The Mystery of the MagiSample

  Nations Will Flow to Zion

 God had set a process in motion to honor His Son six hundred years before He came. Under Daniel’s leadership, pagan “wise men,” including a group of Magi, began to learn about the Jewish Messiah’s advent and mission. After centuries, that legacy culminated in Magi traveling from the east to worship Jesus with precious gifts and to acknowledge Him as King. 

These Magi were the first Gentiles to worship the Jewish Messiah as King, even when the religious establishment had rejected Him—but they were only the beginning. Later, Gentiles would come to Him by the millions and even billions. That was always God’s intention. Thus, at the end of Matthew’s Gospel, King Jesus commanded His followers to make disciples “of all the nations” (Matthew 28:19). 

The legacy that began with Daniel’s ministry, as far back as the ancient Babylonian empire, then became a trickle of Magi from the east to worship Jesus, and eventually culminated in a deluge of multitudes from every nation under heaven.

 “After these things, I looked, and behold, a great multitude which no one could number, of all nations, tribes, peoples, and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, with palm branches in their hands, and crying out with a loud voice, saying, ‘Salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb’” (Revelation 7:9-10).

 The message of the Magi declares that the Jewish Messiah is the Lord of all nations. God has provided a way to save all who believe. One day, people from every tribe, kindred, and tongue will gather as one family to confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.