Lesson 022 Aries

Aries

The Gentle, Merciful Lamb − The Commandment of the LORD is Pure

Holiness is the Purity of God’s Commandment

The Eternal Covenant is God’s covenant; all is God’s “doing.”  God is acting from Himself.  Love does not act for itself; God is acting from Himself – He is giving Himself.  He desired to become the servant and according to the worthiness of the Son of the covenant, so did He.  The servant who offered Himself is God, Spirit Being of Deity.  Personified in the Son, God poured out His soul unto death and offered His body a sacrifice for sin.  

The sins of the whole world were burnt out on that body, consumed in the holiness of God to be raised an incorruptible seed of Eternal Life.  Man has no part in the offerings.  “Doing” the will of God is to believe and receive the Eternal Life offered.  

The three signs, Gemini, Taurus and Aries, are a trilogy within the twelve constellations.  The Sovereign has come and gathered His people Israel to himself; the goats and the sheep (the nations) are separated.  The goats are the people of the nations who have refused the offer of the Shepherd King to rule over them as His sheep.  The thousand-year reign has begun.  This is a new beginning; one kingdom on earth where former things have passed away. 

Each of the three stellar signs expresses a different aspect of the kingdom reign, and together they give a complete picture.  In the sign of Gemini, the time of rejoicing arrives.  In Gemini, the Eternal Covenant is shown in two realms – an earthly and a heavenly.  Two cites from two realms form one universal kingdom of God.  The city in heaven is the New Jerusalem – its inhabitants are the bride-wife of the Lamb (born sons of God − the body of Christ).  The city on earth is Jerusalem below – its inhabitants are born sons of God from the remnant of the “woman forsaken,” sons of Israel (Isaiah 54:5-6).  In the sign Gemini, heaven and earth are united; there is one universal kingdom.  The coronation of the betrothed nation Israel to her beloved Bridegroom takes place.  The betrothed regenerate people of Israel have “married” their beloved Bridegroom and their land.  It is a time of great celebration. 

Taurus reveals Love as a force of power administered by the Son of the covenant.  The theme of Taurus is taking captivity captive − by the power of Love.  A heart captured by Love 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).  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.  

In the new kingdom on earth, all are separated unto God; it will be as it was in the beginning in the Garden of Eden; only the Word of God will be taught.  In this kingdom, the teaching of the ceremonial law and the offerings will be a continual pictorial of the Son of the covenant. 

The kingdom will be a kingdom of righteousness, justice and peace with the Love of the Sovereign the powerful authority.  No outward rebellion will be permitted.  False teaching will not exist, but God is not yet all in all.  In His kingdom, God will still have men in the flesh.  It is not a “perfect” kingdom.  At the heart of any issue is the issue of the heart − during the thousand-year kingdom reign there will be the proving of the heart; the pride of man’s self-will where the imagination of the thoughts and intents of the heart is only evil continually will be confirmed (Genesis 6:5).  

During the thousand-year reign, each man will be tried according to his own lawlessness.  Will man repent – give up the enmity of the mind, will man give up the pride of the self-will, which is having one’s will over the will of the Sovereign and agree with God?  One must be born again; one must be a son to enter the kingdom of God (John 3:3).  Will each man receive the Life Eternal offered? 

When viewed together the signs of Taurus and Aries reveal three stages of the work of God in the ways the Son of the covenant relates to the nation Israel, the church and the kingdom subjects.  To Israel, He who is, the coming Servant of Jehovah has sin covered in the atonement.  To the church, He who was the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world has put away death once for all; death is overcome by life.  To the kingdom subjects, He who is to come, the ram, man’s substitute offered to whosoever will believe and receive, has all enemies subdued; sin is restrained.  Observed in each stage is the Eternal – who is, who was and who is to come.  

In April, the sun is in Aries – (The sun tabernacles or dwells in Aries).  When the sun is in the direction of Aries, the evening luminaries are Scorpio, Libra, Virgo, and Leo.  From God’s vantage point, Aries is the seventh sign.  Seven is the number that speaks of completeness.  

The sign Aries is the “dividing” point in the Eternal Covenant.  Originating in eternity past in the sign Libra (He who is) through the establishment of the kingdom in the sign Taurus (He who is to come) the heavens have declared the glory of the Eternal Covenant − the hope of life eternal and a holy calling of sons of God. 

The glory declared from the sign Aries to the last stellar sign Scorpio details the person of the Son of the covenant and the work of God in the Son of the covenant.  The light holders, the luminaries of the heavens are God’s prophetic revelation.  The word “signs” in the Hebrew means “a mark.”  A sign is a mark of something other than itself.  God ordained that the “signs and seasons” of the luminaires indicate events in the life of the coming Seed – the Eternal − the coming Redeemer-Deliverer. 

This pattern of repeating, reiterating or retelling God’s plan both in the signs that the heavens declare and in His written word is one of the ways that He employs to make Himself known.  It is a remembering, a memorial − He is the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end.  Genesis chapter one reveals the glory of God, then “goes back” and fills in the detail of the ways of that glory; likewise, the Eternal Covenant in the stars – God gives an overview and then gives the details. 

The constellation Aries in modern star chart drawings usually is a male lamb with horns, a ram; however, in many of the oldest star chart drawings, the pictorial is a lamb without horns.  This lamb wears a circular crown or a triangle over the head and the name “The Exalted or The Chief” identifies him. 

In the star chart drawings, the names of the stellar sign and star names associated with the stellar sign give a twofold picture of a blameless lamb and a royal, regal ram. 

The names of the stellar sign Aries are “ Chief or Head,” “The Lamb or The Ram,” “Lamb Sent Forth,” “The Sheep Gentle and Merciful, ” “Reign of Ammon,” “The Dominion or Government Established,” and “The Altar or The Sacrifice of Righteousness.”  

Star names identified in Aries are “The Wounded or The Slain,” “The Bruised or The Wounded” and “Bound or Binding.”  The brightest star in the left horn is “The Wounded or The Slain.”  The sign names “Gentle” and “Merciful” along with the star names of “The Wounded” “The Bruised,” “The Bound,” “The Sacrifice of Righteousness,” and “The Slain” describe the disposition of the lamb as a blameless victim. 

