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What is the difference between Horoscopes and Numerology
to the Bible Codes and Bible Numbers?
In summary: When I refer to the 12 constellations on my website, I am simply showing that God providentially guided men over the centuries to construct these imaginary images in the sky as they are known today so that He could use them as a back drop for heavenly signs. I am opposed to horoscopes, but open to the general imagery and what the constellations portray when a comet passes by them.
While the Zodiac is not from God (especially as used today in astrology), nevertheless, for His mercies sake it seems that God is using the understanding of Genesis 49 as still held today by many Jews in order to open their eyes to see that Jesus {Yeshua} is their Messiah as evidenced by heavenly signs that are especially meaningful to them. God is speaking their language!
"Jews seek a sign..."
This series of documents also discusses the death of Yasser Arafat
as it relates to the Acrostic Bible Code
Page one
The following is a quote from John Pratt, (whom I do not know personally). His words serve as a good introduction to this article. (See JohnPratt.com.)
"Satan twists truth and perverts it for his own purposes, which he has clearly done with the zodiac signs. That causes many to avoid the entire subject, but the symbolism of these figures is so rich that it would be a tragedy not to learn of the beauty of their meaning, and the clarity of their symbolism. So my articles on the subject attempt to ignore the perversions and focus on the good. My position is that the sun, moon, and planets are like the hands on a huge clock, with the twelve zodiac constellations through which they move being the 12 numbers on the clock face. The Lord uses his clock to time key events in world history. But when Israel began to worship the hands on the clock, as did the pagan nations, then they were told they had missed the whole point, and to desist. Similarly today, if someone believes the planets are controlling his life, rather than merely keeping time, then Satan could falsely convince him that he is not responsible for his actions."
Ten Pages
Page one: Are bible codes horoscopes?
Page two: Why are bible codes so complex?
Page three: What about "The DaVinci Code?"
Page four: What good are the bible codes?
Page five: The Sign of Arafat, the Bull
Page six: Timing of Arafat's death
Page seven: M.a.n. and Arafat's burial
Page eight: God desires all to be saved
Page nine: Importance of the acrostic
Page ten: How to be saved from wrath
See Jacob's Acrostic Prophecy
My response to a letter sent me:
The unmistakable difference between Horoscopes and Numerology, to the Bible Codes and Bible Numbers is that one is based on the word of God alone, and is derived from it, and has the bible as its source and foundation, where as numerology and astrology are a mixture from many sources, many of which honor other gods. Ponder these verses from Isaiah:
Isa 8:13 Remember that I, the LORD Almighty, am holy; I am the one you must fear.
Isa 8:14 Because of my awesome holiness I am like a stone that people stumble over; I am like a trap that will catch the people of the kingdoms of Judah and Israel and the people of Jerusalem.
Isa 8:15 Many will stumble; they will fall and be crushed. They will be caught in a trap."
Isa 8:16 You, my disciples, are to guard and preserve the messages that God has given me.
Isa 8:17 The LORD has hidden himself from his people, but I trust him and place my hope in him.
Isa 8:18 Here I am with the children the LORD has given me. The LORD Almighty, whose throne is on Mount Zion, has sent us as living messages (lit. "signs") to the people of Israel.
Isa 8:19 But people will tell you to ask for messages from fortunetellers and mediums, who chirp and mutter. They will say, "After all, people should ask for messages from the spirits and consult the dead on behalf of the living."
Isa 8:20 You are to answer them, "Listen to what the LORD is teaching you! Don't listen to mediums---what they tell you cannot keep trouble away."
"To the law and to the testimony! If they (astrologers and prophets) do not speak according to this then their is no light in them." That makes all the difference. What is their source and who are they promoting.
Some occultists speak in tongues, but so did the Apostle Paul---but by what spirit? This goes right down the line for the many faceted gifts given by God in the bible. So that verse out of Isaiah answers it for us.
Also ponder these words from Isaiah:
Isa 29:8 All the nations that assemble to attack Jerusalem will be like a starving person who dreams he is eating and wakes up hungry, or like someone dying of thirst who dreams he is drinking and wakes with a dry throat.
