Monday, October 21, 2013

Lesson 033 − Scorpio


Scorpio
The Destruction of the Seed of the Serpent –More to be Desired than Gold, Sweeter also than Honey and the Honeycomb”
Review:  The repeating pattern of “He who is, He who was and He who is to come” in the Eternal Covenant is the law of recurrence.  The great “I AM” is Eternal.  The great “I AM” is He who is, He who was and He who is to come.  “I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending saith the Lord, which is, and which was and which is to come, the Almighty” (Revelation 1:8). 
In the signs:
Libra pictures eternity.  Libra He who is, is the Transaction of Propitiation. 
VirgoHe who was, is the Seed of the woman, the Son given. 
LeoHe who is to come, is the King. 
(Repeat of the pattern - He who is, He who was, and He who is to come)
CancerHe who is, is the One who holds or shelters and Libra, the Transaction of Propitiation. 
Gemini He who was, is the betrothed Beloved and Virgo, the Seed of the woman, the Son given. 
TaurusHe who is to come, is the coming Ruler, the Servant of Jehovah and Leo, the King. 
(Repeat of the pattern – He who is, He who was, and He who is to come)
Aries He who is, is the gentle merciful Lamb; Cancer, the One who holds or shelters; and Libra, the Transaction of Propitiation. 
Pisces – He who was, is the bridle, the reins of Love; Gemini, the betrothed Beloved; and Virgo, the Seed of the woman, the Son given. 
Aquarius – He who is to come, is the record of the pouring out, the exalted Water-Man; Taurus, the coming Ruler, the Servant of Jehovah; and Leo, the King. 
(Repeat of the pattern – He who is, He who was, and He who is to come)
CapricornHe who is, is the Atonement; Aries, the gentle merciful Lamb; Cancer, the One who holds or shelters and Libra, the Transaction of Propitiation. 
Sagittarius – He who was, is the gracious delighted-in Conqueror; Pisces, the bridle, the reins of Love; Gemini, the betrothed Beloved; and Virgo, the Seed of the woman, the Son given.  
Scorpio – He who is to come, is the Destroyer of the seed of the serpent; Aquarius, the record of the pouring out, the exalted Water-Man; Taurus, the coming Ruler, the Servant of Jehovah; and Leo, the King. 
Review of Sagittarius
Sagittarius is known as the “Archer,”  the risen Lord Jesus, the “Delighted-In Conqueror,” the “Crowned King” (“Cepheus” in Pisces), who is the victorious one, the power of God unto salvation, “The Gracious,” who must set Himself for battle. 
He is the authority.  He has the preeminence.  Nothing thwarts God’s plan and purposes; He is never taken by surprise!  By outward appearances, all is well within the kingdom; for a thousand years, crime, violence and war have not existed. 
Nevertheless, division exists.  In spite of the rule of Love, in spite of the teaching of the truth in the signs of the luminaries and in spite of the celebration of the festivals of Jehovah in the spring and fall, the enmity of man’s mind, the lawlessness of the imagination of the heart, still exists. 
The imagination of the heart of man is God’s greatest enemy.  The enmity of the imagination of the pride of self-will cannot be tamed or conquered; it must be put to death.  At the end of the kingdom age (the thousand-year reign), the gathering for the judgment of the second death will take place.  
Matthew 13:41-42 says, “The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of His kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity; and shall cast them into a furnace of fire:  there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.” 
Following the path of the sun from eternity (Libra) to eternity, one understands that Sagittarius is the gathering of the enemies for the final judgment.  These people are pictured in the sign Scorpio as a scorpion.  These rebels are the collective seed of the serpent.  These in the kingdom are like Cain of old, who knew to “do well” (Genesis 4:7), that is to receive the Life Eternal offered in the Son of the covenant.  These in the kingdom burn in their anger and refuse the powerful authority of Love, the life offered in the covenant Son.  
They refuse to be loved and are gathered for the final judgment, the second death, where for eternity, they will burn in their anger – their hearts hardened like brimstone, weeping and wailing and gnashing their teeth in anger toward God remembering their refusal of the gift of life offered and the just recompense of God in their rejection. 
Scorpio
The sign Scorpio is the exclamation mark to Sagittarius; Scorpio is the epilogue detailing the fate of the rebels of the King and His sons. 
In November, the sun is in the direction of Scorpio.  The four evening luminaries in the heavens are Gemini, He who was, the betrothed Beloved; Taurus, He who is to come, the Servant of Jehovah; Aries, He who is, the gentle merciful Lamb and Pisces, He who was, is the bridle, the reins of Love. 
From God’s position as designer of the covenant, Scorpio is the twelfth sign from Libra.  Twelve is the last of the perfect numbers and signifies the perfection of government or governmental perfection.  In the scripture, twelve and its multiples deal with “rule.”  
He who is, who was and who is to come is the Eternal God [His Covenant] seen in the twelve signs that govern or rule the annual prophetic message in the circle of the heavens giving light upon the earth. 
The star chart drawing of Scorpio is a huge scorpion that has crablike claws in the front and a curved tail with a poisonous sting. 
There are many species of scorpions, but one of the most dangerous is the fat tail scorpion.  In many cultures, this scorpion is referred to as the man-killer.  They are small, about 4 inches full-grown.  The tail is very fat and it has very strong venom.  They tend to avoid humid locations preferring the dry areas that get very warm; they avoid the sunlight, because they are sensitive to it; and they become more aggressive in captivity. 
They are nocturnal; because of their powerful venom, they can immediately consume their prey.  The enzymes in their venom turn the internal part of their prey into a liquid substance.  Scorpions are not able to consume anything solid.  The reproduction of the scorpion is very complex.  If the female of the species is unhappy with the efforts of the male, she may make him leave; if he refuses, she will eat him. 