The circular crown depicts the lamb as king.  The king is “The Gentle Merciful Lamb” of God, holy and harmless, undefiled and separate from sinners in whom is all authority and power; yet, in humble meek submission, He lays aside that power and authority as king in tender obedience to offer His body a sacrifice for sin.  

The symbolic triangle above the “crowned” head of the lamb draws the seer of the luminaires back to the eternal.  In ancient times the symbol of the triangle was recognized as the symbol of the eternal.  Three lines are necessary to form a plane figure; and three dimensions of length, breadth, and height are necessary to form a solid figure.  Hence, three sides symbolize the simplest form of a solid figure.  He who is, He who was and He who is to come – the unyielding, unbroken and unadulterated is the “solid” eternal.  

Thus, the lamb, the blameless victim, is understood to be very God in essence.  The Son of the covenant “Who being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:  but made Himself of no reputation, and took upon Him the form of a servant (Taurus, the servant, Jehovah - the bullock) and was made in the likeness of men:  And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, (Aries, the Son of Man, the lamb), even the death of the cross” (Philippians 2:6-8).   

“Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him (Aries, the begotten Son from the dead, the ram), and given him a name which is above every name; That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven, and in earth and under the earth; and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ [the Son of the covenant] is Lord to the glory of God the Father” (Philippians 2:9-11).  

Having offered His body a sacrifice for sin, the Son is raised the crowned ram – crowned with honor and glory; He has gained much more than that which was.  In the creation of man, God had sons of men in the flesh.  In the begotten Son, God has gained more – He has sons of God – those who believe and receive the gift of the Son.  

By believing and receiving, man becomes what he was not nor ever could have been on his own. 

By believing and receiving, man: 

Receives the righteousness of God,

Is freed from the sin,

Is delivered from death, and

Becomes a born son of God − bearing the heavenly image − a body of eternal life.  

When man believes and receives, God has a:  

Righteous son – freed from the sin,

A son delivered from death,

A born son of His seed in His image, and

A son to live with Him in His kingdom forever. 

The horns of Taurus type power and authority.  The ram is a full-grown male lamb and is not considered gentle but stately, powerful and even majestic, especially when he has a “crown” of horns upon his head. 

The names of the stellar sign Taurus, “Chief or Head,” “Reign of Ammon,” “The Dominion or Government Established,” describe the position of the Son of the covenant in His rank of authority as king and minister.  

The ruling global government will be under the authority of the Chief Shepherd (Psalm 24) –  who is the Good Shepherd who laid down His life for the sheep (Psalm 22) – the Great Shepherd (Psalm 23), brought again from the dead through the blood of the everlasting covenant (Hebrews 13:20).  The entire kingdom will be under the authority of the priesthood – the theocracy of Jehovah God (Numbers 18:6, 21, 24; Leviticus 27:30; Malachi 3:10, 17). 

The Taurus star names “The Wounded or The Slain,” “The Bruised or The Wounded” and “Bound or Binding,” provide the foundation of the authority of the ram as the gentle merciful king and intercessory high priest between God and man. 

The symbolism of the two star chart drawings along with the sign and star names signifies what the scriptures say concerning the Seed of the woman; He is the head, the prince of the flock.  In His exaltation, He is “the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne” (Revelation 7:17).  

The first decan in the constellation of Aries is known as Cassiopeia.  She was originally known as “The Daughter of Splendor,” “The Enthroned, The Beautiful,” – (Psalm 45) “The Seated,” and “The Delivered from All Evil.”  

Two star names are identified in the first decan of Aries.  The number two affirms a difference.  One excludes all difference and denotes that which is sovereign.  However, when two or more agree, the number speaks of the witness of a true testimony.  The two star names are “The Freed” and “the branch” [as the victor].  “The branch” is not to be confused with the star “The Branch” in the sign Virgo. 

In the sign of Virgo, the star is “Zerah” referring to the Seed held in her left hand, “The Branch.”  The Latin name is “Spica,” which is a term used for a cluster of seeds in a head of wheat or barley grain and is the name most used on modern star charts.  The star “The Branch” in the sign Virgo reveals the personal identity of “Him who was” as the seed (birthed Son of God) of the woman connected with the prophecies of “The Branch” (the begotten Son of the covenant).  “The Branch,” Jesus, is of the family tree of the nation of Israel and is the bough of life (the begotten Son of the covenant) – the incorruptible seed, the Word of God.  In Virgo, the seed and branch are expressed.  

The star name “the branch” in Cassiopeia is a victory branch and is the same Hebrew word translated palm branches in the making of booths during the Feast of Tabernacles (Leviticus 23:40-41).  The Feast of Tabernacles was a memorial festival celebrated by the nation in remembrance of its deliverance from Egypt.  Having no dwelling place, they made booths of palm branches.  Egypt in type is a picture of the world with its system.  In Egypt, Israel was in bondage; they were slaves.  The festival of the Feast of Tabernacles was a looking forward to the establishment of the kingdom.  In the kingdom age, the celebration of Feast of Tabernacles will be the remembering of the deliverance from Egypt (the world with its system), past and present.  

In the star chart drawings, Cassiopeia is portrayed as a regally enthroned woman.  In one hand, she holds a victory branch of triumph; and with the other hand, she is preparing herself for public presentation in her role to rule with Her King.  In His first coming as the servant, Jesus, the seed of the Woman, “The Branch,” tabernacled among His people.  Hailed by them as her king, He was crucified as the Lamb of God.  

In the kingdom age, He who made Himself of no reputation and took upon Himself the form of a servant will be their tabernacle.  He will be their dwelling.  In this sign of Cassiopeia is the promise of His second coming where she (Israel) will tabernacle with Him in His Kingdom.  Looking forward the sign is prophetic, looking backward it is a memorial.  

The Cassiopeia star names “The Freed” and “the branch” are the witnesses that “The Daughter of Splendor” is “The Freed” − the victor.  Thus, “The Branch” determines Israel’s throne and her victory branch.  

The second decan in Aries is “Cetus” or “Sea-Monster.”  The star names identified in the decan are “The Rebel,” “Subdued,” “The Bound or Chained Enemy,” “The Overthrown,”and “Overthrown or Thrust Down.”  “The Overthrown” has an ancient meaning of“The Lord or Judge of Cetus.” 

