Psalm 147:4
He counts the number of the stars; he calls them all by their names. Genesis 1:14
Then God said, “Let there be lights in the firmament of the heavens to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs and seasons, and for days and years; Jude 13 raging waves of the sea, foaming up their own shame; wandering stars for whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever.
2. How many of you love to look at the stars? They are quite fascinating! I think all of us would like to imagine ourselves traveling around the universe zipping past the stars as on Star Trek, Star Wars, and other space story imaginations. Since the beginning of creation, people have wanted to conquer and understand the purpose of everything that is out there beyond our reach. How intimidating it is to know we are so small and that the stars and space are so limitlessly huge!
Astrology is the study of heavenly bodies and their influences. If you want to research the stars you will go down one of two paths, the one of a spiritual connections and story-telling of ancient events, or one of man’s recent sterile material physical matter explanations which classifies all celestial bodies as meaningless full of contradictory theories., aka as astronomy.
But here is the question today in this communication: Do the stars teach us about God? If so, then we as Christians should consider doing a deeper study of them. We should approach studying this part of God’s creation with an open Biblical mind without being scared away by all the subverted Satanic principles implied by star signs predictions like in the the zodiac, the horoscope, and in the mysteriously unexplained phenomena that celestial bodies communicate.
3. If you go back before the time of Moses you will discover that Job wrote about the stars. Job 22:12
“Is not God in the height of heaven? And see the highest stars, how lofty they are! Job 38:7 When the morning stars sang together, And all the sons of God shouted for joy?
Most Christian churches today consider it sinful to spiritualize and equate the stars with anything connected to the ancient stories of celestial beings, but then why are these verses here? Was not Job one of God’s favored? How did he learn of these stories that are told in the stars? What are these stories?
As in all the rest of this series of messages, I believe it was God Himself who taught Adam all about the stories that the celestial bodies tell and it was Adam’s sons that got corrupted God’s message with the Satanic help of the fallen angels which lived on earth; these are those who invented stories so we would worship them and not God. Satan always adds half-truths and twisted ‘alternative facts’ to nullify God’s story. The Holy Spirit will guide you and me into God’s purposes if we can get past all the filters and mis-directions the world has fed us with!
4. So why do Christians shy away from astrology? It is because they are aware that most astrologers are connected to Satanic false prophesying, as has historically been done by wizards, witches, soothsayers, and zodiac interpreters? Deuteronomy 18: 9 “When you come into the land which the Lord your God is giving you, you shall not learn to follow the abominations of those nations. 10 There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire, or one who practices witchcraft, or a soothsayer, or one who interprets omens, or a sorcerer, 11 or one who conjures spells, or a medium, or a spiritist, or one who calls up the dead. Many people today believe certain days and seasons should influence decisions for occult practices, for instance Halloween is a scared day for the practice of evil. November 1st is the day of the dead, when certain cultures connect with the departed spirits.
And referring to the zodiac have you not known people who say things like, “I can’t help how I am stubborn natured, ‘cause I am a Taurus!” How deceptive to think you must identify with a supposed bull in the stars and then act like one. That is a mental slavery and sorcery, a spell of an illusion! Christ gives us a new nature no matter what label the world wants to tag on us!
The paradigm of the events of the universe, being predetermined by unseen celestial astronomical/astrological influences, has enslaved the human race throughout all time in every culture in all recorded history! This is Satanic and is a perversion against God as God has granted all persons freewill and guidance through Jesus and the old prophets on absolute truth. Massive physical energy bodies light years away cannot bless or curse your life without your consent nor make your character be forged in stone! There could be a story in the stars, but we should only accept the ones told by the ancients who were not idol worshippers, such as the wise men who followed the Bethlehem star.
5. Astrology, and the use of it as a prediction of future events, coinciding with the study of the zodiac characters seems to have been the obsession of the first nations as the Sumerians (the first to write about it) then the Egyptians, the Persians, the Greeks, and the Romans, all obsessed over them. This pattern still remains in effect today with ignorant people trying to be spiritual, secret societies, and Satanic cults. The Indian descendants of the Mayans and Incas still remain superstitious, along with the Chinese, and the Caucasians of Europe influencing Americans (Nordic, Celtic, etc.). Basically, every culture not following the Bible is bewitched and cursed if governed by certain so-called signs in the sky because Satan has perverted their original message into a message that subverts the authority away from God.
Do you recall how Jesus said that the Jews could look at the sky and know the weather, but they could not discern the signs of the times? Matthew 16:3
and in the morning, ‘It will be foul weather today, for the sky is red and threatening.’ Hypocrites! You know how to discern the face of the sky, but you cannot discern the signs of the times. This is the problem with those who “see signs” in the heavens, they see things through a very limited lens and their understanding of God, and the truth is damaged by these mental and spiritual filters which they believe is reliable ancient wisdom.
