Scorpio
The
Destruction of the Seed of the Serpent – “More
to be Desired than Gold, Sweeter also than Honey and the Honeycomb”
Review:
The repeating pattern of “He who is,
He who was and He who is to come” in the Eternal Covenant is the law of recurrence. The great “I AM” is Eternal. The great “I AM” is He who is, He who was and
He who is to come. “I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending saith the Lord,
which is, and which was and which is to come, the Almighty” (Revelation
1:8).
In the signs:
Libra pictures eternity. Libra − He who is, is the
Transaction of Propitiation.
Virgo − He
who was, is the Seed of the woman, the Son given.
Leo − He who is to come, is the King.
(Repeat
of the pattern - He who is, He who was, and He who is to come)
Cancer − He
who is, is the One who holds or
shelters and Libra, the Transaction of Propitiation.
Gemini − He
who was, is the betrothed Beloved and Virgo, the Seed of the woman, the Son given.
Taurus − He who is to come, is the coming Ruler, the Servant of Jehovah and Leo, the
King.
(Repeat of the pattern – He who is, He who
was, and He who is to come)
Aries – He who is, is the gentle merciful Lamb; Cancer, the One who holds
or shelters; and Libra, the Transaction of Propitiation.
Pisces – He who was, is the bridle, the reins of Love; Gemini,
the betrothed Beloved; and Virgo, the Seed of the woman, the Son given.
Aquarius – He who
is to come,
is the record of the pouring out, the exalted Water-Man; Taurus, the coming Ruler,
the Servant of Jehovah; and Leo, the King.
(Repeat of the pattern – He who is, He who
was, and He who is to come)
Capricorn – He
who is, is the Atonement; Aries, the gentle merciful Lamb; Cancer,
the One who holds or shelters and Libra, the Transaction of
Propitiation.
Sagittarius – He who
was, is the gracious delighted-in Conqueror; Pisces, the bridle, the reins of Love; Gemini, the betrothed
Beloved; and Virgo, the Seed of
the woman, the Son given.
Scorpio – He who is to come,
is the Destroyer of the seed of the serpent; Aquarius, the record of the pouring out, the exalted Water-Man; Taurus,
the coming Ruler, the Servant of Jehovah; and Leo, the King.
Review of Sagittarius
Sagittarius is known as the “Archer,” the risen Lord Jesus, the “Delighted-In
Conqueror,” the “Crowned King” (“Cepheus” in Pisces), who is the
victorious one, the power of God unto salvation, “The Gracious,” who must
set Himself for battle.
He is the authority. He has the preeminence. Nothing thwarts God’s plan and purposes; He
is never taken by surprise! By outward
appearances, all is well within the kingdom; for a thousand years, crime,
violence and war have not existed.
Nevertheless,
division exists. In
spite of the rule of Love, in spite of the teaching of the truth in the signs
of the luminaries and in spite of the celebration of the festivals of Jehovah
in the spring and fall, the enmity of man’s mind, the lawlessness of the
imagination of the heart, still exists.
The imagination
of the heart of man is God’s greatest enemy.
The enmity of the imagination
of the pride of self-will cannot be tamed or conquered; it must be put to
death. At the end of
the kingdom age (the thousand-year reign), the gathering for the judgment of
the second death will take place.
Matthew
13:41-42 says, “The Son of man shall send
forth his angels, and they shall gather out of His kingdom all things that
offend, and them which do iniquity; and shall cast them into a furnace of
fire: there shall be wailing and
gnashing of teeth.”
Following
the path of the sun from eternity (Libra) to eternity, one understands
that Sagittarius
is the gathering of the enemies for the final judgment. These people are pictured in the sign Scorpio
as a scorpion. These rebels are the collective seed of the
serpent. These in
the kingdom are like Cain of old, who knew to “do well” (Genesis 4:7), that is
to receive the Life Eternal offered in the Son of the covenant. These in the kingdom burn in their anger and
refuse the powerful authority of Love, the life offered in the covenant Son.
They
refuse to be loved and are
gathered for the final judgment, the second death, where for eternity, they
will burn in their anger – their hearts hardened like brimstone, weeping and
wailing and gnashing their teeth in anger toward God remembering their refusal
of the gift of life offered and the just recompense of God in their rejection.
Scorpio
The
sign Scorpio
is the exclamation mark to Sagittarius; Scorpio is the epilogue
detailing the fate of the rebels of the King and His sons.
In November,
the sun is in the direction of Scorpio. The four evening luminaries in the heavens are
Gemini,
He who was, the betrothed
Beloved; Taurus, He who is to
come, the Servant of Jehovah; Aries, He who is, the gentle merciful Lamb and Pisces, He who was, is the bridle, the reins of
Love.
