Tuesday, June 4, 2013

Lesson 019 Taurus



Taurus

The Coming Ruler - Rejoicing the Heart
In the stellar story, the three signs Gemini, Taurus and Aries are a trilogy within the twelve.  Each sign expresses a different aspect of the kingdom reign and together they give a complete picture.  In this new beginning of the kingdom reign, heaven and earth have passed away and the curse of death and the resurrection of life are no more.  The political system, the economic system and the system of false worship exist no longer; “MYSTERY BABYLON” is fallen (Revelation 17:5).  The military and merchandising are no more.  
The Jews extend the invitation to come home and amnesty is offered to the nations because of the covenant Son, who is the Sovereign of the kingdom.  All the nations of the earth are separated, the sheep from the goats.  There is one flock, one sheepfold, one Shepherd.  Heaven and earth are united; there is one universal kingdom.  The betrothed regenerate people of Israel have “married” their Beloved and their land. 
The dragon that old serpent which is called the devil and Satan has been cast into the bottomless pit, shut up and a seal put upon him (Revelation 20:3).  No false worship will be tolerated.  No outward manifestation of the enmity of the lawlessness of the heart is allowed; however, the pride of the self-will exists.  Any outward act of lawlessness will result in immediate death (Revelation 13:10).  This is a kingdom of righteousness and peace; justice will be swift. 
With the establishment of the kingdom, the Old Testament ceremonial law and the offerings will resume as the perfect pictorial of the One who is the redemption, the reconciliation between God and man.  The seven feasts of Jehovah taught in the ceremonial law and offerings teach three events in the life of Christ, the anointed covenant Son.  These three events are He comes, He ascends (goes), and He comes again.  Three times a year all will come to the temple to participate in Jehovah’s feasts. 
The first festival of Jehovah has three feasts; the feasts are Passover with its slain lamb, Feast of Unleavened Bread and the Feast of First Fruits.  The three feasts picture the crucifixion (the slain Lamb of God), the life given (the bread from heaven) and the resurrection (Christ the first fruits of sons of God).  This festival is celebrated in the spring.  
The next festival of Jehovah, celebrated fifty days later, is the Feast of Weeks, also known as Pentecost.  This summer festival pictures the sowing of the incorruptible seed, the word of God, and the harvesting − ingathering of the seed sown (sons of God – Exodus 23:16).  
The last festival of Jehovah also has three feasts.  They are the Feast of Trumpets, the Day of Atonement and Tabernacles.  These three feasts picture the calling of His people Israel to their homeland, the jubilee of the children of Israel because of the atonement the covenant Son made on their behalf and the “tabernacling” of their King − God in the flesh dwelling among His people.  This last feast commemorates the ingathering of the fall harvest and is a reminder to the inhabitants of the earth that one last ingathering of a harvest of sons of God will take place at the end of the thousand-year reign.  
The law and the offerings teach why the sacrifice of the Seed of the woman was necessary and why there was a need for propitiation – reconciliation between God and man.  They ask the question “Will you give up the enmity of your mind and agree with God?” 
The sign of Taurus and its three decans reveal the ruling authority of Love.  Taurus speaks of the government of God administered by the covenant Son.  “He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity:  he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword …” (Revelation 13:10).  Revelation 13:10 is a Hebraism and its meaning is not clear in the English translation.  The Hebraism expresses the destiny and certainty of an approaching judgment.  Literally, it reads, “If anyone is for captivity, into captivity he goes.  If anyone kills with the sword, with the sword he will be killed.”  In the sign of Taurus, all enemies have been subdued to the covenant Son. 
One chooses to be held captive by the Love of God or not.  If one chooses not to be held captive, he is an enemy and is killed with the sword.  Taurus is the coming ruler “rejoicing the heart” (Psalm 19:8).  The theme of Taurus is taking captivity captive − by the power of Love.  A heart captured rejoices continually. 
The one world government of righteousness and justice is at peace and the powerful authority of Love rules.  “… nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more” (Isaiah 2:4).  By the power of righteousness and justice, Love has come and Love rules. 
Taurus is the bull of an ancient species titled Rimu in the Hebrew scripture and translated unicorn or wild ox (Job 39:9-11, Psalm 92:10, Isaiah 34:7).  The species was wild, untamable, extremely fierce and fast charging.  Much like an ox of today except much larger, often compared to the elephant in size. 
In the star chart drawing, the head of the bull with its two enormous horns is downward and appears to be rushing forward.  The middle and hinder part of the bull is also the body of the next sign Aries.  The sign of Aries reveals the gentle merciful lamb, “The Sheep Gentle and Merciful.”  Aries is drawn in the star charts as a male lamb or ram who also has horns upon the head.  
In the scripture, horns are symbolic of power.  Thus, the two signs “share” the same body, signifying the bull and the ram are the same person of supreme power and authority.  The two sets of horns symbolize the “reaching” of that power and authority to the four corners of the earth. 
The next constellation Aries is the seventh sign from Libra.  In numerology seven is the number that refers to completeness.  The number “seven” is used as no other number is in the scripture.  Seven and its compounds occur in multiples in the scripture.  On the last day of creation, the seventh day, God ended His work; He rested from all His work that He created and made; He blessed the seventh day and He sanctified it.  
The symbolism of the two sets of horns when combined with the numbers four and seven expresses supreme world power and authority along with the perfection or completeness of the kingdom.  The symbolism expresses that this kingdom is one of absolute power, and it is pure (sanctified). 
Names of the stellar sign Taurus are “The Wild Bull,” “The Bull Coming” (carries the idea of coming and ruling), “The One Who Saves Mightily,” “The Head” or “Chief Who Comes” and “The Traveler Who Comes to Save.” 
Star names identified in Taurus are “The Governor,” “Captain,” “The Leader,” “The Wounded” or “The Slain,” “The Center,” “The Heap of The Accumulation,” “The Congregation of the Judge,  “To The Judge,” “The Abundance,” “The Center” or “Center” and “The Turned Upon” or “Rolled Around.”  “The Congregation of the Judge” is likely who is referred to in Jude 14 and 15 “…Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints, to execute judgment upon all …” 
In scripture, right and left, like colors and numbers, have significance.  The right speaks of the power and authority of the first begotten Son of God (raised from the dead); the left speaks of the humanity of the Son of God (the birthed son), God come in the flesh.  
In the star charts, the stellar sign of Taurus has a star in the left horn identified as “The Wounded” or “The Slain” picturing the humanity of the son of God come in the flesh, wounded and slain.  The power of Love, like the species Rimu, is wild, untamable, extremely fierce and fast charging.  Love is a force that requires reckoning.  Love is a force greater than death.  Death cannot hold Love captive.  
Taurus is the first sign that has reference to specific star colors.  The language of color is universal.  The covenant colors in the luminaires (the colors in the rainbow) add life to the message revealed in the star names.  In the bull’s eye is the first color of three in this constellation.  The three star colors noted in this constellation are red, orange-red and white. 
The bull’s eye is a red star.  Red is the color that speaks of the dust of the ground from which God formed the body for the man, an earthen vessel of humanity.  Red is the color of shed blood.  Red is also the color of love. 
Everything in the kingdom of the Son of God’s love will be all God’s doing accomplished through the Son’s obedience of Love.  This Love led to death on the Cross.  His blood is shed for the cleansing of all unrighteousness.  All is to be to the praise of His glory - to Him be the glory. 
The brightest star in the eye of the bull has three names: 
“The Governor”
“Captain”
“Leader”

