Sunday, September 21, 2008

Signs In The Skies 2

Why did the Heavenly Father, our All-Powerful, All-Knowing and Loving God, order and arrange the heavens as He did? One major reason was He wanted His people, the human family of His own Creation, to understand Him and some of the wondrous aspects of His glory and majesty. He also wants us to be aware of the adversary, our spiritual enemy & destroyer. Perhaps most importantly, He wants to show us the panoramic view in His celestial narrative, of the deliverance made available in His only begotten Son, Jesus Christ, the purpose of the ages. We have seen how the celestial record of the stars and planets in their courses contains a special oracle which supports and agrees with the truths of God’s Written Word. This celestial showcase and epistle of the Creator’s Natural Law, works according to keys and principles which will open its secrets unto us, even as Scripture does when it is rightly divided. [II Tim. 2:15]
A central theme in God’s plan of the ages becomes evident in the triple conjunctions of Jupiter-Saturn in celestial history. As we have seen in the signs surrounding the birth of Christ, the Celestial Prelude involving the triple Conjunction of Jupiter-Saturn in 7-6 BC, was a key that unlocked the understanding of the Magi in recognizing the actual signs of Jesus’ birth in 3-2 BC. As we focus on the celestial signs surrounding the birth of Moses, a forerunner of Jesus Christ, we can witness a recurring theme involving the retrograde motion of the King planet-Jupiter, in relation to Saturn. The central theme regarding these Jupiter-Saturn unions delineates along four major interrelated Biblical lines, the first of which is spiritual warfare between the celestial powers of light vs. darkness.
As we have seen regarding the signs surrounding the birth of Christ, Jupiter was “his star,” and proven to be the star of the Messiah, the one which the Magi followed as it led them to Jerusalem, and finally Bethlehem. As the King planet, in reference to the spiritual dominion associated with God’s second in command, it is significant to remember that Jupiter, was identified with Jesus as “King of the Judeans,” [Matt. 2:2]. Another aspect of Jesus’ celestial identity is the Morning Star, [Rev. 2:28, 22:16]. This relates to the planet Venus, significant for its morning and evening star appearances. This title of the Morning Star only occurs one other place in God’s Word, [Isa. 14:12], in reference to Lucifer, while still in his first estate, prior to his fall. As the initial bright and Morning Star, Lucifer was second only to God in authority, in the First Heavens and Earth, but his dominion over the angelic realms was stripped from him when iniquity was found in him, at his attempted coup’ in heaven. Christ has superseded him as the Morning Star, and Lucifer's former authority over the archangels Mars-Michael and Mercury-Gabriel was transferred to Christ, who is ascended and seated at the right hand of the Heavenly Father. Venus embodies the original ministry of the Bright and Morning Star, which was delivered to Christ Jesus after Lucifer lost it, because he was unworthy to retain it. Yet Jesus as the King of Kings, and the ascendant Morning Star, embodies much more authority than Lucifer did in the First Heavens and Earth, since man was as yet uncreated. One facet of the symbolism of the planet Venus signifies this angelic spiritual dominion as the “covenant angel named wonderful,” [Judges 13:18]. This reveals a second Biblical element of the theme of Jupiter-Saturn conjunctions-Lucifer/Satan as the fallen Morning star. God has chosen to relate the narrative of this theme of the fallen Lucifer to us, with multiple celestial figures. One of these powerful celestial figures we already have seen in the Meteor shower, which began just prior to the Birth of Jesus Christ. This particular Draconid Meteor Shower, which took place in September of 3 BC, had its radiant from the star Eta-Draconis in the dragon Constellation Draco at the Celestial North Pole. Since the star Eta Draconis is located in the dragon’s tail, being only one star removed from the star in former times at the north pole-Thuban in the dragon’s body, it is linked uniquely with the symbolic dominion of the dragon, both as the original Morning Star, & the god of this world [II Cor. 4:4], after his fall. As we found in our research of this dragon star, a key relation to the planet Saturn, was found in that, the star Eta-Draconis was unique in its regular transit across the Meridian at midnight of May 23rd, for over 1500-years, that was documented by the Mayans in their astronomical texts. This "Dragon calendar" is shown below as it appears in the "Madrid codex." This transit came only three days prior to the first Jupiter-Saturn union on May 27th of 7 BC, as part of the Celestial Prelude to the May 19th, 3 BC Mercury-Saturn union, which began the actual signs that marked the birth of Christ. This not only provided another conclusive celestial link between the signs of 7-5 BC and 3-1 BC, but also tied the celestial events in Draco at the north-pole, to the Jupiter-Saturn unions on the ecliptic, in the context of Precession. These links between the planet Saturn and the star Eta-Draconis emphasize the original dominion of the dragon, especially his temporal lordship, at the pinnacle of Creation, while the Meteor shower depicts the dragon cast down at sunset, signifying the twilight of the radiance of this spiritual dominion.
This brings us to a third ruling aspect of the central theme of Jupiter-Saturn triple conjunctions in celestial history, the phenomena of Precession. As we have seen, in the precession of the equinoxes, the Celestial Prelude of 7-6 BC, coincided with the dawning of the Precessional Age of Pisces, announcing the birth of Christ, three years later. These individual 2160-year ages in the grand ruling cycle of Precession, represent one aspect of the spiritual significance of precession as it relates to the Jupiter-Saturn unions. There also is an apparent symbolic correlation between precessional ages and spiritual administrations, which we can get an idea of in the Try-God Timeline. The Ages of the precession of the equinoxes relate more to the return of the galactic cycle, as seen in the coming alignment of our solar system with the Galactic Center of the Milky Way, in Sagittarius in the next few years. This is linked to the popularity of 2012 in Mayan Astrology. Once the implications of Biblical Astronomy are ascertained regarding the significance of the 12 Signs of the zodiac, we can apply this theme to the precessional age in question, to gain additional spiritual insight into the message of the celestial showcase. Formerly, these precessional ages were considered almost exclusively from the viewpoint of Astrology, whose corrupting influence has muddied the pure waters of Biblical Astronomy. Only the Biblical perspective reveals the true meaning of the witness of the stars, as God first intended, never the “black astrological arts.” Another element of a spiritual view of the precession, is the precession of the poles, evident in the transition of the North-Star from Thuban of Draco, to Polaris of Ursa Minor, over the last 5000 years. This is another powerful indicator of the fall of Lucifer, as the rise of the new Morning Star takes place. The Star Thuban is seen below, as the star positioned at the intersection of the two polar circles on the left. This brings us to the fourth major aspect of these Jupiter-Saturn unions, and how they ultimately recognize, and point towards the birth of the Promised Seed, Jesus Christ, the purpose of the ages. As we will see in even greater detail regarding the signs surrounding the birth of Moses, God set the celestial orbs in their coordinated paths to witness to His glory, and the arrival of Jesus, His only begotten Son. All Nature stands, to honor and recognize this long awaited and sought for, Day of the Promised Seed. All human kind will ultimately bow to the majestic authority of Jesus Christ our Promised Seed. All Creation will soon worship the glory of the King of Kings, or come to nought.