Was this cosmic event in November 7 B.C. the “star of Bethlehem”?
it is a pretty interesting theory. However I found this while doing some research. The Bible itself tells us that December 25 is an unlikely date for His birth. Palestine is very cold in December. It was much too cold to ask everyone to travel to the city of their fathers to register for taxes. Also the shepherds were in the fields (Luke 2:8-12). Shepherds were not in the fields in the winter time. They are in the fields early in March until early October. This would place Jesus’ birth in the spring or early fall. It is also known that Jesus lived for 33.5 years and died at the feast of the Passover, which is at Easter time. He must therefore have been born six months the other side of Easter – making the date around the September/October time frames. Other evidence that December 25 is the wrong date for the birth of Jesus comes from early writings. Iranaeus, born about a century after Jesus, notes that Jesus was born in the 41st year of the reign of Augustus. Since Augustus began his
Very interesting. However, there are other theories about the ‘Bethlehem star’ identified by the Magi and described in the gospel of Matthew. Astrologist John Webb predicted from his calculations that the ‘Bethlehem star’ appeared in the sky around the 2nd of March 5 BC. He found that the Heliocentric sun centred where Mercury, Venus, Neptune, Uranus and Jupiter came together forming what looked like one big star (caused by the reflection of the sun). This phenomenon only comes about every 4 million years. An article appeared in the 9 December edition of The Telegraph newspaper suggesting that the ‘Bethlehem star’ appeared on 17 June 2 BC. Australian astronomer Dave Reneke said ‘Venus and Jupiter became very close in the year 2 BC and they would have appeared to be one bright beacon of light… Astronomy is such a precise science, we can plot exactly where the planets were, and it certainly seems this is the fabled Christmas star.’ Mr Reneke was formerly the chief lecturer at the Port
7BC is actually four years after Jesus was born. But there were planetary conjunctions at that time too. The star of Bethlehem was a conjunction of five stellar objects including Jupiter, Venus, Saturn, and our Moon. There were other ‘signs’ in the heavens at that time too. Like the star sign Draco (the serpent) which in those days was actually depicted a lot longer then our modern corrupted star charts depict. This was seen in the sky just prior to Jesus birth and was seen to be pulling one third of the stars of heaven toward the earth.
