Gemini
Betrothed Beloved – The Statutes of the LORD are Right
(Isaiah 52-54; Revelation 20:1-3, 10)
The
picture in Cancer was that the times of the Gentiles have been fulfilled. The Sovereign has come and gathered His people
Israel to himself; the goats and the sheep (the nations) are separated, and the
thousand-year reign has begun. This is a
new beginning; former things have passed away.
The next three signs, Gemini, Taurus and
Aries, are a trilogy within the twelve constellations. Each sign expresses a different aspect of the
kingdom reign, and together they give a complete picture. During the thousand-year kingdom reign, the
proving of the heart − the problem of the pride of the self-will occurs; the
pride of self-will is antagonistic to the will of God concerning the covenant
Son. Will man repent – one must be born
again to enter the kingdom of God (John 3:3).
At the heart of the issue is the issue of the heart − the pride of
self-will where the imagination of the thoughts and intents of the heart is
only evil continually (Genesis 6:5).
In the
new kingdom, all are separated unto God; it will be as it was in the Garden
Eden; only the Word of God will be taught. False teaching will not exist. Each man will be tested according to his own lawlessness. Will each man receive the life everlasting
offered?
God
tested Adam and as a creation, mankind proved to be lawless, all are gone aside
(to their own way), all are become filthy; none do good, no not one (Psalm
14:1-3). …There is none righteous, no
not one: there is none that understands;
there is none that seeks after God. They
are all gone out of the way (the way of life everlasting); they are together
become unprofitable… (Romans 3:9-12).
In the kingdom
age (the thousand-year reign), the testing of the lawlessness of mankind to go
his own way no longer applies; man has gone his own way. That test is part of the former things. The test will be will men repent from their own way – will man change his mind and turn to God?
Man
comes into the world with no understanding of the things of God. He will have a thousand years to learn. The battle is and will be for the mind − man’s
own pride of self-will, thinking he has a right to think independently - the
way he wants to – lawlessness.
The
prophets of God will be preaching and the Holy Spirit will be bearing witness
to the truth taught. One must be born
again. The test is individual. Will man obey the truth and receive the gift
of life everlasting offered in the covenant Son?
In time,
the prophetic events foretold in Gemini, Taurus and Aries
take place concurrently. In the
sign Gemini,
the coronation or the crowning of the betrothed monarchy of Israel takes place. Taurus portrays the coming Ruler as
the righteous Judge who rejoices the heart of His people as He rules His
kingdom in righteousness and justice. Aries
depicts the gentle, merciful King Priest who in His ministry as High Priest
teaches the ceremonial law and offerings showing that the commandment of the
LORD is pure.
Gemini “supposedly” refers
to the famous “twins” after whom the two bright stars are named (Castor and
Pollux). Bible students will remember
that in the Acts of the Apostles (Acts 28:11) the name of a ship that Paul
travelled on is Castor and Pollux.
The
meaning of Gemini, like the stellar signs Leo and Cancer,
is more obscure than the meaning of some of the other signs. This obscurity may be because the signs are
connected to the prophetic revelation of the nation of Israel.
In the
sign of Gemini, the time of rejoicing arrives showing the statutes of
the LORD are right; the coronation of the betrothed nation Israel to her beloved
Bridegroom takes place. The people of
God “marry” their Betrothed with the sons of Israel marrying (inheriting) their
land, signifying to the inhabitants of the earth that the “statutes of the LORD
are right” (Psalm 19:8); it is a time of great celebration.
The eternal
covenant involves two realms – an earthly and a heavenly. Two cites from two realms form one universal kingdom
of sons of God. The city in heaven is
the New Jerusalem – its inhabitants are the bride-wife of the Lamb. The city on earth is Jerusalem below – its
inhabitants are the remnant of the sons of Israel, the “woman forsaken” (Isaiah
54:5-6).
In the typology of the scripture, Jesus is a
bridegroom to His people Israel in a figurative sense because it pertains to
the inheritance of land for the nation. Jesus
is a husband to His bride-wife the Church.