In the oldest star chart drawings, Cetus is a large sea monster with a huge mouth and single large horn upon an enormous head.  Although no star names are attached to the large horn of Cetus, the meaning is evident from the revelation given John concerning Mystery Babylon in Revelation 17. 

Lucifer’s plan to overpower and overthrow God is through a city - a kingdom built through merchandising − a city system of politics, economics and religion.  Cetus is the second largest luminary after Hydra.  It is the pride of man’s self-will (Hydra) that leads man to build a name for himself through humanity’s city system (Cetus).  The size of the constellation and meaning is evident; the system empowered by the pride of man’s self-will will take ages to “build” and great will be its effects − the system will be global.  This global system built through merchandising is “the heart of the serpent − the heart of the pride of man’s self will” where the creature is worshiped and served rather than the Creator.  

Man drawn away (from God) by his lust for wealth and power is enticed by the seduction of his own thinking to build the world system of the evil one.  The evil one uses the seduction of man’s own desire as bait to draw men to build the world system.  However, a man cannot be “hooked” if there is no desire for the bait.  

Because of its global influence, Cetus is great in power and is associated with Leviathan, (Job 41:1, Psalm 74:14; 104:26) and the Dragon (Revelation 12:3,4,7,9,13,16,17; 13:4,11; 16:13; 20:2) and is identified as “MYSTERY BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.”  

Yet, the star names, “The Rebel,” “Subdued,” “The Bound or Chained Enemy,” and “Overthrown or Thrust Down” confirm the truth of God’s covenant plan.  Again, looking forward the sign is prophetic, looking backward it is a memorial.  

MYSTERY BABYLON and its ruler that the scriptures identify as “…that man of sin …, the son of perdition; Who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped …” (2 Thessalonians 2:3-4) with his false prophet is “Overthrown or Thrust Down.”  God casts the son of perdition with his false prophet into the lake of fire, because from the highest throne “The Lord or Judge of Cetus” flows the “River of the Judge or Ruler.  

The power behind the scenes − “The Mad,” “The Deceiver,” “The Caught” is “The Bound or Chained Enemy.”  “The Rebel,” the pride of man’s self-will, is “Subdued” waiting for the fulfillment of the prophecy given in Genesis 3:15.  In this verse the Lord pronounced the destruction of the serpent (the pride of man’s self-will) when He said, “…He shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise His heel.”  This fulfillment takes place in the stellar sign Scorpio.  

The system, its ruler, his false prophet and the power behind the scenes are pictured as one in the sea monster star chart drawing.  Also in the star chart drawing of the sea monster is a band around his neck that is attached to the tails of the two fishes of the next stellar sign Pisces.  The band (bridle or reins) that holds the tails of the fishes in Pisces pictures the power of that which holds the fishes of the sea of humanity captive (the authority of the world system under the control of the sea monster). 

Nevertheless, the ram lays claim to the fishes of the sea of humanity, His subjects of the kingdom, as His possession by placing His foreleg near the “Band.”  The “Band” is the first decan of the stellar sign Pisces. 

Perseus is the third or last decan in Aries.  The name Perseus comes from a Hebrew word that means “The Breaker,” “The One Who Carries Away,” and “Who Helps.”  

Star names identified in Perseus are “He Who Helps,” “He Who Breaks,” “He Who Carries Away,” “The Trodden Underfoot,” “The Head of The Adversary or The Head of Satan,” and “The Subdued or Weakened.” 

In the star chart drawing, Perseus is a mighty man who holds a sword in His right hand and a cut-off head of the enemy in His left.  The great “sword” in his right hand is a picture of “the commandment of the LORD; it is pure” (Psalm 19:8, Ephesians 6:17, Hebrews 4:12).  That which the LORD “has done,” “it is finished”; “it is done”; the Eternal will perform. 

The star in the “head” held in the hand of Perseus is called “Rosh Satan,” “The Head of The Adversary or The Head of Satan.”  Never again is the serpent, the pride of man’s self-will, able to execute world power.  The “head” is the place of thinking.  Perseus −“He Who Breaks” − has cut off the power of the vain imagination of His enemies.  The thinking is the source of power, whether man or Satan.  

The “Breaker” is victorious! “…Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honor, and glory, and blessing.  In His exaltation, He is “the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne” (Revelation 5:12, 7:17). 

For next week’s lesson, The Sin and Trespass Offering the Mazzaroth Declare, please read Leviticus 4 and 5.  

Glossary for Aries

Names of the Stellar Sign of Aries: 

“Chief or Head”

“The Lamb or The Ram”

“Lamb Sent Forth”

“The Sheep Gentle and Merciful”

“Reign of Ammon”

“The Dominion or Government Established”

“The Altar or The Sacrifice of Righteousness”

Star Names identified in the Stellar Sign of Aries: 

“The Wounded or The Slain”

“The Bruised or The Wounded”

“Bound or Binding”

Names of Decans in Aries: 

“Cassiopeia” Names:

“The Daughter of Splendor”

“The Enthroned, The Beautiful”

“The Seated”

“The Delivered from All Evil”

Star names identified with “Cassiopeia”:

“The Freed”

“The branch” – not “The Branch” in Virgo

“Cetus” and “Sea-Monster” Names:  None

Star names identified with “Cetus” or “Sea-Monster”

“The Rebel”

“Subdued”

“The Bound or Chained Enemy”

“The Overthrown” – ancient meaning is “The Lord or Judge of Cetus” 

“Overthrown or Thrust Down”

“Perseus” Names:

“The Breaker”

“The One Who Carries Away”

“Who Helps”

Star Names identified with “Perseus”: 

“He Who Helps”

“He Who Breaks”

“He Who Carries Away”

“The Trodden Underfoot”

“The Head of the Adversary or The Head of Satan”

“The Subdued or Weakened”

Lesson 021 The Mazzaroth of Job

The Mazzaroth of Job

Job 9:9; 38:31, 32

Understanding God’s message of the stars in Job requires a synopsis of Job 38 through 41 and a brief review of the stellar signs of Libra and Taurus.  

