All Signs Point to It

January 14, 2026

The Pharisees and Sadducees came to Jesus and tested him by asking him to show them a sign from heaven.  2 He replied, “When evening comes, you say, ‘It will be fair weather, for the sky is red,’ 3 and in the morning, ‘Today it will be stormy, for the sky is red and overcast.’ You know how to interpret the appearance of the sky, but you cannot interpret the signs of the times. 4 A wicked and adulterous generation looks for a sign, but none will be given it except the sign of Jonah.” Jesus then left them and went away.
-Matthew 16:1-4 (NIV)

So many people want signs and wonders to prove and show God is real and Jesus is God!  I used to be one of those people and I remember being a teenager and I wanted God to show me some miraculous sign to show that he’s real and out there.  Of course, as I got older I realized God doesn’t have to do such a thing, because he’s God after all.  He doesn’t have to prove anything and doesn’t have to come down to our level to prove his existence.  And just hearing about God from scripture is enough to validate his existence, but of course there will always be people like “doubting Thomas” in John 20:24-31.  There will always be people that need more tangible and empirical evidence to prove the existence of God.  Of course, as I got older yes, I do believe I’ve experienced miracles in my life, but that’s not my point.  Looking back, I didn’t need these extra miraculous events to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that our triune God exists and that God has come in the flesh in Jesus Christ and scripture is 100% inspired, inerrant, and infallible thereby making it 100% trustworthy from God.

But now that we’re on this topic I came across a few neat social media postings on Twitter/X.  On January 2, 2026, A Christian graphic designer I follow by the name of Josh Barzon asked X’s embedded Ai (Grok) a question from the following prompt:

Hey @grok, remove every religion here that bases salvation on human righteousness, works, or merit. Leave the one that bases salvation entirely on God’s grace. Create an image of this showing the result.

You’ll notice listed were symbols for Islam, Christianity, Sikhism, Hinduism, Baha’I, Taoism, Confucianism, Judaism, Polytheism, Shinto, Janism, and Buddhism.

Grok’s response was Christianity with nothing else (Listing Christianity and the Christian cross symbol alone).

Later and on January 17, 2026, the same person asked Grok the following question:

Hey @grok which religious book below is the only one that is the true, infallible, and inspired words of God that teaches the true way of Salvation? Remove all others that are false, from cults, and not true from the image and leave just the correct one only.

You’ll notice listed are the Holy Bible, Quaran, Talmud, Bhagavad Gita, Holy Vedas, Book of Mormon, Richard Dawkins’ “The God of Delusion”, In the Buddha’s Words, and Charles Darwin’s The Origin of Species

Grok’s response was the Holy Bible with nothing else (Showing an ESV bible cover).

Of course, “if it’s on the internet it must be true right?”.  I joke when I say that since not everything found on the internet is true.  Also, some of you know Elon Musk owns the social media platform and in a previous interview he mentioned he believes in a god out there, but to my recollection, he doesn’t say it’s Jesus or doesn’t believe in Christianity as the sole truth.  Because of this fact and to me, this suggests an unbiased opinion coming from Grok.  Now, if you ask me, this is not a true sign, but even an Ai construct is on board with Christianity and the Holy Bible being the sole truth!  Again, this is not a true Godly sign, so let’s not get it twisted!

Here's another interesting piece I found on the internet.  Former CIA agent and Christian Content Creator known as “Jesse Speaks” once recently mentioned, “Christians are the only ones who can’t be controlled.”  Once again, you can’t trust everything on the internet, but I still find this fascinating to say the least.  To me this makes sense because God gives righteous strength and you cannot stop God!

But for the Pharisees and Sadducees in our text In Matthew 16:1-4, they weren’t satisfied that God was standing right there in front of them, in the flesh in Jesus Christ.  1 Cor. 1:22 tells us Jews demand signs and they wanted supernatural signs and something near earth shattering from the heavens to reveal Jesus is God.  Keep in mind this event happened immediately after Jesus fed the four thousand whereby, we know he already just finished an amazing miracle.