The titles of bridegroom and husband unite the two realms and
declare one universal kingdom of sons of God.
Jerusalem
is the key to understanding the difference between a bridegroom and a
husband. God has a city in Jerusalem, the city of Zion acquired through the
redemptive work of His Son, (Psalm 48:2).
The Son also has a city – the New Jerusalem in the heavenlies
(Revelation 21:10).
The
names of the Stellar sign Gemini are “The United,” “Joined Together,”
“The Pair, The Completely Joined” and “The Station” or “Place
of the Coming.” These stellar
names
confirm the union of the two realms as one universal Kingdom. The Jerusalem above will be the marriage
canopy for the Jerusalem below uniting the two realms of sons of God
(Revelation 21). In traditional Jewish
weddings, the “chuppah” is the
marriage canopy covering the bridegroom and bride.
The
word “chuppah” is from the primitive
root word “chaphah” that means “to
cover; by implication, to veil, to encase, protect; − ceil, cover, overlay.” The word chuppah is used in Psalm 19:5 …As a
bridegroom goes forth from His chuppah and in Joel 2:16 …Let the bridegroom go
forth from his chamber, and the bride out of her chuppah.
Customarily
the chuppah is erected outdoors – under the stars symbolizing traditional
Jewish thinking for the hope of the blessing of a large family in conformity
with the rabbinic teaching of Genesis 22:17 “In blessing I will bless thee, and
in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven.”
The use
of the chuppah demonstrates the decisive act that formally designates to the
Bridegroom and Bride the new status of “married.” The chuppah marks the conclusion of the
betrothal.
In Revelation 19, the “wife,” who
has made herself ready for the Lamb’s supper, is the nation Israel who is about
to be married to her land by the bridegroom – her Sovereign King – the
Lamb. Thus the marriage of the Lamb takes
place with the holy city, the New Jerusalem coming down from God out of heaven,
prepared as a bride adorned for her husband (Revelation 21:2).
The star names identified with the stellar
sign confirm that the union is the accomplishment of the Son of the covenant, the
Bridegroom of His people Israel. The
star names are “Ruler” or “Judge,” “Coming in Haste,” “The Hurt” or “Afflicted,”
“Treading Underfoot,” “Established,” “As a Foundation,” or “Set,”
“The Branch Spreading,” “The Seed” or “Branch,” and “The
Palm Branch.”
“The
LORD therefore hath performed His word that He hath spoken: for I am risen up in the room of David my
father, and am set on the throne of Israel, as the LORD promised, and have
built the house for the name of the LORD God of Israel” (2Chronicles 6:10). Jesus is the Sovereign of Israel, who
inherits the kingdom through the line of David the King.
In some
of the star chart drawings, two figures sit on a throne, the symbol of
authority and the position of rest. Each
figure is holding a symbol of war in a relaxed position of peace. The right figure holds an unstrung bow, and
the left figure holds a club. Centered
between the laps is a harp. The harp was one of the main musical instruments
used in the Old Testament along with the psaltery, which is a stringed
instrument played like a dulcimer, and cymbals.
The
luminaries are a heavenly pictorial of an earthly kingdom, therefore, the
“throne” depicted in the star chart drawing is the earthly throne of Jerusalem,
the foundation or headquarters for the realm of Jehovah God’s authority on
earth. This kingdom on earth belongs to
the Father of the covenant Son, Jehovah.
Israel, as the head nation, is the woman of Genesis 3:15, the wife of
Jehovah who brought forth the Seed.
Psalm
137 is a very poetic song whose theme is the “hanging up” of the harps of Israel,
sounds of joy are not heard. They have
been taken captive. Captive in Babylon
they sat by the river and wept when they remembered Zion, and they hung their
harps in the willow trees. Willow trees
are “mournful” in their appearance, and are called “weeping” willows. Those who took Israel captive and laid them
waste required a song of them, taunting them - now rejoice in your LORD, “…Sing
us one of the songs of Zion” (Psalm 137:3).