From
God’s position as designer of the covenant, Scorpio is the twelfth
sign from Libra. Twelve is the
last of the perfect numbers and signifies the perfection of government or
governmental perfection. In the
scripture, twelve and its multiples deal with “rule.”
He who
is, who was and who is to come is the Eternal God [His Covenant]
seen in the twelve signs that govern or rule the annual prophetic message in the
circle of the heavens giving light upon the earth.
The star chart drawing of Scorpio is a huge scorpion that has crablike claws in the front and a curved tail
with a poisonous sting.
There
are many species of scorpions, but one of the most dangerous is the fat tail scorpion. In many cultures, this scorpion is referred
to as the man-killer. They are small,
about 4 inches full-grown. The tail is
very fat and it has very strong venom. They
tend to avoid humid locations preferring the dry areas that get very warm; they
avoid the sunlight, because they are sensitive to it; and they become more
aggressive in captivity.
They
are nocturnal; because of their powerful venom, they can immediately consume
their prey. The enzymes in their venom turn
the internal part of their prey into a liquid substance. Scorpions are not able to consume anything
solid. The reproduction of the scorpion
is very complex. If the female of the
species is unhappy with the efforts of the male, she may make him leave; if he
refuses, she will eat him.
An
average of 40 to 90 scorpions is born at one time. They climb up the mother’s legs and cling to
her back where they stay until they go through the first molting period, a few
weeks. If they do not leave when she
wants them to leave, she may consume them.
More human deaths have been reported because of this scorpion than any other
in the world.
Names
of the stellar sign Scorpio
“The Conflict or War”
“The Attack of the
Enemy”
“Wounding Him Who Cometh”
The
brightest star in the upper torso, the heart of the scorpion, is red and
means “The Wounding.” The star
in the tail means “The Perverse.”
Star
names identified with the stellar sign Scorpio
“The Heart of the
Scorpion”
“The Wounding”
“The Perverse”
The
message in the figure of the scorpion as the seed of the enmity parallels God’s
message about the heart of man. The
heart of man rejects any type of personal responsibility. The heart is deceitful and desperately wicked,
perverse in its desire to serve self (Jeremiah 17:9).
Although
the knowledge of the Lord covers the earth like the waters cover the sea, some
in the kingdom will not buy the truth of the Love of God in Christ. They will not give up the enmity of the mind
and be reconciled to God to be born sons of God. The powerful venom of the lawlessness of the
imagination of the heart consumes them, thus they become their own prey. Avoiding the “Sonlight,” because they are
sensitive to the truth and unwilling to consume anything solid, they feed on a
“liquid substance” of self-will.
Nocturnal,
they love their darkness and because they have been restrained in their freedom
to act out the lawlessness of the heart, they become more aggressive in
captivity – the kingdom of peace and righteousness that is ruled in love.
Scorpio
pictures the growing hostility of humanity to the truth taught during the
thousand-year reign while the dragon is shut up in prison; “that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years
should be fulfilled: after that he must be loosed a little season”
(Revelation 20:3).
The
heart of man rejects any type of personal responsibility. During the thousand-year reign, man is faced with the deceitfulness of his own heart because the
serpent, the enmity of man’s thinking is “locked away” figuratively speaking; the
pride of self-will is restrained and no outward manifestation is permitted.
Man
can blame no one for his enmity against the truth of God. He can blame no one for his lawlessness. The heart is deceitful and desperately
wicked, perverse in its desire to serve self (Jeremiah 17:9).
In
Sagittarius,
God is the Sovereign and purposefully designs all that he does. The dragon cannot be loosed from the pit
without the express approval of God and he must
be loosed because this “little season” serves the purpose of God. The multitude of the nations is the “seed” of
the serpent. The figure of the serpent
is the symbol of sin. The stellar sign Scorpio
is the pictorial of a collective body at enmity with God − the seed of the
serpent.
“Draco,” (third decan in Sagittarius)
released from his prison, will go out to deceive the nations, the “collective” enmity
of the pride of self-will. The
“collective” enmity – the seed of the serpent comes from “the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog” (Revelation 20:8).
Revelation
20:7 and 8 reads, “And when the thousand
years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, and shall go out
to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and
Magog, to gather them together to battle:
the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.”
In
the Garden of Eden God taught Adam and Eve the truth; God provided Adam and Eve
with an alternate choice, the two trees, in order to expose the enmity of the
mind (Genesis 2:16,17). Their choice proved
the lawlessness of the heart (represented by the symbol of the serpent in the
luminaires). Likewise, at the end of the
thousand-year reign, Satan is loosed from his prison and permitted to deceive for
a “little season” (Revelation 20:3).