Isa 29:9 Go ahead and be stupid! Go ahead and be blind! Get drunk without any wine! Stagger without drinking a drop!
Isa 29:10 The LORD has made you drowsy, ready to fall into a deep sleep. The prophets should be the eyes of the people, but God has blindfolded them.
Isa 29:11 The meaning of every prophetic vision will be hidden from you; it will be like a sealed scroll. If you take it to someone who knows how to read and ask him to read it to you, he will say he can't because it is sealed.
Isa 29:12 If you give it to someone who can't read and ask him to read it to you, he will answer that he doesn't know how.
Isa 29:13 The Lord said, "These people claim to worship me, but their words are meaningless, and their hearts are somewhere else. Their religion is nothing but human rules and traditions, which they have simply memorized.
Isa 29:14 So I will startle them with one unexpected blow after another. Those who are wise will turn out to be fools, and all their cleverness will be useless."
Isa 29:15 Those who try to hide their plans from the LORD are doomed! They carry out their schemes in secret and think no one will see them or know what they are doing.
Isa 29:16 They turn everything upside down. Which is more important, the potter or the clay? Can something you have made say, "You didn't make me"? Or can it say, "You don't know what you are doing"?
Isa 29:17 As the saying goes, before long the dense forest will become farmland, and the farmland will go back to forest.
Isa 29:18 When that day comes, the deaf will be able to hear a book being read aloud, and the blind, who have been living in darkness, will open their eyes and see.
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The following was written in response to an article against the use biblical astronomy.
The author is leaving out some important facts, such as the fact that the bible itself refers to several constellations by name and alludes to their folklore in a positive way (Job 9:9; 38:31; Amos 5:8), and also we have the magi (astrologers) who by a star knew where
the birth of Jesus was, and then there is the book of Revelation that uses language that alludes to heavenly events. My point is that the subject is far from being obviously right or wrong. Good men have studied it and have come to different conclusions. Some believe that
the constellations are a corruption of something that God originally gave to man and that they were intended to preach the hope of the coming Christ --- as does the Old Testament. They believe that when the written word came such a thing was no longer needed, but that God
still owns it (in its original form) as His own and therefore can still speak by it if He wishes, as He did to the magi in Jesus time. But we are not to try to live our lives by it, of course. But neither do we need to be ignorant about these things.
Many Jews today believe that God speaks by heavenly events and I personally think that during the Great Tribulation that God will give many "signs in the heavens" that will be meaningful to them as based upon the symbolism of some of the constellations that they
have come to understand as rooted in their traditions. Is it so far fetched that God would have, say, the star of Bethlehem appear in the constellation of Virgo (the Virgin) since Jesus was born of a virgin and the pagans (though distorted) had a myth based upon Virgo quite
similar to the virgin birth story? It reminds me of the rebuke God gave to Job when Job thought himself wiser than God:
To this I would like to add that the author overstated the differences in the so-called Zodiac in different cultures. In my opinion it is thier agreement that is far more striking than their differences. It's like the different flood accounts in different ancient literature --- the similarities are more striking than the differences and thus suggests a common origin. In the case of the Zodiac maybe it is rooted in pagan Babylon only --- but I am not convinced of this since the bible mentions the said three constellations by name with some of their folklore attached. And even if it is only a pagan idea from the past, to me this does not mean that God cannot use what has become part of man's worldview. It is like a language, and even if it is the invention of man still I think that God can and does speak using it to reach those that have no light but the light of the stars. And then He teaches them that the stars themselves are not to be feared but He that made them, as so says the prophet Amos:
Job 38:31-33 "Canst thou fasten the bands of the Pleiades, or loosen the cords of Orion? Dost thou bring forth the constellations each in its season? or dost thou guide the Bear with her sons? Knowest thou the ordinances of the heavens? dost thou determine their rule over the earth?"
