The Star of Bethlehem - What Did the Magi See? Part 2

<p style="margin:10px 0px;font-size:16px;line-height:1.5;color:#241e12;font-family:'aktiv-grotesk', sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:pre-line;word-spacing:0px;background-color:#ffffff;">This is a special combined Christmas episode with our sister podcast <a href='https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/jwalker55293'>Apologetics Profile. </a></p> <p style="margin:10px 0px;font-size:16px;line-height:1.5;color:#241e12;font-family:'aktiv-grotesk', sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:pre-line;word-spacing:0px;background-color:#ffffff;">The wondrous gift is giv’n! So God imparts to human hearts the blessings of his heav’n. No ear may hear his coming, but in this world of sin, where meek souls will receive him, still the dear Christ enters in. How silently, how silently,</p> <p style="margin:10px 0px;font-size:16px;line-height:1.5;color:#241e12;font-family:'aktiv-grotesk', sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:pre-line;word-spacing:0px;background-color:#ffffff;">You have likely heard or sung these very lines over the course of the last few weeks. They are a verse from Philip Brooks' 1868 Christmas hymn O Little Town of Bethlehem.  Bethlehem means "house of bread." It is called the "city of David" and is the birthplace of the Son of God, the Lord Jesus Christ, prophesied as Immanuel, God with us, the star of Jacob, the sun of righteousness.</p> <p style="margin:10px 0px;font-size:16px;line-height:1.5;color:#241e12;font-family:'aktiv-grotesk', sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:pre-line;word-spacing:0px;background-color:#ffffff;">Bethlehem is a fitting name for the place where the very bread of life Himself would come into the world as an infant, as a man, for man. The One who made the stars with the br