![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Tucked in under Centaurus is Crux, and it doesn’t take much imagination to see what this represents to the Christian. On the other side of Virgo on the Star Map we find the constellation Centaurus, the evil Centaur, spearing a lamb (Not a wolf as shown on modern charts). Alongside Virgo, is the minor constellation of Com a, whic h, in Persian me ans ‘pure virgin’ and was originally depicted as nourishing an infant boy having a Hebrew name meaning The Anointed, or in Greek, Christos. This, I believe, is represented by The constellation of Hydra which appears below Virgo in the night sky and spans about one-third of the circle of the sun’s apparen t path through the heavens. The account in Chapter Twelve goes on to describe a great dragon, who’s tail swept a third of the stars from the sky, crouching before the woman in order to devour her child when he was born ( Revelation 12:3-4). For now, I ask you to just notice the constellation of Virgo. She was pregnant and cried out in pain as she was about to give birth’ You will have to wait for my next post for the reasons why I believe that she depicts Israel, the Old Testament people of God, the wife of Yahweh, and the ‘mother’ of Jesus the messiah. Revelation 12:1-2 presents us with the picture of a woman whom John describes with these words: ‘A great and wondrous sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet and a crown of twelve stars on her head. Remember that each part of Revelation takes us back to start, which is Christ’s birth, and ends with His coming again to judge and create a new HeavenEarth. I n my next few articles I will elaborate on what I am about to describe, but to help you make sense of this celestial aspect of Revelation, I will start with the big picture. But I have spent sufficient time on Chapter Eleven and must now move on to the next major part of the book of Revelation. And there they are (Gemini) tucked between the constellations of Cancer and Taurus, another pointer to the marvelous progression of constellations that await us in chapters 12, 13, and 14. The Two Witnesses are the focal point of Chapter Eleven of Revelat i on, so we shouldn’t be surprised to find a depiction of these ‘twins’ in the night sky. ![]() I introduced this concept in the posts: ‘ Revelation in the Stars’, and then pointed out a number of links to specific constellations in ‘ Religious Woe’, ‘ Ghost Riders in the Sky’, and ‘ Some things are still a mystery’. When John wrote the book of Revelation he used this knowledge to present God’s great redemptive plan to the people of his day, and thus to us as well. It is probable that Abraham brought with him the knowledge of how to read the night sky and that this became embedded in the religious understanding of the Israelites. Abraham, the father of the Jewish Faith, came from the region of Babylonia ( Genesis 11:31) referred to in the Bible as Ur of the Chaldeans and traveled from there to Canaan. The religious astronomers of the ancient world would have understood the dazzling celestial display as a divine presentation of significant events and portents of things to come, and John taps into this in the book of Revelation.Īccording to my best research, the Magi of Babylonia were the first to be schooled in the art and science of the heavens. The answer is probably, ‘pollution haze and a few stars’, but the people of John the Revelator’s day would have seen a glorious display of galaxies, planets, and stars without measure. If you go out after dark and look up at the expanse of the night sky, what do you see? ‘The heavens declare the glory of God And the firmament shows His handiwork’ (Psalm 19:1 NKJV). ![]()
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