There is a strong Hebrew tradition that each of the twelve tribes of Israel was associated with one of the twelve constellations of the zodiac. References1913 Catholic EncyclopediaJamieson, Fausset and Brown Commentary (JFB)The Biblical Basis for Modern ScienceWikipedia. In fact, it has been argued that the constellations depict a picture story of Gods plan of salvation for mankind through His Redeemer Son, Jesus. Moreover, Levi's tribe was that to whom the priesthood was given, which corresponds to the Fishes representing the role of Jesus Christ as the Great High Priest. This band of stars lies in the plane of the solar system. 12:9; in the Greek drakn and ophis).In fact, to the ancients a dragon was just a particular type of . Her death was most likely on Sat 1 Jul 1786 BC pm*, which was 1 Tammuz, the same as her son Judah. The Hebrew word for "fate," which is Meni, is linked to the planet Venus. The actual word in the Greek is present tense has; but this confused the translators of the NASB. The graphical depiction of the zodiac - with its 12 starry constellations - is used in the occult arts, astrology and fortune-telling. Virgo represents the seed of the woman, Messiah the Incarnate Son. According to one conception, Aries, Leo, and Sagittarius face northward; Taurus, Virgo, and Capricornus westward; Gemini, Libra, and Aquarius southward; and Cancer, Scorpio, and Pisces eastward. (Genesis 1:1, HBFV). Of special interest are the twelve zodiac constellations. Similarly today, if someone believes the planets are controlling his life, rather than merely keeping time, then Satan could falsely convince him that he is not responsible for his actions. The Mazzaroth mentioned in Job literally means the twelve signs [constellations] of the zodiac. God displays each of the twelve signs of the zodiac in their appropriate months during the year. Many times it can easily be seen just before sunrise, hence its reference in astronomy as the "morning star." This particular insight belongs to Nelson Walters from an article on his website at http://www.thegospelintheendtimes.com/pictures-of-end-times-in-the-bible/christmas-end-times/. My position is that the sun, moon, and planets are like the hands on a huge clock, with the twelve zodiac constellations through which they move being the 12 numbers on the clock face. Issachar is the Crab. Truly, the more one looks at this heavenly glory, and understands the immense distances involved in constellations and galaxies, the more one is driven to the same conviction as Job and David. Likewise, stars in the Bible represent divine leadership. The Milky Way is called "Fire-Stream," a name borrowed from Daniel 7:10 (Nehar di-nur), where it may possibly have had the same signification. The passage in Revelation does just that. With all of the other prophets and patriarchs discussed in my articles, we have been given their age when their children were born, but in the case of Jacob, we need to do a little detective work to get the answer. The enemy, Satan, has perverted the story of redemption by causing pagan empires to create alternative stories about the stars. It is interesting that God created the stars, planets and other objects in the universe as signs, among the other reasons stated. Hydra representsthe serpent, the old serpent destroyed. Correspondence between Biblical numbers and astronomy. John 12:24. Lyrarepresents the harp or lyre, praise for the victorious Redeemer. An angel of the Lord appeared to them . I will put an end to the arrogance of the haughty and will humble the pride of the ruthless. There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard. 12 I will make people scarcer than pure . The constellation Virgo on September 23, 2017, according to the Stellarium sky software. "Astronomy". The Torah reflects this with Bereishit (Book of Genesis 1:1) being seven words and twenty-eight letters (7x4) in its original Hebrew. 4:7). Psalms 92:10. All rights Reserved. Both of Jacob's wives clearly qualify as understanding the importance of the blessings of having a large posterity. An interesting point is that Genesis states that Joseph was born at the completion of the second seven years (Gen. 30:25). Draco represents the dragon cast down, Satan cast down in defeat. [35] Samuel said: "We have it as a tradition that no comet ever passed across the face of Orion "Kesil"; for if this should happen the earth would be destroyed." In Stephen's discourse just before his martyrdom, he mentions God's condemnation of ancient Israel's idolatrous worship of "your god Remphan" (Acts 7:43). The day was also Easter on both the Hebrew and Enoch calendars, as was Joseph's proposed birth date. At the end of three months we set sail on an Alexandrian ship which had wintered at the island, and which had the Twin Brothers for its figurehead. But the constellations of the Zodiac were created by your Father in heaven, to declare His love for you, and to declare His plan of redemption. The book of Job mentions space related phenomena more than any other book. This is a corruption and not the original purpose of the zodiac given by God. Pisces represents the fishes, the blessings of salvation delayed. ), the day beginning that cycle. On the contrary, warnings are given against trusting in the stars. Again, Samuel says: "But for the warmth of Orion, the earth could not exist, because of the frigidity of Scorpio; furthermore, Orion lies near Taurus, with which the warm season begins. Remember that He named each star (Isaiah 40:26) in spite of their vast number. The content is mostly a