“The Heavenly
Revelation of the Son of the Eternal Covenant”
The Kingdom Come
Libra - Virgo - Leo - Cancer
The
Propitiation of the One in whom is the redemption was set forth in God’s
Eternal Covenant. This is declared in “The Heavenly Revelation” in the sign of Libra
(“the house of propitiation”), the beginning sign. The Covenant begins
with that which satisfied God (see Rom.3:22-25; 1 Jn.2:1-2; 4:9-10).
The first
decan in the sign of Libra is Crux (“the
cross”) - the exodus out of the creation of man in mortal flesh of human kind.
The Son of the Covenant will be obedient unto death, even the death of the cross
(Phil.2:5-8). The Son of the Covenant, in His obedience unto the death of the
cross, is that which satisfies God that sin has been put away once for all and
death has been overcome in the eternal life of resurrection. Each one born of
man in human flesh bearing the image of the earthy must take up his cross and
follow Jesus into His death, burial and resurrection. Jesus is man’s Substitute
and the only Way through death to again become alive - a new creation - a son
of God.
The second
decan in the sign of the house of propitiation is Victima
(“the Victim”) - the Son of the Eternal Covenant who offered Himself in
sacrifice to put away sin once for all and to overcome death with eternal life
(see Is.52:13-53:12; Heb.10:12-14; 1 Pet.2:22-24).
The last
decan in the sign of Libra is Corona (“the
crown”). The crowning glory of the redemption of Messiah’s people will be
Jerusalem in her salvation as a lamp that burns, with her righteousness going
forth as brightness. She shall be a crown of glory in the hand of Jehovah
and a royal diadem in the hand of her God (Is.62:1-3).
The number
two sign of the circuit of the Strong Man, the Son of the Eternal Covenant,
is Virgo (“the virgin”). Here is seen the promising of the coming
Strong Man (Ps.19:1-6). It is the same promise as prophesied in Genesis 3:15,
the promised Seed of the woman. The second sign is occupied with the person
of the Son of the Eternal Covenant.
The
woman Virgo is represented with seed-grain in her left hand held
down toward the earth. The seed-grain must fall into the ground and die to
produce much fruit. In John 12 Jesus, the Anointed Son of God, applied this
prophecy to Himself in His being lifted up (Jn.12:23-33). “Lifted up” in Jesus’
day was an euphemism for “crucifixion.” Jesus was sent down from heaven to die
that, in the Son begotten out from the dead body of the seed-grain, God might
have the seed of living flesh and blood of eternal life to bring forth after
His kind - deathless, immortal bodies of flesh and bone of eternal life.
In
her right hand, the hand of power, Virgo holds a branch. The
Hebrew word for “branch” is tsemech. It is used only four times in the
Old Testament and is used exclusively of Messiah (Is.4:2; Jer.23:5-6; Zech.3:8;
6:12).
Virgo
represents the nation of the people to whom Messiah will be sent (Mt.1:18-25;
Lk.1:67-79; Gal.4:4). Isaiah prophesied, “For unto us a child is born, unto us
a Son is given, and the government shall be upon His shoulder; and His name
shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, The Mighty God, The Everlasting Father,
the Prince of Peace. Of the increase of His government and peace there
shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon His Kingdom, to order
it, and to establish it with justice and with righteousness from henceforth
even forever. The zeal of the Jehovah of Hosts will perform this”
(Is.9:6-7).
In
the left hand of Virgo is seen the child born a son of David
(Mt.1:1; Lk.1:30-35). In the birthed child is the Son of Man, the Seed-Grain
for the body of the Son of God to be raised up from the dead seed coat. In the
begotten Son is Seed for a body of eternal life, a body of flesh and bone of
eternal life - an immortal, imperishable, forever living body. Eternal life for
the mortal body of flesh is a gift freely given to whosoever will believe and
freely receive the eternal life for the body, that one, having been born from
above, will live forever in the body raised up out from the dead.
The first
decan in the second sign of Virgo is Coma
(“the woman and child”). Here is the child born. This sign was later given to
King Ahaz at a time when his kingdom was being threatened. Ahaz was king of
Judah, David’s house, the royal house through which the Seed would come. The
sign Jehovah gave to Ahaz was the sign of the virgin birth declared in
“The Heavenly Revelation of the Son of the Eternal Covenant.” “Behold, the
virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call His name Immanuel, which,
being interpreted is God with us” (see Is.7:14; Mt.1:23).
