Lesson 016 Cancer

Cancer

The One Who Holds or Shelters – Making Wise the Simple

(Genesis 12-22:19 and Hebrews 11:8-19)

In the previous constellation of Leo, the testimony of the LORD is sure!  The kingdom of this earth has become of our Lord and His Christ, and He shall reign forever and ever (Revelation 11:15).  Although the eternal covenant takes ages to occur in time, the kingdom promised the fathers of the nation Israel is a reality.  Victory belongs to the King, the adversary is conquered. 

The 144,000 from the twelve tribes of Israel called and sealed (Revelation 7) will be the “disciples” of Jesus during the seven years of tribulation – His preachers of righteousness, who at His coming to earth will stand with the Lamb on Mt. Zion (Revelation 14). 

The outward rebellion of enmity against the King has been destroyed; the enmity first declared in Genesis 3 was between the descendants of men who live in the pride of self-will and the Seed of the woman − the collective righteous seed and the singular male member, the coming covenant Son. 

The one who opposed and exalted himself above all that is called God or that is worshipped - the one sitting in the temple of God declaring himself to be God will be cast alive with his false prophet into the lake of fire burning with brimstone as seen in the constellation Aries.  The serpent will be cast into the pit for the thousand years.  The inhabitants of the new world order of the new kingdom of Babylon, who drank of the cup of intoxicating wine and served in the world and helped to build the city, have been made to drink the wine of God’s anger. 

The seducer of the nations, the harlot, the organized world system of politics, economics and religion built by men who live in the flesh, whose desire is their appetite for things, has been destroyed!  The virtual city of the pride of life is no more; the city is never to be seen again.  Hydra, a decan in the constellation Leo is the city Babylon that rises from out of the sea of humanity, “The Abhorred” - “The Heart of the Serpent” has been “The Put Out of the Way,” the “Enemy [has been] Put Down.”  

Cancer follows Leo in the rotation of the stellar signs.  Cancer’s theme is the establishment of a new kingdom.  At the end of the seven years, Jesus returns to set up His kingdom.  He will have preserved a remnant of His people Israel from total obliteration.  Two–thirds of the nation will have perished in the tribulation of desolation.  The yoke of oppression placed on the neck of Israel by the man of sin, the son of perdition, will be broken; and Israel’s bonds of oppression will burst.  Jehovah will be the remnant’s glory. 

Zechariah 13:8-9:  “And it shall come to pass, in all the land, saith the LORD, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left.  And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried:  they shall call on my name, and I will hear them:  I will say, it is my people: and they shall say, The LORD is my God.” 

The preserved remnant of the nation Israel, those Jews who survive the tribulation, will be born in a day.  Isaiah 66:8:  “Who has heard such a thing?  who hath seen such things?  Shall the earth be made to bring forth in one day?  Or shall a nation be born at once?  for as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her children.” 

Israel will experience great persecution, and the devastation of the trial will be global in its effect.  The devastation will move the nations of the earth to pledge willingly their allegiance to the sovereignty of Israel’s Sovereign.  For the hour of temptation shall also “come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth” (Revelation 3:10). 

In the sign of Cancer God exalts Israel to her proper place of dignity and honor and authority as the head of the nations (Deuteronomy 28:1, 13; Jeremiah 30:8).  The strangers (the other nations) shall no more serve themselves or him (the son of perdition), but they shall “serve the LORD their God and David their king whom I will raise up for them” (Jeremiah 30:8). 

The remnant, which comes out of the great tribulation, will be recognized by the nations of the earth as a kingdom of priests unto God who will minister the Word of “our” God.  In that day, “They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain:  for the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea” (Isaiah 11:9, Habakkuk 2:14).  All that has been promised concerning the kingdom of Messiah is fulfilled; God’s will will be done on earth as it is in heaven (Isaiah 55:3). 

The promised blessing to Abraham concerning the nation and the land as seen in the stars and recorded in Genesis 15 is fulfilled when God establishes His kingdom.  The invitation is given to every nation, language, kindred and people to come into the kingdom of the covenant Son and enter the earthly kingdom where Jesus is the Sovereign.  

Both Sovereignty and personal faith are the issue.  To enter the kingdom everyone must make a decision to accept the peace terms offered in the Son – He is the Sovereign!  Some will place their faith in Him as their Lord and become sons of God in the kingdom of God, the kingdom of righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit (Romans 14:17).  Before they served the man of lawlessness - here is a new authority, the true and final authority.  

Isaiah 2:2-4 says, “And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the LORD’S house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it.  And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of His ways, and we will walk in His paths:  for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.  And He shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people:  and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks:  nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore.” 

Mountains are a reference to kingdoms in the scripture.  The kingdom of the covenant Son and His royal priesthood is established at the top of the mountains; no kingdom is higher.  The household of sons of God is exalted – glorious, lifted in praise to the anointed covenant Son; all nations flow to the city of the King, Jerusalem. 

