EP: 384 Decoding the Star: How Pagan Astrologers Found the Jewish Messiah *members only trailer
Blurry Creatures25 Joulu 2025

EP: 384 Decoding the Star: How Pagan Astrologers Found the Jewish Messiah *members only trailer

The Magi weren't reading Daniel. They weren't studying the prophets. They were reading the sky.In our Members-Only Part 2 of our Christmas deep dive into the Star of Bethlehem, Caleb Jones returns to answer the question everyone's been asking: Why did the Magi know to come? What did they actually see in that chart that made them pack up and travel for months?Using ancient sources—Ptolemy, Manilius, Vettius Valens—Caleb reconstructs what an astrological reading of August 12, 3 BC would have looked like. The verdict? A heaven-blessed birth in Palestine. Incredible fortune. Warfare and a sword in his future. Someone who would overcome great danger through Jupiter and Venus.But this episode goes deeper than astronomy. Caleb traces how the Bible itself addresses astrology—not as fake, but as a rival way of knowing that God told Israel not to pursue because He would speak to them directly. When Israel rebelled and looked to the stars anyway, God wove their disobedience into His plan: He would use pagan astrologers to announce His Son and shame His people who should have known better.From Deuteronomy to Isaiah to Romans, the threads converge. The Magi weren't reading Daniel. They were reading the sky. And God met them there.The Christmas story is stranger than you thought. Not a member yet? Right now, we are running our biggest sale of the year with 20% OFF all memberships until the end of the year. Head over to https://blurrycreatures.com/pages/members to check it out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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EP: 392 Hooded Figures on the Blue Ridge *members only trailer

EP: 392 Hooded Figures on the Blue Ridge *members only trailer

Halloween night, 2001. A blue moon hangs over Virginia, a celestial event so rare it only occurs a handful of times per century. Seth, a young man wrestling with his faith and freshly removed from Lib...

23 Tammi 14min

EP: 391 The Age of Disclosure with Timothy Alberino

EP: 391 The Age of Disclosure with Timothy Alberino

Timothy Alberino is back in the basement, and this time the conversation is pointed. With the release of the documentary Age of Disclosure and a Spielberg film on the horizon, the UFO topic is no long...

20 Tammi 1h 34min

EP: 390 Terror in the Treehouse *members only trailer

EP: 390 Terror in the Treehouse *members only trailer

It's 2009 in Fairview, North Carolina. Two teenage cousins are hanging out in a treehouse ten feet off the ground, stereo playing Elton John's "Benny and the Jets" into the cool fall night. Then, righ...

15 Tammi 21min

EP: 389 Where Heaven Meets Earth with NT Wright

EP: 389 Where Heaven Meets Earth with NT Wright

What if the entire goal of the gospel isn't to escape earth but to bring heaven crashing into it? One of the greatest living theologians, author of over 80 books, former Bishop of Durham, and a schola...

13 Tammi 1h 16min

EP: 388 Nephilim Kings and the Fourth Industrial Age with Ali Siadatan *members only trailer

EP: 388 Nephilim Kings and the Fourth Industrial Age with Ali Siadatan *members only trailer

Ali Siadatan returns to unpack one of the most loaded statements in Scripture: "As it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be at the coming of the Son of Man." But what if Jesus wasn't simply warning ...

8 Tammi 25min

EP: 387 UFO Crash Retrievals and Dark Matter with Dr. Matthew Szydagis

EP: 387 UFO Crash Retrievals and Dark Matter with Dr. Matthew Szydagis

A piece of metal lands on a physicist's desk. The claim? It was recovered from a UFO crash site. Most scientists would laugh it off, but Dr. Matthew Szydagis takes it to his lab and fires up the spect...

6 Tammi 1h 15min

EP: 386 A Farmhouse and Something Else… *members only trailer

EP: 386 A Farmhouse and Something Else… *members only trailer

An old farmhouse in the Ozarks. A newly adopted son with unexplainable nightmares. Voices telling children to ride their bikes onto the highway. Manifestations at 3 am. A dark figure with red eyes. An...

1 Tammi 19min

EP: 385 Magick, Mediums and Mermaids with Jess Phoenix

EP: 385 Magick, Mediums and Mermaids with Jess Phoenix

Jess Phoenix was a professional witch with a massive online following when things started unraveling—mental torment, sleep paralysis, her children being harassed by spirits, and a growing sense that s...

30 Joulu 20251h 39min

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