The transformation
of the saints
for
the regeneration of the faithful in Christ Jesus
by Steve Santini
May 2004
For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands which are the figures (symbols) of the true Hebrews 9:24
Alfred Edersheim, the highly regarded Hebrew
scholar, says that, according to unanimous Jewish tradition, Passover was not
technically complete until it merged with the Feast of Pentecost fifty days
later. Why then is this feast season so important? As the departure of Israel
from Egypt for their forty years of testing began with the first Passover, it
could very well be that the beginning of this age's suntelia will also correspond to a Passover season. Not only does
the book of Hebrews give us an indication of this in its referral to the forty
years of Israel in the wilderness as a representation of things to come but
also the book of Timothy. After writing of the then future "last days" and the
perils of such, Paul writes that those who have resisted the truth shall
proceed no further and likens them to Jannes and Jambres who withstood Moses
before the first Passover and the exodus of children of Israel from Egypt.
Passover
season was the time period during which the first ripened of two different
grains or seeds were gathered and presented in the Temple. These were the
barley seed and wheat seed. Symbolically these represent the masculine spora and the feminine sperma. (The Greek word sperma was derived from the name of an
ancient feminine Greek goddess who could change any grain into wheat.)
In Genesis chapter three, two seeds are made known. One is the seed of the woman and the other is the seed of the serpent. Yet, nature itself and simple reasoning teach that there is a third seed. Luke, who was with Paul during much of Paul's later ministry, wrote of this third seed. In chapter eight of his gospel, Luke recorded a rendition of the parable of the sower that is spoken with differing words at a different time and place, and to a differing group than the similar parable recorded both in Matthew and Mark. In verse five of chapter eight Luke states, "A sower went out to sow his seed:" The Greek word for seed in this verse is not the more often used Greek word sperma that is used in the similar records in Matthew and Mark. It is the Greek word spora and it is identified as being masculine by this parable's unique use of the possessive personal pronoun, his. This third seed is the spirit of Christ hidden in God from before the foundation of the world and hidden within the ages until first fully revealed by Jesus Christ unto the apostle Paul.
The barley seed represents these masculine
saints with the spirit of Christ while the wheat seed represents feminine souls
of the faithful in Christ Jesus, which eventually will be derived from believing
Israel and believing Gentiles. According to the Encyclopedia Britannica and
Webster's Dictionary, cultivatable wheat was first discovered by the Egyptians
in the land of Canaan, while barley, on the other hand, grew throughout the
world. Yeast or leaven was acquired from barley seed which was crushed and
added to water to produce malt. It is the yeast from barley malt that is needed
to raise the wheat flour from ground wheat seed to obtain the full loaf of
bread. (The sporadic action of the yeast's cell division causes the gases that
make the wheat dough to rise.)
The year's Passover was determined not only
by the moon's phases but also by the maturity of the barley crop. The first
fruits of barley were offered in the temple during the Passover celebration. In
writing, Paul says to throw out the old leaven that you may be a new lump because
Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us. Each year in the Passover season the old leaven acquired from
the previous year's barley harvest was thrown out because the new barley
harvest was coming in. Not only were the first fruits of barley offered in the
temple but much of the crop was sacrificed for malt so the Israelites could
acquire new leaven for the upcoming wheat harvest at Pentecost. It was then at
Pentecost that the two leavened wheat loaves of shewbread were presented
beneath the seven lights of the menorah in the Temple.
According to these symbolic representations
of barley and wheat, a section of Ephesians comes to more full light. In
Ephesians 4:12, in the phrase, for the
perfecting of the saints, after the listing of the gift ministries, the
words of the saints is in the
genitive case. The genitive case in its simplicity directs the reader to the
source from which the perfecting originates, not towards the object needing
perfecting. This perfecting is from the saints and is directed towards the
building up of the body of Christ as it appears in the next phrase. When you
work the stem of the root for the word perfecting
back to its primary verb in Strong's Analytical Concordance, it has the sense
of something suspended that causes a
rising like yeast causing the
bread dough to rise. As it has
been for millennia, current instructions for making bread say to place the
yeast on top of the lump of flour so that it can be worked down into the whole
lump. It was and will be the introduction of the leavening of the masculine
saints that will, in union, cause the faith of those feminine in Christ Jesus
to rise.