Verse one of Job 38 reads “Then Jehovah answered Job out of the whirlwind [and said].”  The definition of a whirlwind is a tumultuous confused rush.  Usually, a whirlwind is spinning air driven by warm air.  This applies to Job’s experience.  Job’s world has been spun around and around by the warm air of the loving chastisement of God’s mercy.  Until Jehovah chastised Job, he was unaware of his incorrect thinking.  He was missing what God was doing. 

Because Job received the sufferings in his life from the hand of God as a loving chastisement, he was ready to “see” with the eyes of his understanding and partake of the holiness of God as a son of God (Hebrews 12:10, 11).  The holiness of God is the otherness of who He is.  Holiness cannot be explained, but it can be understood in the spirit being.  Jehovah answered Job’s adversarial thinking in these four chapters by declaring His sovereignty and authority, influence and supremacy as the Almighty.  Almighty is the name of God that Job uses in his discussion with his friends and defense of himself. 

With each revelation (and there are multiple revelations in four chapters) of the Almighty (the Creator God), Jehovah (the personal name of the covenant-keeping God) enlightens Job’s understanding.  The LORD Jehovah reveals to Job the difference between what Job knows, the works of the Almighty, His acts of power and the ways of the Almighty (His otherness) in the revelation of His glory, His personal being in the Son of the covenant.  Generally, Job speaks of the Almighty God and not of the personal covenant-keeping Jehovah God.  Job knows God’s acts and power but he does not know God’s ways.  When Jehovah speaks to Job, it is as Jehovah and He reveals His ways. 

The works of God are much more straightforward and familiar to man than God’s ways.  Knowing the works of the Almighty in the mind is not the same as knowing the ways of the Almighty.  Man must be enlightened in his understanding to the ways of God.  The ways of God are received in the understanding of the spirit. 

In Job 9:9, in his discussion with his friend Bildad the Shuhite, Job mentions three stars by name, Arcturus, Orion and Pleiades.  This discussion of the stars reveals that Job has light of the knowledge of the glory of God without understanding. 

Jehovah exposes Job’s lack of understanding in chapter 38:31, 32 when He mentions the same three stars – Pleiades, Orion and Arcturus, but He lists them in their correct sequence.  The only season of the year that all three stars are in their constellations simultaneously is in the spring − May. 

The stars mentioned are not stellar sign constellations; rather they are specific stars in the constellations.  Pleiades is the cluster of seven stars in the shoulder of the stellar sign Taurus; Orion is the first decan in Taurus.  A decan is a constellation belonging to a stellar sign, meaning “a part.”  To each of the twelve stellar signs there are three decans either above or below the zodiac belt area of the ecliptic path of the sun.  

Arcturus is a specific star located in the third decan Bootes in the stellar sign of Virgo.  The word Mazzaroth used only in Job 38:32 is a term that refers to all twelve stellar signs. 

God uses the light holders of the heavens for a prophetic revelation and the signs are symbols of something other than themselves and are given to mark a way.  The figurative pictures portray literal truths.  The message of the luminaires is the memorial of both the work and person of the Son of the covenant.  Using the dominate cluster of stars, Pleiades, Jehovah enlightens Job’s understanding of the ways of the Almighty. 

The dominate sign in the heavens at a particular time of year is the sign that the Sun, the dominate luminary, tabernacles (resides) in.  (Handout of Star Magnitude, Color and Position is at the end of the lesson.)  The Sun is the brightest of all the light holders and is in figure a type of the Son (Psalm 19).  The power of the Sun governs which luminaires are declared in the evening sky. 

The Sun must be tabernacle - ing in the constellation of Taurus in order for the constellation of Virgo to be viewed.  Thus, Jehovah lists the stars (Job 38:31, 32) in the correct and only order they are seen.  

Read Job 9:9. 

The order that Job lists the stars points to the power of God.  Arcturus is recognized as the king and means “He Cometh.”  Orion is known as “The Strong One, the Light of Heaven” and is the most brilliant of all the constellations.  Pleiades means “Congregation of the Judge.” 

Light without understanding is knowledge without glory.  What Job said was true, but without wisdom and understanding; nothing personal is in what was said.  Job knows what he knows.  How does what Job knows profit Bildad?  What glory is there for God in what Job knows?  Without the understanding of the light of the knowledge, Job is in the “dark” to the reality of that which he has said.  In His answer to Job, Jehovah gives the understanding of the light of the knowledge that Job might “see” the glory that he has missed.  

Jehovah is personal with Job.  In listing the stars in their proper sequence, Jehovah declares the glory of the power of the Almighty, the Servant of Jehovah, the covenant Son.  Job does not “see” in his understanding that the power of God is His Love.  Without understanding the glory of Love, the knowledge of the works of God is spoiled.  Without Love, the influence of power as a force of sovereignty and authority and supremacy is brutal and ruthless in its pursuit of control.  

The power of God’s Love – the sovereignty and authority, the influence and the supremacy is the servant of God’s Love, the Servant of Jehovah.  The message of the glory of the power of the Almighty, the unmovable force of Love, the Servant of Jehovah is in the sign Taurus.  The Servant of Jehovah is the power reigning over the kingdom. 

The message of the stellar sign Taurus institutes that which was ordained in eternity within the counsel of the eternal God (Libra) − a kingdom of sons of God, a kingdom of priests in hope of everlasting life according to God’s own purpose and grace given in Christ Jesus.  

In the stellar sign Leo is the institution of the kingdom; Cancer is the calling home of the Jews to Jerusalem; Gemini is the marriage between the Beloved and His betrothed nation; and the message of Taurus is the establishment of the kingdom – everything is in order.  All enemies have been subdued. 

The sign of Taurus takes the seer of the stars back to before the beginning, back to the sign of Libra.  Back to eternity before the beginning, when in the counsel of the true God, Eternal Life – propitiation is made for a kingdom of sons of God.  Back to the price of conflict where God, Spirit Being of Deity, offered Himself.  In the one Offering of Himself, ransom and redemption were offered to mankind. 

In the offering of Himself was the ransom of the soul and the redemption of the body.  His soul was poured out and His life offered.  In the one offering of Himself, righteousness was given, thereby providing man with the ransom of his soul and redemption of the mortal body in the seed – the righteousness of God in Christ.  In the offering of Himself, Spirit Being of Deity offered His person, the very being of who He is − His righteousness and a fashioned body that He retains forever in the Son.  He retains and “shares” the seed body – life everlasting for all to receive their bodies raised up. 

