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Beautiful Star of Bethlehem - It Will Shine Again

Stars come in various sizes, shapes, ages andthe sign that will appear will belong to only
brilliance. It is their brightness that isJesus Christ. Whether that sign will be
the most noted of all their attributes.brighter than the Star of Bethlehem or not is
Astronomers still engage a system fora matter of conjecture but what follows it
measuring the brightness of a star that waswill be a blinding and brilliant light. In
developed by one of their own namedthe center of that living light will be the
Hipparchus at about 120 BC. The scale heperson of the Lord Jesus Christ. It is
developed rates the brilliance of stars fromappropriate that Christ is referred to as
1 to 6. One is the brightest and six the"the bright and morning star" Revelation
faintest. The brightest stars are said to be22:16.
of the first magnitude. The brightest star in
the skies today is Sirius and it is rated aAs I sat alone one day pondering the course
1.42. Hipparchus method of rating theof my life. I was searching for some real
luminescence of the stars is used to thisanswers and one of them I considered was
very  day.faith in God. After carefully examining this
in my heart I spoke up and talked to God. I
The Star of Bethlehem falls outside ofwon't relate every detail here but as I spoke
Hipparchus method. It was apparently a oneto God He appeared to me, by He, I do mean
time event. It was never seen before andJesus  Christ.
there is little reason to believe it will
ever happen again. The account of the Star ofI was afraid to tell anyone of this
Bethlehem is found only in the second chapterexperience for over a year or so. I didn't
of  the  Gospel  of  Matthew.want to be labeled as a religious fanatic.
What's more is up to that time in my life I
Hundreds or perhaps thousands of people sawwas convinced that no one saw visions
the brilliant star pulsating in the easternanymore. I could not describe adequately how
skies. The stir it created was so great thatbrilliant the vision was and up to now the
it reached the ears of Herod, a man, whobest I've been able to come up with is that
later was to become the King of Judea. TheJesus face shined with a visible but
Romans did not allow anyone to be called abrilliant uncreated light that leave mere
king throughout their empire except bywords to weak to describe. It had no heat or
special dispensation. Herod successfullyharmful effects but it made the sun look dim.
wrangled the title from the Roman senateOnly once have I ever seen anything to equal
through great coercion, which bespeaks of histhe brilliance of that vision. That was to
manic  megalomania.come  as  a second vision a year or so later.
Herod called upon his scribes and priests toAs a new believer I was often disturbed by
verify for him where the Christ child was todreams, hundreds of them like so many
be born. When the scribes reported that theTechnicolor previews of coming events. Most
star and the scriptures coincided for theof them were about daily events and had to do
little town of Bethlehem Herod was satisfiedwith me or people in my immediate
with the report and began scheming to killsurroundings. Some, however, were far more
the Christ child. Herod had no plan to givesignificant. A few of them are clearly about
up any power to another king, Messiah or not.events in the near future but of those that
had to do with something current, not one was
It is said that other than the cross uponever wrong. Out of them all one stands out as
which Christ was crucified, the Star ofthe most significant. It was this single
Bethlehem is the most widely known Christianvision that propelled me into a lifelong
symbol in the world. There is yet to come onestudy of biblical eschatology. (Second coming
new symbol or sign that will far exceed theof  Christ)
attention given to the Star of Bethlehem. It
may very well be the cross again usedWhen I finally stopped being afraid of the
symbolically but it will have the distinctionvisions it was because I began to realize
of being the most noticed epiphany or sign inthat they were given for the telling not the
history. Plainly said, no one in this worldhiding. I have seen men and women scoff at my
will  miss  it. What will this great sign be?visions and I've seen them give their lives
to Christ on the spot after listening to me.
The sign will be seen universally on bothRegardless of the outcome I have always taken
hemispheres. This raises the question of howstrength from something my former pastor and
a bright sign can be seen in broad daylight.friend Dr. Richard Land once told me. He
God wants no one to miss this one so he makessaid, "A man with an experience is never at
sure there is no broad daylight when thisthe  mercy  of  a  man  with  an  argument."
sign appears. He also won't allow anyone to
think it is a close encounter from otherAll of the details of my greatest vision are
planets, the arrival of some other deity orcontained in an article I wrote entitled "Do
so called avatar like Buddha or Mohammed. ThePeople See Visions Anymore." I haven't enough
sign belongs to only Jesus Christ and no onespace here to relate all the details of that
will  miss  this  fact.particular vision but I must tell at least
one  part  of  it.
Immediately after the tribulation of those
days shall the sun be darkened, and the moonWe will ever grow the pictures of the Star of
shall not give her light, and the stars shallBethlehem in our imaginations. Those who love
fall from heaven, and the powers of theGod and await the return of Christ to the
heavens shall be shaken: And then shallearth will also stretch their imaginations to
appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven:their limits trying to envision what the
and then shall all the tribes of the eartharrival of "The Great and Morning Star" will
mourn, and they shall see the Son of manactually look like. I may have been blessed
coming in the clouds of heaven with power andwith a preview of that great event and one
great  glory.  Matthew  24:  29-30aspect of it will be unforgettable to me
until  my  last  breath.
Stage one is the blocking of the daylight.
Stage two is the sign perhaps the cross. WhyAs I watched events transpire on earth and in
the cross? Whether atheist, agnostic, Muslim,the heavens. The most awe inspiring sight of
Buddhist, angel or devil no one in this worldall was when a brilliant living light came
does not know that the cross represents Jesusswirling downward to the earth to finally
Christ. Stage three is the actual appearanceland in the place where the oriental and
of Jesus himself. He will not be coming tooccidental races of the earth meet,
suffer and die or to reason with nations orJerusalem. The purity, brilliance and life
call people to believe, he is coming tocontained in that light were beyond all the
remove all power from the hands of men (atwords I have in my vocabulary to this day.
last)  and  sit  as  ruler  of  the  earth.Perhaps that is why I will say no more at
this juncture and leave the rest to your
More than a half dozen times the Bible saysimagination and to a verse or two of the old
that the moon will be dark red like the colorand lovely gospel tune written by Alger M.
of blood and something will obscure the sunPace and R. Fisher Boyce called Beautiful
as the Lord returns to make things right onStar of Bethlehem.
the earth. Only once does the Bible say that



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