When God sets up His kingdom on earth at Christ’s second coming, the Old Testament saints have received their bodies of glory and their land as their inheritance.  Christ is the first fruits of the resurrection and afterward those at His coming – the Old Testament saints.  Everyone has been separated unto the Shepherd King and will be fed the bread of life.  This is a new creation; the former things have passed away (Isaiah 43:14-21).  All have been drawn unto God and each man will now be judged according to his own lawlessness. 

The judgment of the creation tested in Adam is no longer.  The flesh body, dead because of sin (Romans 8:10), is no longer consigned to return to the dust of the ground.  Resurrection of life (the resurrection of a body) is no more.  The consigning of the body to dust and the resurrection are “former things.”  In the kingdom there will be no death, one can be put to death and die, but there is no consigning of the body to death (Isaiah 65:17-20).  This is a kingdom of peace and righteousness; there will be no enemies.  This is a new beginning.  “…Behold, I make all things new…” (Revelation 21:5). 

Those who receive the hope of life everlasting upon entering the kingdom, as well as those born during the thousand years who made a decision for life everlasting, will remain in their mortal bodies until the end of the age (the thousand years) when they shall be changed.  At that time “… he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when He shall have put down all rule and all authority and power” (1Corinthians 15:24). 

Nevertheless until then, the stellar sign of Leo is the reminder of the enmity of that which will be antagonistic to the will of God concerning the covenant Son; seen in the luminary is the deceitfulness of the pride of the self-will of man symbolized by the serpent.  At the heart of the issue is the issue of the heart − the pride of self-will where the imagination of the thoughts and intents of the heart is only evil continually (Genesis 6:5).  Now each man will be tested according to his own lawlessness.  God desires that each man will bow the knee, “Kiss the Son, lest He be angry, and ye perish from the way…” (Psalm 2:12) (2Peter 3:9) 

The figurative message of Cancer is that One holds and shelters those in His kingdom of righteousness and peace, making wise the simple.  A new beginning is in the sign of Cancer.  Who are the simple and how is it that they are made wise? 

The simple are those who no longer fight or contend for self-will.  They are willing to be taught by the lowly and meek of heart, Jesus, the covenant Son.  They willingly take His yoke upon themselves, they have bowed to the Son - giving a kiss of peace; they have found rest for their souls.  “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom” (Proverbs 1:7). 

In the star drawings of most star charts, Cancer is the figure of a crab; however, ancient astronomers designated Cancer as a manger.  A manger is a feeding trough for livestock.  This leads one to consider that the crab was not the original symbol.  The star names in this constellation affirm the manger to be the original figure of Cancer.  The star names within the three decans underscore the subject of flocks as coming from two separate assemblies of peoples, but in the end one herd of sheep, with one Shepherd King. 

The names for the stellar sign Cancer are “The Manger,” “The One Who Holds or Binds,” and “Holding, Encircling the Possession.”  

The star names included in the stellar sign are “Holding,” “Sheltering or Hiding Place,” “Assembled Thousands,” “The Kids or The Lambs,” “The Multitude or The Offspring.”  Manifested within the star names is the first flock – Israel and the promise of protection to the remnant of Israel during Jacob’s time of trouble (the seven years of tribulation). 

“For it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD of Hosts …they shall serve the LORD their God, and David their king, whom I will raise up for them.  Therefore fear thou not, O my servant Jacob, saith the LORD; neither be dismayed, O Israel: for, lo, I will save thee from afar, and thy seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and shall be in rest, and be quiet and at ease, and none shall make him afraid” (Jeremiah 30:8-10). 

Flocks of sheep require a sheepfold to secure them; thus, the first two decans in the star chart drawings are sheepfolds, Ursa Minor - Little Bear and Ursa Major - Greater Bear.  These decans are known in the United States as the little and big dipper.  The bear symbol of these decans is not on ancient Zodiac charts but goes back as far as the Greeks.  Some astronomers believe that the pictorial of the bear comes from a confusion of mistaken words.  The Old Persian word for “bear” is similar to the word “sheepfold.” 

A sheepfold is an enclosure or shelter for sheep.  The first decan Ursa Minor is the little sheepfold known as “He Who Comes,” “The Center or Center of the Constellations,” and “The Turned Upon” or “The Gate of the Enemy.”  The star names in the decan are “Waiting Him Who Comes,” “The Assembled,” “The Redeemed Assembly,” and ”The Center or High in Rising.”  

The star names confirm the sheep of this sheepfold to be of the flock of Israel, “The Assembled” and “The Redeemed Assembly,” the remnant of His people Israel who will be in the land of Jerusalem, “The Gate of the Enemy,” “ The Center or Center of the Constellations” and will survive the horrors of the tribulation.  They will await “He Who Comes.”  The name of the brightest star in the decan, “The Center or High in Rising” indicates the location of “The Redeemed Assembly,” “The Gate of the Enemy,” Jerusalem.  

“…In the mount of the LORD it shall be provided.  …that in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of His enemies.  And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou has obeyed my voice” (Genesis 22:14, 17-18). 