To break the curse of these things that subliminally or overtly influence you or me we just have to ask the Lord to help us to replace everything we know about everything with His Word. Romans 12 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. 2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
If you want to know of an idea of how God must have intended for the astrology story to be told, I suggest you read ‘The Real Meaning of the Zodiac’ by Dr D. James Kennedy, a famous theologian and preacher. The first sign, or the beginning, as he describes it (which does match the Sumerian account) starts with the Ram, or lamb of God and so in reality the story of Jesus was told in the stars and known by the ancient people of the Middle East since 4,500 years ago. It was the original story that God, I believe, revealed to Adam. But recall when the Babylonians had Daniel captive, they were unable to read the stars (because their teachings had been twisted by demons) and only Daniel could discern dreams and in the spiritual realm. The Babylonian astrologers were exposed as fools!
6. Don’t think that God is against revealing Himself through the stories in stars. The announcement of the birth of Jesus was told by a very bright star! Imagine that, God used a heavenly body within the scheme that Satan had perverted with ancient teachings to prove He is still Lord of the heavens. It is like he got the last laugh on Satan who tried to use God’s celestial creation for perverse confusion!
God had compassion on all the astronomical/astrological scholars and sages and “wise men”, being kings of the east who lived by these celestial codes as they had their minds astonished to discover the King of all time, baby Jesus!
To some degree we must remain alert to what is happening in the heavens. Jesus Himself announced it, “there will be signs in the sun, moon, and stars”, Luke 21:25 “And there will be signs in the sun, in the moon, and in the stars; and on the earth distress of nations, with perplexity, the sea and the waves roaring;
NASA even published that there were holes on the surface to our sun recently, and of all the mysterious pictures they show concerning the stars makes you wonder, have we been lied to? What else is there out there that is being hidden from us? Are they inventing and photoshopping in order to cover their tracts and appear to be intelligent when they actually are not? Much evidence points to that. ‘Professing to be wise, they have become fools’ (Romans 1:22)
7. So we live in the age of science, “false so called” 1 Timothy 6:20
O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called. And the stars might even be held within a curtain over a dome over us as far as what we know. Only a handful of crazy (i.e.Buzz Aldrin) or already dead men have been to space and back and they are always on a tight leash by the government to speak the right things. But they do let slip things which makes you wonder, was it all a lie?
These secret societies that love following the Egyptians and esoteric hidden secrets, I would like to ask one day, “So do you believe that the stars are over us like a curtain as the Egyptians did?” If so, then do you believe in a flat earth?” There are so many contradictions in Satan’s invented ideas of how the celestial bodies and the forces of science operate. Quantum mechanics and new theories even contradict Newton and Einstein so today we are, as stated in 2 Timothy 3:7
Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
So, if the celestial bodies imply a spiritual power or simply a physical one, it still is a mystery how they all came together in a clockwork design to offer all humanity an enigma that intellectuals are still pondering! What more do we need as proof of the powerful vastness of God’s omnipotence!? But the wandering stars, these are out of sink with God’s symphony of lights! Their light is darkness. Jude vs. 13.
8. As Christians we should just take things at face value. Psalms 19:1 “The heavens declare the glory of God” . Never should we degenerate ourselves into worshipping more the creation than the Creator as revealed in Romans 1. Today and before there were ones that worshipped angels (equated each with a star) and these are most probably evil deceptive spirits so be careful. Galatians 1:8
But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. (And remember the “wandering stars” as just mentioned in Jude).
It is a pity that even in some large denominations and religions that there is a persistence in the worship the of the sun, moon, and stars by symbolic artistic celestial representations. We need to recognize how Satan has snuck in with his perversions that distract from the worship of God in spirit and in truth.
God told the Israelites not to have ‘any graven image before Him’ for good reason! How wrong it is to have one’s mind preprogramed to equate a certain celestial symbol with a supernatural power that God never intended.
9. We must appreciate and admire God’s creation! We must never worship it and never accept non-Biblical ideas that God’s creation has a power beyond His own self. Secret societies, Gnostics, Satanic pagans, and even our modern science does not have a true formula of how God’s astrological stars operate, influence, and predict. They are just repeating the stories that the ancients told but no proof exists of their postulations, so they are in effect fools peddling rebellion against God by twisting His creation into a false narrative.
Warn others that believe in astronomy/astrology, or prophesy derived from predictions of the alignment of the celestial bodies that these ancient writings originate from those who rebelled against God. To accept them is to defy God and be idolatrous! We embrace all of God’s wonders, but we worship Him alone!
God created all things for His glory and there is a purpose in the formations of the stars, we may not understand much about it at this moment, but in heaven God will reveal His mysteries to us. So never fall for a counterfeit explanation or practice which is an illicit esoteric application of God’s creation. Glorify Him in His creation!