The second
decan in the sign of Virgo is Centaurus (“the
despised sin offering”). The sin offering is figured in a man on a horse. A
“man riding a horse” is a symbol for “a conqueror, who has the victory over his
enemy and rides in to take the rule.” Behind him follow his captives.
The third
decan in the sign of Virgo is Bootes (“the
Coming One”). Here is the begotten Son - the Son given. “In that day shall the
Branch of Jehovah be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the earth shall
be excellent and splendid for those who are escaped of Israel” (Is.4:2).
The
coming King, the Branch held out in the sign Virgo,
is the child born of the virgin daughter of Abraham. In the figure of Centaurus,
the child has grown and waxed strong in spirit and is filled with wisdom
(Lk.2:40). He is ready to lay down His life in obedience to the death for which
He came - the death of the cross. Between the legs of the horse is the figure
of Crux (“the cross).”
From
the death of the cross will come the resurrection of the Branch, the
first Son of God begotten out from the dead (Rom.1:1b-4; Rev.1:5). The Victim
will become the Victor and will inherit Jerusalem, the capital city of the
Kingdom (Mic.4:1-8).
The
Mighty Conqueror has His long spear pointed at Victima (“the
Victim”). As already stated, the cross and the Victim are the first and second
decans in the sign of Libra, the house of propitiation.
The third decan in the sign Libra is Corona (“the
Victor’s crown”).
The
enemies to be overcome are enemies of God’s creation of man in bodies of human
flesh. One enemy is in the heart of man - the sin - the lawlessness of
man’s thinking himself to be his own person and not accountable to his Creator,
and man thinking that his body of human flesh is his, that he might do as he
pleases. As a man thinks in his heart, so is he and so he does
(Prov.23:7). The other enemy is death. The body of human flesh is dead. It is
absent of eternal life, which would change it to an immortal incorruptible body
(see 1 Cor.15:50-54). Eternal life must be freely received in the Gift of the
begotten Son of God.
Man
is helpless against either enemy. He has no power over his love of self and his
desire to serve himself. And he has no power of eternal life to change his
mortal body. He is dead in trespasses and sins (Eph.2:1-3), and the mortal body
will one day stop breathing and become lifeless. Man is subject to sin and
death.
God
had the way to take care of man’s enemies. In His Eternal Covenant God
purposed a Substitute to ransom man from the sin and to redeem the dead
body and raise up a new body out from the dead body, deathless and glorified
(Mt.20:28; Mk.10:45; 1 Tim.2:3-6). God would become the Redeemer-Deliverer of
His creation of man in human flesh.
The
Substitute would be given to the nation Israel. God promised Abraham that the
coming Redeemer, the Anointed Son of the Covenant, would be his seed
(Gen.15:1-6; Gal.3:16). So it was prophesied unto Israel by their prophet
Isaiah, “a child born and a Son given” (Is.9:6-7). The child birthed of a
virgin must die (see Jn.12:23-32). From the living flesh of humanity from the
virgin’s womb a body is prepared for the child, a mortal body of human flesh
(see Ps.22:10; 139:13-14; Is.49:5; Heb.10:5).
When
the child was grown, as we see in the Gospel records, He ministered the word of
God to His people and He did the works of His Father, to make His Father known.
In this way, the grown birthed Son showed Himself to be the Son of God, and
Himself to be God in the likeness of man - God clothed with a body of human
flesh.
His
hour for the cross came and the Son, Jesus, was obedient to the death which
would set whosoever believed into Him free from the law of sin and death. Jesus
took the sins of the whole world of mankind on His mortal body and offered
Himself as the sacrifice to put away the sin once for all (see 1
Pet.2:22-24).
In
God’s acceptance of the sacrifice offered, sin was burnt out in the consuming
fire of God’s holiness. The clean body of Jesus was buried. All was done
according to the Scriptures - proof positive that Jesus Christ is the Son of
God (Ps.22:16-18; Jn.19:16-42; 1 Cor.15:3-4).
The
proof was seen on the third day when God raised the body up out from the dead -
glorified - immortal - a body of flesh and bone of eternal life - the life of
spirit being - the life God is (see Lk.24:13-48; Ac.10:34-43).
