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macca wrote:
Fri Mar 18, 2022 8:20 am
Fantasy. Dangerous noddelings of an over imaginative mind.
Just like the gospel in the stars and every other gnostic creation that seeks to explain the plain text of God's Word.
Have you ever read the Companion Bible that speaks to the signs that are in the Heavens?

Genesis 1:14 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:

Job 38:32 Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? Or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons?
"mazzārōth (margin, and R.V., the twelve signs; margin, the signs of the Zodiac)." Bullinger

Psalms 19:1 The heavens declare the glory of God; And the firmament sheweth his handywork.
2 Day unto day uttereth speech, And night unto night sheweth knowledge.

Bullinger wrote:

12 “THE STARS ALSO.”

In the first mention of the heavenly bodies, the purpose of the Creator is clearly stated. Gen. 1:14–19 reveals the fact that they were created, not only “to divide the day from the night, and to give light upon the earth”; but, they were set “for SIGNS, and for SEASONS, and for days and years”.
The figure Polysyndeton (see Ap. 6) emphasises these four purposes, and bids us single them out and consider them separately and independently.
They are “for SIGNS”.
Heb. ’ōth, from ’āthah, to come. Signs, therefore, of something or some One to come. Those who understand them are enlightened by them. Those who do not may well be “dismayed” (Jer. 10:2).
The stars are numbered and named. There are twelve signs of the Zodiac, called “the stars” in Gen. 37:9 (eleven of which bowed down to Joseph’s, the twelfth). The word Zodiac means the degrees or steps, which mark the stages of the sun’s path through the heavens, corresponding with the twelve months.
The stars were all named by God (Ps. 147:4). Most of these names have been lost; but over 100 are preserved through the Arabic and Hebrew, and are used by astronomers to-day, though their meaning is unknown to them. Many of them are used in Scripture as being well known, though the translations are somewhat speculative: e.g. Job 9:9. Heb. ‛āsh (Arcturus, R.V. the Bear), kesīl (A.V. Orion), kīmāh (Pleiades). Job 38:31, 32, mazzārōth (margin, and R.V., the twelve signs; margin, the signs of the Zodiac). Cp. 2 Kings 23:5, ‛āsh (Arcturus with her sons, R.V. the Bear with her train, both versions being incorrect as to the names). See also Isa. 13:10. Amos 5:8.
These names and the twelve “signs” go back to the foundation of the world. Jewish tradition, preserved by Josephus, assures us that this Bible astronomy was invented by Adam, Seth, and Enoch.
We see evidence of it as early as Gen. 11:4, where we read of the Tower of Babel having “his top with the heavens”. There is nothing about the wrongly supplied italics “may reach unto”. The words, doubtless, refer to the signs of the Zodiac, pictured at the top of the Tower, like the Zodiacs in the Temples of Denderah, and Esnéh in Egypt.
The Babylonian “Creation Tablets” refer to them, though their primitive meaning had been either corrupted or lost. It is the same with the Greek mythology, which is a corruption of primitive truth which had been lost and perverted.
We have to remember that our written Scriptures began with Moses, say in 1490 B.C.: and thus, for more than 2,500 years, the revelation of the hope which God gave in Gen. 3:15 was preserved in the naming of the stars and their grouping in Signs and Constellations.

Ethelbert W. Bullinger, The Companion Bible: Being the Authorized Version of 1611 with the Structures and Notes, Critical, Explanatory and Suggestive and with 198 Appendixes, vol. 2 (Bellingham, WA: Faithlife, 2018), 15.


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Re: Clarence Larkin

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macca wrote:
Fri Mar 18, 2022 8:20 am
Fantasy. Dangerous noddelings of an over imaginative mind.
Just like the gospel in the stars and every other gnostic creation that seeks to explain the plain text of God's Word.


What are the Christians of America doing to stop the destruction that is happening to your once great country?
Your country is lost don't you see that?
Why do you call it a gnostic creation?


Lord have mercy

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