Signs of the Kodiak

uttereth speech sheweth knowledgeThere is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world (Psa 19:1-4) The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork. Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge. There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard. Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun,

seed And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaventell the stars, if thou be able to number them So shall thy seed be (Gen 15:1-6) After these things the word of the LORD came unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward. And Abram said, Lord GOD, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless, and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus? And Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast given no seed: and, lo, one born in my house is mine heir. And, behold, the word of the LORD came unto him, saying, This shall not be thine heir; but he that shall come forth out of thine own bowels shall be thine heir. And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be. And he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him for righteousness.

let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years he made the stars also (Gen 1:14-16) 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: And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so. And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.

The specific twelve constellations we recognize today as the zodiac is referred to as the Mazzaroth in Hebrew. We find this word used in Job 38:32, which means the word was in use extraordinarily early, as Job is the earliest completed book of the Bible.

In 1603, Bayer started the process of standardization by designating stars in the various constellations by letters of the Greek alphabet instead of by names. When he ran out of Greek letters, he started using Roman letters. So the brightest star in a constellation would be ‘alpha,’ and the next brightest ‘beta,’ and so on

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The famous sphinx, the giant lion with a woman’s head, points exactly due east. It is so exact it cannot be an accident. The name ‘sphinx’ itself comes from the Greek ‘sphiggo,’ meaning ‘bind closely together. On tomb ceilings in Karnak the zodiac is depicted. This is also true at Dendera on the tomb ceilings there. In both places are pictures of the sphinx, placed at the end of the constellation Virgo and the beginning of Leo, with the head looking to Virgo and the tail in Leo.

The constellation “Virgo,” meaning “virgin” is referred to as "Bethulah" in Hebrew, "Parthenos" in Greek, "Kanya" in Hindi – all of which mean “virgin.” This indicates a prior knowledge of the names of the stars and constellations prior to the language confusion at Babel. This knowledge may well have come down from Noah and even from Adam.

 The alpha star is listed above as Spica (its Roman name). Hebrew name: Zerah. Meaning: ‘seed in Hebrew,’ ‘seed cluster’ in Latin.  The Hebrew word ‘Zerah’ (the alpha star) is the word used to describe Messiah to Adam and Eve in Genesis 3:15 and to Abraham in Genesis 15:5. NOTESNOTES

 The beta star (Beta Virginis, β ) is to the far right.  Hebrew name: Zavijahveh which is a form of Tsebijahweh or Tsebiyahweh. Tsebi means “beautiful” or “desirable” and JHWH or YHWH is the tetragrammaton, the name of God to the Israelites. Therefore this star name means the “beautiful LORD.” NOTESNOTES

 The gamma star is in the middle of the bottom of the constellation.  The star Gamma has the name Porrima which was the Roman goddess of childbirth. It seems that this name has been substituted for an earlier name, and, indeed, some old star maps show this star as being called Al Tzemech instead of it being an alternative name. In Hebrew, the word Tzemech means “Branch”  In Chinese, this star was called Tsze Tseang, meaning “The Second General”, which may perhaps symbolize Messiah as the Second Person in the Trinity of the Godhead. NOTESNOTES

 Another named star in Virgo is the Epsilon star the ‘topmost’ star in the figure above. Commonly called Vindemiatrix, it can be shown that its original name was called Al Muredin or Al Muridin, which in Arabic means “The One Sent Forth” or “The Sent one” NOTESNOTES

 Thus, the part of the story indicated by the constellation Virgo is that Messiah, the Beautiful Branch of the LORD, the Second Person, the Sent One, was to come as the Seed of the Virgin from the nation of Israel. That is the beginning of the Gospel story. NOTESNOTES

altar  The original name of this constellation in the Akkadian language was Tul-Ku, meaning a sacred mound, or an altar  In Hebrew the constellation is Moznayim or “Balance” as in Isaiah 40:12.  The use of the prefix “Zuben” in some of the star names therefore comes from the ancient Akkadian language. (Meaning price) NOTESNOTES

balance (Isa 40:12) Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?

the balance/purchase/price is deficient  For this reason, the Alpha star (the furthest one to the right on the blue lines in the diagram above), or Zuben el Genubi (or Ganabi) means “the balance/purchase/price is deficient.” It is also the root from which the Hebrew word “stolen” is derived. NOTESNOTES

the price which covers  The Beta star (the uppermost star) is Zuben el Chamali (or Shemali), meaning “the price which covers”, a word whose root comes into Hebrew as meaning “raiment” or “cloth.”  The Hebrew name for this star was Kaphar which means “to cover” or “the atonement.  The Hebrew name for this star was Kaphar which means “to cover” or “the atonement.” NOTESNOTES

pitch pitch (Gen 6:14) Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.

atonement (Exo 30:10) And Aaron shall make an atonement upon the horns of it once in a year with the blood of the sin offering of atonements: once in the year shall he make atonement upon it throughout your generations: it is most holy unto the LORD.

the Price of the Conflictthe Price of the War  The star Gamma (connected to the Beta star, coming down to the left) is Zuben Akrabi, meaning “the Price of the Conflict” or “the Price of the War.”  This could be referring both to the battle with evil on the cross (the Southern Cross constellation is a Decan of Libra) as well as Armageddon itself. NOTESNOTES

 The price of the conflict, however, is also on the Cross, where the payment was made for our sins, and spiritual evil was thus conquered. So Libra, the sacred Altar and Balance, also shows that our lives fall short of God’s standard – the price is deficient – we are weighed in the balance and found wanting. But the Price that Covers is the atonement made by Messiah for all humanity, who paid the price by His conflict against evil and shed His blood to blot out our sins. NOTESNOTES

 The Scorpion is an insect that kills with its tail.  The Akkadians called Scorpio "Girtab," the "Seizer," or "Stinger," and "The Place Where One Bows Down."  Today Girtab is the name of one of the stars in the tail.  Another star in Scorpio is Shaula, which is the Arabic word for "raised tail." NOTESNOTES

(Luk 10:17) And the seventy returned again with joy, saying, Lord, even the devils are subject unto us through thy name. (Luk 10:18) And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven. serpents and scorpions (Luk 10:19) Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you.

scorpion (Rev 9:5) And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man.

sting (1Co 15:55) O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? (1Co 15:56) The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.

Lesath Perverse One  The Scorpion’s tail portion was called Lesath in Hebrew or Lesha in Chaldean which means “Perverse One”. AntaresAnti-Aries  The brightest star in the Scorpion is Antares a form of Anti-Aries meaning “against the Lamb”.  While it is true that this constellation is in the opposite part of the sky to Aries the Ram, the complete story is told by the surrounding constellations. NOTESNOTES

 The one who is “against the Lamb” is the “Perverse One”, the Antichrist who the Scriptures say will overturn the Altar in the newly constructed Temple in Jerusalem and cause all to worship him instead.  The constellation behind the tail of the scorpion is Ara the overturned altar. NOTESNOTES

 The rest of the star-story shows the mighty man (or strong man) Ophiuchus restraining Serpens the Serpent from reaching Corona the Crown, and at the same time bringing his heel down on Antares the one who is “Against the Lamb”.  The star in his heel is called Shuph or “Bruised” as in Gen. 3:15. NOTESNOTES

 The biblical story connected to this series becomes rather obvious in the star names and what we see happening. In Genesis 3, God told Satan that the seed of the woman would bruise, or crush, his head. The fact that the scorpion has a tail helps explain visually how Satan could, in return, bruise the heel of the strong man, Christ. NOTESNOTES