213. How Three Wise Men Became Three Kings

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The Three Wise Men were kings, magicians, more than three, on camels, walking across deserts and the men who tricked Herod. How can they be all these things?

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It’s a story found in Matthew 2:1-12. Wise men from the East travel to find the new king who would someday rule the world.

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Friends, we come to the wonderful Feast of the Epiphany and the great account in the Gospel of Matthew of the journey of the three magi. This marvelous, puzzling story, which has so beguiled the poets, artists, and preachers over the centuries, bears a very profound theologica ...