Looking at December 22nd and thereafter…
We have all looked at the dates of Noah since Jesus has told us “as
in the days of Noah”…there is more to come. If you look
at what I have posted below then you will see that according to “Gospel
in the Stars” by Joseph A. Seiss, “Among the early nations there
was a wide spread idea connecting this
Bull with the Deluge, and the Pleiades-the seven stars, the Doves, the peculiar star-cluster of
“sweet influences” – with
the ark of Noah and those saved by it in the great judgment.
“The seven stars”, which
the Scriptures also connect with the Church (Rev 1:16, 2:1),
are on the back of this Bull, high up on his great shoulder.
Revelation 1:20
20The mystery of the
seven stars that you saw in my right hand and of the seven golden lampstands
is this: The seven stars are the angels[c] of the seven churches, and the seven lampstands
are the seven churches.
On December 3rd, starting around 5:40 pm, the near full moon
will occult the star cluster Pleiades, also known as M45,
finishing around 8:00 pm.
Pleiades - Pleiades is
an asterism in the Constellation Taurus (The Bull). It is the 45th object
in the Messier Catalog and is given the designation 'M45'. Pleiades was
known as 'The Seven Sisters' to the American Indians and called 'Subaru'
to the Japanese
Then again, on December 31st, starting around 4:30 am, the
waxing gibbous moon will occult the
Pleiades. The December 31st
occultation finishes about
an hour and a half after moonset, around 6:45 am. The horizontal line which
rises up at the end of the animation represents the horizon as the moon
and Pleiades sets.
Information from the book “Gospel in the Stars” by Joseph
A. Seiss
Reference above Pleiades and Taurus the Bull.
Joseph A. Seiss in his book says this about the arrangement of the Zodiacal
signs (again not astrology, but rather the gospel of Jesus in the stars):
Pg 101 regarding the Taurus:
The Bible mentions a creature called the Reem which is actually much greater
than a bull.
Psalm 92:10 (New American Standard Bible)
10But You have exalted my (A)horn
like that of the wild ox (or reem, or unicorn);
I have been (B)anointed
with fresh oil.
* see below for more detail on this
There are 3 sets of 4 out of the 12 Zodiac signs each with its own subject.
- first 4 = Seed of the
Woman
- second 4 = formation,
career and destiny of the Church
- third 4 = the Great
Judgment and completion of the whole mystery of God respecting our world
and race.
- I’m not sure
as it’s not mentioned in this chapter…I’ll search for
it as time permits
Pg. 102- 103, Gospel in the Stars
In mythology this Bull was always accounted snow-white, the color of righteousness
and royal judgment. According to some of the accounts, this form was
assumed by Jupiter out of his passion for the beautiful Europa, whom he
won by his gentleness and bore on his back across the seas to Crete. The god of the sea demanded that he should be offered in
sacrifice, but because of his beauty the king preserved him. Afterward
he became mad, and wrought great havoc and destruction among the Cretans
and could neither be caught nor tamed except by Heracles.
This story remarkably interprets with reference to Christ and His Church,
and the anger with which He is to visit the wicked world after the Church
of the first-born has been safely landed in heaven. The same becomes
the more striking when we take in some other markings of the case.
Among the early nations there was a wide spread idea connecting this Bull
with the Deluge, and the Pleiades-the seven stars, the Doves, the peculiar
star-cluster of “sweet influences” – with the ark of Noah
and those saved by it in the great judgment. “The seven stars”,
which the Scriptures also connect with the Church (Rev 1:16, 2:1), are on
the back of this Bull, high up on his great shoulder. The Pleiades,
according to the myths, were the seven daughters of Atlas, the upholder
of heaven and earth, who, with their sisters, the Hyades, in this Bull’s
head, were placed in heaven because of their virtues and mutual sympathy
and affection. They beautifully symbolize the saints securely supported
by the terrible Judge, and who, together with the holy angels whom they
are like, thus move with Him and His inflictions upon the guilty world.
And when we take this fierce and enraged aurochs as the symbol of the
glorious Head of His redeemed people, particularly in those scenes of judgment
upon the apostate and unbelieving nations after the saints have been taken
away, we have before our eyes in the stars the very picture which Isaiah
describes where he prophesies of “the world, and all the things that
come forth of it,” and says: “The indignation of the Lord
is upon all nations, and His fury upon all their armies. He hath delivered
them to the slaughter. Their slain also shall be case out, and the
mountains shall be melted with their blood. The unicorns (the reems
the precise animal which constitutes the figure in Taurus) shall come down,
and the bullocks with the bulls, and their land shall be soaked with blood.
For it is the day of the Lord’s vengeance and the year of recompenses
for the controversy of Zion.”
(34:2-8)
Blessings,
Tony
* Unicorn,
the
rendering of the Authorized Version of the Hebrew reem , a word which occurs seven times in the Old Testament
as the name of some large wild animal. The reem
of the Hebrew Bible, however, has nothing at all to do with the one-horned
animal of the Greek and Roman writers, as is evident from ( 33:17)
where in the blessing of Joseph it is said; "his glory is like the
firstling of his bullock, and his horns are like the horns of a unicorn ;" not, as the text of the
Authorized Version renders it, "the horns of unicorns ." The two horns of the ram are "the ten
thousands of Ephraim and the thousands of Manasseh." This text puts
a one-horned animal entirely out of the question. Considering that the reem is spoken of as a two-horned animal
of great strength and ferocity, that it was evidently well known and often
seen by the Jews, that it is mentioned as an animal fit for sacrificial
purposes, and that it is frequently associated with bulls and oxen we think
there can be no doubt that, some species of wild ox is intended. The allusion
in (Psalms 92:10)
"But thou shalt lift up, as a reeym
, my horn," seems to point to the mode in which the Bovidae use their horns, lowering the head
and then tossing it up. But it is impossible to determine what particular
species of wild ox is signified probably some gigantic urus is intended.
Link: http://westover.searchgodsword.org/dic/sbd/view.cgi?number=T4391