Jovial (23 Dec 2013)
"The Menorah of Comets; The Message behind the stars "


At  http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/dec2013/garyn129-1.htm Gary said Rev 1:20 calls stars "angels" and I added that the word "angel" means "messenger".  So does Rev 1:20 say that the stars tell a message? 

Let's examine the facts;

  • We are on the heels of the Blood Moons, that almost everyone considers to be significant.We just don't know what those blood moons mean.
  • Chanukah came earlier this year than it has for centuries, and will for centuries.  While the timing with Thanksgiving is purely American, the earliness of the Chanukah holiday is still noteworthy, but something we might not have noticed had it not preceeded Thanksgiving.
  • We had the rare, if never before seen Menorah of Comets hail in Chanukah.  2 comets in the sky at the same time is unusual.  But 7 at once?  That is highly unusual!!!!  Not even sure if it has ever happened before in observable history.

So is there a message in this?  Maybe so.  And if so, I think I have some of the keys to decode it and will share it in this post.  First, a few foundation points:

  • God broadcasted the universal message of salvation in the stars, not a personal horoscope.  Bullinger decodes the symbolism of it at  http://www.levendwater.org/books/witness/the_witness_of_the_stars_bullinger.pdf in his book The Witness of the Stars.  Satan hates it so badly he perverted it into causing people to see their personal horoscope in the stars, which is an abomination.  Horoscopes are not only evil and ungodly, but a perversion of what God intended; which was to see the Gospel message in the Constellations. Astrology was a diversion created to cause you to forget the original intention of the stories in the stars. 
    • For example, Virgo is not about someone's personal fortune for people born in that month, but is the story of the virgin birth of the Messiah.
    • Orion is about light breaking forth from the Redeemer, not about anything to do with "astrology".   
    • Many other constellations are explained in the above book.
  • If the first coming of the Messiah is decoded this way, then perhaps the second coming of the Anti-Messiah is also coded in this or some slightly different way.  Seems logical, right? 
  • The first coming was foretold with a star.  This is recorded in Matthew 2:20, where it says, "We saw His star in the East...." 

So is there a message in these Comets?  Well, God controls the orbits of the planets, comets, etc.  So there COULD be.  Doesn't have to be.  But there COULD be.  And when a menorah of comets show up when Chanukah is the earliest it will be for several milleniums, you've got to take notice and at least check out what it MIGHT be saying.

My personal opinion is that these comets are not the same messengers of Rev 1:20, but they might stand on their own as a message.  How does God deliver messages like this?  Typically, in the names, movements, etc., of what is observed.

The names of the 7 comets , in the order they were observed, were;

  1. _
  2. Ison
  3. Lovejoy
  4. Encke
  5. Linear
  6. Borisov
  7. Nevski
  8. P5

Now since God typically speaks in Hebrew, not English (or Greek - certainly not at Hanukah time), I decided to transliterate these names into Hebrew and see if an intelligent word comes out of any of these names.  Some of the English sounds can't really be spelled in Hebrew.  For example, the "j" in "Lovejoy" doesn't have a Hebrew letter, so I'll use a "y" sound since that is the closest thing in Hebrew.  Also, the "ski" in "Nevski" is purely grammatical (it is a Slavic name).  It is like "ish" in English.  Typically, the grammatical parts of names don't get included in trying to reconstruct the Hebrew part of a multilingual message.  God has shown me this in several multi-lingual patterns in Scripture and I will be publishing something on this in the near future.  Also, for P5, I end up mixing and matching letters and numbers in English, but since Hebrew uses letters for numbers, it works out cool.

Turns out that all of these names can be spelled in Hebrew with a spelling that pronounced one way, can represent a non-Hebrew name of the comet, but pronounced the normal Hebrew way represents a message.  Here is what comes out of it....

Comet Name

Closest Approximate Hebrew Spelling

Meaning of Hebrew word spelled this way

Ison

אישון

 dark pupil
Lovejoy

לויי

 attached to me
Encke

אנכי

I
Linear

לנהר

shine
Borisov

בראשו

in his/its head {or poverty}
Nev[ski]

נבא

prophecy
P5

פה

"here" or "mouth"

If you DO include the grammatical part of Nev[ski], you could get either "that which is like" or "that which he will mouth" added after the word "prophecy", making a future tense verb out of the last word.  So it does not change the meaning all that much, but it means "here" would not be a potential interpretation.  So ignoring it does not change much.

