Genesis 1, 14, well, we're gonna hit most of the scriptures at the top and then at the end, then I'll have a bunch of use your mind and imagination in the middle, how's that? So Genesis 1 and verse 14. says, and God said, let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night and to let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and for years. It's part of what God's plan was when he made creation, you know, that he put the stars up there and part of it was that you'd be able to tell the seasons because, you know, I don't Have you ever seen a reverse globe, kind of like where the globe's in the middle, like it's real tiny, but the outside is the constellations, and it looks like a ball, too, and it has all the constellations all drawn on it? They're kind of neat. And you can kind of move it and see how a different season, how it come around. But it says where you put them so you know the seasons. So certain stars, we don't depend on them near much like the ancients did. The ancients, you can go pretty much, well, anywhere around the world. And they had something built, usually a stone circle or something like that, that would mark when the stars would come up, they'd be able to tell. I think about all of them were for at least the equinoxes. The vernal and the, what's the other one called? Vernal and... I forget the winter. Spring or the summer and winter equinox to know when those were changing. It helped them know how to plant and to do all that. I gotta interrupt you. I'm stealing your lesson tonight. But he put them for signs. But what's the signs mean? Is it just signposts? Some of it was signs. It's how they navigate. It's how they get around. As a matter of fact, a lot of the information I have comes a lot more from Arabic families because in the desert, you know, they don't have a lot of, you know, that sand dune to the left, well that sand dune might not be there next week, you know, the wind will blow it away. And so they use the stars to navigate by and how it goes. Joel and I sat out here, my son Joel sat out here talking about How do they do this on the boat? Because the stars move. You don't realize how fast they're moving until you have a telescope aimed at one. And it's moving by so quickly. We just kind of think, oh, the moon's in the sky. But you can watch it track across the sky. The stars rotate up. We're just now starting to see Orion's Belt in the winter. We can see Orion's Belt in the summer. We can't. He comes up and we can see him early in the morning right now, but he'll be one of the first ones that come up as we go later throughout the year. So you can kind of see how things shift and that's how they tell time. But so he puts up for that for signs and for seasons. I'm thinking maybe he's put a few more signs in here than we think is what I want to kind of tip my hand to. Turn to Job 38. Like I say, we're taking a handful of verses at the start. Let's see, Psalms. Job's right in front of there. Job 38. I'll tell you, I really appreciate the book of Job. We might have to do it on a Wednesday, and that'd be a long session. The beginning and ending is just crazy with information, but Job 38 is one of those crazy parts where God is talking to Job. He's had all this book where they've been arguing about stuff that's going on, but God pulls out some things here. In verse 31, Job 38 and 31. He's really dressing down Job, like, you think you can do everything? And he starts asking about, you think you have everything all figured out? And so he starts asking him about the things that he's done compared to part of God's job. You know, like, here's some of the things I do on my daily business. Verse 31, he says, canst thou bind the sweet influence of the Pleiades? Has anybody ever seen the constellation of the Pleiades or that cluster of stars? It's like, we should be able to see them Friday. We'll try to point them out as they're up there. I don't know what he means by the sweet influence. I don't know what they're doing. We're talking about astronomy to make sure we're not talking about astrology. Astrology is saying that the stars have influence on your life. If you're born under this sign, you're this kind of person. That's all a perversion of what God has intended. But he talks about the sweet influence. I don't know what that means, what he's doing there, but I continue to study it. And it's a group of stars that we still call the Pleiades. So it's the same region. We have names for these things just like we would have names for the stuff on the ground. The crossroads or the hill over here. God uses the same name, the Pleiades. Or loose the bands of Orion. Orion's one of the easier ones to find. It's the three stars that are an equal distance apart. They line up with the great pyramids because they're meant to model them. They use the phrase as as above, so below. They were building that down on earth to mock or to match Orion's belt. And so that's one of the easier ones to find because it's three stars. It's very distinct, as you could point out. But he's using that, the same terminology. We still call it Orion today. Canst thou bring forth the Maseroth? Does anybody say anything different? But it's Maseroth, that is the Jewish zodiac. We have the 12 signs that we talk about, they have the 12 signs that we talk about. We'll get into that more here in just a minute. The Maseroth and his season, and that's how you tell the season, how those groupings of stars move around. Or counts thou guide Octoris? with his sons. Who's Arcturus? We don't really go for anybody that. We still call the star Arcturus, that's the brightest star in the constellation. But that is the Big Dipper. That's normally, we call it the Big and Little Dipper. He's also called the Big Bear and the Little Bear, you know, that is out there. Those are easy ones to find. They're a great one to know, especially if you're out at night because you can always find the North Star. You use the Big Dipper, take the two stars off the end of the dipper, they line up and they point and there's the North Star that doesn't move. It stays as the hub of the wheel as it turns around. And so, but God's using the same names that we use today. Matter of fact, the Zodiac is the same in every culture around the world. You think it would be different, and we'll get to that a little bit more, but you think they would have something different, but we have the same pictures, the same imagery, the same name, and I think because it all goes back to Babel. Turn to Psalm 19, so we're close to it here in Job. Psalm 19, just a few more chapters over. Psalm 19. In verse 1, it says, the heavens declare, they're speaking out, they declare the glory of God. And the firmament showeth his handiwork. That's, again, was kind of the dome over the earth that these all move in. Like I said, you can buy a globe that is a dome that shows these moving outside and around the earth. For to day unto day uttereth speech. They're saying something. And night unto night showeth their knowledge. That they are declaring certain things. One, that they're consistent, that they're there and that