellations:

31 “Can you bind the beautiful Pleiades? Can you loose the cords of Orion? 32 Can you bring forth the constellations in their seasons…— Job 38:31–32

Many other Biblical writers in many other passages state that God arranged the stars. For example, says the Book of Isaiah in Chapter 40:

Lift your eyes and look to the heavens: Who created all these? He who brings out the starry host one by one, and calls them each by name. Because of his great power and mighty strength, not one of them is missing.— Isaiah 40:26

Several striking passages on this issue were written by David, son of Jesse. David is a towering Biblical figure. A fierce warrior, a revered king who was himself deeply reverent. Highly intelligent and wonderfully poetic, he wrote much of the Book of Psalms and some of the most beautiful passages of scripture. Among these is Psalm 19, where David extols God’s handiwork in the stars. But he doesn’t only extol, he tells us that the stars bear a message. Watch his choice of verbs [emphasis added]:

1 …The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands. 2 Day after day they pour forth speech; night after night they display knowledge. 3 There is no speech or language where their voice is not heard. 4 Their voice goes out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world…— Psalm 19:1–4

David chose verb after verb which says that the stars communicate. An intriguing passage. But isn’t it just poetry? Isn’t David just speaking with a poet’s elegant symbolism?
The apostle Paul didn’t think so.

In the Book of Romans, Chapter 10, Paul is addressing the question: had the Jews of Christ’s day heard that Messiah had come? He answers the question by saying that of course they had heard. He then quotes David to make his point!

17Consequently, faith comes from hearing the message, and the message is heard through the word of Christ. 18 But I ask: Did they [the Jews] not hear? Of course they did: “Their voice has gone out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world.”— Romans 10:17–18

Note the structure of Paul’s argument. Paul is taking the position that something has happened in the stars which indicated to the Jews of his time that the Messiah had come. As we shall see, the apostle Peter elsewhere forcefully makes the same argument. Of course, this argument has exactly no force unless something had happened in the stars. The fact that both men employed this line of reasoning shows they are making the same assumption. They assumed that their listeners were aware of celestial phenomena associated with Christ. It’s our quest to determine what those phenomena were.
For those who revere the Bible, we’ve probably seen enough to set us at ease about looking for meaning in the stars. We’re not doing something that the Bible condemns. Just the opposite. But there is one more authority who can put the most devout Christian at ease about looking up after dark. Jesus himself. In the Book of Luke, Chapter 21, Jesus tells us:

There will be signs in the sun, moon and stars…”— Luke 21:25

So, it is Biblically legitimate to look for signs in the stars, but always remembering the thermometer distinction. The Book of Deuteronomy warns at Chapter 4:

…when you look up to the sky and see the sun, the moon and the stars–all the heavenly array–do not be enticed into bowing down to them and worshipping things the LORD your God has apportioned to all the nations under heaven.— Deuteronomy 4:19

At numerous times in Biblical history, the Jewish nation ignored this warning. Rather than looking to the stars for signs, they slipped over the forbidden line into assuming the stars influenced human affairs. They began to worship created things instead of the Creator. In the Second Book of Kings, Chapter 23, we find King Josiah leading a revival of spirituality among the Jews and a return to worship of God alone. One of the things Josiah had to do was clear out astrological objects which had been brought in to the very temple itself:

[Josiah] ordered Hilkiah the high priest, the priests next in rank and the doorkeepers to remove from the temple of the LORD all the articles made for… all the starry hosts. He burned them outside Jerusalem…— II Kings 23:4

The bottom line on the Bible and the stars: we may look to the stars for signs from God, but we are not to revere the stars themselves.

The nine points of Christ’s star

We’re now ready to examine the qualifications for the Star. Working from the Biblical account in Matthew, unpacking it verse by verse, we can compile a list of nine qualities which must be present before any celestial phenomena could be considered to be the Biblical Star of Bethlehem. If any qualification is missing, then we will assume we haven’t found our Star. All of the following verses come from the Gospel of Matthew Chapter 2.

After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, during the time of King Herod,— Matthew 2:1a

To begin, we see again how important the date of Herod’s death is to the investigation. If Herod died in 4 BC, then Christ had to be born before that year. But if Herod died in 1 BC, as the best evidence indicates, then we should look at the years 2 and 3 BC.

Magi from the east came to Jerusalem— Matthew 2:1b

Who are these magi?