In
the begotten Son God had the Propitiation to set forth to man (Rom.3:22-26; 1
Jn.2:2; 4:10). God is satisfied concerning sin having been burned out and put
away once for all, and death has been overcome in eternal life. In the begotten
Son of living flesh and bone, eternal flesh and bone of spirit being, God has
His Gift of righteousness and eternal life to set before man as the One Way to
be freed from the sin of lawlessness and to have a body raised up out from the
dead mortal body. The Son is freely offered to whosoever will believe God and
freely receive the Gift of the Son as his Substitute to be offered to God in
his stead that, united to Jesus in His death, burial and resurrection, he is
born a son of God to enter the Kingdom of the Son of God’s love.
Whosoever
hears the word of the Anointed Son of God’s Covenant and chooses to believe God
and unites himself with the Anointed Son in His death and burial and, having
been raised up together to walk in newness of life, has died to the sin
and become the righteousness of God through faith in Christ Jesus. He that has
died to the sin is freed from the sin. That one has been made
free from serving self. In his new freedom, that one is free to do the will of
His new Lord and Master, Jesus Christ.
What
“The Heavenly Revelation” declares is the glory of the Eternal God, who is
everything He needs to make a creation of man in His image. The Eternal, who is
omniscient, knows what He will need and why He will need it before He begins
building a Kingdom of sons of God. This glory we see in the first two signs in
the heavens. God is sufficient for making man in His image, after His likeness.
In
time, we see in Genesis, the first book of Scripture in the record of the
history of man, how the Covenant is worked out on earth as done in the Eternal
Covenant. “The Heavenly Revelation” begins with the making of the Covenant in
eternity past. Genesis shows us why there was first prepared a Propitiation to
be set forth to mankind before the beginning of the creation of man.
In
the very beginning in the garden, the sin came out of man’s heart into
the world, and death through the sin. There in the garden were man’s two
enemies exposed to him. The woman, seeing the fruit of the forbidden tree as
desired to make one wise, took and did eat and gave to her husband with her and
he did eat (Gen.3:6). The command of Jehovah Elohim to not eat of the
Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil was transgressed and the sentence of
death was passed (Gen.2:17; 3:17-19; Rom.5:12).
The
first man and woman repented their sin. They had been taught of the
Propitiation of the Son of the Covenant by Jehovah, who used “The
Heavenly Revelation” to teach the first pair the truth through the figures of
the person of the Covenant Son and of His work. Each one, Adam and Eve,
believed God and put their faith in the Covenant Son to become the
righteousness of God in Him and be freed from the law of sin and death. Each
one freed from the sin became a captive to their Victor over sin and
death.
In
“The Heavenly Revelation of the Covenant Son,” there are four figures to
be seen as symbols to represent real enemies of the Kingdom of
sons of God, the Kingdom of the Son of God’s love, the Kingdom one enters
through birth from above through faith in the righteousness of God to receive
the gift of eternal life for the mortal body to be raised up out from the dead.
Each
of the four enemies of the Kingdom is given a figure with a name as a symbol to
identify the enemy. There is a figure of a serpent called Hydra.
There is a figure of a sea monster called Cetus,
and one of a dragon called Draco. And in the last sign,
the twelfth sign, the figure of a scorpion called Scorpio.
Two
of the figures of the enemies seen in “The Heavenly Revelation” are real
creatures of flesh and blood created by God. These are “the serpent” and “the
scorpion.” The other two figures are mythological and have no real substance.
Theirs is only an imagined or virtual reality. “Dragons” are imagined
mythological creatures. Also there is no such thing as a “sea monster.” When
the prophet Isaiah spoke of a “monster in the sea,” he was speaking
figuratively of a “monster in the sea of humanity” (Is.27:1).
In
the first four signs of the Heavenly Covenant only the figure of the serpent
is seen. The serpent is introduced in Genesis 3 as the beguiler of the woman.
The strong desire [lust] for the forbidden fruit deceived the woman, and she
chose to have her will over the will of her Creator for her. That is sin - the
lawlessness of the heart.
The
woman was drawn away from God and enticed by the deceit of her own strong
desire to have for herself - what God had forbidden. The sin of the lawlessness
of her own heart was shown to be her enemy and exposed to her through her
transgression.
In
Genesis 3 the serpent, the sin of the lawlessness of the heart of man, was also
shown to be the enemy of the coming Seed of the woman, the birthed Son who
would be called Jesus (Gen.3:15). What
would keep man from believing the God who is? What would keep man from receiving
the Propitiation set before him? The sin of his own heart deceives him.
When
God made His Covenant in eternity past, He purposed man to have the dominion of
the earth. He blessed His creation of humanity, “and God said unto them, ‘Be
fruitful, and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and have dominion
over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over every living
thing that moves upon the earth’” (see Gen.1:26-28).