dialogue between Job and his three friends who came to comfort him after a succession of dreadful troubles overtook him and his family. The summaries are from the book Gods Voice in the Stars: Zodiac Signs and Bible Truth by Ken Fleming, which I highly recommend that you buy; as its a concise, easy to read explanation of the constellations and how they symbolize our redemption. The precise identification of which constellation goes with which of Jacob's sons has only been known with certainty for four of the tribes. Its rising is from one end of the heavens, And its circuit to the other end; And naught is hidden from its heat. HCSB, ISV, DARBY, NASB, NET, AM, LEB. Isaac al-adib compiled astronomical tables from those of Al-Rakkam, Al-Battam, and Ibn al-Kammad. In this discussion we will find that eventhe stars and planets in the heavens point us to the actualdate of Jesus birth. The Apostle John wrote the following account of the Woman and the Dragon in Revelation Chapter 12, which has a veiled reference to Gods plan of redemption for mankind the birth of Jesus: A great and wondrous sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet and a crown of twelve stars on her head. The last born, Joseph, has a proposed birth date in the year 21 SPRING on the Enoch calendar, corresponding to the Last Day of Passover. This Scriptural Calendar study shows how the constellations, sun and moon; declare the story of the Gospel. And Leah alone had seven of them, with a barren period. Centaurus represents the dual-natured centaur, half god/half man, the despised sin-offering. Isaiah 65:11, according to the JFB commentary, alludes to Jupiter and Venus. 2005 by John P. Pratt. The Book of Job is reported by some commentators to be the oldest book of the Bible, going back to approximately 2,150 BC 650 years before Moses wrote the Pentateuch. Bullinger. [8] That is a precise starting point, but we are not told in Genesis how old he was when he had his children. saying with a loud voice, Worthy is the Lamb having been slain to receive power and riches and wisdom, and strength and respect and esteem and blessing! Revelation 5:12. When Elohim was questioning Job, He pointed out His command of the Mazzaroth, the twelve signs in the circle of the Zodiac. From the point of view of the Magi . (rodstar). At the time of the Deluge it traveled in the opposite direction. Their line (ecliptic) has gone out through all the earth, And their words to the end of the world. One purpose of the book is to show that affliction may come to anyone, and that it is not necessarily a specific judgment from God. I pray this in the name of your Son, our Messiah. If so, He may have revealed them to early people. According to Aristotle, Ptolemy, and other philosophers among the Greeks, the stars have no motion of their own, being firmly attached to spheres whose center is the Earth. The heavens are for His glory, and they are there to teach us. It is the additional sign of the moon being under her feet which actually pinpoints the nativity to within a day to within 90 minutes on that day. Aries represents glory out of humiliation, Messiah the Crowned Lamb. Astronomy, in general, is the study of celestial bodies and the universe as a whole. This clothing of the woman by the Sun occurs for a 20-day period each year. Associated with each of the twelve were three other signs called decans, which give part of the signs message. New American Standard Bible Copyright 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, Calif. All rights reserved. They appear high in the night sky, roughly along the same path traveled by the sun during the day. Now when is the last time you saw something like that on the evening news? The same will be true of the twelve sons of Jacob. When it gets to Dinah it doesn't state that she conceived again, but only that she brought forth Dinah after Zebulon (Gen. 30:21). The moon was made to revolve for the counting of those months. So my articles on the subject attempt to ignore the perversions and focus on the good. Here is a selection of the most familiar and easily seen constellations in the northern sky. View the starry heavens on a clear night, when there is no moon, and try and find a spot well away from city street lights, and yours will be a glorious and unforgettable sight. Ibn al-Haitham's Arabic compendium of astronomy was a particular favorite of Jewish astronomers; besides being translated into Spanish by Don Abraham Faquin, it was turned into Hebrew by Jacob ben Makir and Solomon ibn Pater Cohen and into Latin by Abraham de Balmes. So these fulfillments of multiple patterns convince me that he death date truly has been found: Sat 6 Apr 1790 BC pm*. During the course of each year the zodiac constellations take turns in appearing: for example, Scorpius in summer, Gemini in winter. Libra represents the required price, Messiah the Redeemer. Each of the twelve carried a banner or flag, and the many of those flags are believed to have displayed one of the zodiac symbols. Two different cosmologies can be found in the Talmud. Do you bind the bands of Kimah (Pleiades), or loosen the cords of Kesil (Orion)? [11] Among the sciences that Johanan ben Zakkai mastered was a knowledge of the solstices and the calendar; i.e., the ability to compute the course of the Sun and the Moon. The time the woman is in the wilderness should catch prophecy students [sic] attention as well: 1260 days. But if it dies, it bears much fruit. . Let us consider some of these results and their implications in more detail. Only a few stars and