When Peter writes of the future salvation at
the unveiling (apocalypse) of the
spiritually feminine he is addressing, he writes that they are to be
regenerated by incorruptible seed. (I Peter 1:23) This word for seed is the
Greek word spora, not the more
commonly know Greek word for seed - sperma.
These former Israelites following Peter's gospel and those Gentiles of faith
are the sperma or feminine soul seed
to be regenerated by the leavening of the spora
or masculine spirit seed.
Wasn't it the appearance of the saints, Moses
and Elijah, with the glorified Lord Jesus upon the Mount of Transfiguration
that was a precursory type to the meeting of the masculine saints and faithful
feminine souls in Christ Jesus? This meeting on this Mount of Transfiguration
raised the level of belief within the souls of Peter, James, and John as Jesus
prepared them for the excruciating times then to come in Jerusalem? Wasn't it
the presence of two saints in white standing on the earth with the faithful
souls of the twelve apostles who said at the ascension that Jesus Christ would
return in like
manner as they had seen him go. This saintly prophesy of reunion with Jesus
Christ himself raised the level of belief within the apostle's hearts to
accomplish what they had been commanded by the resurrected Jesus.
It was the introduction of the apostle Paul,
bodily, and other saints into the early church that caused the holy temple to
rise from its base of the twelve's gospel. This is why Colossians, chapter one,
verse twenty-seven should correctly be translated, according to Greek grammar
and acceptable Aramaic, as Christ among
you rather than Christ in you. It
will be the introduction of the glorified new leaven of the saints from their
abode far beyond the heavens into this inhabited world that will raise the
level of belief for humble souls so that they may obtain regenerative
salvation. The saints will also provide the catalyst for the forthcoming
resurrection of the dead in Christ for entrance, together with the living
faithful, into the kingdom of heaven on earth in paradise. Then, as this period
of entrance foretold in Hebrews comes to its final point, the Lord himself, as
he descends, provides the completion by raising the dead in Christ, bringing
together the holy temple, making idle the wicked one, resurrecting the just and
unjust for judgment and ministering as the High Priest in the millennial
sanctuary.
The feast of Pentecost occurs in the third Hebrew month, Sivan, under the sign of Gemini in May or early June.
Joseph Seiss' writes in his book The Gospel of the Stars that
the word Gemini, in the original Hebrew, Arabic and Syriac, does not
carry so much the idea of two brought forth at the same birth as it does the
idea of a long betrothal brought to its consummation in perfect marriage.
Similarly, the old Coptic name of this sign signifies "the completely joined."
Greg Killian writes of the Hebrew betrothal: "A young man went to the
home of his potential bride-to-be. He carried three things with him: a large
sum of money in order to pay the price for his bride, a betrothal contract
called a Shitre Erusin, and a skin of wine. Of course, anyone arriving with
these things would immediately be under suspicion. The man approached the
girl's father and older brothers. The contract was laid out, and the
bride-price was discussed. Finally, a glass of wine was poured. If the father
approved, then the maiden was called in. If she also approved, then she would
drink the wine. In doing so, she committed herself to this man, agreeing to
follow the contract that now was a legal document between the two. They would
be called husband and wife at this time, and their union could only be
dissolved by a divorce. However, their status was that of betrothed, rather
than that of fully married."
After the wine had been drunk, the man made the statement that he would go to his father's house and prepare a place for her. This place is known as chadar (chamber), sometimes referred to as chupah (or honeymoon bed with a canopy). From the time that the Shitre Erusin was ratified, the young woman was consecrated, kiddushin - set apart to her husband. She has been bought with a price.
Melchisedec, the priest of Salem, which became Jerusalem, without lineage, brought forth bread and wine to meet with Abraham, as Abraham, in faith, brought forth one tenth of the spoils from the defeat of the kings unto Melchisedec on the day that was to become the annual feast of Pentecost.
It was just after the barley and wheat harvest of Passover and Pentecost that the feminine Ruth was redeemed by the masculine Boaz.
Moses also delivered the Old Testament Law to Israel from Mount Sinai on the day that became the feast of Pentecost. This was the first betrothal contract for the daughters of Israel. Israel had difficulty keeping the contract. Through Jesus Christ's giving his life for Israel on Passover, Jesus' new and better betrothal contract was subsequently offered to Israel on the Pentecost of that same year. This new and better contract was also rejected by the nation of Israel. For this reason the new and better contract was offered beyond Israel to include all Gentiles who would believe.
