Christ, the Son of God, was born Son of Man in Palestine (not Israel until 1948 CE), very much in Asia, and named Jesus (Iyesu in Thamizh, Isa in Arabic, and Yeshua in Hebrew) by Joseph, the name revealed to Mary by the angel Gabriel, for He shall save His people from their sins. – Matt 1:21.

After more hurdles were hurled in the path of the birth of the Saviour (Joseph and Mary were forced to travel around her EDD). But the inevitable happened. And the dragon stood before the woman, which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her Child as soon as It was born. And she (the believing generation of Israel) brought forth a man child. – Rev 12:4, 5. Here was the long-expected Seed of the woman born in a Jewish family. There was no better opportunity for the devil to devour the Child.

Augustus Caesar (Octavian? – giving the month (8th – Octa) of his birth its name August) was the Roman Emperor at that time and Herod was the king of Judea (one of the four large provinces in Palestine under the Roman government). Satan had his seed ready in King Herod. Probably during the second year of Jesus’ birth, a few wise men from the East ended up in his palace in search of an earthly king. They wanted to worship him. Him. When Herod the king had heard these things, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him. – Matt 2:3. The Chief Priests and Scribes (who were learned men of the Scriptures) told him that the long-anticipated King should have been born in Bethlehem of Judea. What? In Judea? And He didn’t know it all these months? Now let us read the rest of this paragraph as Satan’s soliloquy: Is this Child not my Opponent? Would He not put an end to my rule over mankind, slaughter me, hand me out a death-blow, conquer me comprehensively, offer me a decisive defeat, snatch away the keys of death and hell, and take over the reins of man’s life in His hands? How could I have allowed this would-be King to survive all these days?

Herod said to the wise men, “Go and search diligently for the young Child; and when ye have found Him, bring me word again, that I may come and worship Him also”. – Matt 2:7, 8. But, being warned of God in a dream that they should not return to Herod, they departed into their own country another way. – Matt 2:12.

The wise men of the east (orient) might have come from South India (Thamizhar?) because Thamizh Nadu is known for wise astronomers (Sitthars) who could read the stars to predict historical events.

Here are a few myths busted about the wisemen who visited Bethlehem:
• There were not three wise men – there could have been more. They brought three kinds of gifts to the King which might have given rise to the tradition of three wisemen.
• The wisemen came at a time when Jesus was a young child, not when he was an infant. We read this “young child” mentioned six times in the same portion of Scripture where we read about their visit. And again, King Herod ordered all male children below two years of age in Bethlehem to be killed after the wisemen left him high and dry of any information about the young Child.
• The wisemen worshipped the young Child only – neither Mary nor Joseph (Joseph is not even mentioned in the context)
• The wisemen did not enter the manger to see the Young Child – they entered their house

The wisemen were rich men too who gave their valuable gifts– which might have given rise to the traditional song “We three kings of Orient are”. The wisemen presented gold, frankincense, and myrrh – each of which had a special significance to the Child. The gold signified the King who would rule in His heavenly kingdom without end; the frankincense signified the Priest who would offer incense and stand a mediator between God and man forever; the myrrh signified the embalming of His dead body when He would die as the sacrificial Lamb of God for the sin of the whole world.

Herod was annoyed over the wisemen not returning to him as per his instructions. His fear of “the new King” also increased manifold. A last-ditch effort by Satan was unleashed to kill the Young Child Jesus. Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had diligently enquired of the wise men. – Matt 2:16. But, even before this child slaughter, an angel of the Lord had appeared to Joseph in a dream and had instructed him to flee to Egypt with the Child and his mother. The Child stayed in Egypt till the death of King Herod.

There were other Herods during the time of Jesus; one gave orders to behead John the Baptist to retain his ego and probably was in the time of Jesus’ crucifixion; probably another, later when Peter was imprisoned. While these were also seed of Satan, they did not play a direct or lead role in confronting the Seed of the woman – Jesus Christ, the Son of God.

Jesus Christ is not a Western God as He is supposed to be by the Easterners. While He is God in the flesh, He was a complete man too. He was born in Asia. He was brought up in a Jewish family. He spoke the Aramaic language – a close relative to Thamizh. He did not get formal education as poor Joseph and Mary could not afford it. (It is unlikely that He came to Nalanda University for education nor did He spend His life with Buddhist monks in Kashmir during His youth – while the Bible is silent on these things, as the ideal man, He must have lived an exemplary life as the eldest son of the family). He ate simple Mediterranean food. He had no place of His own to lay His head. He took up carpentry as His trade from Joseph (and made light wooden yokes of high quality for oxen?). He had siblings – Joseph and Mary lived as husband and wife after the birth of Jesus and begat sons and daughters. Jesus is said to have taken family responsibility on His shoulders at a very early age and earned a living for the family. This might have been the reason Jesus could not have a formal education and made the people wonder “Whence then hath this Man all these things?”- Matt 13:56; Jn 7:15.