Douglas Henney (10 Jun 2024)
"Random thoughts, part 3"


Hopefully, the attached screenshot at the bottom of this post, from my Stellarium phone app, turns out.

What I am showing in the picture/photo-clip is the sun's position at the top of Orion's sword on June 21st.

This happens each year at the summer solstice. 

What is somewhat unique about the sun's centered position this year (note the lines and the stars labeled X2 and X1) is that it is taking place exactly at midnight Jerusalem time.

Coincidence? 

When I think of this Orion constellation, my mind goes to the story of how God used Gideon to defeat the Midianite oppressors in Judges 7 and 8.  Instead of a raised sword as the standard Orion image has, picture instead a raised torch.  This makes sense to me because the top of the "torch" is right at the ecliptic, where any of the visible planets along with the moon and the sun can serve as the "light" of the torch at a particular time.

In that Gideon account, there is one particular detail that I wonder might apply specifically to us.  It is when the clay vessels were broken/ruptured to reveal the light within while trumpets were being sounded.

That sure sounds like what might happen to our bodies when Jesus comes for us.  The included trumpet detail reminds me of Paul's description.

Another interesting detail to me is where the sun is 40 days later.  It is in the center of the constellation known today as Cancer but was originally of a sheep fold.  EW Bullinger in his book "The Witness of the Stars" describes some of the ancient names of specific stars to reveal the constellation's original, more ancient meaning.  I clipped the following from his book:

In the center of the Sign there is a remarkably bright cluster of stars, so bright that they can be sometimes seen with the naked eye. It looks like a comet, and is made up of a great multitude of stars. Modern astronomers have called it the Beehive. But its ancient name has come down to us as Praesepe, which means a multitude, offspring. The brightest star, ζ (in the tail), is called Tegmine, holding. The star α (or α1 and α2), in the lower large claw, is called Acubene, which, in Hebrew and Arabic, means the sheltering or hiding-place. Another is named Ma’alaph (Arabic), assembled thousands; Al Himarein (Arabic), the kids or lambs. North and south of the nebula Praesepe are two stars, which Orientalists speak of by a name evidently of some antiquity. Asellus means an Ass, and one was called Asellus Boreas, the northern Ass; while the other, Asellus Australis, is the southern Ass. The sign was afterwards known by the symbol which stands for these two asses. *

(The symbol he is referring to in his last sentence looks like a number six and a number nine brought right next to each other and laying on their side with one above the other.)

When I think of the constellation having two asses (asses made very good "watch dogs" back then and were used by shepherds at night in particular), my mind goes to one account of Jesus riding into Jerusalem in Matthew 21 where two donkeys are mentioned and both are a part of the event where Jesus was welcomed by the people.  Might this be a clue of when, after a 40 day window, after our initial rapture event, all are finally gathered into the heavenly "sheep fold", celebrating Jesus as our King of Kings, just like took place on Nisan 10th?

I do not know for sure.

Watching, watching.