The Star of Bethlehem

By Michael Hearns

The first Christmas day was on February 26th in the year 6 BCE for that has turned out to be the date when Jesus was born. This conclusion was derived from the findings of new research on what became known as the Star of Bethlehem. There were two features in identifying the date of birth one of which was with the astronomy behind the mysterious star. It was known that there were spectacular displays involving the planets of Jupiter and Saturn in the years 7 and 6 BCE but there appeared to be no evidence to support the speculation that the unusual phenomena was the Star of Bethlehem. This is where the breakthrough came for the records of an ancient biblical calendar were recently identified from where they lay displayed as mere sets of domestic related numbers. Following detailed analysis of the data, those sets of numbers proved to be the days of a sophisticated solar calendar. Within the calendar's matrix were the technical specifications to identify that heavenly spectacle, which appeared over Bethlehem.
From calculations and computerized simulations astronomer have calculated that Jupiter and Saturn come in close alignment together on three occasions over the period of several months in 7 BCE. This cosmic spectacle is known as a triple conjunction. To make this wonder in the heavens even more unusual it was followed by a triangular alignment between Jupiter, Saturn and Mars in February of 6 BCE. The period from the first day of the triple conjunction on the 27th May 7 BCE to the triangulation of the three planets on the 26th February in 6 BCE was nine months to the day. It was mirrored here on earth with the nine months pregnancy of Mary until her infant Jesus was born.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Michael Hearns
• Release date: Feb 24, 2017
• ISBN: 9780995722507

Michael Hearns

Rather than give a generic description of my profile I will integrate it into my research activities in looking for evidence that a higher form of intelligence influenced the biblical prophets. I was born and reared in rural Ireland and our lives were ruled by religious fervour in which only the hierarchical clergy had a say. We were led to believe that there was a heaven above to ascend too for living in piety and doing what we were told but the burning fires of hell below awaited those who did not obey. The notion of a heaven in the afterlife seemed to have originated with the biblical prophets and they were considered to have been divinely inspired when they made their predictions. They had alluded to Jacob's ladder reaching up to God and the building of the beguiling tower of Babel together with a fiery chariot ascending out of sight so the aspiration from the prophets was to soar up to the heavens. But words alone were never going to be sufficient to convince the universal audience that there was a paradise awaiting us. Years went by and I studied telecommunications in college and worked in the national Telecom Company but eventually moved to work in one of the main national newspapers. During that time Ireland underwent major changes with wide scale economic and social transformations. Along the way I drifted from the archaic world of boring Sunday sermons but I retained an interest in biblical history and am fascinated with the archaeology of the Levant. I was also interested in several of the building projects such as with the tabernacle in the Book of Exodus and other numerical data configurations in the Bible. A door opened for me when I learned that scholars have established that the first five books of the Old Testament had been covertly re-edited around 500 – 700 BCE and the various stories had been dramatized out of all proportions. So preoccupied were investigators with analysing the text to try and identify the re-editors that they seemed to have overlooked that large volumes of numbers had been also inserted including practically the whole Book of Numbers. Many of those numbers were incredible with men living to be over nine hundred years of age or with exaggerated population sizes in two censuses. It seemed to me that those numbers had to have been of tremendous importance for the re-editors to insert them in scripture. I therefore conducted an analysis and found evidence that some of those nu...

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Introduction

The first Christmas day was on February 26th in the year 6 BCE for that has turned out to be the date when Jesus was born. This conclusion was derived from the findings of new research on what became known as the Star of Bethlehem. There were two features in identifying the date of birth one of which was with the astronomy behind the mysterious star. It was known that there were spectacular displays involving the planets of Jupiter and Saturn in the years 7 and 6 BCE but there appeared to be no evidence to support the speculation that the unusual phenomena was the Star of Bethlehem. This is where the breakthrough came for the records of an ancient biblical calendar were recently identified from where they lay displayed as mere sets of domestic related numbers. Following detailed analysis of the data, those sets of numbers proved to be the days of a sophisticated solar calendar. Within the calendar’s matrix were the technical specifications to identify that heavenly spectacle, which appeared over Bethlehem.

From calculations and computerised simulations astronomer have calculated that Jupiter and Saturn come in close alignment together on three occasions over the period of several months in 7 BCE. These close encounters have been likened to Jupiter and Saturn having been in a waltz together and the strange occurrence is known as a triple conjunction of those two planets. Conjunctions of the planets are common place but not so with the triple conjunction in 7 BCE because it happened against the backdrop of the constellation of Pieces, which was a spectacle that only occurs every 794.4 years. ¹ To make this wonder in the heavens even more unusual it was followed by a triangular alignment between Jupiter, Saturn and Mars in February of 6 BCE. The period from the first day of the triple conjunction on the 27th May 7 BCE to the triangulation of the three planets on the 26th February in 6 BCE was nine months to the day.

In ancient times the stars and planets were a source of breaking news stories, which the astrologers at the royal courts studied for signs of ills or omens. So when the Magi enquired from King Herod about the new born king because they had seen his star, they were speaking from an educated insight about the heavenly phenomenon. It was therefore noticeable that the Magi were using astrological terminology and so they would have known that Jupiter was associated with the anointing of kings while Saturn was viewed as the saviour of Israel. These should have been familiar terms in the context of a prophesised Messiah who would be a redeemer and saviour of the Jews. That the coming together of those two planets was in the constellation of Pieces also told of a new beginning where the constellation of the fishes was coming into ascendancy for the next two thousand years. The signs in the sky would soon take hold when fishermen lined up to be apostles to a new radical preacher.

It was very strange where the pagan worship of astrology featured in the very first page of the New Testament where the Magi linked a star to a new born king. Astrology was so out of place with the religious ethos of scripture. Likewise with the Magi for who were those star gazers who came to herald a new born king of the Jews? The traditional interpretations of Mathew’s gospel are almost sacrilegious where three pagans from an alien culture such as Babylon or Persia broke the greatest news story in Christendom. In a faith that has been subject to so many conspiracy allegations one would wonder why the early church fathers had not erased or amended the tell-tale astrology link between a star and the birth of Jesus from Mathew’s gospel. It shows that the Magi and the star were of tremendous importance in the story of Jesus.

Those were the puzzling aspects surrounding the star, which I faced when I set out to investigate its identity. The investigation took on board the various predictions of a Messiah by the prophets and it led to a trail whose stepping stones went back through the mystifying words of scripture. Luke’s gospel had referred to Joseph and Mary going to Bethlehem at the time of a census. It was therefore remarkable when the stepping stones led to a census of the Israelites on the exodus out of Egypt. Under methodical examination, the census proved to be a camouflage where the analysis showed that the numbers were in fact the days of a solar calendar. This was a rare but revolutionary finding especially as it showed that the Bible had harboured a secret archive of astronomy within its covers.

There was more tantalising evidence to follow where I noticed that the names of six of the tribal leaders who partook in that alleged census were singled out for special attention in the gospels, particularly at the birth of Jesus. The name of another tribal leader was insinuated. It was like the joy of opening a Christmas stocking because the total of the numbers for the related six tribes added up to