Putting
the dominion of the earth in the hands of His creation of mankind exposed the
imagination of the heart of man. The sin of lawlessness brought corruption and
violence which filled God’s earth. This brought the judgment of the Flood of
water to wash the earth clean (Gen.6:5-8:22). God began again. Again man abused
his power of dominion to build a city to make a name for himself on the plain
of Shinar (Gen.11:1-9). The heart of man
was again proved to be lawless.
God
then chose 70 descendants of Noah and gave them an inheritance on His earth,
that their tribes might grow into nations (Gen.10). The nations could build
their own kingdoms and kingdoms could go to war to conquer one another. Man was
left to his own way of self-serving and seeking to be like God. It is in man’s
heart. The heart of man must be proved to each one born of the flesh.
In
“The Heavenly Revelation,” continuing counterclockwise, the sign following Virgo
is Leo (“the lion”), the third sign. In the third decan
of Virgo, Bootes is seen as “He who comes.” In Leo the Lion King has come
to earth to rule and reign. Having put the dominion of the earth in the hands
of His creation of man had only brought corruption and violence.
In man’s
rejection of the eternal life offered in the Son of the Covenant, and in
his refusal to enter the Kingdom of God the One Way provided him,
man is his own enemy, destroying himself, and he is an enemy of God having a
Kingdom of sons of God. Man’s enmity is in his own thinking and in his refusal
to lay down his own thinking to be taught by the Spirit of God.
The understanding
of the figures of the Son of the Covenant and His work of salvation and the
redemption of His creation must be given by the Holy Spirit to the very spirit
of the being of the learner. So it has been from Adam and Eve, the first
prophets, down through all the holy men of old who spoke as they were inspired
by the Holy Spirit (2 Pet.1:19-21; see Lk.1:70). We of the Church Age have our
understanding through “The Revelation of Jesus Christ,” signified to the
apostle John by an angel sent from Jesus Christ (Rev.1:1).
The
Hebrew name of the sign Leo is Arieh, which
means “the lion.” There are six Hebrew words for “lion” and this one is used
for hunting down his prey. The brightest star marks the heart of the lion. Its
ancient name is Regulus, which means “treading underfoot.”
Here
is the Lion of the tribe of Judah of whom Isaiah prophesied. “Jehovah
shall go forth like a mighty man; He shall stir up jealousy like a man of war;
He shall cry, yea, roar; He shall prevail against His enemies”
(Is.42:13; see Jacob’s prophecy, Gen.49:8-9 and Balaam’s prophecy, Num.24:8-9;
Joel 3:16; Zeph.3:8). Some, at enmity with God in their thinking, to have their
will over the will of God, will be destroyed at the coming of the King (see
Rev.19:11-21).
The first
decan in the sign of Leo is Hydra (“the
serpent”), the enemy of man and God. In the figure of the serpent on the
drawing of the planisphere, Hydra is seen as the long serpentine
constellation with the tail alongside the sign of Libra and its
body reaching alongside the signs of Virgo and Leo,
to have its head alongside the sign of Cancer, where the
Kingdom of God encircles the whole earth to possess and hold nations under one
jurisdiction - the jurisdiction of the Lion of the tribe of Judah, who reigns
supreme.
As
the “serpent” figures the “enemy of the lawlessness of man’s heart to have his
will over the will of God,” the brightest star is in the heart of the
serpent. The issue of the enmity of the serpent is in the heart.
The enmity is in man’s thinking. The reasoning of thinking is in the head, but
the thinking is in the heart - the inner man. The thinking involves not only
the reasoning of facts in the mind, but the thinking involves the desires of
emotion and the exercise of the will to think to have and to do for oneself.
All done in the imagination of the heart.
In
the Kingdom forever secured in Christ Jesus, the serpent yet has its head. The
heart of man born in the flesh is ever the same - deceitful above all - and
sin-sick. This enmity will continue down through the Kingdom Age, but it will
be restrained, as we will see.
The second
decan in the sign of Leo is Crater (“the cup”).
In the figure we see the cup is attached to the serpent [the enemy]. Through
the Old Testament prophecies and the final prophecy of “The Revelation of Jesus
Christ” we understand that the Kingdom of God will be brought in through a
great trial sent to try the whole earth, called the Tribulation, the Great One,
by Jesus (Rev.3:10; see Mt.24:21-47). The Great Tribulation will be “Jacob’s
Time of Trouble” (Jer.30:7).
