According to scholars of ancient scripts and Biblical research, these super smart people have dated Jesus birth around +/- 2000 years ago.
In the book of Matthew chapter 2 and verses 9-11, the Magi visit Jesus at His birth and bring Him gifts. They were led to the birth place by the Star of Bethlehem. If you’ve seen nativity scenes I’m sure you’ll know exactly what I’m talking about.
9 After they had heard the king, they went on their way, and the star they had seen when it rose went ahead of them until it stopped over the place where the child was. 10 When they saw the star, they were overjoyed. 11 On coming to the house, they saw the child with his mother Mary, and they bowed down and worshiped him.
Well, +/- 2000 later the star will reappear!! Coincidence, I don’t think so – God has a sense of humour.
Venus and Jupiter will make their tightest highly visible conjunction in 2000 years.
The reference to the Star of Bethlehem is with regard to the fact that there was a very similar ultra tight conjunction between the two — and close by the star Regulus (as this one will be), and high up in the sky (as this will be as well) — in 3-2 BC. Some astronomers have in the past speculated that this earlier conjunction is what the “Star of Bethlehem” referred to.
The two bright planets have already begun moving closer and closer together in the last evening sky over the past month, this convergence will continue until the evening of June 30, 2015. Those interested should look in the western portion of the evening sky to see the conjunction. Roughly an hour or so after sunset is probably a good time — but obviously there’s some flexibility there.
Relatively close to this conjunction will be one of the brightest stars in the constellation of the Lion, the star Regulus. As mentioned above, the ultra tight Jupiter-Venus conjunction back around 3-2 BC was also located near this very bright star.
While the tightest conjunction will be on the night/evening of June 30, there’ll be a week or so of impressive sights in the days before and after the conjunction.
On the night of June 30th the two planets will be so close together that they’ll appear to a very bright “double star” — with the outstretched tip of a pinkie finger reportedly being enough to cover both up.
Worth noting is that while the two planets vary considerably in size, they’ll appear roughly the same size in the night’s sky owing to Venus being considerably closer than Jupiter. For those wondering, Venus is the brighter one that moves around more (as it follows the Sun around on its path through the sky).
I personally think God is showing off here! 2000 years ago He gave us the star of Bethlehem, today (30 June 2015), 2000 years later, He gives it to us again, man, I love it! A good reminder that Jesus indeed did come to Earth.
Credits: Planetsave//Edited