I know, but not everyone is as smart as you and me.
Picture people outside at night.
The people sitting on that Ferris wheel, drinking beer, looking at the night sky, right as the supernova light from Betelgeuse appears.
It's going to be spooky for some.
This will be a one time event, right?
I still think many will consider the possibility of a deeper significance.
Because it wasn't time then.
We were in the wrong prophetic time period.
1054 and the Dragon was still chasing the woman.
"But you, Daniel, shut up the words and seal the book, until the time of the end. Many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall increase.” - Daniel 12:4
We saw His star in the east.
The wise men knew that it was time.
“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 2:2
The only way that they could have known about His first Visitation, is through Daniel's 70 week prophecy.
That enigmatic language of 62 weeks, and 7 weeks until Messiah the Prince.
From the going forth of the command to restore Jerusalem.
They knew that it was the time.
To be watching for Messiah the Prince.
These men were probably the great grand children of the Magicians and Sages that Daniel saved from death.
“The word from me is firm: if you do not make known to me the dream and its interpretation, you shall be torn limb from limb, and your houses shall be laid in ruins. - Daniel 2:5