Joseph and Benjamin
This sign of Gemini symbolizing union is also the tribal sign for the tribe of Benjamin. It is in the relationship of Joseph and his only brother Benjamin through Rachel that a figure of the union of the masculine saints and the feminine faithful in Christ Jesus is revealed.
Jacob said to his son, Joseph, in summation, near the
end of Jacob's life, "the blessings of thy father have prevailed above the
blessings of my progenitors unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills."
(Gen. 49:26) The Hebrew word for Jacob�s progenitors is harah. It is
feminine and translated other places as conceived, with child and bear. In
contrast, the word for Joseph's father is the masculine ab. Here, in
this verse, Jacob, in prophecy identifies his origins from the feminine
spiritually and, in differentiation, Joseph's origins from the masculine
spiritually. Jacob goes on in this verse, in prophecy, to say that the crown
would be on the head of Joseph who was separate from his brethren. They were
separate from Joseph, as Jacob was, because their origins were from the
feminine rather than the masculine.
In
the Old Testament record of the reunion of Joseph and Benjamin, it is evident
that their bond was much stronger than that of Joseph and his ten step
brothers. With consideration, one, from this record, can comprehend another of
the many Biblical symbols for the union of masculine and feminine. As it was
with Joseph, in that his ministration saved the children of Israel, so too was
it with Moses' ministration four hundred years later. Subsequently, judges such
as Sampson, Deborah and Gideon were sent to assist Israel in maintaining the
betrothal contract. Then prophets like Elijah and Isaiah were sent. Many centuries later, both Jesus and Paul
were sent with a better contract likewise to Israel for their spiritual
salvation. This time though the large majority, in their pride, saw no need for
salvation.
Nazir
As Jacob blesses Joseph in Gen. 49:26, he ends by saying
that Joseph was "separate" from his brethren. The Hebrew word for separate
in this verse is nazir. This
usage of nazir is the very first in scripture and as such is a root for
similar words. It is translated other places as Nazarite or Nazarene. Under the
Old Testament Law given by Moses, a Nazarite was one who made a vow of
separation. This was a written vow presented to the priests.
Originally, the city of Nazareth was established as a location
for Nazarites to fulfill their vows. Joseph and Mary fled to Egypt with the
young child Jesus when an angel warned them of Herod's plan to kill all young
males in the region. They returned after learning of the death of Herod. Thus
the prophetic saying was fulfilled, "Out of Egypt have I called my son." When
they returned they chose to settle in Nazareth rather then their lineal
hometown of Bethlehem. It was so done that the sayings of the prophets could be
fulfilled of Jesus; "He shall be called a Nazarene."
When one considers the Hebraic alphabetical symbols of
which the word nazir is comprised, the understanding of its meaning
deepens. Observing from right to left, as the Hebrew language is to be read,
the word nazir consists of the consonants nun, zayin, and resh.
Nun, when all the symbols of the Hebrew alphabet are considered, is the
central symbol. Nun in the most ancient symbols is that of a seed with a
tail. It means son, heir and continuation. Zayin, the next letter, in
the very ancient symbols is that of a mattock head. In antiquity, it was the
one possessing the mattock that was the lord of the garden and responsible for
the familial sustenance. In the later Hebraic symbols this became a staff with
a head. It was also the symbol of rulership in Egypt. It means food, harvest
and nourish. The final consonant, resh, has as its most ancient symbol
the head of a man. It means first, top or beginning. Some linguists give an
additional meaning for resh as a ray of light.
The same three letters in this order are also the
Hebrew word nezer which is translated many times as crown.
From
the letters within this word nazir, one way to consider it�s meaning
would be as the son gives nourishment first. Other considerations might
be the masculine harvests as a ray of light or the seed of the heir
is the beginning or the masculine seed nourishes from the top in a ray
of light. Here, as with all ancient Semitic languages the meanings are
meant to be pictorially spatial rather than being one-dimensional.
This Feast Season's Heavenly
Mark
R.