God has made them and is vast. And we know that when you look at it, you know, We appreciate the beauty, especially now in our day and age of technology. We can zoom into it and see how beautiful it is. One of my favorite pictures of deep space, which we have deeper now, but the deepest pictures we had in the 1990s once we put up the Hubble telescope. was at the Children's Museum as you went down to the planetarium there. Anybody been to the planetarium at the Children's Museum? Oh, you're missing it. It's pretty good. They've changed it a lot now. I think it's a Gus Grissom memorial now. But it used to be a projective star, a lot like the Creation Museum. But they had a picture down there, and it looked like, the way I would describe it, if you took a handful of jewels of every kind, you know, and color, and if you threw it out there and took a picture, and the light was hitting it, you know, and it made them, you know, those galaxies, and all these different things that are out there, and it was just chucked full, and you could see it deeper, and it's just a beautiful picture, you see all that. But they said that picture is what they did, is they took to a spot, if you were standing in Indiana, And you were looking up at the night sky, and you picked a section of the night sky that was black and didn't have any stars. And you took a dime, and you held it at arm length, and you turned it edgewise. That's where they aimed at, at the edge of a dime in that dark space. And when they aimed their camera at that dark space where we can't see any stars, they saw what looked like someone took a handful of jewels and just threw out all this beautiful things that you and I can't even see. And so it declares how beautiful, how big, how magnificent it is. Verse three says, there's no speech nor language where their voice is not heard. You see it, we see them all around the world. Joel, back when he was, my son Joel, when he was dating his wife, So he'd be at home on the phone and she'd be at home on her phone. He'd be like, go out and look at the moon. We're looking at the same moon, honey. One day we'll be married. But it was just kind of like, oh, there's something we can see together at the same time. You can tell him I told that. But they're there, we can see, you look around the world, same moon, it's over all of us. Verse four, their line has gone out over all the earth, and their words to the end of the world, in them hath he set the tabernacle of the sun. The line goes out, that's the elliptical. And so if we're standing, like if I'm standing right where I am now, I'm facing south, And if I was to put my arm like this and to draw an arch, that's the elliptical. I'm matching it pretty darn close. And so the moon would come up about there and it would come about here high in the sky. Same thing, the sun, it comes out and it makes that arc. Everything in our solar system does that. So as we watch, we're looking over here and it comes up, Jupiter will come up on that same arch, Saturn will come up. So when we're looking in the sky, we're like, which one's the planet? It's gonna be on the elliptical line. It's gonna be on this line that comes up and it goes over for the sunset. It travels the same course. So he's talking about that. There's a line that goes out through the stars. He's kept it where he can turn it around, where they present all these things. They're words to the end of the world. They are saying something. God's Word is declaring that it is saying something, that they have a message. And we know they're for signs, and we know they're for seasons. I put before you that there might be more. There might be a deeper thing that is in there. Let's look at one more, and then I'll get heretical as we go here. Luke 1. No. Like I said, it is controversial, but I think by using these fruit launch texts, kind of showing you that the mindset can be backed up by scripture. I'm tempted to read all this. Luke 1 verse 67 is the birth, well not the birth, it's the Zachariah. And it's when he's finally, after John the Baptist has been born, so I guess it is the birth. Remember, he hasn't been able to talk the whole pregnancy. And it's just got to the point where they're like, what's his name gonna be? They're like, name him Zechariah. And he's like, he writes on the chalkboard, and his wife said, no, his name is John. And they ask him, what's it gonna be? And then the Lord opens his mouth. And he begins to declare it. And he begins to speak and he makes this praise here in verse 67. So Luke 1, 67, and his father Zacharias was filled with the Holy Ghost and he prophesied saying, blessed be the Lord God of Israel for he hath visited his people. He hath raised up a horn of salvation, you know, this government is going to be, for unto us in the house, for us in the house of his servant David. As he spake by the mouth of the holy prophets, which he gave since the world began, that we should be saved from our enemies and from the hand of all that hate us, to perform the mercy promised to our fathers and to remember his holy covenant. The oath which he swore to our father Abraham that he would grant unto us that we, being delivered out of the hand of our enemies, might serve him without fear and holiness and righteousness before him all the days of our life. For thou, child, shalt be called the prophet of the highest. This is John the Baptist. For thou shalt go before the face of the Lord to prepare the way, to give knowledge of salvation unto his people for the remission of their sins, or by the remission of their sins. through the tender mercy of our God, whereby the day spring from on high has visited us, to give light to them that sit in darkness and in shadow of death, and to guide our feet in the way of peace. And the child grew and waxed strong in spirit and was in the deserts till the day of his showing unto Israel." And you're all like, Brian, I don't know why you've read that in regards to the stars. But I hope to now give you some information that will help unlock a lot of that to you. But there is one verse in particular, look at verse 70. Verse 70 says, he spake by the mouth of his holy prophets which he gave, holy prophets which have been since the world began. Which holy prophet has been since the world began? Is that David? He's way later, right? He's after Abraham. He's after Jesse. He's then, was it Jeremiah? No, he's after David, is it? Daniel? No, he's after David, is it? Which prophet has been speaking since before the world began? You know, before we were created on the earth. Maybe it's the stars, maybe it's the message that they have, maybe the words that they talk about in Psalm 19 have been declaring and to be preaching. And so we'll look and see, like I said, we'll come back and we'll end with this text as well. So if you go back to Babel, or the Tower of Babel, they pronounce it both ways, they were building a tower to reach into the heavens. And it literally means that they were going up to try to be, among the stars or look at the stars and trying to get to the throne of God, but it was associated with the stars. It was associated with their... perversion of the zodiac. And so, and I think from there, like I said, the zodiac has now carried into every culture around the world, just like there's a flood story in about every culture around the world. They have the story of a man in a boat saving the animals from a giant flood. There's also this consistent story with the consistent images is what's shocking. Because you would think, you know, it's like we might have what we have, you know, okay, we have a scorpion. You think the world might put something different, you know, like, oh, they've got some, you know, Quoxicodile in Mexico, it's a feathered serpent or something. But no, they have a scorpion too. Everybody kinda has the same thing. And because they're on this elliptical, there's 12 of them that come around, which matches something else in the Bible. Can you think of anything else in the Bible that comes in a 12? 