An average of 40 to 90 scorpions is born at one time.  They climb up the mother’s legs and cling to her back where they stay until they go through the first molting period, a few weeks.  If they do not leave when she wants them to leave, she may consume them.  More human deaths have been reported because of this scorpion than any other in the world. 
Names of the stellar sign Scorpio
“The Conflict or War”
“The Attack of the Enemy”
“Wounding Him Who Cometh”
The brightest star in the upper torso, the heart of the scorpion, is red and means “The Wounding.”  The star in the tail means “The Perverse.” 
Star names identified with the stellar sign Scorpio
“The Heart of the Scorpion”
“The Wounding”
“The Perverse”
The message in the figure of the scorpion as the seed of the enmity parallels God’s message about the heart of man.  The heart of man rejects any type of personal responsibility.  The heart is deceitful and desperately wicked, perverse in its desire to serve self (Jeremiah 17:9). 
Although the knowledge of the Lord covers the earth like the waters cover the sea, some in the kingdom will not buy the truth of the Love of God in Christ.  They will not give up the enmity of the mind and be reconciled to God to be born sons of God.  The powerful venom of the lawlessness of the imagination of the heart consumes them, thus they become their own prey.  Avoiding the “Sonlight,” because they are sensitive to the truth and unwilling to consume anything solid, they feed on a “liquid substance” of self-will. 
Nocturnal, they love their darkness and because they have been restrained in their freedom to act out the lawlessness of the heart, they become more aggressive in captivity – the kingdom of peace and righteousness that is ruled in love.  
Scorpio pictures the growing hostility of humanity to the truth taught during the thousand-year reign while the dragon is shut up in prison; “that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled:  after that he must be loosed a little season” (Revelation 20:3). 
The heart of man rejects any type of personal responsibility.  During the thousand-year reign, man is faced with the deceitfulness of his own heart because the serpent, the enmity of man’s thinking is “locked away” figuratively speaking; the pride of self-will is restrained and no outward manifestation is permitted.  
Man can blame no one for his enmity against the truth of God.  He can blame no one for his lawlessness.  The heart is deceitful and desperately wicked, perverse in its desire to serve self (Jeremiah 17:9). 
In Sagittarius, God is the Sovereign and purposefully designs all that he does.  The dragon cannot be loosed from the pit without the express approval of God and he must be loosed because this “little season” serves the purpose of God.  The multitude of the nations is the “seed” of the serpent.  The figure of the serpent is the symbol of sin.  The stellar sign Scorpio is the pictorial of a collective body at enmity with God − the seed of the serpent.  
“Draco,” (third decan in Sagittarius) released from his prison, will go out to deceive the nations, the “collective” enmity of the pride of self-will.  The “collective” enmity – the seed of the serpent comes from “the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog” (Revelation 20:8).  
Revelation 20:7 and 8 reads, “And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, and shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle:  the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.” 
In the Garden of Eden God taught Adam and Eve the truth; God provided Adam and Eve with an alternate choice, the two trees, in order to expose the enmity of the mind (Genesis 2:16,17).  Their choice proved the lawlessness of the heart (represented by the symbol of the serpent in the luminaires).  Likewise, at the end of the thousand-year reign, Satan is loosed from his prison and permitted to deceive for a “little season” (Revelation 20:3).  
Of necessity, God provides man with an alternate thinking thereby exposing the enmity of the mind in its perverse desire to serve self.  Thus, God is just in His pronouncement of judgment on the wicked, because He gives man freedom of choice.  
“And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison and shall go out to deceive the nations… And went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city:  and fire came down from God out of heaven and devoured them.” (Revelation 20:8-9). 
The pictorial of the fire from heaven in Sagittarius is in the second decan Ara,” “the altar” or funeral pyre. 
When provided with an alternate choice of thinking, the seed of the serpent remains at enmity in its mind and makes war against “the camp of the saints about and the beloved city” (Revelation 20:9) with poison in its tail.  The perverse thinking of this collective body is poison.  Thinking to take hold of the camp of the saints and the beloved city as its own possession, the collective body of the seed of the serpent, represented by the scorpion, will prove the depravity of the lawlessness of the heart and necessity of the fire of God to come from heaven and devour them. 
The saints are the 12 tribes of Israel, who camp around the city as they did the tabernacle in the Old Testament.  The beloved city is the dwelling place of God. 
The first and second decan in Scorpio are intertwined and present one figure.  The second decan, “Ophiuchus” holds the first decan, a serpent called “Serpens,” in his hands.  The second and third decan of Scorpio are separate figures that represent one person, the bridegroom, strong man (Psalm 19), the LORD Jesus Christ.  
The first decan is “Serpens,”   The second decan is “Ophiuchus,” “The Serpent Held.”  The third decan is Hercules.” 
Other Names of the first decan “Serpens”
“The Serpent”
Star names identified with “Serpens”
“Encompassing”
“The Accursed”
“The Serpent Enfolding”
Second Decan in Scorpio
Third Decan in Scorpio
“Ophiuchus”
“Hercules”