In that day, Jesus will possess “The Gate of the Enemy,” Jerusalem, where the man of lawlessness had the seat of authority in the running of Mystery Babylon.  When Jesus takes possession, Jerusalem will take center stage having received her proper place of dignity, honor and authority as the head of the nations. 

The sign name for the second decan Ursa Major – “The Greater Sheepfold” is “The Ordered or Assembled Together.”  The star names are “A Herd or a Flock,” “Purchased,” “Separated” (as a flock in a fold) and “Daughters of the Assembly,” “She Goat,” “The Redeemed,” and “The Later Flock.”  These star names represent the second assembly of peoples - the other sheep (John 10:16) which are not of the fold of the remnant Israel.  Jesus also brings them into the fold.  They shall hear His voice and there shall be one fold and one Shepherd.  

This “Herd or Flock,” is “Purchased,” and “Separated.”  “…He shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left.  … Then shall He say also unto them on the left hand, depart from Me, ye cursed, into the everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels” (Matthew 25:33-41).  Those remaining will be the “Separated”   “Herd or Flock,”  “Purchased.”

The star name “Daughters of the Assembly” reveals that offspring will be born.  During the thousand-year kingdom reign, men will procreate.  God desires to fill the earth with sons of God.  Each one born during the thousand-year reign has the potential to become His son. 

The last decan in Cancer is “Argo” and means “A Company of Travelers.”  In the star chart drawing the decan is a very large ship.  There are several star names identifying the “Company of Travelers” as “The Possession of Him Who Comes,” “Returning From Afar,” “The Multitude,” “The Released Who Travel,” “The Desired” and “The Branch.” 

This company of peoples identified by the star names is the Jews who are returning to not only their homeland but to “The Desired,” “The Branch,” who has set His kingdom in Jerusalem.  

Ezekiel 34:11-15, 28:  “For thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I even I, will both search my sheep, and seek them out.  As a shepherd seeketh out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered; so will I seek out my sheep, and will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day.  And I will bring them out from the people, and gather them from the countries, and will bring them to their own land, and feed them upon the mountains of Israel by the rivers, and in all the inhabited places of the country.  I will feed them in a good pasture, and upon the high mountains of Israel shall their fold be:  there shall they lie in a good fold, and in a fat pasture shall they feed upon the mountains of Israel.  I will feed my flock, and I will cause them to lie down, saith the Lord GOD.”  …And they shall no more be a prey to the heathen, neither shall the beast of the land devour them but they shall dwell safely, and none shall make them afraid.” 

“The remnant of Israel shall not do iniquity, nor speak lies; neither shall a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth:  for they shall feed and lie down, and none shall make them afraid.”  (Zephaniah 3:13).  

“Therefore the redeemed of the LORD shall return, and come with singing unto Zion; and everlasting joy shall be upon their head:  they shall obtain gladness and joy; and sorrow and mourning shall flee away” (Isaiah 51:11). 

Thus the kingdom of God will be established.  The Lord God will have His people, His land, His Kingdom of God on earth.  “The Multitude,” sons of God as the stars of heaven” (Genesis 22:17) shall reign with their King in their land as was promised to their forefathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.  

“God is not a man that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent:  hath he said, and shall he not do it?  or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?” (Numbers 23:19) 

In that day, when the kingdom of God has come on earth and the thousand-year reign begins, there will be only One God – the living and true God.  The Covenant Son is The Sovereign; He is “The One Who Holds” and “Shelters” – making wise the simple, loving all.  

Glossary for Cancer

Names of the Stellar Sign of Cancer: 

“The Manger”

“The One Who Holds or Binds”

“Holding, Encircling the Possession”

Star Names identified in Stellar Sign of Cancer: 

“Holding”

“Sheltering or Hiding Place”

“Assembled Thousands”

“The Kids or The Lambs”

“The Multitude or The Offspring” 

Names of Decans in Cancer: 

Ursa Minor – Little Bear – Little Sheepfold

“He Who Comes”

“The Center or Center of the Constellations”

“The Turned Upon“ or “The Gate of the Enemy”

Star names identified with Ursa Minor:

“Waiting Him Who Comes”

“The Assembled”

“The Redeemed Assembly”

“The Center or High in Rising”

Ursa Major – Greater Bear – Greater Sheepfold

“The Ordered or Assembled Together”

Star names identified with Ursa Major

“A Herd or a Flock”

“The Redeemed”

“Purchased”

“The Later Flock”

“Separated” (as a flock in a fold)

“She Goat”

“Daughters of the Assembly” 

Argo – “Company of Travelers” 

Star Names identified with Argo: 

“The Possession of Him Who Comes”

“Returning From Afar”

“The Multitude”

“The Released Who Travel”

“The Desired” (different star but same name in Coma, decan in Virgo)

“The Branch” (different star but same name also in Virgo)

Reading assignment for Gemini is Isaiah 52-54, and Revelation 20:1-3, 10.