The word, ‘magi,’ which is sometimes translated ‘wise men,’ is the root from which we get our word ‘magic.’ This doesn’t make them all magicians, in the present sense of the word. Some of them were learned men in general, who studied the physical world and were knowledgeable about many things, including the stars. Magi were often court astronomers who were consulted by the rulers of the day for guidance in affairs of state. This was also true in much earlier times. For example, during the Babylonian captivity of the Jews, some 500 years earlier, King Nebuchadnezar kept a stable of court magi. Nebuchadnezer made the Jewish prophet Daniel Chief Magus of his court when Daniel was able to interpret a dream the other magi could not (1).

There were magi of various schools, and some were more respected than others. We know something of a particularly prestigious school of magi from the writings of Philo. Philo was a Jewish philosopher and contemporary of Jesus who lived in the large Jewish community of Alexandria, Egypt. Philo wrote in praise of an Eastern school of magi and their great learning and understanding of the natural world (2). This school may have descended from the Babylonian magi of Daniel’s day. Matthew does report that the Wise Men were from the East, and Babylon is east of Judea. It was at one time part of the Persian Empire, which ties in with Philo. So it is possible the Wise Men were of this prestigious Eastern school. This would account for Herod giving them an audience, and for his strong reaction to the news they brought.

…and asked, “Where is the one who has been born king of the Jews?— Matthew 2:2a

The Magis’ question gives us three points for our list of qualifications for the Star. Whatever happened in the sky indicated

1) birth,
2) kingship and
3) Jews. It also gives us a clue about the Magi. They were interested in things Jewish.

…We saw his star in the east and have come to worship him.”— Matthew 2:2b

When the wise men said “we saw his star in the east,” they didn’t mean “we saw his star while we were in the East.” The Greek text here says the Star was “en anatole,” meaning they saw his star rising in the east. That’s what all but polar stars do, because of the rotation of the Earth. Stars rise in the east, but not all celestial objects do that. So, that’s another qualification for the Star:
4) it must rise in the east like most other stars.

The motive of the Magi in coming to Jerusalem tells us a great deal more about them. They wanted to worship a Jewish king. It can’t be proven from the text, but it is quite possible that some of the Magi were of Jewish descent, perhaps a Jewish remnant from Daniel’s day. This would help explain why a Jewish philosopher, Philo, would admire them, why they were watching the sky for things Jewish, why they wanted to worship a Jewish king, and why they were taken so seriously by Herod and Jewish chief priests. If they were not Jews, then they must have been most impressive magi indeed, as Jews of the time were deeply disdainful of pagans and their beliefs (3).

When King Herod heard this he was disturbed, and all Jerusalem with him.— Matthew 2:3

You must know more to understand just how very troubled Herod and Jerusalem became at the Magis’ news. Historians tell us that respect for the stars and guidance derived from them was at a peak (4). Both ancient historians and the Bible make it clear that the Jews of this period expected a new Jewish ruler to arise, based upon Jewish prophecy (5). And it was accepted that the stars could announce such an arrival.

For example, about 60 years earlier, in 63 BC, magi made a presentation to the Roman Senate. They described celestial portents indicating that a new ruler had been born. Evidently regretting that news, the Senate responded by ordering the death of baby boys in the candidate age range (6). Sound familiar? It turns out that when Herod ordered the slaughter of children in Bethlehem he may have been following a sort of Roman precedent. That precedent may be one reason Jerusalem was troubled at the news the Wise Men brought. Perhaps they realized the Romans might shed blood in response.

4 When he had called together all the people’s chief priests and teachers of the law, he asked them where the Christ was to be born. 5 “In Bethlehem in Judea,” they replied, “for this is what the prophet has written: 6 “‘But you, Bethlehem, in the land of Judah, are by no means least among the rulers of Judah; for out of you will come a ruler who will be the shepherd of my people Israel.’”— Matthew 2:4–6

Herod took the Magis’ message as factual, and consulted the Jewish experts about the location of the birth. The fateful verse in the Book of Micah which is quoted to Herod by the Jewish experts soon resulted in the death of many little boys in Bethlehem.

Then Herod called the Magi secretly and found out from them the exact time the star had appeared.— Matthew 2:7

Another qualification for the Star:

5) It appeared at an exact time. And yet another qualification:
6) Herod didn’t know when it appeared. He had to ask.