Other names of the second decan

Other Names of the third decan
“The Holder of the Serpent”
“The One Who Cometh”

“The Strong One”



Star Names in “Ophiuchus”

Star Names in “Hercules”
“The Head of Him Who Holds”
“The Kneeler”
“The Head of the Desired”
“The Head of Him Who Bruises”
“Bruised”
“The Head of the Desired”
“Treading Underfoot”
“The Wounding”
“The Wounding and Contending”
“The Sin Offering”

“Punishing”

The brightest star in “Serpens” is “Encompassing” and is located in the neck.  Other star names are “The Accursed” and “The Serpent Enfolding.”  They confirm the promise of Genesis 3:15.  The figure of the serpent is the symbol of “the sin” – the lawlessness of the heart.  As in other pictorials in the luminaries, the brightest star is the dominant star and figuratively speaking it is the star of “strength.”  
What is all “Encompassing” in the heart of man is the subtle strength of the enmity of his own thinking making him “stiff-necked.”  Jehovah often uses the term stiff-necked to describe those who are obstinately proud and arrogant, determined and unwilling to change their minds. 
In the drawing of the first decan “Serpens,” the serpent is attempting to swallow the crown above its head, the third decan, “Corona” of Libra.  The meaning of the Hebrew name for “Corona” is Royal Crown and the brightest star in this decan means “the Shining.”  The figure of the crown is the symbol of the King’s city, Jerusalem.  
However, the serpent is held fast in the hands of “Ophiuchus.”  The brightest star in His head has two star names “The Head of Him Who Holds” and “The Head of the Desired One.”   
As Moses the servant of God fastened the brass serpent on a pole in the wilderness (Numbers 21) as a sign of the coming judgment and defeat of the serpent, so the “greater than Moses,” “Ophiuchus,” holds the serpent in His hands as a sign of victory to the sons of God; the enmity of the deceitfulness of man’s heart is judged.  
In the drawing, “Ophiuchus” is a “strong man” with superior power able to hold the serpent in His hands (Psalm 19:5).  He is no ordinary man. “Ophiuchus,” “The Head of the Desired,” “The Serpent Held,” is Deity clothed in the likeness of man, God in a body of flesh.  Ophiuchus” speaks of the power of Deity. 
The left foot of “Ophiuchus,” the power of Deity, holds fast the heart of the scorpion, which pictures the restraining of the enmity of thinking against God for a thousand years; no outward lawlessness has been permitted. 
In Scorpio, “Hercules” the strong man, releases the restraint and raises His right foot to His own “Bruising,” “Treading Underfoot” “The Attack of the Enemy,” “Wounding” Himself because of the “Contending” of the seed of the serpent, “The Perverse,” in their first and final act of lawlessness
“Hercules,” the head over his household, the first-born Son of God is the bridegroom king, the strong man who came out of his chamber to run a race.  His going forth is from the end of the heaven, and His circuit to the ends of it (Psalm 19:5, 6). 
The “strong man” is the distinguished “Gracious Delighted-in Conqueror” revealed in Sagittarius.  He is the one who has power over the serpent, “Serpens,” the scorpion, Scorpio and the dragon, “Draco” though wounded in His conflict with them. 
Down on one knee, “Hercules” is clothed in the skin of a lion, the covering of royalty identifying him as Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham (Matthew 1:1).  His left foot is set directly on the head of “Draco,” the great dragon, the third decan in Sagittarius.  In his left hand, “Hercules” has a great club (righteousness); in his right hand, he has a fierce three-headed serpentine monster held fast. 
The right and left in the figures are symbolic.  The “left” side stands for the humanity of the Son of the covenant, the “right” stands for the power of His glory as God. 