This seems to form 3 sentences;

  • A dark pupil is attached to me.
  • I shine
  • In its head/beginning, prophecy is here.

What does this mean?  The bride of the Messiah is ATTACHED to Him, but her eyes are dark.  She can't see well.  She needs the Light of God to fill her dark eyes.

One's eyes are in your head.  Once they are "lit", you can "see" the prophecy.  But I don't think that is what "in its head" means, though that may be a double meaning of the phrase.  I think it is telling us that the key to understanding the message of the menorah of comets it by looking at where they BEGAN their path.  So let me re-write the chart showing this....

Comet Name

Closest Approximate Hebrew Spelling

Meaning of Hebrew word spelled this way

The "Head" of the comet's observance
Ison

אישון

 dark pupil Virgo is the constellation this comet was first noticed.
Lovejoy

לויי

 attached to me Orion is where this comet was first seen.
Encke

אנכי

I No "head"; Circular orbit - orbits sun every 1210  days, losing 2 days per 1200. So this symbolizes something eternal.
Linear

לנהר

shine No "head"; orbits every 1898 years.
Borisov

בראשו

in his/its head Capella is where it was first seen; Capella is the brightest star in the goat being held
Nev[ski]

נבא

prophecy No "head"; 27.5 year orbit.
P5

פה

"here" or "mouth" Taurus is where it was first seen.  Has 6 tails.

3 of these have no "head", and therefore symbolize something eternal.  4 symbolize something temporary, and therefore have a "head".

Keep in mind that while these symbols symbolizes one thing for the gospel message, they may symbolize something slightly different to describe the prophecy being given.  For example, while Virgo represents the virgin birth in the Gospel message, it may symbolize the Virgin Bride in this message.  She is the one with the "dark pupil".  Orion is the "light bearer", as Bullinger explains.  So mapping "attached to me" to "Light Bearer" explains who is attached to who.  And of course, "Light bearer" fits the next two words, which are "I shine".

In Bullingers Book, he talks about how Capella looks like 1 star to the naked eye, but is actually four stars.  It is located among a set of stars symbolizing a goat.  This symbolizes the following...

"the goat waxed very great: and when he was strong, the great horn was broken; and for it came up four notable ones toward the four winds of heaven." (Dan 8:8)

Capella symbolizes the great horn breaking into 4 horns.  This explains why the comet was called "In His Head" when spelling with Hebrew letters.  It was both a hint on how to decode all of the comets, as well as having meaning for the particular comet at hand.  Of course, most of you already understand this symbolism of the 4 horns, and how the fourth horn will symbolize the "Beast" of Revelation.  Taurus symbolizes that "Beast" here in this message.

I believe this message could be saying that the bride does not recognize the beast, but that God will soon enlighten His bride as to who that "Beast" is.  A lot of you think it is America, but I expect a power shift.  I am not saying that is definitely what it means, or that it means anything at all.  All I am saying is that if God DID indeed intent to send us a message with these comets, this is the best sense I can make out of it.  Perhaps it is totally random.

And yes, Hanukah is a rather fitting time to send this message.  After all, Antiochus is a foreshadow of the False Messiah, and Israel's victory over this pre-anti Messiah is the nature of Hanukah.  Hanukah was when the faithful left the captivated Israel to form a rebellion against a tyrant; something we will have to do again when the beast rises to power.  It is also fitting that a message decoded by the "HEAD" or "BEGINNING" of each comet comes at a time when Chanukah is at the EARLIEST it will be in many milleniums.

There may be something significant in the numbers describing the orbits to the circular comets.  I don't see what it is, but that doesn't mean there isn't some meaning there to be had.  Perhaps I should be looking at the measure of months instead.  Or perhaps I should be measuring the frequency it is seen on earth instead of around the sun.  But the numbers behind the velocity of their orbit probably means something.  Maybe one of our numbers guys (Bob, John, etc) sees something here.

Shalom,

Joe