12 tribes of Israel, right? And each of these 12 tribes have an association with each one of these Zodiac symbols. As a matter of fact, when they would march around, each one of them had a symbol that is associated back to one of these. There's a Judah, there's a lion, Leo, and that's who they would gather with. So they each had their one. One's an ox, like Taurus the bull, and one's one of the men. And so we have all these that they match up and they go with it. And so they're associated with it. And that goes as well. We don't have time for any of that tonight. I took fast enough as it is, but I can't get all that in. But there's 12 of them, and as they come around. And I'm just gonna list them all, because most of us, if you're like me, I really haven't studied the zodiac or astronomy, because I wanted to make sure I wasn't getting in air. But ever since I've been a little kid, I've had this book, and I think that Raymond said his dad bought this book every time he saw it, didn't he? Yep, so how many copies do you think you have? This is one I remember my parents got for me when I was young. And I carried it with me because I could look and it would tell you. I was fascinated by the stars from young and it would kind of point out. Even with this, it's hard for me to figure out what's what because it's like. They had some crazy imagination to be able to get that out of the stars, you know, to be able to, if they're playing Connect the Knots, they're doing different than me, because it really didn't make a picture that I could understand. But I think of this book, and it did help me early on, and we keep it on the shelf. But the first one, and it goes by an order, and the first one in the constellation is Virgo. That's Latin. What does Virgo mean? Virgo, the, anybody know? The Virgin, Virgo the Virgin, so it's a girl, it's a virgin. We'll come back to that in a minute. The next one is Libra, it is a set of scales, you know, balances. And then there's Scorpio, which is a scorpion. And then there's Sagittarius, which was a weird looking thing. It's kind of like a pan looking guy, you know, he's kind of got the body of a horse, like a centaur, and he's got the upper body of a man and he's shooting a bow and arrow. Well, that's weird. And there's a Capricorn, which the best way I could describe Capricorn is a goat mermaid. I don't know. He kind of looks like a goat front top half and a kind of a fish bottom half. I don't know what they were drinking when they named that. But then there's Aquarius, which is a guy or a girl. It's hard to tell where the image is from, but they're pouring out water. Aquarius, you know, and you can't think of it. Well, I have to sing the song, right? This is the dawning of the age of Aquarius. Then you got the two fish, which is Pisces, you know, so that's those two fish. Aries is the ram. Taurus is the bull. He's pretty straightforward. Gemini is the twins, which, you know, we named a space program after that, the Gemini. Cancer is the crab. And I always think of Spongebob not, give me money, you know, as far as Mr. Krabs as it comes out. And then there's Leo and he's the lion at the end. So how do you know where to begin and end? Well, you look to Egypt because Egypt recorded these things in rocks. And so they have a creature that sits in front of the pyramid. Anybody know what that's called? The creature that sits in front of the pyramid. He has a riddle. He'll eat you if you get it wrong. The Sphinx, yeah, the Sphinx. He is, he has the head of a woman and the body of a lion, because that's where the Zodiac ends it in. The head of the woman, Virgo the Virgin, and it ends with Leo the Lion, so that's considered the start point. It comes back around, and it's the beginning of the end kind of meshed together. Matter of fact, Sphinx means the binding together, and so it's the binding together of those two things. And so, within that, Even though we don't study this a lot, there's more in there. So there's those 12 that I just mentioned, and they have their association, but each of those 12 have three other constellations that are associated with them. Because if you looked at a star chart that showed all the constellations, there would be three others. you know, or what we look at, it'd be full of stuff. You know, the whole sky is full with these. If you have like a Starfinder app and you hold it up, all these different constellations are popping up. But each one of the 12 have three constellations that are associated with it. And so there's the one, and then there's three others around it that are associated with it, and they are called deacons, or D-E-C-A-N, deacons, or deacons, that are there. And so I wanna point those out to you now, and then maybe you can start building. So you need to start thinking biblical, because we're saying this goes back before the Tower of Babel. Matter of fact, I'll tell you, they think that Adam and then Enoch have taught these and instilled them into their sons to be able to know the full message. And so that's my premise I'm going with, that they had taught this. And so Virgo, the virgin, one of her deacons is called Coma. It is an infant, which is kind of weird because why would a virgin be associated with an infant? A virgin means she hasn't had any coitus with a man, and so there is no, how would she have a baby? But there's one associated with, we're called the infant. It's also called the desire of the nations, which becomes a biblical term for sure. Then there's Centaurus, it is one that's right in there with her. It is the dark piercing, that's what it means, and it's also called the victim. It is seen as the victim. And then there's Bootes, B-O-O-T-E-S, Bootes. It is the great shepherd or the harvester that's associated with Virgo the Virgin. We're gonna come back and we'll look at her a little bit more because We don't have time to develop them all, but we'll try to look at the beginning and the end and pull out some stuff. The next one is Libra, that is the scales. And the deacons for it, or the three others associated, is the crux, which is a cross. And then the next one is called the victim, which is a victim that is pierced to death. And then the third one is the corona, or the