S. Wadsworth has written:
It was ten years ago almost to the day that I started this particular journey in Biblical astronomy, though I have been a student of this subject since 1976. It was then (1993) that I became aware of great signs that were to take place in1996 and 2003. Even though at that time I was not aware of the two bright comets (Hyakutake and Hale Bopp) on their way in, I was real excited, because other rare events with most of them occurring on Biblical feast days, and occurring in constellations pertaining to the Messiah's return. Now I am looking almost to the other side with most of those signs far behind us instead of ahead of us, with only one more left to go (two counting the massing in Arieh).
In 1993, I really didn't think that all these signs would come and go without the Messiah's return. I believed at that time that the tribulation would begin in 1996 as it was so plainly marked out in the heavens, and that the end of the tribulation would occur either in the spring of 2000 or the autumn of 2003. After thousands of hours of research, I know for certain that these were and are the greatest signs ever to occur marking the Return of Messiah. In the last 6,000 years and for at least 5,000 years to come, there was and will not be an array of such fine signs as were witnessed to over these past 7 years.
The majority of and most dramatic of these signs have
occurred in the feast season from Passover and through Pentecost. Brilliant
long period comets Hyakutake and Hale Bopp reached their very brightest during
the spring feast seasons of 1996 and 1997 respectively. There was a quite rare
massing of all planets in the sign of Taurus in the spring feast season of
2000. Naked eye visible comets Utsunomiya and Ikeya Zhang appeared
simultaneously in the night's heavens during the spring feast season of 2002.
At the same time in the spring of 2002 four naked eye visible planets with the
new moon and comet Utsunomiya massed in the sign of Taurus with the fifth planet
Jupiter in retrograde motion in nearby Gemini.
Biblically, one cannot deny the significance of rare
celestial events like these. It was a series of celestial events that lead the
magi from Persia to worship the young child Jesus as the King of Israel.
The
scriptures inform one of the importances of the divinely celestial.
And God said, Let there
be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and
let them be for signs and seasons.
Genesis 1:14
Lift up your eyes
on high, and behold who hath created these things, that bringeth out their host
by numbers, he calleth them all by names by the greatness of his might, for
that he is strong in power; not one faileth. Isaiah 40:26
The heavens declare his righteousness
and all the people see his glory. Psalms
97:6
Thy kingdom come.
Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
Matthew 6:10
The heavens declare the
glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handiwork. 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 word unto the end of the world (universe). In them he has
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. Psalms 19:1-5
This spring,
approaching Passover, all five naked eye visible planets and the moon are in
the south and southwestern sky just after sunset. Later, in May, just before
Pentecost Mars and Saturn come into conjunction between the symbolic figures of
masculine and feminine in the sign of Gemini. What is more interesting is that
two naked eye visible comets are to appear in the same area of the greater span
of Gemini after sunset between Passover and Pentecost. What is most rare, if
not unprecedented, is that, in their brightest phases, these comets� paths will
cross during the abbreviated time span of several weeks. (They will cross at a
point very close to the location where the 1997 path of comet Hale Bopp and the
2002 path of comet Utsunomiya intersected.) The later of these two current
comets will cross the path of the earlier on the day prior to the feast day of
Pentecost. This day of crossing is the 49th day from Passover. This
day is marked with significance by Moses in the counting of days from Passover
to determine the day of Pentecost. The number forty-nine is a multiple of seven
times seven. E.W. Bullinger, in his Companion Bible, writes that seven
denotes spiritual perfection. He writes also that the number seven
regulates every period of incubation and gestation in insects, birds, animals
and man.
(In digression, here
some comments about genetics as it relates to the masculine and feminine coming
together to form the one body may be appropriate. The male seed is comprised of
an X and Y chromosome. The female seed is comprised of two Y chromosomes. In
impregnation, each the male seed and the female seed contribute one of their
two chromosomes. If the male seed contributes its X chromosome, then the
resulting child is a male. If the male seed contributes its Y chromosome then
the resulting child is female. Considering that the X chromosome is as
masculine and the Y chromosome is as feminine then a male child is the
combination of masculine and feminine. Symbolically, this, that is in nature,
represents the coming together of the masculine saints and the feminine
faithful in Christ Jesus to produce the "one new man in Christ" that the
apostle Paul writes of in his epistle to the Ephesians. It is also, later in
Ephesians, that Paul writes that the union of a husband and wife or masculine
and feminine represents the mystery of Christ and the feminine ekklesia
or called out church.
