can you give me details of the three wise men...are they astrologers?

Answer 1

Caspar, Balthazar and Melchior were the Magi or three kings who bore gifts of Gold, Frankinsense and Myrrh for Jesus the king, the priest and the healer respectively. They saw his star in the East and followed it to witness the coming of the new Messiah. They were astrologers, following the Star of Bethlehem conjunction in the sky. Also the three stars on Orions belt bore witness to the birth of the new sun after the winter solstice. As it is above, so it is below.

Answer 2

All the Bible says is that they were three Magi, Wise Men, or Kings that came from the east to Jerusalem. The rest is speculation. Also the Köln Cathedral in Köln, Germany claims to have their remains on display.

Answer 3

I believe they probably were those who studied the stars, but also were learned in the writings of the Hebrew Scriptures. Otherwise the concept of Messiah would have been alien to them. Remember the Jews spent 70 years in Babylonian captivity, and even in the time of Jesus there was a very large Jewish population living in Babylon. I believe they were responding to the the prophesy of another Gentile prophet, Balaam, (who later apostatized from God), recorded in Numbers 24:17.......
17 "I see him, but not now;
I behold him, but not near.
A star will come out of Jacob;
a scepter will rise out of Israel..."

Answer 4

Astrologers (Gr., ma′goi; “Magi,” AS ftn, CC, We; “Magians,” ED) brought gifts to the young child Jesus. (Mt 2:1-16) Commenting on who these ma′goi were, The Imperial Bible-Dictionary (Vol. II, p. 139) says: “According to Herodotus the magi were a tribe of the Medes [I, 101], who professed to interpret dreams, and had the official charge of sacred rites . . . they were, in short, the learned and priestly class, and having, as was supposed, the skill of deriving from books and the observation of the stars a supernatural insight into coming events . . . Later investigations tend rather to make Babylon than Media and Persia the centre of full-blown magianism. ‘Originally, the Median priests were not called magi . . . From the Chaldeans, however, they received the name of magi for their priestly caste, and it is thus we are to explain what Herodotus says of the magi being a Median tribe’ . . . (J. C. Müller in Herzog’s Encl.).”—Edited by P. Fairbairn, London, 1874.
So the circumstantial evidence is strong that the ma′goi who visited the infant Jesus were astrologers.
As astrologers, they were servants of false gods and were, wittingly or unwittingly, led by what appeared to them as a moving “star.” They alerted Herod to the fact that the “king of the Jews” had been born, and Herod, in turn, sought to have Jesus killed. The plot, however, failed. Jehovah intervened and proved superior to the demon gods of the astrologers, so instead of returning to Herod, the astrologers headed home another way after being given “divine warning in a dream.”—Mt 2:2, 12.

Answer 5

I would say they must have been, since an astronomer wouldn't have seen a star as a "sign" of anything. But They did.

Answer 6

all i can say is that they went home via another route. we dont know what more happened in their lifes or what else they did.