Each name boldly declares that nothing is hid from Him.  He sees everything and everyone.  He has His eye on His kingdom.  He is all knowing.  The Sovereign is “The Governor.”  
Taurus is the sixth sign from Libra.  Six is the number of man.  The covenant Son as the Son of Man, the begotten Son from the dead, is the proprietor over the affairs of men in righteousness and justice.  He is able to administer justice because He rules in righteousness. 
In God’s kingdom, His government is glorified and righteous.  The Old Testament saints with King David, the earthly ruling authority, have been raised from the dead and have received their incorruptible bodies of glory.  Therefore, it is impossible for the leaders of God’s government to govern corruptly. 
As the “Captain” of the host of the Lord, the covenant Son is the commander and chief who invites the nations to a ceasefire – to lay down their arms and to let the Love of God take them captive.  This is an offer of amnesty.  This is a government of peace and is ruled with absolute justice.  The covenant Son, the commander and chief, the head of the nations, is the forerunner, the “Leader” of peace.  Never in history has the world experienced peace. 
Nevertheless, this is a real kingdom with real people.  It is not a virtual kingdom thought up in the imagination of the heart.  The royal law of Love is the management and foundation of this kingdom, however, the enmity of the lawlessness of the heart of man – the pride of the self-will will be present. 
In the shoulder of the bull is a cluster of stars known as “The Pleiades,” which means “Congregation of the Judge.”  The shoulder is in figure a source of strength.  The government in Israel in Old Testament times was on the shoulders of the high priest and the priesthood.  It was their responsibility to bear the burden of teaching the truth to the congregation assembled.  
In this kingdom, the high priest, the judge of all the earth, will bear the burden of teaching the truth to the congregation assembled.  A congregation is an assembly of worshipers.  Worship is the rightly directed reverence for God.  Worship involves adoration, respect, and devotion because of love.  The strength of the kingdom will be the rightly directed reverence to God by the “Congregation of the Judge.”  
The first decan in Taurus is “Orion.”  In the star chart drawing, all enemies have been subdued under His authority.  In the right hand the mighty hunter holds a raised massive club.  In his left hand, he holds the head of a lion that he has killed and under his left foot is the hare of Gemini, Lepus,” “The Enemy of Him That Cometh” and from that same foot “Eridanus,” “The River of the Judge,” (the second decan of Taurus) flows. 
The names of the first decan “Orion,” are “One Coming Forth As Light,” “The Branch,” “The Mighty,” “The Prince,” “The Strong One,” “The Wounded,” “The Light of Heaven” and “This Is He Who Triumphs.” 
Star names identified in “Orion” are The Coming of The Branch,” “The Foot” or “One Treading Underfoot,” “Hastily Coming,” “Dividing the Belt,” “The Wounded” and “The Bruising.” 
The brightest star of this decan is in the right shoulder and is the second of the three colored stars.  This star is orange-red and means “The Coming of the Branch.”  The star name, “The Coming of the Branch,” is a reference to the humanity of Jesus.  Having laid down His strength in death, He takes it up again in Love as the Begotten Son of the Covenant.  The red of the finished work of His humanity − His blood shed for the cleansing of all unrighteousness is now orange-red in the right shoulder. 
Orange is the color that speaks of healing.  This is a new beginning.  The Coming of The Branch,” “The Foot” or “One Treading Underfoot,” has brought about healing by the power of His righteousness. 
All enemies of the kingdom have been subdued.  Satan has been cast into the pit, the outward enmity of the pride of self-will has been restrained − “held under foot” and from that same foot “The River of the Judge” flows toward the sea monster in the next constellation Aries.  The man of lawlessness is identified as the sea monster in Aries and both he and his false prophet have been cast alive into the lake of fire (Revelation 19:20). 
The cut off lion’s head that “Orion” holds in His left hand is symbolic of the thinking of the false prophet, one who like his “father” sees himself as a roaring lion − the king of the jungle of men.  Having transformed himself into a so-called “angel of light” with his message that man is god, the system of the false worship has been cut off like the head of the lion that “Orion” holds. 
The star in the heel of the left foot is the third and last of the colored stars.  The star is white and speaks of cleanness and clarity.  The star in the heel means “bruised” and is the word used in Genesis 3:15, the bruising of the heel of the woman’s seed. 