constellations are named individually in the Hebrew Bible, and their identification is not certain. SMITH: OK. The sign given in verse 1 is that of a woman. He appoints the number of the stars, He gives names to all of them. Psalm 147:4. It is interesting to note the number of times that the stars and the constellations are mentioned in Scripture. This article proposes a correspondence of each of those tribes to one of the zodiac emblems, based on proposed dates for the birth of each. Apart from this key theme, there is a lot of general information in this amazing ancient book. The distance of the firmament from the Earth is a journey of 500 years, a distance equivalent to the diameter of the firmament, through which the Sun must saw its way in order to become visible. That is exactly zero cycles on all of the sacred calendars, and it is perhaps the strongest parent-child calendrical link possible. The star representing his head is the huge star Betelgeuse, which is 600 light years away, and is a reddish colour as seen to the left. To pay attention to the course of the Sun and to the revolution of the planets is a religious injunction; for such is the import of the words,[14] "This is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations". Orion representsthe Prince of glory, the triumph and brightness of His coming. Most of the observations of a scientific nature were transmitted by Samuel of Nehardea, who attended the schools of the Babylonians, and who claimed to possess as exact a knowledge of the heavenly regions as of the streets of Nehardea. [3] It is precisely these four key figures which are the most easily matched with the four principal sons of Israel because each is mentioned in the blessings. In this case, the length of Rebekah's life would be exactly 186 Sacred Rounds. The proposed twelve birth dates are all very nearly equally good, which is another factor which defies chance. Its name means "the great bear" in Latin. See, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, overcame to open the scroll and to loosen its seven seals. Revelation 5:5, Gods Voice in the Stars Zodiac Signs And Bible Truths by Ken Fleming, The Gospel in the Stars by Joseph A. Seiss, The Witness of the Stars by E.W. Jeremiah Chosen by God, Rejected by Men. Of course, Scripture condemns astrology (Isaiah 47:13). . And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the door, to bring forth out of the temple of the LORD all the vessels that were made for Baal, and for the Asherah, and for all the host of heaven; and he burned them without Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron, and carried the ashes of them ASTROLOGYWhat's wrong with practicing astrology. As noted earlier, the likely earliest book of the Bible, the book of Job, mentions several of these constellations, as well as the Mazzaroth (Job 38:31-32), which is the zodiac. That causes many to avoid the entire subject, but the symbolism of these figures is so rich that it would be a tragedy not to learn of the beauty of their meaning, and the clarity of their symbolism. After I had finished this study and had determined the birth dates in the above table, and was in the process of writing this article, the idea occurred to me to read those names and blessings one more time. 24:7-9). The Bible says that God assigns His own names to the stars ( Psalms 147:4 ). Accordingly, if blind chance governed the universe, then there would be negligible probability that even one family in history could have such a noble set of birth dates. These he names as constellations of greatest eminence; but under them he seems to comprehend all the stars, which, as they were created by God, so are under his government. It should be noted that the depiction in Revelation 12 could not be a literal description of the Virgin Mary, as the woman in the passage had the heavens associated with her the sun, the moon, and the twelve stars. It was surprising how easy it was to see that there were strong indications in front of me all the time, but many of them are only clear in the light of knowing how the twelve roles of Jesus Christ correspond to the twelve constellations. One tannaitic authority believed that the sphere consists of a strong and firm plate two or three fingers in thickness, always lustrous and never tarnishing, another estimates the diameter of this plate as one-sixth of the Sun's diurnal journey,[citation needed] while another, a Babylonian, estimates it at 1,000 parasangs (approx. It is far too large to be shown here, but it is an ancient Hebrew name for the Signs of the Zodiac, meaning a Circle of Animals, a surrounding belt of twelve constellations by which ancient mankind divided up the year into months, an arrangement that was known and used for thousands of years. The birth requirements are so strict for these twelve that to me it now appears that the day 7 must be a minor holy day. According to Arabic tradition, the signs of the zodiac came originally from Seth, the son of Adam, and Enosh, the son of Seth. The Talmud identified the twelve constellations of the Mazzaroth (zodiac) with the twelve months of the Hebrew calendar. Jacob Anatoli, for example, translated into Hebrew both the Almagest and Averroes' compendium of it, and this Hebrew version was itself translated into Latin by Jacob Christmann. Note: In mynext Post I will presentevidence that Jesus was born on the Feast of Trumpets (Tishri 1). Ursa Major representsthe flock, the assembled flock. This date also conforms to the findings of otherother evidence (the other puzzle