Job 9:7-10 "Who commandeth the sun, and it riseth not, and he sealeth up the stars; Who alone spreadeth out the heavens, and treadeth upon the high waves of the sea; Who maketh the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades, and the chambers of the south; Who doeth great things past finding out, and wonders without number."
Amo 5:7-8 "Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth, seek him that made the Pleiades and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night; that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: Jehovah is his name."
Amos 5:7-8 "Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth, seek him that made the Pleiades and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night; that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: Jehovah is his name."
On one occasion, Paul quoted a pagan poet as one accurately describing God (though the rest of his writing are likely wrong), so why can't God likewise use the pagan ideas of the stars to communicate a message even though based upon their own foolish superstitions (if
that is all they ever were) telling them to turn from worshiping the stars and created things, to instead worshipping Him who made them? Is this beyond the foreknowledge and sovereignty and mercy of God?
Act 17:24 The God who has made the world and all things which are in it, *he*, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands,
Act 17:25 nor is served by men's hands as needing something, himself giving to all life and breath and all things;
Act 17:26 and has made of one blood every nation of men to dwell upon the whole face of the earth, having determined ordained times and the boundaries of their dwelling,
Act 17:27 that they may seek God; if indeed they might feel after him and find him, although he is not far from each one of us:
Act 17:28 for in him we live and move and exist; as also some of the poets amongst you have said, For we are also his offspring.
Act 17:29 Being therefore the offspring of God, we ought not to think that which is divine to be like gold or silver or stone, the graven form of man's art and imagination.
Act 17:30 God therefore, having overlooked the times of ignorance, now enjoins men that they shall all everywhere repent,
You may ask yourself, what is the difference between astrology and signs in the heavens. Astrology is about man and trying to find ones own destiny, heavenly signs are about Jesus and speak about His destiny.
Our life as a Christian is hidden in Christ, so whatever is about Him means that we are blessed with Him too. But other than that, none of these things are about mere men, and it would be a horrible burden if it were. And Satan tempts us to look at ourselves and for ourselves in the heavens and wherever else, even the bible. But all is darkness if we do. For it is not about us, but HIM, and only us in Him.Isa 47:12 Stand now with thine enchantments, and with the multitude of thy sorceries, wherein thou hast labored from thy youth; if so be thou shalt be able to profit, if so be thou mayest prevail.
Isa 47:13 Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels: let now the astrologers, the star-gazers, the monthly prognosticators, stand up, and save thee from the things that shall come upon thee.
Isa 47:14 Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame: it shall not be a coal to warm at, nor a fire to sit before.
We also have the story of the wise men (magi) from the east who saw the sign of the star of the Messiah in the sky. It is very likely that these men who studied the stars would have also studied the "star's" (comet?) position among the constellations.
Matthew 2:1-2 Now Jesus having been born in Bethlehem of Judaea, in the days of Herod the king, behold magi from the east arrived at Jerusalem, saying, Where is the king of the Jews that has been born? for we have seen his star in the east, and have come to do him homage.
To continue: Why are the bible codes complex and in riddles?
Bible Code Predictions
(My rant against false predictions that people make
that cast doubt on those truly led by God!)
And, "What is the Purpose of These Signs?"
Ten Pages
Page one: Are bible codes horoscopes?
Page two: Why are bible codes so complex?
Page three: What about "The DaVinci Code?"
Page four: What good are the bible codes?
Page five: The Sign of Arafat, the Bull
Page six: Timing of Arafat's death
Page seven: M.a.n. and Arafat's burial
Page eight: God desires all to be saved
Page nine: Importance of the acrostic
Page ten: How to be saved from wrath
See Jacob's Acrostic Prophecy
Related page ==> See audio/visual of
"The record 5 comets in 2004 and their disturbing prophecy,"
as explained by two picture bible codes and this acrostic!
Do long bible codes prove that they are valid?
(Also, "Why I do not use the scientific method to find bible codes!"
And, "A confession about the inherent weakness of bible codes.")Is it wrong to look for ones own name in the bible codes?
- Also see, Arafat the bull:
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