The Sign TAURUS (The Bull) - Messiah, The Coming Judge of All The Earth

 

 

The Glory of the Stars, E. Raymond Capt.

 

The Sign Taurus  (The Bull)

Messiah, the coming Judge of all the earth 

The picture is that of a Bull rushing forward with mighty energy and fierce wrath, his horns set so as to push his enemies, and pierce them through and destroy them.

 

                    

 

It is a prophecy of Christ, the coming Judge, and Ruler, and "Lord of all the earth."

The Egyptian Zodiac of Denderah already, 4,000 years ago, had forgotten the truth to which the prophecy had referred, who saves or deliver, the head or chief.

 

The Bull is clearly represented, and in all the zodiacs which have come down to us is always in the act of pushing, or rushing.

 

The stars in Taurus present a brilliant sight. There are at least 141 stars, besides two important groups of stars, which both form integral parts of the sign.

The brightest star, a (in the bull's eye), has a Chaldee name Al Debaran, and means the leader or governor. The star b (at the tip of the left horn) has an Arabic name-El Nath, meaning wounded or slain. Another prophetic intimation that this coming Lord should be first slain as a sacrifice.

Then there is the cluster of stars known as the Pleiades. This word, which means the congregation of the judge or ruler, comes to us through the Greek Septuagint as the translation of the Hebrew kimah, which means the heap or accumulation.

 

 

 

Job 9:9 Which maketh Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades, and the chambers of the south.

 

Job 38:31 Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?

32 Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons?

33 Knowest thou the ordinances of heaven? canst thou set the dominion thereof in the earth?

 

It consists of a number of stars (in the neck of Taurus) which appear to be near together.

 

The brightest of them, marked h in all the maps, has come down to us with an Arabic name-Al Cyone, which means the centre, and has given the idea to some astronomers that it is the centre of the whole universe.

 

The Syriac name for the Pleiades is Succoth, which means booths.

Other stars are named Palilicium (Hebrew), belonging to the judge; Wasat (Arabic), centre or foundation; Al Thuraiya (Arabic), the abundance; Vergiliae (Latin), the centre (Arabic, vertex) turned on, rolled round.

 

Every thing points to the important truth, and all turns on the fact that the Lord is COMING TO RULE!

 

This is the central truth of all prophecy. "The testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy." All hope for Creation, all hope for the world, all hope for Israel, all hope for the Church, turns on this, that "Jesus is coming again," and that when He comes His saints, "the daughters of the King" (like the Pleiades and Hyades), will be with Him.

He will come and gather the members of His Body unto Himself, before He thus comes with them to destroy all His enemies and "judge (or rule) the world in righteousness."

 

When we read this Sign of Taurus, therefore, we are to understand that His Church will be with Him, safe from all judgment.

 

Mark 13:27 And then shall he send his angels, and shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from the uttermost part of the earth to the uttermost part of heaven.

At a very early period these signs were appropriated to the Twelve Tribes of Israel, and borne upon their "standards." This may be traced in the Blessing of Jacob (Gen 49), and in the Blessing of Moses (Deut 33). Taurus was assigned to Joseph, or rather to his two tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh, like the two powerful horns.

 

"The firstling of his bulllock (his firstling bullock) majesty is his, And his horns are the horns of the wild-ox (Reem).

 

With them he shall PUSH (gore) the peoples, all of them, even the ends of the earth. And they are the ten thousands of Ephraim, And they are the thousands of Manasseh." Deut 33:17, It is not, however, merely by men alone that this will be done, for David sings: "Thou art my King, O GOD...Through Thee will we PUSH down our enemies; Through Thy Name will we tread them under that rise up against us."

 

Psalms 44:5 "I will punish the world for their evil, And the wicked for their iniquity; I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, And will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible...Every one that is found shall be THRUST THROUGH."

 

Isaiah 13:11-15 Speaking of that day, the Holy Spirit says by Isaiah: "For the LORD hath indignation against all the nations, And fury against all their host: He hath utterly destroyed them, He hath delivered them to the slaughter...The LORD hath a sacrifice in Bozrah. And a great slaughter in the land of Edom, And the wild oxen Reem shall come down with them. And the bullocks with the bulls; And their land shall be drunken with blood, And their dust made fat with fatness. For it is the day of the LORD's vengeance, The year of recompense in the controversy of Zion."

 

Isaiah 34:2-8, "Behold, the LORD cometh forth out of His place To punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: The earth also shall disclose her blood, And shall no more cover her slain."

 

Isaiah 26:21 This is the united testimony of the two Revelations. It is pictured in the heavens, and it is written in the Book. It is the prophecy of a coming Judge, and of a coming judgment. It is, however, no mere Bull that is coming, It is a man, a glorious man, even "the Son of Man." This is the first development, shown in the first of the three constellations belonging to the sign.

 

Sign Taurus, Orion, a glorious Prince, with a sword girded on his side and his foot on the head of the Hare or Serpent. Eridanus, the tortuous River, accounted as belonging to Orion. Auriga, the Wagoner (rather the Shepherd), carrying a she-goat and two little goats on his left arm. He also holds cords, or bands, in his right hand.

Witness of the Stars E.W. Bullinger

The Third Book. The Redeemer = "The glory that should follow."

I. TAURUS (E). = Messiah coming to rule.

1. ORION. The redeemer breaking forth as Light.
2. ERIDANUS. Wrath breaking forth as a flood.
3. AURIGA. Safety for His redeemed in the day of wrath.

Taurus, Messiah coming in judgment. The common Hebrew name is Shur = coming and ruling, and Re'em = pre-eminence.

The brightest star is Al Debaran = The Leader or Governor.
The next is El nath = wounded or slain.
The group Pleiades is Kimah = heap or accumulation.
A bright star is Al Cyone = the centre.
Hebrew name is Succoth = booths.
Another group, Hyades = the congregated.

• ORION. The coming Prince. Light breaking forth, through the Redeemer.
• In the Zodiac of Denderah it is Ha-ga-t = this is He Who triumphs. Oarion = Hebrew 'Or, light; or coming forth as light.
• Hebrew Kesil = a strong one translated "Orion".
• The brightest star is Betelgeuz = the coming of the Branch.
• The next is Rigel or Rigol = the foot of him that crusheth.
• The next is Bellatrix = swiftly destroying.
• Another is Al Nitak = the wounded One.
• Many others with names of cumulative meanings.
• ERIDANUS, the river of judgment.
• In the Zodiac of Denderah it is Peh-ta-t = the mouth of the river.
• The brightest star is Achernar = the after part of the river.
• So with the other names, going forth, flowing on (to the lower regions of the south).
• AURIGA, The Shepherd
•  Auriga = Charioteer. The brightest star is Alioth = a she-goat.
• Modern Lat. name is Capella, same meaning.
• The next is Menkilinon = the band of the goats; bound, never to be again lost.
• In the Zodiac of Denderah, the shepherd carries a sceptre (Trun), the top with a goat, and bottom with a cross.

• Exactly 2520 years from the exile of Benjamin, Iceland became an independent nation.

 

•  The first tribe to be conquered by the Assyrians was Manasseh, in 745 B.C. Exactly 2520 years later America became a nation on July 4, 1776.

(Leviticus. 26: 28-46) God warned Israel that if they persisted in continually breaking His Laws, not only would curses come upon them.

He would punish them for seven times, (a time being 360 years, seven times would be 2520 years) and would banish them from the land of Palestine and scatter them among the heathens (like lost sheep)

• Study the book: Abrahamic Covenant, (A study outline of the identity of God's people) By E. Raymond Capt - page 25