The Zodiac and The Gospel Introduction

This is an elliptic 360∘ view of the 12 constellations: 12 constellations, 12 signs, 12 tribes of Israel, 12 apostles, 12 is the Biblical number of perfection in government

✺INTRODUCTION✺:
I HAVE BEEN SO EXCITED TO START THIS SERIES! RECENTLY, I BEGAN LISTENING TO AN AUDIO BOOK ENTITLED THE HOLY LAND KEY: UNLOCKING END TIMES PROPHECY THROUGH THE LIVES OF GOD'S PEOPLE IN ISRAEL BY RAY BENTLEY AND GENEVIEVE GILLESPIE. IT HAS OPENED MY EYES TO MANY THINGS IN THE NATURAL THAT GIVES US CLUES TO THE SPIRITUAL.

IT WAS THE MYSTERY AND FULFILLMENT OF PROPHECY THAT SOFTENED MY HEART TO KNOW JESUS AS MY PERSONAL SAVIOR, FRIEND IN SEPTEMBER OF 2001. I HAVE BEEN ON A QUEST TO LEARN, GROW, AND KNOW ALL I CAN ABOUT PROPHECY AND THE HIDDEN MESSAGES WITHIN THE TRINITY TO GOD'S PEOPLE EVER SINCE. IT'S ONE OF THE THINGS THAT AROUSES LIFE AND EXCITEMENT IN MY VERY BEING. I'M PASSIONATE ABOUT IT!

THE IDEAS EXPRESSED IN THESE BLOGS WON'T NECESSARILY BE UNIQUE TO ME AS I HAVE COMPILED THE DATA FROM OUTSIDE SOURCES TO CREATE THESE BLOGS. THE MAIN REASON I'M CREATING THEM IS TO EDUCATE MY CHILDREN, BUT I WANT OTHERS TO GLEAN WHAT THEY CAN FROM THEM AS WELL. I THINK YOU WILL BE IN AWE AT GOD'S AWESOME VASTNESS AND INCOMPREHENSIBLE WONDER AS TOGETHER WE LOOK INTO THE ORIGINAL MEANING OF THESE MESSAGES IN THE STARS.

🌟GOD'S MESSAGE FROM LONG AGO🌟:
JOB 38:31-32 MENTIONS THE WORD MAZZAROTH WHICH MEANS TIME KEEPER. IN ENGLISH IT'S TRANSLATED ZODIAC. THE ROOT WORD FOR ZODIAC IS SOD, MEANING A SECRET WAY. DEUTERONOMY 29:29 TELLS US "THE SECRET THINGS BELONG TO THE LORD." 

IN THE 2,500 YEARS AFTER CREATION THERE WAS NO BIBLE OR TORAH USED FOR GOD TO GET HIS MESSAGE OF REDEMPTION TO HIS PEOPLE. ONE FORM OF COMMUNICATION HE USED DURING THIS PERIOD WAS TO GIVE THEM STAR SIGNS TO RECOGNIZE AS A STORY IN THE SKY FOR ALL TO NOTICE, AND SOME TO INTERPRET. 

⭐THE HISTORY OF THE ZODIAC⭐:
IN HISTORY, ALL RECORDS FROM CIVILIZED NATIONS AGREE THERE ARE 12 ZODIAC FORMATIONS OR SIGNS. NEARLY ALL OF THEM ALSO AGREE THESE 12 CONSTELLATIONS REPRESENT THE SAME 12 THINGS IN THE EXACT ORDER.

THE PERSIAN AND ARABIAN PEOPLE CREDIT THE ORIGINAL STORY IN THE CONSTELLATIONS AS BEING HANDED DOWN FROM ADAM TO SETH AND THEN TO ENOCH. GOD MUST HAVE TAUGHT ADAM THE SIGNIFICANCE OF WHAT EACH PICTURE AND CHAPTER IN THE STORY MEANT.

THE MEANING BEHIND THE STARS CONTINUED THROUGHOUT THE GENERATIONS DOWN TO WHEN THE TOWER OF BABEL WAS ERECTED. THE BABYLONIANS WERE PROFICIENT STARGAZERS WHO DESIGNED A STAR CHART INSIDE THE TOWER WITH ALL 12 CONSTELLATIONS. THIS WAS CALLED A PLANETARIUM. ORIGINALLY, THIS WAS CREATED TO PASS DOWN GOD'S STORY IN THE HEAVENS TO FUTURE GENERATIONS, BUT ONCE THE CONSTRUCTION WAS COMPLETE THE PEOPLE DECIDED TO REINTERPRET ITS MESSAGE AND INSERT THEIR OWN HUMAN UNDERSTANDING AND MEANING. 

