I know December 25 is traditionally celebrated as His birthday, but Scripture never gives us an exact birth date, right? Is there any historical or biblical basis for determining when He was born closely enough to answer this? I recently saw someone else post that Jesus was a Leo.
The zodiac is a pagan belief system so Jesus’s zodiac sign is irrelevant.
From the bible there were shepherds watching over their flocks, that is likely to be in spring when lambs are being born, so Jesus was probably born in the spring.
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Have you ever imagined what it might be like to stand up to a tornado; to have your feet glued to the ground and your knees unable to bend, as the angry twister approaches, tearing up the landscape, tossing trees like twigs and boulders like specks of dust? When Jesus, the LORD rebuked Job, expressing Himself from the eye of a tornado, (imagine) He sternly chided…
"Who is this who darkens counsel By words without knowledge?
Now prepare yourself like a man; I will question you,
and you shall answer Me.
"Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth?
Tell Me, if you have understanding.
Who determined its measurements? Surely you know!
Or who stretched the line upon it?
To what were its foundations fastened? Or who laid its cornerstone,
When the morning stars sang together,
And all the sons of God shouted for joy?"Or who shut in the sea with doors,
When it burst forth and issued from the womb;
When I made the clouds its garment,
And thick darkness its swaddling band;
When I fixed My limit for it, And set bars and doors;
When I said, ‘This far you may come, but no farther,
And here your proud waves must stop!’(Job 38:1-11)
Here Jesus, the Creator, does not reveal Himself as one born when a certain constellation was hidden by the sun, but as one who was a master builder and had just begun effecting His well-planned work. He affirms a ceremonious celestial celebration that occurred when the cornerstone of the Earth was laid, describing the scene as “when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy” Now we know that cornerstone to be our savior. The One who began His good work, has made Himself the cornerstone, and has also completed it for His own Glory and Honor.
Our solar system is heliocentric, and as such is a celestial metaphor for the centrality of The Son. This ball of dirt we call home revolves around our solar center, a mass of dust revolving around a single smallish star. You and I are but crude creatures, fashioned out of this dirt, riding this silly ball around-and-around on its prescribed course, for most of us, for fewer than 100 revolutions.
Ancient men, with weak minds minds composed of nothing but earthly dirt, once thought that constellations (arbitrary collection of stars) moved across the firmament with precise regularity. Throughout the year, they thought each group was somehow consumed by the sun, each took their turn being “in the sun”, and that event was somehow auspicious.
To God The Creator “there is no created thing hidden from His sight, but all things are naked and open to the eyes of Him to whom we must give account (Hebrews 4:13). The psalmist, with eyes opened and mind renewed by The Creator, saw the “heavens and the firmament” differently. To the psalmist…
The heavens declare the glory of God;
And the firmament shows His handiwork.
Day unto day utters speech,
And night unto night reveals knowledge.
There is no speech nor language where their voice is not heard.
Their line has gone out through all the earth,
And their words to the end of the world.In them He has set a tabernacle for the sun,
Which is like a bridegroom coming out of his chamber,
And rejoices like a strong man to run its race.
Its rising is from one end of heaven,
And its circuit to the other end;
And there is nothing hidden from its heat.Psalm 19:1-6
To the psalmist, the heavens and the firmament together represent the entire created cosmos, and the purpose of the cosmos is to declare the cosmos’s Creator. The sun is a metaphor for The Son, who, like a bridegroom emerges with purpose and dedication, to declare the Glory of The Creator. Like a strong runner in a race, He is enthusiastic and undeterred. Good men, of renewed mind, give no place in their thoughts for reading anything in the stars beyond their duty of declaration of Glory to God.
In The Son
KP
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I’m not sure where December 25th came from as a date but from what I understand, Judea is impassable at that time of year because of snow.
So Jesus wasn’t born on Dec. 25th. I’ve heard different sermons which speculate when was it really that He was born. I *think* the consensus is that Jesus was born in September?
But spring makes sense too because that’s the season of new life and new beginnings.
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When did Jesus get a zodiac sign?
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Haha, the zodiac part was just really a conversation starter. Thinking outside the box.