For ever, 0 Lord, Thy Word is settled in heaven. At one time this
was not very well understood, but with the findings of recent years of the
constellations in ancient records, and their relation to the Bible record
as shown in Ps 19, we can see how this is so.
The heavens declare the glory of God; And the firmament sheweth His
handywork. Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge.
There is no speech nor language, Where their voice is not heard. Their line
is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world.
In them He set a tabernacle for the sun, Which is as a bridegroom coming
out of his chamber, And rejoiceth as a strong man to run a race. His going
forth is from the end of the heaven, And his circuit unto the ends of it:
And there is nothing hid from the heat thereof (Ps 19:1-6).
Now we can see that close to 2500 years before Moses began to
write the Book, the gospel was written in the stars and known of all
men, until the day they did not like to retain God in their knowledge. Then
they began to worship the host of heaven, and so was born an abomination called
astrology.
Man can translate and alter the written Word to suit his fancy, but he
does not move the stars to alter their message. the sun passes thru
12 of the constellations in its course.
The first of these is the virgin with the promise of the seed
and the branch, i.e., Christ. The story of the sufferings of the Lamb of God
and His return as the Lion of the.tribe of Judah is followed right
thru. This solves the riddle of the Sphinx. It has the head of the
virgin and the body of the lion, the beginning and the end
of the redemptive story.
So we see that God's Word was settled or established firmly in
the heavens long before the written Word was given. That is why that
the nations God had to give up were without excuse (Ro 1:20). Among other
things, the wrath of God is revealed from heaven, in the stars, against the
ungodly. And in verse 19 it says that God shewed it unto them. God's age-abiding
power and Godhead is revealed from this same heaven. This is by the things
that are made, the stars especially.
But back in those days when men knew God by the record in the stars,
they did not glorify Him as God. They did not want to know Him. And so they
became fools and worshipped the host of heaven, changing the names of the
stars and the constellations to suit their fancy. That is why it is hard
today to find the original names.
But progress has been made and a comparison of the record in the sky
with the written Word verifies what is written in the Book about the Lord
and Savior Jesus Christ. And when men have burned all the books, there
will remain the redemptive story in the skies, unchanged.
