How many wise men were there? We simply don’t know; we just know there was more than one but we know they brought three gifts. The passage in Matthew 2:1-11 make it clear that these Magi traveled from the east following a star [see What Was the Star of Bethlehem?] that led them to Israel.
These wise men were searching for the Christ, the promised Messiah. From the account of the wise men, they were from the “east.” This is likely the orient. The fact that men came from such a vast distance to honor the baby Jesus with gifts give a powerful testimony to the history related in Genesis and the faith of these men.
How could men that far off have known about a promised messiah? When people groups were scattered from the Tower of Babel, they went to all parts of the earth. Their descendants continued migrating until people were living on six continents (see Flood Legends)!.
The “east” was no exception. The Chinese, for instance, have records of the Genesis account and the message of Christ written in the symbols of their language. They even have records indicating that they were to sacrifice animals to the one true God who was the creator and the one who rescued man during a huge flood. Please see The Original ‘Unknown’ God of China.
This confirms that they knew much of the biblical account at some point after the Tower of Babel. While many lost this precious information in the East we know that some still retained it—the wise men. These men from the orient were no doubt wise. Unlike many of their contemporaries who had lost the history in the Bible, they knew that Jesus was coming. This confirmation of biblical history and trust in the Scriptures is a testimony of the accuracy of the biblical account and the Tower of Babel.
Many in today’s culture have also lost the true history in the Bible. They have accepted the history of “millions of years” and, just like the contemporaries of the wise men, have failed to recognize Jesus as the Messiah.
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