In
the Day of the power of Jesus Christ to destroy His enemies, the remnant of
Israel will receive Him as their Messiah and Deliverer from sin and death
through the righteousness of God and the eternal life for the mortal body as
the Propitiation set before them (Ps.110:3; Zech.12:10). In the Great
Tribulation to shake the whole earth, there will be a separation of the wicked
from the righteous. The wicked, who have built the great city of Babylon, have
made all nations to drink of the wine of her fornication. The same shall drink
of the wine of the wrath of God, poured out without mixture - the cup of His
indignation (see Rev.14:8-11; 15:5-16:21).
The third
decan in the sign of Leo is Corvus (“the
raven”). The Hebrew name for this decan is Oreb (“the raven”).
The brightest star, in the eye, has the Hebrew name Chiba,
which means “accursed.” In the figure the raven is tearing at the flesh of the
serpent. We also have the explanation of this decan in the fulfillment in “The
Revelation of Jesus Christ.” Here is the supper of the Great God prepared for
the birds of prey as shown in verses 17 and 18 of Revelation 19.
In
the end of the trial to try the whole earth, the armies of the earth will have
destroyed one another in the Valley of Jehoshophat [the Valley of the Judge]
(see Jer.25:29-33; Joel 3:11-14; Zeph.3:8). In the final campaign of Armageddon
there will be much flesh of the men who have been at enmity with God in the
mind (see Rev.16:13-16; Zech.12:11-12). There, figured in the serpent, are
those who, in the lawlessness of the heart, chose to go to war with the Lamb.
They will fill the valley with their carcasses to be picked clean by the birds
of prey and the wild beasts of the field (see also Ezek.39:1-5).
The fourth
sign is Cancer (“the crab”). Cancer is Latin,
with the meaning, “the holding or encircling.” Here in figure is seen the
Kingdom of God holding or encircling all nations around the earth. The whole
earth is under the jurisdiction of the Lion King (see Ps.24).
In
the sign of the Crab we have a figure of something enclosed and held
fast. There is no known Hebrew word for “the crab.” The Arabic name is Al
Sartan (“who holds” or “binds”) and may be from the Hebrew word
meaning, “to bind together.”
In
the former sign of Leo, we had the picture of the Lion
King of Judah having overcome the enmity of the Gentile nations to the nation
of Israel. Vainly the nations have raged. Yet Jehovah had set His King
upon His holy hill in Zion. Jerusalem, the city of God, is His (Ps.2:1-9).
The
King of Glory has ascended the hill of Jehovah to stand in the holy
place. He has received blessings from Jehovah, the God of His salvation
(Ps.24:5). This is the generation of those who seek Him (Jer.29:11-14).
“Who
is this King of Glory? Jehovah strong and mighty, Jehovah mighty
in battle. Jehovah of Hosts, He is the King of Glory” (Ps.24:8).
“The earth is Jehovah’s, and the fullness thereof; the world, and they
who dwell therein.” The King of Glory is “the One who founded it upon the seas;
and established it upon the floods” (vv1-2).
This
is our picture in the sign. The sign consists of 83 stars. In the center of
this constellation is a remarkably bright cluster of stars which can sometimes
be seen with the naked eye. Its ancient name has come down through time as Praesepe,
which means “a multitude,” “offspring.” The picture is filled out in the
three decans. What is today called Ursa Minor is the “lesser
flock,” Ursa Major is the “sheepfold and the sheep,” and the
final decan Argo, “the ship,” shows the pilgrims safely
arriving or having safely arrived home.
What
then is the meaning of this fourth sign of “The Heavenly Revelation of
the Son of the Eternal Covenant?
The
Lion King, the Stone, the Shepherd of Israel, has in His possession His own
nation of Israel through His victory over the enemies of the Gentile nations.
He is set upon the holy hill of Zion, the city of God is His, and He will hold
His people fast forever (see Jer.31:31-40; Ezek.43:7; Dan.7:13-14, 27). Never
again will He scatter them abroad upon the earth (Amos 9:11-15; Zeph.3:13-20).
The first
decan, Ursa Minor (“the lesser sheepfold”) is Zion, the holy
hill, with the city of Jerusalem, the city of God, which will be the capital
city of the whole earth in the Kingdom Age (Mic.4:1-7). The King of Glory has
entered in the gates and taken possession from the Gentile enemies, who had
been treading down the city of God (see Rev.11:2). The brightest star in the
constellation of the lesser sheepfold is named Al Ruccaba (“the
turned” or “ridden on”). Today this central star is the Polar Star,
which does not revolve in a circle as do the other stars. It is also known as
the Pole Star.