crown. And so, are you picking up a biblical theme so far? A virgin who has a child, who is pierced victim, who's also a great shepherd. You have Libra the scales, which talks about the cross. He was pierced to death, and that he is crowned with the crown of jewels. The third one is Scorpio. And then the first one of his deacons is the serpent. He's a bad guy. And then there's Orphicus. And Orphicus is interesting. If you look at him, he's a big strong guy and he is wrestling with a serpent. And as he's wrestling with the serpent, the serpent One of the serpents that has multiple heads, I guess, the one serpent has his rest on, it's biting him on the heel, but the other part of it, he is stomping on its head. So it's like, wow, that'll preach. So that's literally, that goes back to Genesis, Genesis 15. And then the third one of the deacons for Scorpio is Hercules, that's the mighty man. And that plays into a lot of things at the temple. The next one is Sagittarius. He's the satyr looking guy or the senator with a bow. The three deacons he has is the Lyra, which is an eagle holding a liar, so he's like playing at this thing. Ara, which is the altar, and Draco, which is the dragon, the old serpent, and he becomes the bad guy that goes through it all, still for us. There's other serpents that are in here that's kind of like Leviathan or the sea serpent. You'll find these as it's traced throughout scripture, the dragon, the serpent, Leviathan, these are all idioms for Satan and how they get put across, but that is the picture that's in the sky. And then the next one is Capricorn. That's the goat mermaid guy. And his three deacons are Sagitta, the arrow, Aquila, the eagle, and Delphinus, the dolphin. He's got three associated with him. Aquarius has Picus, this is a southern fish, so it's another fish image. Pegasus, which is the winged horse, and Cygnus, which is the swan. Pisces, that's the two fish, he has his deacons, which is the band. Andromeda, which is a woman in chains, we'll be able to see that Friday. We'll see the Andromeda galaxy and we'll see her up there, this woman in chains. And then Cephas, a crowned king. Ares is the next constellation. And its three deacons are Cassiopeia, that is a woman on a throne. Cetus, that's a sea monster. who's bound by a lamb. A lamb has captured it. The sea monster that's been captured by a lamb. That'll preach, too. And then there's Perseus, which is an armed, mighty man. Taurus, which is the bull, and one of, or his three deacons are Orion, which is the glorious prince. He's the mighty hunter in the sky. He's got, he's the belt holding the bow and arrow. Erandus, which is Orion's river, a river near him. And Agura, which is the shepherd. So those are interesting, that shepherds becomes a theme. The next constellation is Gemini, that's the twins, which if you go through and you look at the scripture, sometimes just kind of count how many twins there are and the stories and the wrestles with all of them, you know, that you have all these different twins and the battles that they have. all the way up to Thomas, the disciple Thomas. His name's Thomas Didymus because that means ditto. He has a twin brother. It looks just like him. Hey, there's Thomas, ditto, and his brother. So he's Thomas Didymus. He has a twin that comes all the way up into there. So it's kind of interesting. I almost did that tonight. I was wrestling with what to do. I thought, ah, we can take a couple of these word studies and take him out, but twins are one. But also associated with Gemini, not only do you have his, Deacons, you have Lepus, which is the hare or the serpent or rabbit. And then there's two dogs, Canis Major, and that's Sirius, the great dog. And Canis Minor, which is Procon, the second dog. Then you have the constellation Cancer, which is Ursa Minor, that's the lesser sheepfold. And Ursa Major, which is the greater sheepfold. And then Argo, the ship, a boat. And then Leo, the lion at the end, he has three deacons with him. You have Hydra, which is the fleeing serpent. It's the serpent that goes away. And I was glad none of you said hell Hydra, but if you've watched Captain America, right, that's what they all do. And then there's Crater, which is the cup of wrath. Okay, we got a serpent fleeing, and there's a cup of wrath involved, and then Chorus, which is the raven, or the bird of gloom associated at the end. And so these are the pictures that are associated, and then their deacons, the three that are alongside of those, so what, 36 different ones of those, and so we've got a sky full of images that are out there. But if you go to a, if you go to, well, I would say about any observatory, or if you went to any, planetarium, and they were telling you stories, and they were about to project it all up there, and they were going to show you, hey, this is, you know, see how these stars link all together? They're going to say the ancients were bored, they're looking around, they see this star, this star, this star, they draw it together, like, oh, that looks like a guy pouring water over his shoulder. And you're going to look at it, and you're like, I don't know how they got that. Or see this giant W? There's a big giant W. There's a woman enthroned on a chair, and she's tied in there. I'm getting you with her scooter. How about you? Don't shine it in your eyes. How do you get that? Cassiopeia is this W? It's a giant W. You can look at her like, oh, it's a W. Joel and I were looking at it, and I'm like, oh, there's a pyramid. And then you say, oh, the other W, it looks like somebody hit your elbow. So it looks like you got three in a row, and then somebody hit your elbow. It's way over there. But out of that, they get the picture of a woman chained to a chair. That doesn't make any sense. When you look at him, you're like, random stars. Like say, Orion's belt's one of the best, in the sense that you can see three stars that make up his belt. Here's a dot that must be his hand. Here's a dot that must be his head. And they imagine him with a bow. And there's maybe a little cluster of stars right there that look like he has a little baby sword hanging off his hip. And maybe one for his foot. I can kind of see that one. A big dipper. I see a big dipper. I don't see a bear. I don't see a little bear. I see a little dipper. But most of them don't look anything that they're telling us about, because that's not how they get their stories. That's what gets told to us, that's what got passed down, because Satan does a good job of stealing God's thunder, right? That's his job. He wants to pervert and to twist everything. And it's made it to the point where, honestly, most churches, most pastors wouldn't even touch talking about this at all, because it sounds like you're getting into astrology and that you're saying there's something in the stars that has some influence on us, and I'm not saying that at all. I'm saying there's a story in the stars that God has put there since the beginning of creation, but Satan has perverted it and turned it into something else and tried to rob the glory from God, because that's what he does. He'll take