Job 18:9, 10 is a reference to the snare that men lay for men in the hopes of stealing that which belongs to another.  “The gin (snare or trap) shall take him by the heel and the robber shall prevail against him.  The snare is laid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way.” 
In the parable of the strong man (Matthew 12:22-30, Mark 3:24-29) the Pharisees thought the snare in the ground and the trap laid in the way for Jesus was the end of Him and the beginning of the kingdom for them.  However, just the opposite occurred.  Although the trap was fatal because the body of the Lord Jesus was put to death; it was in one sense merely the bruising of the heel because His resurrection from the dead shows with cleanness and clarity that death cannot hold the powerful authority of Love. 
The leaders did not expect that Jesus would purposefully step into the snare laid for Him, nor did they ever imagine that He would be raised from the dead according to their scriptures (1Corinthians 15:3, 4)!  It is ironic that each world ruler thinks that he is the one who is king whether there are other kings ruling or not. 
This thinking is the result of the lusts of deceits of the pride of self-will.  How mistaken they all are for from the highest throne flows “Eridanus,” the “River of the Judge or Ruler,” the second decan in Taurus. 
Star names identified in the decan are “The After Part of The River,” “Bent Down,” “The Mouth of the River,” “The Water” and “The Going Forth.” 
It is from the “bruised” heel that the river of life flows, the word of God.  For those willing to drink – the river of life flows to life everlasting and for those who refuse – death; the issue is will man repent and change his mind.  Will he believe the Word and receive the gift offered?  
This decan is prophetic speaking of “The After Part of The River,” the final judgment by which all the wicked (from every age) simultaneously will be cast into the lake of fire, “the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone:  which is the second death” (Revelation 21:8) 
This gathering of the judgment for the second death will take place at the end of the kingdom age (the thousand-year reign).  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.”  Revelation 21:8 says “But the fearful and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone….”  This body of people gathered at the end will unite “… to battle:  the number of whom is as the sand of the sea” (Revelation 20:8).  These will go to the sword (whose end is the lake of fire).  
They are like Cain of old, who knew to “do well” (Genesis 4:7), that is to receive the life offered.  They burn in their anger toward God − their hearts are hardened like brimstone.  Those in the kingdom who refuse to receive the powerful authority of Love, the life offered in the covenant Son, also will be gathered for the final judgment, the second death.  
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.  
The names of the last decan “Auriga” are The Shepherd, “The Driver” or “Charioteer,” “The Wagoner” and “The Conductor of The Reins.” 
He is the great Shepherd, who conquers death, and the chief Shepherd, who comes in glory and sits on His throne.  In the star chart drawings He holds a doe, a female goat, who has given birth to a pair of kids.  He holds them in His lap with His left arm.  
Star names identified in Auriga” are “The She-Goat,” “The Kids,” “The Band” or “Chain of The Goats or Ewes,” “The Flock of Goats, Kids,” “The Wounded” or “The Slain,” and “Wounded in The Foot.” 
In the heart of the doe is a star that means “She Goat” and in the Shepherd’s right shoulder is a star that means “The Chain of Goats.”  The “She Goat” represents the nations that have accepted the peace offering of the kingdom and have become sons of God.  The kids are the offspring born during the thousand years; the Shepherd King lovingly cares for them. 
The star name “The Chain of the Goats” in the right shoulder of the shepherd speaks of the reins/bands in the star chart drawing of Pisces.  This same band bridles or chains the multitudes together in the system of false worship led by the decan “Cetus” in the next constellation Aries“Cetus” is the monster of the sea of humanity; however, in the decan “Auriga,” the Shepherd, “The Governor,” “Captain” and “Leader” captivates the nations with Love. 
This pictures the exalted almighty Savior exercising His office of mercy in the midst of judgment.  Mercy triumphs over judgment.  Judgment is God’s strange work (Isaiah 28:21). 
Held in the bridle of His Shepherd love, the coming ruler – “rejoices the heart” because the nations are bound to their King − as He willingly was bound to the altar with cords of love. 
Glossary for Taurus
Names of the Stellar Sign of Taurus: 
“The Wild Bull”
“The Bull Coming”
“The One Who Saves Mightily”
“The Head” or “Chief Who Comes”
“The Traveler Who Comes to Save”