Of
necessity, God provides man with an alternate thinking thereby exposing the
enmity of the mind in its perverse desire to serve self. Thus, God is just in His pronouncement of
judgment on the wicked, because He gives man freedom of choice.
“And when the
thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison and shall
go out to deceive the nations… And went up on the breadth of the earth, and
compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down from God out of heaven and
devoured them.” (Revelation 20:8-9).
The
pictorial of the fire from heaven in Sagittarius is in the second decan “Ara,”
“the altar” or funeral pyre.
When
provided with an alternate choice of thinking, the seed of the serpent remains
at enmity in its mind and makes war against “the camp of the saints about and
the beloved city” (Revelation 20:9) with poison in its tail. The perverse thinking of this collective body is
poison. Thinking to take hold of the
camp of the saints and the beloved city as its own possession, the collective
body of the seed of the serpent, represented by the scorpion, will prove the
depravity of the lawlessness of the heart and necessity of the fire of God to come
from heaven and devour them.
The
saints are the 12 tribes of Israel, who camp around the city as they did the
tabernacle in the Old Testament. The
beloved city is the dwelling place of God.
The
first and second decan in Scorpio are intertwined and present
one figure. The second decan, “Ophiuchus”
holds the first decan, a serpent called “Serpens,” in his hands. The second and third decan of Scorpio
are separate figures that represent one person, the bridegroom, strong man
(Psalm 19), the LORD Jesus Christ.
The
first decan is “Serpens,” The second decan is “Ophiuchus,” “The Serpent Held.”
The third decan is “Hercules.”
Other
Names of the first decan “Serpens”
“The Serpent”
Star
names identified with “Serpens”
“Encompassing”
“The Accursed”
“The Serpent Enfolding”
Second
Decan in Scorpio
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Third
Decan in Scorpio
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“Ophiuchus”
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“Hercules”
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Other names of the
second decan
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Other Names of the
third decan
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“The Holder of the Serpent”
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“The One Who Cometh”
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“The Strong One”
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Star Names in “Ophiuchus”
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Star Names in “Hercules”
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“The Head of Him Who Holds”
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“The Kneeler”
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“The Head of the Desired”
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“The Head of Him Who Bruises”
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“Bruised”
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“The Head of the Desired”
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“Treading Underfoot”
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“The Wounding”
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“The Wounding and Contending”
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“The Sin Offering”
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“Punishing”
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The
brightest star in “Serpens” is “Encompassing” and is located in the
neck. Other star names are “The
Accursed” and “The Serpent Enfolding.” They confirm the promise of Genesis
3:15. The figure of the serpent is the
symbol of “the sin” – the lawlessness of the heart. As in other pictorials in the luminaries, the
brightest star is the dominant star and figuratively speaking it is the star of
“strength.”
What
is all “Encompassing” in the heart of man is the subtle strength of
the enmity of his own thinking making him “stiff-necked.” Jehovah often uses the term stiff-necked to
describe those who are obstinately proud and arrogant, determined and unwilling
to change their minds.
In the
drawing of the first decan “Serpens,” the serpent is attempting
to swallow the crown above its head, the third decan, “Corona” of Libra.
The meaning of the Hebrew name for “Corona”
is “Royal Crown” and the brightest star in this decan means “the
Shining.” The figure of the
crown is the symbol of the King’s city, Jerusalem.
However,
the serpent
is held fast in the hands of “Ophiuchus.” The brightest star in His
head has two star names “The Head of Him Who Holds” and “The
Head of the Desired One.”
As
Moses the servant of God fastened the brass serpent on a pole in the wilderness
(Numbers 21) as a sign of the coming judgment and defeat of the serpent, so the
“greater than Moses,” “Ophiuchus,” holds the serpent in
His hands as a sign of victory to the sons of God; the enmity of the
deceitfulness of man’s heart is judged.
In
the drawing, “Ophiuchus” is a “strong man” with superior power able to hold the serpent in His hands (Psalm 19:5). He is no ordinary man. “Ophiuchus,” “The Head of the
Desired,” “The Serpent Held,” is Deity
clothed in the likeness of man, God in a body of flesh. “Ophiuchus” speaks
of the power of Deity.
The
left foot of “Ophiuchus,” the power of Deity, holds fast the heart of
the scorpion, which pictures the restraining of the enmity of thinking against
God for a thousand years; no outward lawlessness has been permitted.
In Scorpio,
“Hercules” the strong man, releases the restraint and raises His right
foot to His own “Bruising,” “Treading Underfoot” “The Attack of the Enemy,” “Wounding”
Himself because of the “Contending” of the seed of the
serpent, “The Perverse,” in their first and final act of lawlessness.
“Hercules,” the head over his
household, the first-born Son of God is the bridegroom king, the strong man who
came out of his chamber to run a race.
