Three Kings?

Hi there, I am back in Calamba from a fun-filled Christmas vacation, and starting tomorrow, It is back to work and studies... Darn this hangover. LOL

Today is Three Kings - as it is popularized by whoever said it is. Yeah, we greet each other, "Happy Three Kings". But that is a misnomer because the term THREE KINGS takes the focus off the real attraction of Christianity, who is Christ. In the first place, today is correctly called the Epiphany of the Lord, or better yet, the Manifestation of the Lord. Why is it called the Manifestation of the Lord? It is because the Lord invited the three magi, representing the kingdoms of the world, and manifests Himself, or in other words, shows Himself to them. What is more important is that the three kings represented the world, so Jesus showed Himself to the world, saying, "I AM HERE".

The magi offered their gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh. A little note, even the gifts of the magi are symbolical - gold represents the kingship and dominion of Jesus over the world, frankincense, which is burned in religious festivals, represents Jesus as the High Priest, and myrrh, an embalming material, represents the suffering Jesus would undergo.