it and say, oh, you're going to look at that? Then don't credit it to God, credit it to me, credit to what's going on in my story, what I want to tell. But these images all remain, and yet they're consistent all around the world. So where does the story come from? Because each one of these pictures, they'll tell a story. And you have to imagine, in the ancient world, When it was dark, it was dark. The brightest thing was a torch or a fire. Or if you're in Jerusalem, it was the temple, because they had these giant candelabra that they would set up, the menorahs. Other than that, you sat on your roof and you looked at the stars. That's how come when Jesus the star showed up, they're all talking about it, because they're all like, did you see what was on TV last night? Yeah, a big star going around in space. Because that's what they were watching each night. And you're like, oh, what's on tonight? Like, oh, we're in Scorpio. We're going to watch that go across. And then we're going to watch this one. And they would look up and they would talk. The planets, as I said, the stars are on a fixed course, and the planets are on the elliptical, so they move different than the other stars, and they are called wandering stars, and the book of Jude talks about them, these wandering stars, and he associates them with the demons, because they don't, the stars are doing what God told them to do, the demons move around differently, so he associates them with demons, and so they use the stars a lot. We're told, even us, He compares us, if you're bright and you're wise and you bring souls to Him, that you will shine like the brightness of the stars. And He associates that to a glory that we will have. But the stories that they had with these are their names that are associated within each of the constellations in the order of brightness. And so if you're looking at the stars every night, you will notice if we go out tonight, and it'll be dark by the time I'm done yakking, but it probably doesn't get dark enough to see all the stars, probably till eight, maybe. But you'll see some are brighter and some are dimmer, right? You'll be like, ooh, who's that one? That's a bright one. And you'll notice that there's some that are bigger and brighter. And as Jupiter comes up, you'll see it's a bright star, looks like to us. It's actually a planet. The first star we'll be able to see, I'm sure when we are done, will be Venus over here about the Channel 4 towers. It comes up low because it's close to the sun, so it shines really bright. We can't see Mercury because it's baking by the sun. Because it's right next to it, it goes down. Each of these constellations, so if you were to look at Virgo the Virgin, she's made up of certain stars, but the story they have has to do with the brightness of the stars. There's like, they call it the alpha, the beta, and then. Gamma, I think is how they count it, I'm not sure how. But they put it across there. And each one of these stars has a name, and then that is the story that they tell. So they use the picture as a mnemonic, and a mnemonic is something to help you remember something. If you're going to remember the rainbow, you're going to remember the mnemonic of Roy G. Biv. You ever heard of that? Red, green, blue, indigo, violet. It helps you remember that. Or if you're doing the notes on the piano, you might learn face, F-A-C-E. That's not a face on the piano, but you're going to think of a face because that's the notes on the piano as it goes across there. You have a mnemonic to help you remember that. people who count their knuckles, you know, like January, February, March, I'm not sure if you start on the high or the low, which one has 30 days and which one don't. You know, you have these devices to help us remember things. And so the ancients had this where they would look at a picture in the sky, they'd say this picture, and they would draw a big picture around it, but they were really talking about the stars within it in the order of brightness, usually associated that down to three, which is kind of interesting that things are all tying back to three, which we have a trinity who talk about all these things anyway. But they would put that together so they would remember the story. And so as the story came back, and you're sitting at night, and the kids are like, I wanna stay up late, what are we gonna do? We can watch the stars. All right, okay. And so they go outside and watch the stars. And as each one of the constellations come around, the fathers would be able to tell the children, here's the story. Oh, tell us the story about this. And they would look at the bright stars, and they would tell, and that would then be this whole picture. And then throughout the year, you'd go through this whole story from Virgo, the Virgin, to Leo, the Lion. And so it was a late night show. And they would say, what's on TV tonight? And they're like, reruns. You know, it's on again, here it comes around one more time. We gotta see it, and so. And they believe, say they take it back, and the ones who hold to this the most, they take it back to Adam, or to Enoch, that they had these stories in the stars, and they were used to teach their kids and instruct their kids God's plan of redemption. It's also been called, if you were to Google it, the gospel and the stars. That the message of God's plan to redeem mankind is embedded in the stars. And the reason you and I don't know it is because we have something way better than the stars because we have the detail and the full revelation of God's word. The stars is just a basic outline of it. And like I said, we go back to Luke one after we talk about it, you'll see the kind of the overarching story that Zachariah is talking about within that. Let's delve in, we don't have time to go all of them, but we're gonna look at a couple. So we're gonna look at Virgo the Virgin. This is easy to remember, it's the first one. The bright star in Virgo the Virgin, here on my chart, I'll be Virgo the Virgin, she's standing like this. And then the more ancient charts, and even a lot of the new ones, she's holding a couple things in her hand as we talk about. But the bright star is Spica, and it's an ear of corn. And so in her left hand, as she's standing there, she's got, it's not an ear of corn like we think of our corn, it's like a sheaf of wheat. That's what they would call corn, and so it's wheat in her hand. It's Spica, and that means that bright star, the first star, the leading star in Virgo the Virgin was an ear of corn. Spica is the Hebrew, or the Thessalonian or Greek name, and that's where we get a lot of our names from the stars, comes out of the Latin or the Greek, going back to Babylon. But the Hebrew name for that star means the branch. The branch is a messianic title. So within Virgo the Virgin, the brightest star, he's like, we're gonna tell this story about the branch, the Messiah who's coming to rescue us. Matter of fact, Hebrew has 20 different names or 20 different words that they use to describe branch. but there's one specific name used to describe Messiah, and it's only used for him