we went to the bethlehem star presentation last night - i highly recommend it. for me it was an "in my face" realization that i have made God too small. not that i didn't think he could order the stars and the heavens, but in my mind that was probably just sunday school stuff. what was demonstrated to me last night, along with scripture, showed me that God's design is so much more than i could ever imagine. it also re-created a holy fear of awe and respect toward the father that i think so often is forgotten.
(from the website) For if the Star wasn't magic or a special miracle from outside of the natural order, then it was something even more startling. It was a Clockwork Star. And that is overwhelming. The movement of the heavenly bodies is regular, like a great clock. The Clockwork Star finally means that from the very instant at which God flung the universe into existence, he also knew the moment he would enter human history in the person of Jesus of Nazareth. He marked it in the stars. And from before the beginning of time as we experience it, God knew the very moment when Messiah would breath his last on the cross.
Jesus is "the Lamb that was slain from the creation of the world."
Revelation 13:8