The brightest star in the head of “Hercules” also has two star names “The Head of Him Who Bruises” and “The Head of the Desired.”  “The Head of the Desired” also is a star name in “Ophiuchus.”  This confirms that “Ophiuchus” and “Hercules” represent the same person, Jesus of Nazareth, “The Desired One.”
In one swift move “The Branch Kneeling,” “The Sin Offering,” will raise his right heel and “Tread Underfoot,” “Punish” all the enemies, represented by the three-headed monster that has thinking that is at enmity with God.  “Draco,” the serpent, the enmity and its seed represented by Scorpio will be destroyed. 
Here at last, in the final pictorial of the “figures of the true” is the bruising recorded in Genesis 3:15.  It was done in eternity.  In eternity the bruising is done; at the cross it is finished; in Scorpio it is done! 
“And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and false prophet are and shall be tormented day and night forever and ever” (Revelation 20:10).  Never again shall he be.  Amen! 
The two primary scripture passages about Lucifer are in Isaiah and Ezekiel.  
The boasting of the five “I will’s” of Lucifer to be like the Most High reveal the dragon-like enmity of his heart (Isaiah 14:13, 14).  Boast as he might, however, he is a creation of God, not the Creator God.  
The prophetic promise of God, “Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit” (Isaiah 14:15) takes place at the beginning of the thousand-year reign.  
Although not revealed in the luminaires until the decan “Draco,” Lucifer is cast into the pit at the beginning of the establishment of God’s kingdom on earth (Revelation 20 - Leo).  The stellar sign Taurus confirms that all enemies are restrained (Lesson 19 −Taurus).  
Ezekiel 28:16-19 reads: 
“By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned…therefore will I cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God:  and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.” 
“Thine heart was lifted up because of your beauty; thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of the brightness (for the sake of your splendor):  I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before the kings, that they may behold thee.” 
“Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffic; therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee.” 
“All they that know thee among the people shall be astonished at thee; thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt thou be any more”
The long-ago prophecy of Ezekiel 28 reveals the destruction of the covering cherub Lucifer.  The sign of Scorpio pictures the fulfillment of this prophecy. 
The reading of the Eternal Covenant in the stars comes to an end, but not so the Eternal Covenant; it is Eternal.  The King shall reign forever and ever.  God’s goal is accomplished.  “The Desired One,” who is more to be desired than gold, sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb, has His kingdom of sons, priests of God who live forever.  Amen! 
Glossary for Scorpio

Names of the Stellar Sign of Scorpio 
“The Conflict or War”
“The Attack of the Enemy”
“Wounding Him Who Cometh”

Star Names in the Stellar Sign of Scorpio 
“The Heart of the Scorpion”
“The Wounding”
“The Perverse”

Names of Decans in Scorpio 
Other Names of the first decan “Serpens”
“The Serpent”
Star names identified with “Serpens”
“Encompassing”
“The Accursed”
“The Serpent Enfolding”
Second Decan in Scorpio
Third Decan in Scorpio
“Ophiuchus”
“Hercules”
Other names of the second decan
Other Names of the third decan
“The Holder of the Serpent”
“The One Who Cometh”

“The Strong One”


Star Names in “Ophiuchus”
Star Names in “Hercules”
“The Head of Him Who Holds”
“The Kneeler”
“The Head of the Desired”
“The Head of Him Who Bruises”
“Bruised”
“The Head of the Desired”
“Treading Underfoot”
“The Wounding”
“The Wounding and Contending”
“The Sin Offering”

“Punishing”




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