![]() Here are some examples of the hundreds of omens which have come down to us: After enough time had gone by, the true king would resume his place, and the substitute would be put to death. In fact, if an omen threatened the life of the king, a substitute king might be placed on the throne for a time, so that the evil destined for the king could happen to the substitute. The ancient people of the East took their sky omens with the utmost seriousness. Their relevance has been brought to our attention by Dag Kihlman, The Star of Bethlehem and Babylonian Astrology. The omens have also been compiled in Letters from Assyrian and Babylonian Scholars, edited by Simo Parpola, and Babylonian Planetary Omens by Erica Reiner. ![]() These classical omens still exist on a series of cuneiform tablets, the Enuma Anu Enlil. Those omens lists were many centuries old, and they had come to be revered as a kind of scripture. If you had been an astrologer in the East (Mesopotamia), you would have consulted omens lists to interpret such events. ![]() ( public domain) Astrologers and Ominous Omens Journey of the Magi by James Tissot circa 1894. What kind of meaning might ancient astrologers have attached to all this and could it be what sent the Magi on their way to Bethlehem? This event was one in a sixteen-month-long progression of events, each involving Jupiter, the kings’ star. No one alive had seen anything like it centuries separate conjunctions like this. But on June 17, they appeared to have fused into one great star. In fact, Jupiter and Venus, each very bright, had been moving closer together in the sky for many nights. At sunset on that day anyone in the middle latitudes of the northern hemisphere could easily see the extraordinarily brilliant point of light appearing over the western horizon. Today is June 17, 2022, the anniversary of a spectacular sky event which happened in 2 BC. I see him, but not now I behold him, but not near: a star shall come out of Jacob, and a scepter shall rise out of Israel. Now after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, wise men from the east came to Jerusalem, saying, “Where is he who has been born king of the Jews? For we saw his star when it rose and have come to worship him.” – Matthew 2:1-2 (ESV) Summary: On this day in history, June 17, 2 BC, a rare celestial conjunction took place at sunset which may relate to Matthew 2’s account of the Magi coming to Jesus in Bethlehem, having followed his star from the East.
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