Keep your eyes on the stars

(new article tomorrow)

"From celestial navigation to foretelling our destinies, we've long looked to the stars for guidance. Astrology itself dates back to the 2nd millennium BC – with Babylonian astrology being the first organized system – and until the 17th century, astrology was considered a scholarly tradition . . .  

"While it's difficult to know exactly how many of us actually believe in astrology, evidence shows that over 90% of adults know their zodiac sign, and ultimately, as we try to counterbalance the outside world's uncertainty with a greater understanding of our own inner world, astrology seems like as healthy a place as any to begin to place our awareness and reflect on who we are and what we need."--Pan MacMillan website

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The Lord asks Job in Job 38: [12] Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days; and caused the dayspring to know his place;

[13] That it might take hold of the ends of the earth, that the wicked might be shaken out of it?

"God's telling Job, 'I've got the playing field already set up to do it.' That's the genius of God," explains Richard Jordan.

"Notice, He's fixed the orbit of the sun and He's fixed things in the planetary heavens in such a way that He can use them to shake the earth and shake the wicked out of it. That's the end; that's the Second Advent.

Isaiah 24: [19] The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly.

[20] The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.

Job 38: [16] Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea? or hast thou walked in the search of the depth?

[17] Have the gates of death been opened unto thee? or hast thou seen the doors of the shadow of death?
[18] Hast thou perceived the breadth of the earth? declare if thou knowest it all.

"He's got a place where He's going to put death and lock it up. He's got doors for the shadow of death. In other words, He's already got a plan and a place to put the usurper. He made hell for the devil and his angels so He's got this stuff prearranged.

[19] Where is the way where light dwelleth? and as for darkness, where is the place thereof,
[20] That thou shouldest take it to the bound thereof, and that thou shouldest know the paths to the house thereof?

"You read that and you say, 'I didn't think light had a place to live?' There's a path, a road, where light dwells. Darkness has a place but light never has a place because it's always moving.

"There's stuff in Job that scientifically accurate that you don't know about until the 20th Century because people didn't even know what light was until the late 1800s.

"It takes eight minutes for a light ray to get from the sun 93 million miles away, traveling at 186,000 miles per second. It takes eight minutes for it to get here. That's moving. When it gets here and hits you, it bounces off. It doesn't reside in you. That's why we can see color. But there's a place He's going to put darkness. 

"God, when He restored the universe, He laid the battle plan already. He's got the battlefield already done. People go to Civil War battlefields. God said, 'I'm showing you the place ahead of time where it's going to be fought and I've got everything pre-positioned, ready to go. And I did that back in Genesis 1 in those six days. I've had this planned all along.'

"So Amos says, 'You know what you need to do? You need to understand when you meet God, you're meeting the one who's going to fix everything, clean your clock to a fair-thee-well, and He's been planning that judgment day ever since the beginning. Now, you think you're going to turn Him away?'

"See, Israel needed to understand the seriousness of what they had gotten themselves into. They joined the ranks of the people for whom God set the whole thing up to destroy.

Amos 5:8: [8] Seek him that maketh the seven stars and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night: that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The LORD is his name:

"So over here in Job, in connection with the way God structured the heavens and the angelic world . . .  

Job 38: [31] Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?

[32] Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons?
[33] Knowest thou the ordinances of heaven? canst thou set the dominion thereof in the earth?

"Notice these constellations in the heaven have DOMINION in the earth. They have an influence on the earth.

Amos 5:26: [26] But ye have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch and Chiun your images, the star of your god, which ye made to yourselves.

"Notice they're involved in the worship of heavenly bodies. Part of Baal worship was worshipping the demonic host in the heavens.

Jeremiah 10: [1] Hear ye the word which the LORD speaketh unto you, O house of Israel:

[2] Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.

"The heathen are trying to read the signs; they're worshipping the things in the heavens. The SIGNS of heaven.

Isaiah 47: [1] Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon, sit on the ground: there is no throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called tender and delicate.

"This is a description of God's judgment on Babylon. Notice He calls her the 'virgin daughter of Babylon.' We read the passage about the virgin daughter of Israel. Babylon's virgin is counterfeiting; she's going to take Israel's place.

Verses 5-6: [5] Sit thou silent, and get thee into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called, The lady of kingdoms.

[6] I was wroth with my people, I have polluted mine inheritance, and given them into thine hand: thou didst shew them no mercy; upon the ancient hast thou very heavily laid thy yoke.

"She's called the queen of heaven and the queen of heaven's called Our Lady. 

Verses 7-8: [7] And thou saidst, I shall be a lady for ever: so that thou didst not lay these things to thy heart, neither didst remember the latter end of it.

[8] Therefore hear now this, thou that art given to pleasures, that dwellest carelessly, that sayest in thine heart, I am, and none else beside me; I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children:

"He says, 'No, you won't. I'm going to take the kids away from you. I'm going to destroy you.'

[10] For thou hast trusted in thy wickedness: thou hast said, None seeth me. Thy wisdom and thy knowledge, it hath perverted thee; and thou hast said in thine heart, I am, and none else beside me.
[11] Therefore shall evil come upon thee; thou shalt not know from whence it riseth: and mischief shall fall upon thee; thou shalt not be able to put it off: and desolation shall come upon thee suddenly, which thou shalt not know.
[12] Stand now with thine enchantments, and with the multitude of thy sorceries, wherein thou hast laboured from thy youth; if so be thou shalt be able to profit, if so be thou mayest prevail.
[13] Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels. Let now the astrologers, the stargazers, the monthly prognosticators, stand up, and save thee from these things that shall come upon thee.

"You see all this religious stuff? Religious chants, enchantments, curses, all the sorceries. This is all the Baal worship and Israel is part of this; they've joined in. Babylon started with Nimrod in Genesis 10 and Babylon is the source, historically, of this stuff in the earth. From the earliest days of the kingdom of Babylon this kind of stuff is what it's been about."