His going forth is from the end of the heaven, and His circuit to the
ends of it (Psalm 19:5, 6).
The “strong
man” is the distinguished “Gracious Delighted-in Conqueror”
revealed in Sagittarius. He is the
one who has power over the serpent, “Serpens,” the scorpion, Scorpio
and the dragon, “Draco” though wounded in His conflict with them.
Down on
one knee, “Hercules” is clothed in the skin of a lion, the covering of royalty
identifying him as Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham (Matthew
1:1). His left foot is set directly on
the head of “Draco,” the great dragon, the third decan in Sagittarius.
In his left hand, “Hercules”
has a great club (righteousness); in his right hand, he has a fierce
three-headed serpentine monster held fast.
The
right and left in the figures are symbolic. The “left” side stands for the humanity of the
Son of the covenant, the “right” stands for the power of His glory as God.
The brightest star in the head of “Hercules” also has two
star names “The Head of Him Who Bruises” and “The Head of the Desired.”
“The Head of the Desired” also is a
star name in “Ophiuchus.” This confirms
that “Ophiuchus”
and “Hercules”
represent the same person, Jesus of Nazareth, “The Desired One.”
In one
swift move “The Branch Kneeling,” “The Sin Offering,” will raise his right heel and “Tread
Underfoot,” “Punish” all the enemies, represented by the three-headed
monster that has thinking that is at enmity with God. “Draco,” the serpent, the enmity and
its seed represented by Scorpio will be destroyed.
Here
at last, in the final pictorial of the “figures of the true” is the bruising
recorded in Genesis 3:15. It was done in
eternity. In
eternity the bruising is done; at the cross it is finished; in Scorpio
it is done!
“And the devil that deceived them was cast
into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and false prophet are and
shall be tormented day and night forever and ever”
(Revelation 20:10). Never again shall he
be. Amen!
The two
primary scripture passages about Lucifer are in Isaiah and Ezekiel.
The boasting
of the five “I will’s” of Lucifer to be like the Most High reveal the dragon-like
enmity of his heart (Isaiah 14:13, 14). Boast
as he might, however, he is a creation of God, not the Creator God.
The prophetic
promise of God, “Yet thou shalt be
brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit” (Isaiah 14:15) takes place
at the beginning of the thousand-year reign.
Although
not revealed in the luminaires until the decan “Draco,” Lucifer is cast
into the pit at the beginning of the establishment of God’s kingdom on earth (Revelation
20 - Leo).
The stellar sign Taurus confirms that all
enemies are restrained (Lesson 19 −Taurus).
Ezekiel
28:16-19 reads:
“By the multitude of thy merchandise they
have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned…therefore
will I cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub,
from the midst of the stones of fire.”
“Thine heart was lifted up because of your
beauty; thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of the brightness (for the
sake of your splendor): I will cast thee
to the ground, I will lay thee before the kings, that they may behold thee.”
“Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the
multitude of thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffic; therefore will I
bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon
the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee.”
“All they that know thee among the people
shall be astonished at thee; thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt thou be
any more”
The
long-ago prophecy of Ezekiel 28 reveals the destruction of the covering cherub
Lucifer. The sign of Scorpio
pictures the fulfillment of this prophecy.
The reading of the Eternal Covenant in the stars comes to an
end, but not so the Eternal Covenant; it is Eternal. The King shall reign
forever and ever. God’s goal is
accomplished. “The
Desired One,” who is more to be desired than gold, sweeter also than honey
and the honeycomb, has His kingdom of sons, priests of God who
live forever. Amen!
Glossary for Scorpio
Names of the Stellar Sign of Scorpio
“The
Conflict or War”
“The
Attack of the Enemy”
“Wounding
Him Who Cometh”
Star Names in the Stellar Sign of Scorpio
“The
Heart of the Scorpion”
“The
Wounding”
“The
Perverse”
Names of Decans in Scorpio
Other
Names of the first decan “Serpens”
“The Serpent”
Star
names identified with “Serpens”
“Encompassing”
“The Accursed”
“The Serpent Enfolding”
Second
Decan in Scorpio
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Third
Decan in Scorpio
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“Ophiuchus”
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“Hercules”
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Other names of the
second decan
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Other Names of the
third decan
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“The Holder of the Serpent”
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“The One Who Cometh”
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“The Strong One”
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Star Names in “Ophiuchus”
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Star Names in “Hercules”
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“The Head of Him Who Holds”
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“The Kneeler”
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“The Head of the Desired”
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“The Head of Him Who Bruises”
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“Bruised”
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“The Head of the Desired”
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“Treading Underfoot”
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“The Wounding”
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“The Wounding and Contending”
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“The Sin Offering”
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“Punishing”
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