The Spirit Being of Deity chose to cover His essence of deity and willingly stepped out of eternity and into time.  He took upon Himself the likeness of man, a mortal body of flesh and blood to be laid down in death that He might take it up again.  Raised up out from the dead, a body of flesh and bone is the meeting place for mankind; the body offered as the “House of Propitiation” is the Seed.  The life of that body is Eternal Life, spirit. 

God has a redemption price necessary for the redeeming of man’s body; the death of the mortal body of the Son is the price necessary to redeem the mortal body of man to be raised a body of Eternal Life, spirit.  Without the propitiation, there is no kingdom of sons of God, no royal priesthood.  

Without the offering of Himself, there is no ransom, no righteousness to take care of the lawlessness of man’s self-will.  Without the body laid down in death, there is no seed of life everlasting.  All was the offering of a voluntary service of supreme love. 

Taurus takes the seer back to the act of Love beyond reason.  This act of Love, God’s greatest power, must be seen in the eyes of the understanding.  Let’s consider Jehovah’s answer to Job in the three inquiries He requests of Job concerning the stars, Pleiades, Orion and Arcturus and bringing forth the Mazzaroth in his season.  

Read Job 38:31, 32. 

Verse 31:  “Canst thou bind the sweet influence of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?”  

Pleiades is located in the shoulder of the bull; the shoulder is in figure a source of strength.  Burdens are borne and heavy loads are carried on the shoulders.  Orion the strong man is the strongest of men.  Both stars convey the idea of strength; uniting the two stars conveys double strength.  Figuratively the message is strength upon strength.  

The double strength of the two sources of strength, Pleiades and Orion, are set in contrast with the two verbs bind and loose.  The binding refers to chains or fetters and describes the chains or bands used in tethering the Pleiades constellation. The binding has the sense of constraining, to conspire or plot to bind.  The loosing of the bands means to open.  

The Hebrew word for bands, a cord, is used figuratively of the “cords” that bind the constellation Orion in place, keeping it in its created fixed order.  The language articulated in expressing the power of the strength is feminine, speaking of a sweet influence.  When one thinks of the strength of power in the feminine gender, the power of Love comes to mind.  In the symbolism of the sign, the power of a brute force becomes strength whose way is Love. 

Considering that Pleiades is in a constellation of power, what would be the feeling created by viewing that “power”?  The answer depends upon a right understanding of the source of that power.  What holds a creation in a fixed position?  What is the tie that binds all things together?  The powerful authority of the cords of Love binds all! 

Can Job bind that which cannot be bound?  Is he able to bind the sweet influence of Love?  Or can he loose the bands of the power of Love?  Without understanding in the spirit of Job’s being of the glory declared in the heavens, the reality of that which is unseen – the memorial of the Son of the covenant in the viewing of the Pleiades and the feeling created is missed.  It is as though Pleiades is staring Job in the face.  Without understanding of what he is viewing, he does not see. 

Verse 32:  “Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons?”

As previously stated, the word Mazzaroth is used only in Job 38:32 and is a term that refers to all twelve stellar signs and is a feminine plural noun.  The signs of the Mazzaroth are symbols of something other than themselves given to mark a way.  The Mazzaroth was ordained of God as a prophetic calendar to indicate the events of “His season” − the life of the coming Son of the covenant.  These three events, He comes, He goes (ascends), and He comes again were celebrated by the nation Israel (yet future in Job’s day) as the seven feasts of Jehovah.  

Job celebrated these events (Job 1:5) yet missed the power of Love behind his offerings?  Can the practice of bringing forth the Mazzaroth in “His season” without understanding have any true influence?  It would be like partaking of communion without understanding that the celebration is a remembrance – a memorial of the union of the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus for the purpose of communion – for the purpose of the partaking of and entering into His holiness. 

The last star mentioned is Arcturus and is seen in the decan Bootes in Virgo.  Bootes is the resurrected Shepherd King Priest, the guardian of the flock of the household of God, His sons.  Here again is the message of strength.  

Does Job have what it takes − the strength to guide the Guider and his sons?  Can Job lead or guide in the right direction without understanding of the proper path.  “He [that] Cometh” is the Leader.  “He [that] Cometh” is the blessing; “He [that] Cometh” is the protection and wisdom.  

Obviously if Jehovah is asking Job if he can bind and loose and call and lead, did Job think he could?  He did until he had his understanding enlightened.  Jehovah is not making idle conversation; this is not a frivolous point that Jehovah is making; Jehovah is enlightening Job to the enmity of his thinking.  The lusts of deceits of the pride of self-will are very deceitful.  Some of the things that Job thought concerning himself were these (Job 31). 

As a man thinks, so is he.  Job was doing everything in his own power for God and he must not think he has a part in God’s doing.  That thinking defiles the ways of God.  Once the enmity is exposed, which is the result of the pride of self-will, Job is free of himself to follow God’s leading and learn of Him.  Job 40:4 says “Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer Thee?  I will lay my hand upon my mouth.” 

I heard of thee by the ear; faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God.  But now, my eye sees – my understanding sees you.  Light without understanding is knowledge without glory.  The glory of God is seen in the face of Jesus Christ, the Son of the covenant, the power of God unto salvation.  Laid out in Jehovah’s answer to Job is the power of the strength of the whole Eternal Covenant, Love. 

In the very being of his being, Job saw the ways of God.  The fulfillment of God’s requirements for His sons can come only from a heart set free from the values of this world − a heart dramatically changed by God to place first importance upon the qualities of God’s eternal kingdom of righteousness, justice, of love, light and life, of humility and closeness to God. 

A heart set free from the values of this world comes from first being broken.  God cannot use us where we are not.  God placed us where we are to shed abroad His Love.  But we have no part but to “shine” as we receive the light of the glory of God in the understanding of our being. 

The Son of the covenant was held on His course, fixed by Love for Love’s sake.  Thus, Job with his understanding enlightened to the ways of the Almighty, enlightened to the Love of God, willingly entered into the iron of this new experience, a partaker of His holiness, fettered by the Love that will not let go! 

Glossary for Mazzaroth of Job

Arcturus – is a specific star located in Bootes, which is the third decan in the stellar sign Virgo. 

