Brand new! Listen right now to Bible truth about paganism, wise men, Jesus' birth
Posted: December 05, 2010
4:47 pm Eastern
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Did the famous wise men of the Holy Bible first see Jesus as a babe in a manger the night He was born in Bethlehem?
Millions of Christians think so, but according to the Bible itself, it's simply not the case.
"That is not in your Bible, folks. We're just talking about the words on the page," said Joe Kovacs, author the No. 1 best-seller, "Shocked by the Bible: The Most Astonishing Facts You've Never Been Told."
Kovacs, a Christian championing Bible truth, was interviewed Friday morning by Denver's top-rated radio host, Peter Boyles of KHOW-AM, to discuss the actual history of Christmas and why so many people are confused about the events surrounding the birth of God in the flesh.
A five-minute clip of the extraordinary program can be heard by clicking the play button below.
| Hear WND's Joe Kovacs and KHOW Radio's Peter Boyles discuss the Bible truth about Christmas |
Kovacs noted in his explanation:
Now in the Gospel of Matthew, different from the Gospel of Luke, it talks about a different time frame of events and it mentions that there were wise men from the East and they were asking King Herod who was in charge at that time asking about "Where is he that is born King of the Jews?" (Matthew 2:2) He was already born by the time that they were arriving, and King Herod didn't even know about this. This is how private of an event it was. And it doesn't say three wise men in your Bibles, folks. It just says wise men. So it could have been two, three, five, 20 or 170. We don't know for sure because the Bible doesn't tell us.
But this unspecified number of wise men first encountered Jesus not as a babe in a manger, according to your own Bible. They saw Jesus as a young child in a house. Those are the words on the page. When you actually crack open your own Bible [to Matthew 2:11], and I encourage you to do this …
It says "And when they were come into the house" – not a barn, not a stable, not a manger – "they saw the young child" – not a babe, not a baby, not an infant, not a newborn – they saw a young child with Mary his mother and they fell down and worshipped him. So those are the words on the page. You have an unspecified number of wise men coming to see a young child in a house, not a babe in a manger.
Not only are the words different in English, they're different in the original Greek texts, because in Luke, the gospel where Jesus was born, where the shepherds saw Him, they were seeing a "brephos," which means newborn baby, or baby or infant. But in Matthew, it's a different Greek word. It's "paidion," and it means young child, and is never translated in your Bible as babe or baby or infant or newborn.
So people really need to separate the gospels of Matthew and Luke. They are different time frames. Luke is the night He was born. Shepherds were there in Bethlehem, going there on instructions from the angel. Matthew is some time later. We don't know how much later, but it could have been up to maybe a year and a half, two years afterward when Jesus is a young a child. Jesus may even have been speaking a few words and thanking them for the gifts that He received from these wise men. And that's the biblical truth of the matter.
(To hear the fascinating, 30-minute interview in its entirety, click here. Kovacs joins the program at 7:09 into the program, which may take a few moments to load.)
In addition to what Kovacs mentioned on the air, there's even more evidence to demonstrate the wise men came later, perhaps even a year or more after Jesus was born.