exclusively, and that's the name of that star. That's Shemek, to Shemek. And that's the one that they use, the branch which is Messiah. That's why if you go and you look at a passive like in Jeremiah 23, I'm gonna turn there so we get some more Bible in. Jeremiah 23. Then I'll just reference the others. Jeremiah 23 verse 5 says, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will raise up David, a righteous branch, should be capitalized, and a king shall reign and prosper, and he shall execute judgment and justice in the earth. In his days, Judah shall be saved and Israel shall dwell safely. And this is the name whereby he shall be called the Lord our righteousness, all caps. There's others like in Zechariah three, Zechariah six, Isaiah four, that have the branch that's all caps, all the way across. And so, because it's talking exclusively about the Messiah. And so the brightest star in Virgo the Virgin is the branch of the Messiah. In Arabic, which we have a lot of the, Because there's holes in this, there's some spots where we don't know the ancient name, but the ones that we have, the Arabic usually kept the best, like I said, because they used them to navigate in the desert. And there's the branch. The brightest star in Egypt, the name that they give to it, it's not the branch. It's the seed, which if you take the branch and the seed and you put it within the virgin, you've got Genesis 3.15. I will put in between thy seed and her seed. It will bruise thy head. Yeah, it will bruise thy head and you will bruise its heel. It's a messianic reference to Jesus Christ coming from a virgin all the way back in Genesis 3.15. And that is all encapsulated in Virgo, the virgins, as they look at the brightness of stars as they go. And that's just in the first star, Spica. which means the branch. In her left hand, and oh, in the drawing of Virgo the Virgin, she's holding corn, or she's holding a branch in her hand. In the other hand, she holds a branch, so she's got two sticks in her hand. So the left hand holds the branch. It's the promised seed of the woman of Genesis 3.15, and she'll give birth to the Redeemer. which Jesus Christ even uses that whole thing about being the corn falling into the ground. He says, unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground, it cannot, or corn of wheat does not, or corn seed falls into the ground, it will not come back. So it's talking about him bringing life from the dead. And so we just, within a couple of the bright stars there, we can already see the Messiah kind of coated within it. For time's sake, let's jump ahead to Libra, the scales. That would be the second Zodiac sign. It's the scales for weighing, and so the Arabic, The brightest star for it means a purchase redemption. In the Coptic it means the salvation or propitiation. In the Latin, where we get the term Libra, it means weighing. You've been weighed in the balances. Think of Daniel, you know, it's like when he reads the writing on the wall, you have been weighed and you have been found wanting. The brightest star is Zebulon. Wait a minute, it is Zebulun al-Ghubni. And I thought that was kind of fun to say. Zubun al-Ghubni. I can say it better when I was practicing at home. But it means the price is deficient. So you're in the scales and you've been found wanting. The next brightest star is Zebulun Chamala. That means the price which covers. So one side you're wanting, and the other side says someone has covered what you are lacking. So someone's gonna pay what you're missing within that. And so someone, The one who is lacking, the price is gonna be covered by somebody else. That's Messiah, you know, we are lacking. We are tried in the balances, we are found wanting. Who will come and pay the price for us? Who is my Redeemer? Jesus Christ comes, he'll tip the balances back in our favor. And so that's the two stars for it. And so, and then the third brightest star is Zebulun Alconab, that means the price of conflict, that the price was paid through a conflict, which would be the death on the cross. And so, and it's interesting that that last star, the bright of conflict, it points towards one of the other deacons, which is the centaur, which means the victim slain. So the victim slain is gonna be the price of conflict that makes the balances equaled out because we are deficit, we have a deficit in the balances. One of the other deacons is the cross, which means cut off. I mean, that's literally the word that is told to us in Daniel, prophecy of Daniel 9, 26. And so this balance that is going to be weighed is going to be paid by someone who is cut off on a cross. The next one is lupus, that is the victim. It represents the victim slain. And then the Hebrew, the word is the slain. Arabic, the slain. In Egypt, the word that they use to translate it is not the slain, but is a lamb. A lamb that is slain. So you can even kind of see hidden in the languages. the fuller picture of who Christ is. He is the lamb that is slain, that dies on the cross, to make sure he can pay the divot for us, the difference, the conflict and the balances that were short that we were lacking, Jesus Christ makes it up. All within the Libras, you're standing up because it's like, if you're looking at the Zodiac and you're like, who would put up, you know, all these other animals and people. Now here's a scale, that doesn't make sense. Because we're not looking at it like they did. They are looking at the brightness of the stars, and that told them the story. Oh, let me tell you about the insufficient balance that is made sufficient by the one who comes and redeems us. And so this is the story that they would tell as they were sitting out on the shepherd field, as they were laying on their roof at night, as they were looking at the stars in the order of brightness and they were teaching them to their children. Let me tell you about this star and that star as it points to God's message that he's not leaving us alone, that someone is going to rescue us. The last deacon that he has was, meant the crown, or the crown bestowed. In Hebrew it means the royal crown, and in the Arabic crowns it's the crown with jewels. And so he'll be crowned with many crowns after he does, performs this task on the cross where he is the victim that balances the scale. He'll be crowned King of Kings and Lord of Lords, and that's just one. And we've looked at Libra, and then you look at the Virgin and the story of Christ within that. The other neat one, we mentioned it earlier, was the serpents or the Orpichinus, where it was the man who was standing on the serpent, and the other one biting on his foot. But for time's sake, and because this is why I had time's sake, I mean in my notes when I was writing them this afternoon, the climax ends with Leo the Lion. So you start with Virgo the Virgin, and it ends with Leo the Lion. Leo the Lion, anybody gonna guess who that represents? lion of the tribe of Judah, right? Jesus Christ, you know, the one who comes and wins. And it's the Hebrew word, Erek, which was almost, I thought, man, it'd be pretty cool if it was Aslan, but it's pretty close. But it's