Cancer’s Message – is the calling home of the Jews to Jerusalem.

Ecliptic Orbit – is the sun’s path as the earth’s rotates around the sun. 

Gemini’s Message – is the marriage between the Beloved and His betrothed nation. 

Jehovah – is the personal name of the covenant-keeping God. 

Leo’s Message – is the institution of the kingdom. 

Libra’s Message – is the propitiation ordained in eternity within the counsel of the eternal God – the overview of the Eternal Covenant. 

Mazzaroth – is the prophetic calendar in the stars that reveals the entire life of the Son of the covenant. 

Orion – is the strong man and the first decan in Taurus. 

Pleiades – is a cluster of seven stars in the shoulder of the stellar sign Taurus. 

Ransom – is the offering of righteousness in the pouring out of His soul. 

Redemption – is the life of the covenant Son - the Seed Body.

Redemption Price – is the death of the mortal body of the Son of the covenant. 

Servant of Jehovah – is the covenant Son, the power of love reigning over the kingdom – the message of Taurus. 

Stellar Signs – are the twelve primary constellations that have three decans (constellations) each.  The forty-eight constellations make up the Mazzaroth or the Zodiac. 

Taurus’ Message – is the establishment of the kingdom of God on earth – all enemies have been subdued. 

Ways of God - are the many revelations of His glory, the Son of the covenant. 

Works of God - are His acts of power. 

Star Magnitude, Color and Position

Stars that the unaided eye can see vary in magnitude from principal stars of -1 down to 6^th magnitude, the colors of the star flash are white, red, blue, green and yellow. 

Star positions depend upon the direction of the sun according to the earth’s orbit. 

Winter Stars

January − the sun is in the direction of Capricorn; the stellar constellations with their decans in the evening sky are Leo, Cancer, Gemini and Taurus. 

February − the sun is in the direction of Aquarius; the stellar constellations with their decans in the evening sky are Virgo, Leo, Cancer and Gemini. 

March − the sun is in the direction of Pisces; the stellar constellations with their decans in the evening sky are Libra, Virgo, Leo and Cancer. 

Spring Stars

April − the sun is in the direction of Aries; the stellar constellations with their decans in the evening sky are Scorpio, Libra Virgo and Leo. 

May − the sun is in the direction of Taurus; the stellar constellations with their decans in the evening sky are Sagittarius, Scorpio, Libra and Virgo. 

June − the sun is in the direction of Gemini; the stellar constellations with their decans in the evening sky are Capricorn, Sagittarius, Scorpio and Libra. 

Summer Stars

July − the sun is in the direction of Cancer; the stellar constellations with their decans in the evening sky are Aquarius, Capricorn, Sagittarius and Scorpio. 

August − the sun is in the direction of Leo; the stellar constellations with their decans in the evening sky are Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn and Sagittarius. 

September − the sun is in the direction of Virgo; the stellar constellations with their decans in the evening sky are Aries, Pisces, Aquarius and Capricorn. 

Autumn Stars

October − the sun is in the direction of Libra; the stellar constellations with their decans in the evening sky are Taurus, Aries, Pisces and Aquarius.  

November − the sun is in the direction of Scorpio; the stellar constellations with their decans in the evening sky are Gemini, Taurus, Aries and Pisces. 

December − the sun is in the direction of Sagittarius; the stellar constellations with their decans in the evening sky are Cancer, Gemini, Taurus and Aries.  

Lesson 020 The Stars in the Book of Job

The Stars in the Book of Job

(Job 9:8, 9; 38:31-33)

Job is considered the oldest book in the scriptures.  In the book of Job the LORD Jehovah speaks of His message in the stars that tells of the righteousness of the covenant Son and His establishment of the kingdom of God on earth (Job 9:8, 9, 38:31-33).  This message of the Eternal Covenant in the luminaries in Job substantiates the significance of the covenant stellar signs (Genesis 1:14, 15). 

The book of Job as a whole is poetic and figurative, leading some to regard it as allegorical.  Questions considered by Bible scholars are many.  Some of these questions include when was it written, who is the author, and what is the setting or where does the story occur; that is, where is the land of Uz and is Job a fictional character or did he live.  

In the scripture, God gives figurative pictures portraying literal truths and He gives literal pictures in a figurative manner.  Both ways convey truth.  Although portions of Job may appear to some as figurative, the events recorded are factual - not allegorical, not fictional. 

The LORD unmistakably declares the authenticity of Job’s existence in the introduction of the book as well as in the first few chapters.  The introduction and first few chapters are a simple record of actual circumstances in Job’s life.  

As to the land of Uz, Uz was a son of Aram, who was the son of Shem who was the son of Noah (Genesis 10:23).  In addition, God speaks of Job to His prophet Ezekiel, when He includes Job with two other righteous prophets of God, Noah and Daniel.  (Ezekiel 14:14).  Had he been a fictional character, it is doubtful that he would be listed with these two men. 

Before we attempt to discuss the star message in Job, we need understanding concerning Job and the ways of God; the stars as a creation are the works of God that speak of His ways. The works of God and the ways of God are different.  The works declare His acts of power and authority, His ways reveal His glory, His personal being. 

The works of God are much more straightforward and familiar to man than God’s ways.  The ways of God require a change of thinking for man, because man has a way of thinking that is contrary to God.  

The prophets of old, as forth-tellers of God’s truth, had understanding of the ways of God; they were “seers” of His message concerning the righteous covenant Son proclaimed in God’s Eternal Covenant in the heavens. 

The prophets of old were ordinary men and women, who lived in the world with its filthy wicked conversation; yet, understanding and seeing the righteousness of God in the Son of the covenant, they publicly and faithfully declared the truth of God’s Eternal Covenant. 

Each of the three prophets, Noah, Job and Daniel, had a particular task in displaying the ways of God.  God chose each man as His instrument for a specific time and place, for His specific purpose of preserving the message of the Eternal Covenant in the luminaires.  

The memorial work of the Son of the covenant is displayed in each prophet of God and each is a testament to the hope of life everlasting and a holy calling in the covenant Son, despite the horrific circumstances in each man’s life. 

