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Him up? The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between His
feet, until Shiloh come; and unto Him shall the gathering of the people be.”

This association of Messiah with the tribe of Judah and with the lion is a

productive clue, the Lion. Ancient stargazers, particularly if they were interested in
things Jewish, may well have concluded they were seeing signs of a Jewish king.
But there is more. The last book of the New Testament is, in part, a prophetic clue.

But a portion of the Book of Revelation provides clear and compelling guidance
for our overall evaluation. The apostle John wrote the book as an old man while in
exile on the island of Patmos. Perhaps the condition of this exile or a lack of
companionship left him time for star gazing to ponder the beauty of the night time
heavenly sky. Whatever the reason, Revelation is full of star imagery.
In Revelation, Chapter 12, John describes a life and death drama played out in the
sky, the birth of a king:

And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun,
and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars: And
she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered. And
there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon,
having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads. And his
tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth:
and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for
to devour her Child as soon as it was born. And she brought forth a man
Child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her Child was
caught up unto God, and to his throne. And the woman fled into the
wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her.
(Revelation 12:1 – 6)

A woman in labor, a dragon bent on infanticide and a ruler of the nations. We have
already seen this ruler in the Book of Genesis, above. This would be the Messiah,
in his role as King of Kings. If that interpretation is correct, then according to the
Gospel story the woman would be Mary, the mother of Jesus. The dragon which
waits to kill the child at birth would be Herod, who did that very thing.

We conclude this story of the Undeniable Declarations in the Heavenly proof that
the Lord Jesus is without Question the Son of the Living God and the Savior of
Mankind. The final assignment of the three Kings is written in the gospel of
Matthew:

Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of Herod the
king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem, Saying, ‘Where
is He that is born King of the Jews?’ For we have seen His star in the east, and