Dark and light IMO can also be translated as good and evil .. Sunrise, sunset... And what about Bethlehem and a star? Wasn't there a reference to that too?
Quoting: MrsCrickets yes and magi were magicians and such
it is all allegorical as well as a tool of control. You are not taught how to use it in a proper sense
1- literal
2- historical
3- allegorical
4-astrological
it can be read cover to cover all 4 ways if done properly and you will have an explanation in ALL of them that follows a timeline.
this is why "the devil" knows the word just as well as God does. There is a reason that they say don't consult the stars but pray to the star of Bethlehem. There is a reason that they tell you Jesus is LIVING- to get around the necromancy of the idea of it. It is all a mind warp if you can't take it all in with open eyes and many resources and tools of interpretation.
contemporary meanings are NO GOOD
BELIEF: Three wise men (or kings in some traditions) visited Jesus at the time of his birth.
STATUS: MYTH.
Perhaps you have seen paintings or nativity scenes that depict the infant Jesus lying in a manger, surrounded by three wise men bearing gifts. This image, however, is fiction, not fact.
It is true that a delegation from the East paid homage to young Jesus. These visitors, though, were really astrologers. (Matthew 2:1, The New English Bible; The Bible—An American Translation) And did they find Jesus nestled in a manger? No; they visited him in a house. Evidently, they arrived some months after Jesus’ birth.—Matthew 2:9-11.
As to the number of visitors, were there 2? 3? 30? The Bible does not say. Perhaps the traditional number of three arose from their three types of gifts. (Matthew 2:11) Some have even proposed that each of the so-called wise men represented a different race of mankind. But that idea is not found in the Scriptures. Rather, as one Gospel commentary notes, this particular myth is the product of “an eighth-century historian with a vivid imagination.”
Scriptures from above^:
(Matthew 2:1) After Jesus had been born in Beth′le·hem of Ju·de′a in the days of Herod the king, look! astrologers from eastern parts came to Jerusalem,
(Matthew 2:9-11) When they had heard the king, they went their way; and, look! the star they had seen [when they were] in the east went ahead of them, until it came to a stop above where the young child was. 10 On seeing the star they rejoiced very much indeed. 11 And when they went into the house they saw the young child with Mary its mother, and, falling down, they did obeisance to it. They also opened their treasures and presented it with gifts, gold and frankincense and myrrh.
(Matthew 2:11) And when they went into the house they saw the young child with Mary its mother, and, falling down, they did obeisance to it. They also opened their treasures and presented it with gifts, gold and frankincense and myrrh.