associated with the tribe of Judah. That's his standard. The brightest star that he has is Regulus. And that means treading underfoot, or the judge cometh, or the judge shall reign. And so, Leo the Lion is the one who's going to tread underfoot that we're there. He's marching in the winepress of God, the face of the barn that we have up here. The whole picture I had in the verse was pointing to this text, the one who'd been treading in the winepress of the wrath of God Almighty, whose clothes were dipped in the blood of those that he wouldn't judge because he's come back to redeem Israel. The judge comes or the judge shall reign. That's all Regulus, this big bright star. His deacons are Hydra, which was the fleeing serpent. When Leo the lion comes, the fleeing serpent runs away. Matter of fact, When you look at the Zodiac, when they draw him, he's never like Leo the Lion sitting like a lion or sitting outside. He's pouncing, he's a pouncing lion. And if you look in the constellations, he's pouncing on the head of Hydra. He's getting ready to trounce on the snake and be rid of him. And so he is the fleeing serpent, the one who's running away. The other one of his deacons was Crater. That means the cup of fire or cup of wrath. So when Leo the Lion comes, he's bringing the cup of wrath. He's bringing judgment. And then the last one was chorus, and that is the raven, you know, the gloom bird, you know, judgment that is coming. And so, I know it's hard. I wish I would have had time to throw together all my charts and all, but I was still trying to decide what I was going to do until this morning. And once I got confirmed that I was going to be the one teaching, But to kind of give a brief overview, we've kind of zoomed in over a lot of this and we didn't go into detail on all those because, you know, saying hard to pronounce names as we're all sitting here makes it very hard for all of us, especially me. But no, especially you. But I'll give you an overview. And so you start with. Virgo the Virgin, the seed of the woman, the desire of nation, the man of double nature and humiliation that's all hinted within that. And the three deacons, and it's also the exalted shepherd or the harvester. You can see types of Christ and all that. He is the shepherd. He's the one who's gonna be the harvester of souls. He is the man of double nature. He's 100% God, 100% man. He is the desire of nation, the seed of the woman. Libra is the price that was to be paid, the cross to be endured, the victim slain and the crown that was purchased, all embedded within the stars and the deacons within the constellation of Libra. Scorpio is the conflict, the serpent coils up within it. There's a struggle with an enemy, the man wrestling with the snake, and the toiling vanquisher of evil, so the man good wins and triumphs over it. I try to imagine the dad sitting there telling his son as that comes around. It looks bad for us, we live in a cursed earth, but the conqueror's coming, the one who's gonna wrestle the serpent and defeat him, the one who's going to crush his head, and he's telling this from the pictures of the stars and imagining it as they talk about it each night. Sagittarius is the double-natured one triumphing. When we say double-nature, he is 100% God, he's 100% man in that way. He gladdens the heaven. He builds fires of punishment, and he cast down the dragon, or he cast down Draco the dragon, and so he wins, and he has victory over him. What's that, Cornucopia, or what's the, man, I always have trouble with the name of that one. The goat guy, Capricorn, that's what. He is life out of death, the arrow of God, pierced and failing, but springing up again in abundance of life. And so you have death and resurrection all kind of buried within the stars within the Capricorn. I wrote it funny for some reason. I put a us on the Capricornus. I was feeling very Latin. Aquarius, that is the life waters from on high. This is the guy who's pouring out the water. The drinking in of the heavenly food. Carrying the good news, because he's carrying the living water in a picture and he's always pouring it out. And bearing aloft the cross over the earth. This is one that has a constellation in it that we can't see, the Southern Cross. We all probably remember this song from the 80s. And the Southern Cross. But that's something that the sailors all look forward to once you cross the meridian. You can see the Southern Cross, but he bears aloft the cross to the earth. And so the good news of the water of life that's contained within Aquarius as it pours out. And you can see why Satan would wanna pervert these and make it tarot cards and make it something other because it's such a clear and a poignant picture when you look at the true and the genuine. Pisces is the multiplication of the Redeemer's people to fish. And these fish are gonna make more fish. And so the Redeemer's people are gonna, we're going to share the good news of the gospel and the church is going to grow. It's upheld and governed by the Lamb is what one of the stars means. It's the intended bride bound and exposed. It's like she's finally revealed that this is her. And the bridegroom exalted is another one of the stars within its constellation, all pointing towards Christ. Aries is the ram. This is the lamb found worthy. Behold, the Lamb of God which takes away the sin of the world. The Jews, if they sat out there and told this story every night, they should have understood it as John the Baptist declared this. The bride released and making ready, Satan bound, was one of the stars there. And the breaker triumphant, or the, yeah. The breaker triumphing, so he finally breaks forth and he triumphants. That's triumphant. Taurus is the invincible ruler come. The horns in the Bible represent government. He's gonna be the invincible ruler, the one who can't be defeated. The sublime vanquisher, the one who's coming, who's going to vanquish evil. There's a river of judgment that's within that constellation. And the all-ruling shepherd, and so again, another shepherd in there is gonna be ruling over his people, the good shepherd that Psalm 23 talks about. Gemini is the marriage of the lamb, the enemy trodden down, and the prince coming in glory, and then his princely following is all buried within the stars of that constellation. Let's see, we've just got a few more. Let's see, Cancer, which was like the crab, gimme my money, is the possessing secured, and it had the two folds within it. There's the lesser fold, which is the church of the firstborn, or what we would call ourselves, and then there's the greater fold, which is Israel, which harkens back to what we were talking about this morning, about this mystery that was veiled and hidden within the text, that he was gonna be savior of the world, and all the nations will be blessed, and everyone that comes unto him, I've made a way of escape for the Gentiles. Even the gospel of the stars has in there that there's gonna be two folds. There's gonna be the church, and there's gonna be Israel, and then the last star within the constellation in its brightness is that there be a safe