8 He sent them to Bethlehem and said, “Go and make a careful search for the child. As soon as you find him, report to me, so that I too may go and worship him.” 9 After they had heard the king, they went on their way, and the star they had seen in the east went ahead of them until it stopped over the place where the child was.— Matthew 2:8–9

And now we have the last three qualifications for the Star:

7) It endured over a considerable period of time. The Magi saw it, perhaps from Babylon, traveled to Judea and saw it still.
8) It went ahead of them as they traveled from Jerusalem to Bethlehem. You might not realize that this doesn’t mean the Star was needed to guide the travelers to Bethlehem. Bethlehem was (and is) just five miles south of Jerusalem on the main road. They couldn’t miss it. No, the Star appears ahead of them as they trek south not so much as a guide as a further confirmation of the signs they had seen. Lastly,
9) The Star stopped! Can a star do that? Yes, it can, as we shall see.

What was the star?

We now know much about the Star.

• It signified birth.
• It signified kingship.
• It had a connection with the Jewish nation.
• It rose in the east, like other stars.
• It appeared at a precise time.
• Herod didn’t know when it appeared.
• It endured over time.
• It was ahead of the Magi as they went south from Jerusalem to Bethlehem.
• It stopped over Bethlehem.

Knowing these qualifications, we are in a position to disqualify most astronomical phenomena as being the Star. Remember that if any of the nine Biblical features of the Star is absent, then the phenomenon we are examining may be interesting, but isn’t likely the Biblical Star (1).

A meteor?

A meteor is a small fragment of material or even celestial dust which enters Earth’s atmosphere at great speed glowing brightly as its outer layers vaporize. While often a physically small thing, a “shooting star” can be beautiful viewed from Earth and could be a dramatic means of making an announcement in the heavens. But such a sign would fail most of the nine tests. Most obvious is the fact that shooting stars don’t rise in the east like other stars, they do “shoot” across the sky. Because they display suddenly, only once and for mere moments as they burn up in the Earth’s atmosphere, it is not obvious how the Magi could form associations with kingship, birth, the Jews, the Messiah’s birthplace and all. And meteors don’t endure long enough to satisfy the Biblical criteria. The Star was very likely not a meteor.

Perhaps a comet?

A comet is an object which has a very large orbit about the Sun, an orbit of many years duration. You may be familiar with Halley’s Comet. Halley’s, like many comets, is a block of ice, in Halley’s case a few miles across. It orbits the Sun in a 75.5 year circuit, and like all comets, it is easily tracked using Kepler’s equations. Comets do rise in the east and endure over time. But there are several problems with the comet hypothesis.

The first problem is sociological. At this time in history (and all the way into the middle ages), comets were regarded as omens of doom and destruction, the very opposite of good tidings. This was in part because of comet behavior. They were perceived in ancient times to break into the sky ignoring the highly ordered and repetitive clockwork movement of the heavens. The Almighty could have chosen to use an ominous sign for the birth of Christ. Presumably, He can do whatever He likes. But if the purpose of the Star was to communicate something joyful to man, a comet seems an unlikely choice.

A bigger problem is that there do not appear to have been any comets in 3 or 2 BC. Several civilizations maintained records of such phenomena, notably the Chinese. These records have been preserved to the present day, and no comets are recorded for these years.

Finally, comets are obvious things. Anyone could and would have seen a comet. Herod would not have needed to ask the Magi when such a thing appeared. The Biblical Star was very likely not a comet.

What about a nova?

A nova is an exploding star. A nova appears suddenly at a point in time, endures over time, rises in the east like other stars and can be spectacular. However, none appears in the ancient records for this time period.

And like comets, a nova is an obvious thing. Many of us have been to locations, such as high mountains or the desert, far from modern artificial light (which astronomers call “light pollution”). We marvel at how clearly the heavens can be seen under such conditions. Unless weather interfered, Jerusalem was like that every night, and common people were far more familiar than are we with the appearance of the night sky. If a nova suddenly appeared, almost everyone would know about it. Herod would not have had to ask the Magi when it appeared. If the Star was a real astronomical event, it was very likely not a nova.

What’s left?

If the Star wasn’t one of the spectacular astronomical objects we’ve examined, what’s left? Biblical qualification 6—that Herod had to ask when the Star appeared is a powerful clue. Anyone can glance up and see planets and stars. That is the nature of things in the sky. But, apparently, one could look up at the Star without realizing it. Herod didn’t know of it. It took magi to explain it. But once the Star was pointed out, all Jerusalem went abuzz, and Herod jumped into murderous action. A reasonable hypothesis is that the Star must have been something in the normal night sky which was striking when explained.

Did anything interesting happen in the ordinary night skies over the Middle East in 3 or 2 BC?
Yes, indeed.

The starry dance

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