When
God stretched this Heavenly Revelation around the earth in the beginning on the
fourth day of creation, this important point of central location was in the decan
of Draco, “the Dragon,” in the sign of Sagittarius.
God first placed the Polar Star in one of the latter coils of the
Dragon and named it Thuban, (“the subtle”). There
it pictured the subtle influence the Dragon, that old serpent, called
the Devil and Satan, would have in the affairs of the world’s merchandising
down through the ages, until the final global society is built on the economy
of the world system through the Gentile world powers cooperating in the global
economy.
The Polar
Star, by its gradual recession, reached near the star Ruccaba,
then called “the Polar Star.” In this picture is prophesied that
Jerusalem will be the final center of the whole earth. All affairs of the new
Kingdom will be ruled through the City of God. This the City for which Abraham
looked, “whose Builder and Maker is God” (Heb.11:10-16; see Joel 3:17).
The second
decan, Ursa Major (“the fold and the flock”) is the greater
sheepfold. Stars in this great constellation have meanings such as “the flock,”
“purchased,” “the assembled,” “daughters of the assembled,” “the sheepfold.”
Israel
is the people of His pasture and the sheep of His hand (Ps.95:7). He is their
God. Psalm 100:3 says, “Know that Jehovah, He is God; it is
He who made us, and not we ourselves; we [Israel] are His people,
and the sheep of His pasture.” Israel is a nation built by God through the seed
of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
In
the decan Ursa Minor we have pictured God’s people, Abraham’s
seed as the stars of heaven, in possession of the land forever. Each tribe
settled on his lot (see Gen.22:15-18;
Ezek.47:13-48:35; Ps.105:1-45). Here is the nation promised to the forefathers,
Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. God established His Eternal Covenant in Abraham. He
made it to stand sure and steadfast. Then He confirmed it in Isaac and again in
Jacob. These received witness and through faith believed that promised them,
but they did not receive the fulfillment of that promise (Heb.11:39). These
three forefathers and their descendants, those witnessed to in Hebrews 11,
received the promises and were persuaded, embraced them, and confessed that
they were strangers and pilgrims upon earth in their day. Their desire was for
this city and this country of the Kingdom being built from heaven - the Kingdom
of sons of God. Each one died in the faith, knowing they would come into their
inheritance in The Resurrection of Life, when they would again stand upon the
earth in the land promised to them. They would no longer be strangers and
pilgrims, but heirs with their Redeemer, their God, the Anointed Son of the
Eternal Covenant.
The last
decan in the sign of Cancer is Argo (“the
ship”). The brightest star, near the keel, is called Canopus or Canobus,
which means, “the possession of Him who comes.” Other star names are Sephina
(“the multitude” or “abundance”), Tureis (“the possession”), Asmidiska
(“the released who travel”), Soheil (Arabic) (“the desired”), and
Subilon (“the Branch”).
Not
only will the King of Glory have His remnant of Jews, whom He carried on
eagle’s wings to a safe place He had prepared for her protection and His
provision during the Great Tribulation, Jacob’s Time of Trouble, He will have
His resurrected saints to receive their inheritance. But the King has His
people whom He scattered all around the world and they must be brought home to
the land of their inheritance. They are represented by the third decan
of the sign of Cancer, as the travelers. All will be
brought safely home (see Is.60; Jer.30:10-11; Mt.24:29-31; Mk.13:24-27;
Rev.12:6, 13-14).
In
the Kingdom Age, with the Lion King come to rule and reign over the whole
earth, all is under His jurisdiction. He has His head nation to rule all
nations (Deut.26:18-19; 28:1, 13).The remaining eight stellar signs are
seen to have to do with the earthly kingdom become of our God and His Christ,
as will be done in time.
In
“The Revelation of Jesus Christ” this brings us to the kingdom of this world
become of our God and His Christ (Rev.11:15). In the first four stellar
signs of “The Heavenly Revelation,” Libra, Virgo, Leo and Cancer,
with their decans, we have record of all these things having been foreseen and
planned for in God’s Eternal Covenant. The other eight signs, Gemini,
Taurus, Aries, Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn, Sagittarius and Scorpio,
fill in details concerning the Kingdom of Sons of God - the everlasting
Kingdom.
This
concludes this lesson.
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