unfolding of the two kingdoms together, that the Jews and the Gentiles will be blended together, and the church is embedded with the gospel of the stars as well. So again, going on the heels of what we talked about in this morning's message, that there was a mystery that was hidden that's been in the stars the whole time, that once it was revealed, they see it and they get it. And then the last one is Leo the lion. This is the king rending, so he's ripping the enemy apart, was one of the stars. Serpent flees, you know, because he's running away. He's the lion that is pouncing. The bowl of wrath that he pours out upon the judgment on the world and his carcass devoured as he eats up the enemies was one of them. And so, like I said, Leo's always drawn pouncing on the serpent, you know, within the constellation. They're there next to each other and he's jumping down on him. Considered it's a controversial subject, a lot of people be like, don't even talk about it, I don't even wanna talk about you since you talked about it, you know, because people are loving and accepting like that and have open minds. But I think there's enough from at least a few of the proof scripts, proof texts that I gave you to start out with to say that there's something more there, that God is using this, that there's a voice that goes forth. We don't have all of this as neatly as we would like because Through time, we have lost the name of some of the stars. We have done the best that we can for what we have, and we are just blessed to live in the time which we were. But J.A. Seiss has wrote one of the early books on this, and that's all the way back before the Civil War. He's one of the ones that they say does the better job. And E.W. Bollinger. It also has the famous work of the Gospel and the Stars where they break down and they go down deeper in case it's something you're interested in. You can also Google it online. D. James Kennedy has a pretty good Gospel and the Stars, a good thumbnail of it. And he has a big booming voice as he says it. And Chuck Missler, I stole a lot of my notes from him. And so he's one who's, he was a smart, smart man. And I've heard three different presentations of his and they all have a little bit different detail here and there. And so he's worth studying again with too. And so, we don't need it anymore, and so we've kind of lost it, and plus the devil robbed it, and made it a bigger thing in the pagan worlds. Because we have the written word of God, we have the full picture that tells us not just that there's a redeemer coming, but his name is Jesus, and his mom was Mary, and that he was of the tribe of Judah, and he's of the line of Jesse, and we have all those prophecies and things that string it out, because we have the whole Bible here. The revelation is revealed in greater detail. But I think that heavens truly do declare the glory of God, especially the harder you study it, and the more you look into it, not just take it at a face value, because God has made it to declare His wonders. I think I mentioned it this morning, that you can tell God's greatest accomplishment is not creation, His greatest glory, His greatest wonder. It's the redemption of mankind. Just by the volume of what's written, one, it cost him his son, right, to purchase us out. If you look at the Bible, how much does it talk about creation? Genesis, you know, some spots in Job, some places in Psalm, a few here. how much talks about the redemption of mankind. Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy. It goes through every book of the Bible talking about the Redeemer that was coming to do this and so that is his greatest wonder. That is the greatest glory of God displayed, especially within the creation. Let's end with Luke one again and see if my rambling informed us any. Because as we looked at the overview of the constellations, as we told the whole story from Virgo the Virgin, it's gonna end with Leo the Lion, the conquering king. And the struggle within and the battles that are there, you can kinda see that here in Zachariah's book. prophecy as he pulls it forth. So, verse 67 of chapter 1, And his father Zechariah was filled with the Holy Ghost, and he prophesied, saying, Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, who hath visited and redeemed his people. He has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David, as he spake by the mouth of his holy prophets. maybe the stars, since they have been since the world began, that tells the overarching story that the Redeemer's gonna come through a virgin to be born. She'd be the seed of the woman and that he'd be called the branch and that he would also, there's the infant associated with her. Since the world began all the way up to Leo the lion, verse 71, that we should be saved from our enemies and from the hand of all that hate us, from the Scorpio, from Draco the dragon, from Hydra, The Leo the lion defeats them all on the end of the story. Lion of the tribe of Judah. Verse 72, perform the mercy promised to our fathers and to remember his holy covenant. He will balance the scales that was wanting for us. The deficiency that he had, he would pay the price by dying on the cross for us to redeem it and then he would be crowned king of kings and lord of lords after making us no longer lacking in the balances. Verse 73, the oath which he swore to our fathers Abraham. He made a covenant and a promise that he would come. It was written in the stars, it's written in his word. Verse 74, that he would grant unto us that we being delivered out of the hand of our enemies might serve him without fear, that they would be rescued, that the dragon would be chased off by Leo the lion. verse 75, in holiness and righteousness from before him all the days of our life. And then he talks about John the Baptist there. And so I think he was hinting at a lot of this through that kind of pointing that it's all fulfilled in Jesus Christ or it's going to be. And so I think we can take a little bit of rest in that too. It's time for Christians to bring back the stars to us. Let's quit letting the world have everything. It's ours to have. I think it's like the Ark Encounter over there has tried to reclaim the rainbow. They painted on there, it's like, we're gonna be ashamed of it. Satan tries to use it for his good, we're gonna use it for as God intended us, as a reminder of his judgment that he did have, that he's going to spare us from that, but judgment is coming again, but of his covenants he's made with mankind. I hope if anything at least whets your appetite and gave you an interest in it that you'll look up and as now you see the different brightness of stars know that there's a story in there that if you study it out points to the goodness of God and his plan of redemption that he has for mankind. I appreciate your patience with me. He almost made it. But they said good. I appreciate y'all being here and I look forward to camping with you Friday. We'll look at the stars big time, but I'm gonna go outside and see if we see any now. And I might even drag out a telescope later, but I appreciate you being here.