SOON, THE BUILDERS MADE HUMANITY THE CENTER OF THE UNIVERSE RATHER THAN GOD. THE NEW AND IMPROVED STORIES OF THE ZODIAC FILLED THE ANCIENT WORLD AS ASTRONOMY STARTED MIXING WITH ASTROLOGY. CORRUPTION SET IN AND SHIFTED THE FOCUS FROM THE CREATOR TO THE CREATION.

THERE WAS A WARNING OF THIS IN ISAIAH 47:13-14: "All the advice you receive has made you tired. Where are all your astrologers, those stargazers who make predictions each month? Let them stand up and save you from what the future holds. But they are like straw burning in a fire; they cannot save themselves from the flame. You will get no help from them at all; their hearth is no place to sit for warmth."

✨DEFINING THE DIFFERENCE✨:

✸ASTROLOGY: PRACTICED BY OCCULTISTS WHO WORSHIP THE STARS

✸ASTRONOMY: BIBLICAL STUDY OF THE STARS AND THEIR INTERPRETATION AND SIGNS THAT POINT US TO JESUS

✶HOW THE ZODIAC RELATED TO THE 12 TRIBES OF ISRAEL✶:
JACOB'S 12 SONS BECAME THE 12 TRIBES OF ISRAEL. ONCE EACH TRIBE ARRIVED IN EGYPT THEY ORGANIZED THEMSELVES AROUND THE TABERNACLE ACCORDING TO THEIR TRIBES: THREE TRIBES ON THE NORTH, THREE ON THE EAST, THREE IN THE SOUTH, AND THREE IN THE WEST. IN THE CENTER OF THIS SQUARE WAS THE TABERNACLE, HOME TO THE ARK OF THE COVENANT. AS SEEN IN THE PICTURE ABOVE, EACH TRIBE CORRESPONDS WITH ONE OF THE ZODIAC CONSTELLATIONS. THIS PICTURE DESCRIBES HOW THE PLACEMENT OF THE TRIBES AROUND THE TABERNACLE. IT FURTHER SHOWS HOW EACH SIDE CORRESPONDS TO A NATURE OF CHRIST IN EACH OF THE FOUR GOSPELS:

THESE FOUR SIDES CORRESPOND WITH THE FOUR FACES OF ANGELIC CHERUBIM DESCRIBED IN EZEKIEL 1:10-11: "Each had a human face in the front, the face of a lion on the right side, the face of an ox on the left side, and the face of an eagle as the back. Each had two pairs of outstretched wings..." 

HERE IS HOW THE GOSPELS RELATE TO THE OX, EAGLE, MAN, AND LION. EACH REPRESENT A DIFFERENT ASPECT OF JESUS'S NATURE:

*THE RIDDLE OF THE SPHINX*:

WHEN THE ISRAELITES WERE SLAVES UNDER PHARAOH IN EGYPT THEY MADE MANY OF THE EGYPTIAN PYRAMIDS WE SEE TODAY, SEE EXODUS 5:7. THEY ALSO MADE THE SPHINX SEEN ROUND THE WORLD. THIS SPHINX HOLDS THE KEY TO THE MAZZAROTH.  IT HAS THE HEAD OF A WOMAN (VIRGIN) AND THE BODY OF A LION (LEO). THESE TWO SIGNS ARE THE BOOKENDS TO THE GOSPEL TOLD IN THE STARS.

IN THE EGYPTIAN TEMPLE CALLED ESNA THERE'S A PAINTING ON THE CEILING CONTAINING THE ENTIRE 12 CONSTELLATIONS OF THE ZODIAC. BETWEEN VIRGO AND LEO IS A SPHINX CARVED. IN THIS CARVED SPHINX THE WOMAN'S FACE IS LOOKING AT VIRGO (THE VIRGIN) AND THE LION'S TAIL IS POINTING TO LEO (THE LION). THIS GIVES US THE ROAD MAP FOR WHICH CHAPTER BEGINS THE STORY OF REDEMPTION (VIRGO), AND WHICH CHAPTER ENDS THE STORY (LEO).

*A TAD MORE INFO BEFORE WE MOVE TO VIRGO*:
EACH OF THE 12 CONSTELLATIONS HAVE THREE SMALLER STAR SIGNS CALLED DEACONS. THESE DEACONS HELP FURTHER DESCRIBE THE MEANING OF THE MAJOR CONSTELLATIONS.

FOR MORE IN DEPTH INFORMATION REGARDING THIS TOPIC:
1. THE WITNESS OF THE STARS BY E.W. BOLLINGER (1893)
2. THE REAL MEANING OF THE ZODIAC BY D. JAMES KENNEDY (1989)