Star Names identified in the Stellar Sign of Taurus: 
“The Governor”
“Captain”
“The Leader”
“The Wounded” or “The Slain”
“The Center”
“The Heap of the Accumulation”
“The Congregation of the Judge”
“To the Judge”
“The Abundance”
“The Center” or “Center”
“The Turned Upon” or “Rolled Around” 

Names of Decans in Taurus: 
“Orion” Names:
“One Coming Forth as Light”
“The Branch”
“The Mighty”
“The Prince”
“The Strong One”
“The Wounded”
“The Light of Heaven”
“This is He Who Triumphs”

Star names identified with “Orion”:
“The Coming of the Branch”
“The Foot” or “One Treading Underfoot”
“Hastily Coming”
“Dividing the Belt”
“The Wounded”
“The Bruising”

 “Eridanus” Names:
“The River of the Judge or Ruler”

Star names identified with “Eridanus”:
“The After Part of the River”
“Bent Down”
“The Mouth of the River”
“The Water”
“The Going Forth” 

“Auriga” Names:
“The Shepherd”
“The Driver” or “Charioteer”
“The Wagoner”
“The Conductor of the Reins” 

Star Names identified with “Auriga”: 
“The She-Goat”
“The Kids”
“The Band” or “Chain of the Goats or Ewes”
“The Flock of Goats, Kids”
“The Wounded” or “The Slain”
“Wounded in the Foot” 





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