Three very different men lived in three different ages of history.  Noah lived another three hundred years after the flood and was dead by Job’s day.  Job is definitely dead by Daniel’s day.  Yet, what connects them is their obedience to protect and preserve the truth in the Eternal Covenant.  The time-period of the three men covers the creation to the flood (Noah, Genesis 1-10), after the flood to the dispersion of the nations (Job, Genesis 11) to the establishment of the kingdom (Daniel, Genesis 12ff), and captivity of the nation Israel under Gentile rule.  

Moved of God by the Spirit, these holy men of God spoke; God preserved His covenant by the faithful obedience of His servants when it was in danger because men did not and would not believe. 

Therefore, let’s look at each prophet/preacher of the righteousness of God in the covenant Son in the order of his listing in the book of Ezekiel, Noah, Job and Daniel. 

Noah was the antediluvian prophet/preacher of righteousness.  From generation to generation from Adam to Noah, God gave man the opportunity to believe into His Eternal Covenant before He destroyed them in the flood.  An ordinary man, Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.  Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations; Noah walked with God.  Walking with God, going the same direction and at the same pace, Noah knew the earth was corrupt before God and that it was filled with violence.  He knew that the wickedness of man was great in the earth and that every imagination of the thoughts of man’s heart was only evil continually. 

Noah knew that the end of all flesh had come and that the LORD was going to destroy man whom He had created from the face of the earth, both man and beast and creeping thing and the fowl of the air (Genesis 6:5-7).  God told Noah that “I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and everything that is in the earth shall die” (Genesis 6:17). 

These are horrific circumstances.  Destruction upon destruction!  On the one hand, mankind is destroying himself; on the other hand, God is going to destroy the whole earth.  Consider the ramifications of such a knowing and consider being “alone” in faith preaching the righteousness of God for one hundred or so years while building an ark, knowing that “all flesh wherein is the breath of life,…shall die.” 

Consider the way of Love, consider the Love of God.  Would it be considered loving of God to wipe out that which is corrupt and start over?  God must do that, or the covenant is lost.  What God did in bringing a flood of waters upon the earth was a severe mercy.  Mankind was destroying himself; God must preserve the covenant.  He must be faithful to the glory that the heavens declare; He must be faithful to His Word.  

Consider the faithfulness and the obedience of Noah.  Noah knew that it grieved God in His heart and made Him sorry that He made man.  Noah in the spirit of his being had understanding of the Love of God.  Not love that is imagined as feeling, but Love that has substance, Love that is true and just and righteous in being.  Noah’s faithfulness and obedience show the strength of his walk of faith; the substance of that faith is Love.  Noah walked with God.  

God must preserve mankind in order that He might have sons of God.  Noah must build an ark.  Noah is the heir of salvation (Hebrews 11:7).  Who is Salvation?  Jesus Christ the covenant Son is salvation.  His life is a testament to the hope of life everlasting and holy calling in the covenant Son. 

If one is not in the family, he is not an heir.  Therefore, one has no claim to the inheritance of the kingdom.  Faith works by Love.  Noah believed God to the saving of his household and His household, sons of God. 

The ark is a memorial of the work of the Son of the covenant.  The ark is a coffin and memorializes the death and burial of the Son of the covenant.  If man will not unite himself in death with the Son of the covenant to be raised a son of God, he has no claim of an inheritance; he is not a son of God.  The way of life everlasting is through the union of death in Jesus, the Love of God. 

Likewise, let’s now consider the way of Love in the life of Job. 

Job was a “Gentile” and an ordinary man.  He was the prophet/preacher of righteousness after the flood.  Historical records speak of Job as a contemporary to Abram who became the father of the nation Israel.  The introduction to the book of Job tells that Job was a perfect and upright man, one that feared God and avoided evil.  He sounds like Noah in his singular purpose of knowing God. 

Everything that pertained to Job was hedged about by God (Job 1:10).  God’s blessing was on every side, the work of Job’s hands, his affluence in the land and his family.  He had seven sons and three daughters.  However, in a matter of a few moments, the circumstances of Job’s life became extremely painful.  Everything that Job held dear was wiped out – family, home and substance.  Material blessings, everything and everyone loved were no more, all vanished!  Consider the ramifications of such a loss. 

Would such a loss be considered the loving chastisement of the LORD − a child training in righteousness?  No, of course not, yet it was.  The scriptures say “For whom the LORD loves He chastens, and scourges every son whom he receives” (Hebrews 12:6). 

The LORD [had] said to Satan “Have you considered my servant Job, there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that fears God and avoids evil?” (Job 2:3). 

God has a purpose in mind for the child training of His servant Job and a purpose in mind for Satan.  God never does anything without design or purpose, and He is never unjust in what He does; it is contrary to His being. 

Read Job 1:9-22.

Yet what was Job’s response to all that befell him?  Job knows what he knows; all that is given man is a gift from God.  “Naked came I out of my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return thither:  the LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD.  In all this Job sinned not, nor charged God foolishly” (Job 1:21, 22). 

So much for Satan’s accusation of Job cursing God.  Consider the LORD saying to Satan a second time “Have you considered my servant Job, there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that fears God and avoids evil?” and still he holds fast his integrity, although you moved Me against him, to destroy him without cause” (Job 2:3).  

Read Job 2:4-8.

Job is afflicted in his body, covered from sole of his foot to the crown of his head with boils, and his wife says, “Do you still retain your integrity?  Curse God and die” (Job 2:9).  These are horrific circumstances.  Yet what was Job’s response to all that befell him?  He knows what he knows. 

He said to his wife “You speak as one of the foolish women speak.  What?  Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?  In all this Job did not sin with his lips” (Job 2:10).  So much for Satan’s accusation of Job cursing God. 

One more “suffering,” the surmising accusations and questions of three unsympathetic “friends” accompany Job’s losses and bodily ailments.  

This is the crux of the matter for Job. 

Job knows what he knows.  He knows each friend is at enmity in his mind; each friend has his own religious way of thinking about the God of glory.  One friend is a traditionalist − very orthodox and conventional.  Another friend is a dogmatist − a diehard and rigid in his doctrine, and the third is a spiritualist − a mystic.  The three ways of thinking, which each friend believed and taught, falsify the truth of the Son of God; they change the message of the Eternal Covenant in the covenant Son; they conceal the glory of God the heavens declare. 