After the sorrow of grief of the tribulation
is singing! Israel is to break forth
into singing! She is no longer forsaken;
she is no longer barren (no sons of God).
As a regenerate nation, Israel has become the Virgin she is prophesied
to be (in the sign Virgo).
The two
figures on the throne emphatically declare that never again will the earth experience
war and never again will Israel be taken captive. She has fulfilled the purpose of her creation
– children, sons of God for her Maker, her Husband; the LORD of hosts is His
name; her Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel; the God of the whole earth shall
He be called (Isaiah 54:5). Together,
Jehovah God and His wife are set or appointed to rule in equality.
The
brightest star in the stellar constellation means “Ruler” or “Judge.” The second brightest star also is identified with
the same names, “Ruler” or “Judge.” The repeat of the star names in the same
constellation gives the testimony or witness of two who are to rule – judge, a co-partnering of authority.
The star
located in the “middle” (the heart or core of the sign) means “Established,”
“As a Foundation,” or “Set,” “Joined Together” and “United.”
The
name of the first decan in Gemini is “Lepus,” “The
Hare,” “The Enemy of Him That Cometh” and “Treading Underfoot.”
In
the star chart drawing, “Lepus” is drawn as a hare. The Latin name means “The Hare Treading Underfoot.” The hare, attempting to escape, is restrained under the
foot of “Orion,” “The Branch,” “The Mighty,” “The Prince,” the first decan in the next constellation Taurus.
The
serpent
in the luminaires, the symbol of the pride of self-will, is drawn in the star
charts as a hare and is called a hare.
Why? The star names identified in
the first decan “The Mad,” “The Deceiver,” “The Caught” and “The
Bound” reveal the reason why
the “pictorial” changes from a serpent to a hare.
The
serpent in the luminaires is the symbol of the pride of self-will, and the hare
symbolizes the lusts of deceits of
the pride of the self–will (Ephesians 4:22). There are lusts of the pride of self-will and
there are the deceits of the pride of self-will. A twofold picture is seen in the symbolism of the lusts of the deceits of
the pride of self-will.
The picture in the first two star names, “The
Mad” and “The Deceiver,” is the symbolism of the lusts of the deceits of
the pride of self-will. The picture in
the last two star names, “The Caught” and “The
Bound” reveals the end – the results
of the lusts and deceits of the pride of self-will not only for Satan but also for
all who refuse to repent and change their mind.
“The Enemy of Him That Cometh” is not the serpent –
Lucifer, but it is the enmity of the
pride of self-will. God’s greatest enemy
is man’s own thinking. God gave man
freedom of choice to obey the truth and He cannot override it. The problem is man thinks he has a right to
think independently − the way he wants to – that is lawlessness.
A hare
is not the same as a rabbit. The hare
belongs to the species Lepus. The hare is
wild and cannot be subdued, tamed, or conquered. The speed of a hare can be as fast as 45 mph. Also, the hare lives solitarily and
independently. Thus, the hare in the star
chart drawing is a perfect picture of the deceitfulness associated with the
symbol of the serpent – the symbol of the pride of the self-will.
The
hare represents the unwillingness to be “domesticated” by the love of His
sovereign. Man in the pride of his
self-will is unreasonable in his pursuit to be right. The multiple lusts of deceits of the
pride of the self-will are crazy – mad. It
is foolishness and lunacy for man to reject the gift of life everlasting
offered in the covenant Son because he is unwilling to lay down the pride of
self-will.
“Caught” and “bound”
in the lusts of deceits, the pride of self-will has no escape without the power
of the Strong Man − “The Branch,” “The Mighty,” and “The Prince.”
In the star
chart drawing, “The Enemy of Him That Cometh,” “The Mad,” “The Deceiver,” duped by the
deceitfulness and pride of self-will, is “Tread Underfoot,” restrained under
the foot of “Orion.” “The
Mad,” “The Deceiver,” Satan,
is “The
Caught” and “The Bound.”
The
serpent will no longer build his city of mystery Babylon. “The Deceiver” is not permitted to
deceive but is bound a thousand years and cast into the bottomless pit and shut
up, and a seal set upon[him], that he should deceive the nations no more, till
the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little
season (Revelation 20:2-3).
