There will probably be remarkable celestial movements occurring in the skies this December, perhaps even pointing forward to fulfilled biblical prophecies. This reminds me of the Christmas star that led the Wise Men and their entourage to Bethlehem to see the newborn King. Could God have used a conjunction of two or three of the planets for that blessed event? We know He could have just created a special star that drew the Wise Men of the East first to Jerusalem then to Bethlehem.
Why should we, now, pay attention to the celestial bodies in the sky? “And God said, let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years.” (Genesis 1:14). Also, “The heavens declare the glory of God, and the firmament shows His handiwork. There is no speech nor language where their voice is not heard.” (Psalm 19:1-2)
Leif Hetland, in his book Seeing through Heavenly Eyes, shows how we have spent millions on projects like SETI (search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence), trying to contact the universe. Yet, to quote Hetland, “The irony is that…we haven’t gotten the message. Day after day, night after night, David says, The heavens have been shouting it; the earth has been showing it. Look at this! See that! Here it is ! And there! Look, it’s over there, too! The glory of God is everywhere. And all creation has been trying to get us to see it.!
Thank God for the Bible, His Word, where we can read the gospel of Jesus and the salvation He has provided for us through the sacrifice He made on the cross. But what if one has never seen the written word? Romans 1:20 assures, “For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse…”
Beyond the fact that the creation, especially the starry sky, is awesome and magnificent, I have often wondered how a person who had none of the scriptures could ever conceive of anything of the gospel of Jesus Christ just from looking at the sky, I remembered a book on my shelf entitled The Real Meaning of the Zodiac, by the late D. James Kennedy, Ph.D., who was pastor of the Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. It is fascinating and chock full of detailed and well-documented information concerning the original meaning of the Zodiac, which paints the gospel in twelve great constellations in the sky.
The Zodiac as it is used today is condemned unequivocally by God in His Word. The use of His Zodiac was perverted and corrupted even as early as the Tower of Babel. A Horoscope is defined as “a forecast of a person’s future…based on the relative position of the stars and planets at the time of that person’s birth.” God never intended for His message written in the sky to be used that way, just as He never intended for mankind to actually worship the heavenly bodies, which they did. (Acts 7:42) We must avoid reading horoscopes, even “just for fun.” God in Isaiah 47:13-14 condemns astrologers, saying “the fire shall burn them.”
Dr. Kennedy asserted that virtually all civilized nations have in their writings a description of the major stars in the heavens, which could be called the Constellations, or Signs, of the Zodiac. He stated that many nations such as Babylonia, Egypt, Rome, and Greece, “had the same twelve signs, representing the same things, placed in the same order.” There are pictures for each sign, but these pictures do not resemble the constellations themselves. Psalm 147:4 says God created, numbered, and named the very stars He created. There is even a verse, Job 38:32, giving the name Mazzaroth, a Hebrew word which means “The Constellations of the Zodiac.”
Immediately after the fall of Adam, God in Genesis 3:15 proclaims the protevangelium, the first promise of the Saviour to be sent to save mankind from our sins. “And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.” God placed these constellations in the heavens to signify the story of Jesus, from His birth throughout His life and His giving of HImself on the cross, His victory over Satan, and His resurrection.
The most ancient writings indicate that the observer should begin the story in the circle with Virgo, the Virgin, and continue through until the twelfth one, Leo, the Lion. In every constellation, we see Christ being victorious over His evil enemy. The latter part of the circle of constellations show His return, not as His first coming, which was as a gentle baby then a surrendered Saviour, but as a furious Judge, coming to bring judgment and destruction upon evil and those who love and practice darkness and evil.
To summarize the gospel story of the constellations, the first four constellations have to do with the events of Christ’s first coming, the middle four give the story of the Church, redeemed by Christ. The final four are the story of the consummations of all things: of the coming of Christ in judgment, of the gathering together of His own unto eternal salvation, and the fiery destruction of the wicked. It is the culmination of the ages which is now before us.
I did not do the subject justice, but I urge you to research the gospel written in the skies. It is as the gospel in the written Word of God.
People get ready! Jesus is coming soon!
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