pieces) regardingthe date of the Jesus birth. The solar year is longer by 11 days than the lunar year. Seiss during the 1800s. He did away with the idolatrous priests whom the kings of Judah had appointed to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah and in the surrounding area of Jerusalem, also those who burned incense to Baal, to the sun and to the moon and to the constellations and to all the host of heaven. Thus, six of the eight tribes with unknown constellations have hints in their names or roles of Christ. Of every 18,600 families which have exactly twelve children, on the average only one will have each born in a different month of the year or with the sun in a different constellation. The well-known family of translators, the Ibn Tibbons, may be especially mentioned. Moreover, visions such as those of Ezekiel and John, describe figures with the heads of a man, lion, ox, and eagle, which just happen to match the four "cornerstone" constellations (Ezek. According to these proposed dates, it was exactly seven years on the Enoch calendar from his marriage to Leah, and also exactly 14 years from when he began work for Laban. Astronomy, in general, is the study of celestial bodies and the universe as a whole. And Elohim said, Let lights come to be in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night, and let them be for signs and appointed times, and for days and years, Genesis 1:14. Their line is gone out through all the earth and their words to the end of the world. According to a 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia article on Astronomy, the planet Saturn is directly referenced in the book of Amos. In this case, there is one such link no matter what dates are proposed, because Benjamin was born on the day his mother died. The chief name connected with the revival of astronomical studies on the Baltic is that of David Gans of Prague (d. 1613), who corresponded with Kepler and Tycho Brahe. Some of these can be found in Scripture but only by the false gods which were associated with them. Genesis 22:16-17. Can you lead forth a constellation in its season. This Scriptural Calendar studyshows how the constellations, sun and moon; declare the story of the Gospel. She was pregnant and cried out in pain as she was about to give birth. Copyright 1997-98, Films for Christ, All Rights Reservedexcept as noted on attached Usage and Copyright page that grants ChristianAnswers.Net users generous rights for putting this page to work in their homes, personal witnessing, churches and schools. Levi ben Gershon was also the inventor of an astronomical instrument, and is often quoted with respect under the name of Leon de Baolas. Required fields are marked *. and said, By Myself I have sworn, declares , Yahuah, because you have done this, and have not withheld your son, your only son, that I shall certainly bless you, and I shall certainly increase your seed as the stars of the heavens and as the sand which is on the seashore, and let your seed possess the gate of their enemies. The heavens are God's "handiwork" ( Psalm 8:3; 19:1 ). There are allusions in Scripture to Christ being the morning star. It embodies our means of adaptation, and represents the many facets of existence. The rising sun will be darkened and the moon will not give its light. Aries represents the Lamb, deliverance realized. There are only five prominent stars, but a good telescope shows many more. If John in the Book of Revelation is associating the birth of Jesus with the period when the Sun was mid-bodied to this woman called Virgo (and this is no doubt what he means), then Jesus would have to be born within that 20-day period. Moses ibn Tibbon translated from the Arabic Jabir ben Aflah's acute criticisms of the Ptolemaic system, an anticipation of Copernicus, and thus brought them to the notice of Maimonides. For example, the most studied star in astronomy, the sun, is mentioned at least 160 times in the King James Translation, with the moon referred to 51 times. This is a picture of the flight of the righteous (Israel and the Church). Both point to the fall season, the Hebrew month of Tishri (September). Sagitta represents the arrow, Elohims judgment against sin. Jesus Christ is the subject of the written Word of God from Genesis to Revelation. Ophiuchus represents the mighty One holding the serpent from obtaining the crown, the evil one. What is all this symbolism communicating to us and how exactly does it tell us the precise birth date of Jesus? Ursa Minor represents the sheepfold, the stronghold of the saved. Can you bring out Mazzaroth in its season? [38] Samuel said: "I know all the paths of heaven, but nothing of the nature of the comet. The earliest to treatise of astronomy in Hebrew on a systematic plan was Abraham bar iyya, who wrote at Marseilles, about AD 1134. Each of the twelve signs pictorially represents a prophetic event in relation to the unfolding story of salvation in the history of the world. In the following passage, God refers to several heavenly constellations when He was demonstrating to Job how little he really knew about Creation: Can you bind the cluster of the Pleiades, or loose the belt of Orion? Other translators from the Hebrew into Latin were Abraham de Balmes and Kalonymus ben David of Naples, while David Kalonymus ben Jacob, Ephraim Mizrai, and Solomon Abigdor translated from the Latin into Hebrew. Taurus represents the wild bull, the Judge coming to rule. Virgo represents the woman with the Seed, the virgin-born Seed. 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