Although
mystery Babylon has imploded on itself in the sign Leo, Satan’s desire for
world dominion through a city-system is present in his thinking. Although the deception of the evil one will NOT
be permitted and no false worship will be tolerated, “The Enemy of Him That Cometh,”
the enmity of the pride of self-will, will be in the heart; however, no outward
rebellion will be permitted. “The
Enemy of Him That Cometh,” “The Mad,” “The Deceiver,” of the
pride of self-will will be tread underfoot − “Caught” and “Bound”
by the “Strong Man,” “Orion,” the
first decan in the next constellation Taurus.
At the
end of the thousand years, a reckoning will be required. Those alive during the thousand years and
those born during the thousand-year reign must decide whether they will unite
to their Lord Jesus. At the end of the thousand
years, God will release the serpent from his prison to expose the heart of
humanity. God’s purpose in loosening the
serpent provides humanity an alternative way to think and thereby proves the
lawlessness of the heart. Thus, at the
end of the thousand years, when Satan is loosed for a season, the proving of the
lawlessness of the heart of humanity will be exposed. The judgment signs of Sagittarius and Scorpio
tell more revelation about this lawlessness and the coming judgment.
The
sign and star names of the second and third decans of Gemini, “Canis
Major” and “Canis Minor,” show that the Sovereign is no ordinary
sovereign for He is no ordinary man. He
is other than the creation He serves as monarch. He is the potentate, the preeminent.
“Who
is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature: for by Him were all things created, that are
in heaven and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones, or
dominions, or principalities or powers:
all things were created by Him, and for Him: and He is before
all things….” (Colossians 1:15-17).
The
sign and star names pay homage to Jehovah God because His plan for sons of God
is acknowledged as accomplished through the covenant Son. The name of the second decan is “Canis
Major.” Other names are “The
Greater Dog,” “The Wolf” or “The Dog,” “The Prince,” “The Prince of the
Right Hand,” “The Mighty” and “Sire” or “Sir.” Star names identified with the second
decan are “Coming Swiftly Down,” “The Sent Prince,” “The Mighty,” “Ruler,”
“The Glorious,” “The Bright,” “Shining” and “Scarlet.”
Names
of the sign “Canis Minor” are “The Lesser Dog” or “Wolf”
and “The Savior Redeemer.” Star
names identified with the third decan are “Burdened” or “Bearing For Others” and
“Prince of the Left Hand.”
Several of the signs
and star names in particular draw the reader back to the first coming of the
birthed Son of God in the sign of Virgo, “The Sent Prince,” “Prince of
the Left Hand,” “Prince of the Right Hand,” “Branch” and the sign name of the “Wolf” reminds the reader
of the constellation Libra.
“The Sent Prince”
reminds the reader from whence the Prince has come – Heaven, the throne of God.
He
is “Prince
of the Left Hand” the Seed of the woman [the] “Branch” and
He is “Prince of the Right Hand” of Jehovah.
Finally,
the sign name “Wolf” pictures the One who will take those wicked
hands, the false prophets who “appear” as shepherds but are ravening wolves only
dressed in sheep’s clothing, and put them to death during the kingdom reign.
In the
second decan of the stellar sign Libra, the “Wolf” is most commonly
known by its Latin name “Lupus” or “Victima,” “the Victim” or “the Slain.” The contemporary Greek name is “Wolf”
or “the Beast,” implying an enemy.
The Hebrew name means “To Be Slain” and in ancient times referred to “Sura,” a sheep or lamb.
Thus, the star names in Libra give a detailed message of
that which is slain: a victim − a Lamb,
and an enemy − the wolf or beast.
The wicked hands that
put to death the Lamb of God belong to the false prophets (the chief priests),
which “appeared” as shepherds dressed in sheep’s clothing; inwardly, they are
ravening wolves – beasts, enemies of God (Matthew 7:15; John 10:7-13). While God permitted these wicked hands to put
to death the Lamb of God, it must be understood that the Lamb of God willingly
took upon Himself the sting of death – no man took His life from Him; Jesus
laid it down voluntarily (John 10:18).
