December 15: How did those Wise Men know?

Over the past couple weeks we’ve been considering the message behind the characters assembling at the birth of Jesus: angels, shepherds – what about Wise Men? Aka Kings or Magi, these people somehow crashed the party. The big question isn’t who let them in, but how did they know? And how come they knew so much more than the people on the invite list… or maybe they were on the list… Parallels today? Hmm…