Our text says they tested him.  Can we say “red flag”??? Deut. 6:16 tells us not to test the LORD our God.  Once again this is God here and he doesn’t have to prove anything to anyone!  Amazingly the only sign Jesus promised to give them was the sign of Jonah – referring back to Jonah being in the fish’s belly for three days, with Jesus similarly saying he will die, be buried in the earth and be resurrected after three days (Matt. 12:40).

And that my dear friends is the only sign anyone needs!  All we need to know is the life, death and resurrection of Jesus to know Jesus is God!  All of Christianity rests on the resurrection and that’s enough for me to know all things are possible and yes, Christianity is true!  I don’t need any other signs because scripture already mentions the resurrection story of Easter!  And I know enough about scripture to know it’s 100% reliable, trustworthy, and complete unto itself.

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The Wise Men

January 7, 2026

7 Then Herod called the Magi secretly and found out from them the exact time the star had appeared. 8 He sent them to Bethlehem and said, “Go and search carefully for the child. As soon as you find him, report to me, so that I too may go and worship him.”

9 After they had heard the king, they went on their way, and the star they had seen when it rose went ahead of them until it stopped over the place where the child was. 10 When they saw the star, they were overjoyed. 11 On coming to the house, they saw the child with his mother Mary, and they bowed down and worshiped him. Then they opened their treasures and presented him with gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh. 12 And having been warned in a dream not to go back to Herod, they returned to their country by another route.
-Matthew 2:7-12 (NIV)

Happy New Year to everyone!  My prayer is that you receive great amounts of hope, joy, peace and love from God in 2026.  As the new year kicks off, I just realized there have been a number of shocking developments in the world recently.  Nicolas Maduro (Venezuelan President) was recently captured by the US military and indicted on charges of “narco-terrorism conspiracy”, “cocaine importation conspiracy”, and other matters.  On Christmas Day of 2025, it’s reported from many articles the internet that the US military struck an Isis group in Nigeria.  And then somewhere in the middle of this, there’s been a huge protest against the Iranian Islamic regime in Iran.  I could be wrong, but from what I’ve been reading and seeing videos about, Iran could be on the verge of a great political change where potentially the Iranian Islamic regime could soon well be overthrown.

With all of these events and others, maybe some of you disagree with the reasonings, motives and actions associated with some of these shocking events (I’m not sure, and I’m not going to debate here), but I do want to touch base a little bit about Iran.

According to Wikipedia, Golsa “Goldie” Ghamari is a Canadian politician and activist who represented the riding of Carleton in Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 2018 until 2025.  She’s been posting a lot of videos about the Middle East, and I came across this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5ncqO6tMzA

In this video she makes the claim that the Three Wise Men in scripture, were Iranian and of Zoroastrian faith backgrounds.  I’m not sure if it’s true, but in my limited and flawed knowledge, I’d like to believe it’s very possible.  In my limited findings, many scholars believe the wise men came from Persia and they were pagan (non-Jew or Christian) because they had detailed knowledge of star formations and worshipped other deities and/or divine spirits, thus explaining why they followed a unique star (Star of Bethlehem).

Of course, some of you know that the exact number of wise men was not specifically mentioned but could’ve been three (or more) because only three gifts were mentioned: gold, frankincense and myrrh.  These are all gifts of royalty.  Some believe gold represents kingship, frankincense for divinity and priestly role, and myrrh to foretell of his death/burial as myrrh was used as an embalming agent.  These gifts with their meanings could very well be for these symbolic meanings.

Now assuming these Wise Men were pagan or even Zoroastrian, did you catch one amazing detail from our text?  The Wise Men.  Verse 11 in our text says they bowed down and worshipped him (Jesus)!  Do you know how incredible this is?  People of a different faith came all the way from Persia/Iran estimated to be roughly 1,600 km are bowing down and worshipping Jesus, not their own idols!  I can’t help but believe this is foreshadowing Romans 14:11 telling us ‘every knee will bow before me; every tongue will acknowledge God.”

How do people all over the world and up to this day not see that Jesus is the true God and Lord above all lords?  Of course, that’s not for me to fully answer and I leave it up to God and his gift of faith and salvation with it.  And if there’s anything to take away from this, I implore you while you have time, bow down and worship him and only him – he alone is worthy and he alone should be worshipped!

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