At His second coming
when the kingdom is first established, those false prophets, the seed of the
evil one who led Israel away, will be put to death. Again at the end of the age when the kingdom
is delivered to the Father, the wolves - those false prophets who will meet in
secret during the thousand years to take Jerusalem − will be judged guilty and
sentenced to death.
Ezekiel
and Jeremiah, Old Testament prophets of Jehovah, prophesied the judgment and demise
of those false prophets who served the roaring lion ravening the prey.
The
warning, with a promise, in Jeremiah 23:1-3 reads, “Woe be unto the pastors
that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! saith the LORD. Therefore thus saith the LORD God of Israel
against the pastors that feed my people; Ye have scattered my flock, and driven
them away, and have not visited them:
behold, I will visit upon you the evil of your doings, saith the LORD. And I will gather the remnant of my flock out
of all countries whither I have driven them, and will bring them again to their
folds; and they shall be fruitful and increase.”
These
false
prophets will be dealt the deathblow at the establishment
of the kingdom.
Jeremiah
23:4 says “And I will set up shepherds over them which shall feed them: and they shall fear no more, nor be dismayed,
neither shall they be lacking, saith the LORD.”
Ezekiel’s
prophecy will be accomplished at the end of the thousand years.
“Therefore
have I poured out mine indignation upon them; I have consumed them with the
fire of my wrath: their own way have I
recompensed upon their heads, saith the Lord God” (Ezekiel 22:31).
In
Gemini,
the betrothed nation has married the bridegroom and her land. She is no longer forsaken or barren. She celebrates her coronation – the partnering
of authority on earth – the crux of this sign.
The two figures in Gemini sit on a throne holding
symbols of war in a relaxed position of peace.
These symbols declare that the earth will never again experience war and
Israel will never again be taken captive.
The
warning in Lepus shows she longs for all to say “yes” to her Sovereign and she
rules with Him accordingly.
Thus
the potentate, the Beloved Bridegroom is not only “The Sent Prince,” “The Mighty,”
“Ruler,” “The Savior Redeemer, He is also the King Priest of
His Kingdom of Priests.
Glossary for Gemini
Names of the Stellar Sign of Gemini:
“Joined
Together”
“The
Pair, The Completely Joined”
“The
Station or Place of the Coming”
“The
United”
The
Stellar Sign Name “The Twins” are associated with two bright stars named:
“Castor” and
“Pollux”
Star Names identified in the Stellar Sign of
Gemini:
“As
a Foundation” or “Set”
“Coming
in Haste”
“Established”
“Ruler”
or “Judge”
“The
Branch Spreading”
“The Hurt” or “Afflicted”
“The
Seed” or “Branch”
“Treading
Underfoot”
“The
Palm Branch”
Names of Decans in Gemini:
“Lepus” Names:
“The Enemy of Him
that Cometh”
“The Hare”
“Treading Underfoot”
Star names identified with “Lepus”:
“The Mad”
“The Deceiver”
“The Caught”
“The Bound”
“Canis Major” Names:
“Sire” or “Sir”
“The Greater Dog”
“The Mighty”
“The Prince of the
Right Hand”
“The Prince”
“The Wolf” or “The
Dog”
Star names identified with Canis Major
“Branch”
“Coming Swiftly Down”
“Greater Dog, Wolf”
“Prince of the Right
Hand”
“Ruler”
“Scarlet”
“Shining”
“The Bright”
“The Glorious”
“The Mighty”
“The Sent Prince”
“Canis Minor” Names:
“The Lesser Dog or
Wolf”
“The Savior Redeemer”
Star Names identified with Canis Minor:
“Burdened” or “Bearing
For Others”
“Prince of the Left
Hand”
Reading
assignment for Background to Taurus [The Powerful Authority of Love] is Matthew
12:22-30, Mark 3:22-27 and Luke 11:14-23.
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