Job was exactly the way the LORD says he was when He addresses the question to Satan.  The problem is the confusion of the position of righteousness with behavior.  The heart of the matter for Job is that righteous Job is also at enmity in his mind.  Really?  Is it possible to be righteous and be at enmity in our mind with God?  Yes, it is.  This was Job’s problem.  Did he know that he was at enmity or had that thinking?  No.  He is righteous and has done everything he believes necessary to ensure all is covered.  Even to the point of offering sacrifice for his children lest one of them should sin (Job 1:5).  

However it is in the conversation between Job’s friends and Job’s own defense of himself and the LORD’S response to Job’s questions that the discovery of Job’s thinking about himself and his thinking about God and what he has done for God is made known.  Unknown to Job, God has become his adversary in his thinking, rather than seeing he is adversarial in his thinking towards God, which is the thinking of Satan. 

God never does anything without purpose or design.  Nor is He ever unkind or unjust in what He does.  What the LORD did in the chastisement of Job was a severe mercy of God because Job was doing himself in with his own thinking.  Until the chastisement of the LORD, Job was unaware of his incorrect thinking - he missed what God was doing.  What Job missed concerning the Eternal Covenant in the covenant Son is that all is God’s doing.  The way of God’s kingdom is on the basis of the work of the covenant Son and none other.  

“Blessed is the man whom thou chasten, O LORD, and teaches him out of thy law; that thou may give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit be digged for the wicked” (Psalm 94:12, 13). 

Now let’s consider the Love of God.  Would the suffering of Job be considered the loving chastisement of God or a severe mercy of God to protect Job from continuing on the path he is on?  If we are honest, the answer is no; yet it was.  Job was doing everything in his own power for God and he must not think he has a part in God’s doing.  The work of Job’s hands – the work done in the flesh defiles.  That thinking defiles the ways of God.  

The chastening Love of the LORD, although severe, prepared Job for his three friends, which prepared Job to have his crooked thinking corrected and made straight.  Job’s faith now has substance, Love.  

Consider therefore the faithfulness and the obedience of Job in his own words “I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear:  but now my eye seeth thee.  Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes” (Job 42:5, 6). 

I heard of thee by the ear; faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God.  Job believed to receive the life everlasting offered in the Son of the covenant.  But now, my eye sees – my understanding sees you.  In the very being of me, I see you; I see the ways of God.  I see that the work of my hands, they are nothing − dust and ashes.  Therefore, I repent – change my mind.  

Job’s confession is a living memorial of the work of the resurrection of life in the Son of the covenant.  Once the enmity is exposed, which is the result of the pride of self-will, Job is free of himself to follow God’s leading and learn of Him.  With his thinking made straight, the faithfulness of the Word, the glory of the righteousness of the Son of the covenant is preserved - all is God’s doing. 

As we have considered Love’s way with Noah and Love’s way with Job, let’s now consider Love’s way with Daniel. 

In Daniel’s day the nation of Israel was a divided kingdom.  The ten northern tribes of Israel had been taken into captivity by Assyria as a result of their idolatry.  The remaining two tribes of Judah and Benjamin had been warned of God not to be like Israel; for a while, they remained true to God.  Eventually the tribes of Judah and Benjamin did not continue to harken to the exhortation and were taken into captivity in the days of Nebuchadnezzar who had conquered Assyria.  The nation of Israel was captive and under Gentile dominion.  

Daniel an ordinary young man was from the royal line of Judah.  Most commentators think he was about seventeen when taken captive.  The custom of the conquering king when he took captives was to take captive the royal line of that nation and make the young men eunuchs; this ensured the ruling authority of the conquering king and the end of the conquered nation’s kingdom.  Unable to produce seed – heirs, the kingdom would cease.  

Not only is Daniel parted from his family, his nation has been taken captive and he has been made a eunuch.  Here is a young man, devoted to His God, in a strange land, under the constraint of a pagan king to do his bidding.  The people of the land at the beginning of Daniel’s captivity are enemies of Israel and consider Daniel their enemy.  These are horrific circumstances.  Now consider the Love of God.  God had plans for Daniel and the nation Israel and those Gentiles within Daniel’s influence.  A captive of Love, Daniel is without fear and at perfect peace in his circumstances.  Daniel was the prophet/preacher of righteousness raised of God not only for the nation Israel but also for the Gentiles.  Most commentators believe Daniel lived to be 90 years old, Nebuchadnezzar alone reigned forty years. 

Like Noah, Daniel preached the way of life everlasting is in the Son of the covenant and like Job, Daniel preached the faithfulness of the Word, the glory of the righteousness of the Son of the covenant - all is God’s doing.  The memorial work of the Son of the covenant is seen in the preservation of the nation Israel and the promise of the establishment of God’s kingdom on earth at the end of Gentile rule (Daniel 7 and 9). 

Although the nation in her disobedience was taken captive, God preserved a remnant.  “God is not a man that he should lie; neither the son of man that He should repent [change His mind]:  hath He said, and shall He not do?  Or hath He spoken, and shall He not make it good” (Numbers 23:19)? 

The tribulation will serve as a loving chastisement of God on the nation and a severe mercy to correct their thinking and prepare them for their Messiah.  During the tribulation God will once again save a remnant and end the Gentile dominion establishing the work of His hands declared in the luminaries, a kingdom of sons of God on earth.  

The three prophets of God, Noah, Job and Daniel are linked in Ezekiel for a specific purpose.  Israel at that time in her history had set up idols in her heart, putting the stumbling block of her iniquity before the face of her prophets – the foretellers of God’s ways.  In so doing the people of Israel were estranged in their heart from the Lord God because of their idols. 

God encourages his people to repent and put away the stumbling block of their iniquity – put away the idols of the imagination of the heart – the enmity of the pride of the self-will, the enmity of their own thinking and know that “I am the LORD.” 

In mentioning the three prophets – the Lord God reminds the people of His Eternal Covenant and reminds them that they are responsible to God for the way they think.  No man can change another man’s mind; the only mind we can change is our own; even God cannot change someone’s mind and He cannot protect someone’s mind. 

As a man thinks, so is he.  We must be willing to consider God’s ways. 

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No Glossary for the Stars of Job