Jesus in his final
discourses with his disciples reassures them that he will see them again. It is
in the context in John chapter sixteen that Jesus refers to this time as the
time in which a woman has ended her travail and, with joy, has brought a man
child into world. In this record could be the figure of the feminine Holy
Spirit who has labored from the beginning through the logos of Christ to
bring forth the union of the masculine saints and feminine faithful in Christ
Jesus as the "one new man in Christ.")
The Location
The location of the crossing of
the two comets is not without significance either. The point of crossing is
very close to Sirius, the brightest star in the heavens.
In R. S.Wadsworth's
January-February newsletter of 2004, he had this to say about Sirius:
HE SHALL BE CALLED A NAZARENE
The most dominant constellation in the winter sky is Orion. It shines forth brilliantly in the early evening skies of December, January, and February. The brightest star (other than the planets Jupiter and Venus) in the heavens also shines brilliantly during these winter nights; it is the star Sirius in the constellation Canis Major. The star is located south and west of Orion. If you can find Orion, Sirius is easy to locate since it is the brightest star in the heavens.
In its perverted form, the constellation to which Sirius belongs is shown in the form of a dog, and the star is associated with burning heat, pestilence, and disaster to the earth and the children of men. It is from this star and constellation that we get the saying "the dog days of summer." When this star was first seen in its rising in ancient Egypt, it signified that the dreadfully hot summer days would soon begin. Because of the precession of the equinoxes and other factors, the rising of the star has no longer any association with the hot days of summer. I believe that the true meaning of this constellation can be found in its more ancient form. The following is from Joseph A. Seiss' "The Gospel in the Stars," (1882), pp. 116-117.
"In the Dendera Zodiac the figure is the Eagle or Hawk (not a dog), the particular enemy of the Serpent, having on his head a double mark of crownings with power and majesty, and standing on the top of a great mace as the triumphant royal Breaker and Bruiser of the powers of evil. The principal star in this constellation is the most brilliant and fiery in all the heavens.
This star is called Sirius, from sir or seir, which means Prince, Guardian, the Victorious. Taken in connection with the name of the figure in the Egyptian sphere, as often given, we have Naz-Seir or Nazir; and we know who it was to be called Naz-seir-ene. Naz-Seir means the Sent Prince. So the Rod promised to come forth from the stem or stump of Jesse is called Netzer in the Hebrew Bible, there translated the Branch, the princely Scion, who should "smite the earth with the rod of His mouth, and slay the wicked with the breath of His lips." Not, then, only because Christ spent His earlier years at an obscure village by the name of Nazareth, but, above all, because He was the sent Prince, the Messiah, the Branch, at once the Netzer of Isaiah and the Naz-Seir of these equally prophetic constellations. From the earliest ages of Christianity till now interpreters and defenders of the Scripture have been at a loss to explain by what prophet or in what sacred prophecy it was said, as claimed by the Apostle, that Christ should be called a Nazarene; but here, from a most unexpected quarter, we find the nearest and most literal foreshadowing of that very name, given in place as a designation of the Seed of the woman, and describing Him as the Sent Prince, the lordly Eagle, the appointed tearer in pieces of the extirpirator of the whole serpent brood. And in this Naz-Seir, or Naz-Sirius, we are to see Him of whom Matthew said, "He came and dwelt in a city called Nazareth, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophets, He shall be called NAZ-SEIR-ENE" (Matt. 2:23).
It would verily seem as if we were selecting a list of scriptural expressions concerning our Redeemer when we thus give the sense of these astronomic names. Their meaning is most truly significant when understood of Christ, but they are worse than absurd if we are to understand them of an Egyptian dog." �end of article
Other stars in this constellation, their names and name meanings are: Mirzam - the prince or ruler; Wesen - the bright, the shining; Adhara - the glorius; Aschere - who shall come; Al Shira Al Femeniya - the Prince or Chief of the right hand; Seir - the Prince; Abur - the mighty; Al Habor - the mighty; Muliphen - the leader, the chief.
When one is aware that the ancient Easterners considered
comets symbolically as eagles; that Canis Major with Sirius is in the
encompassing sign of Gemini; and that Gemini itself represents the one body of
Christ comprised of both spiritually masculine and spiritually feminine brought
together, the significance of the crossing of the two comets on the 49th
day from Passover next to Sirius deepens.
What may even broaden and deepen more
the significance of this event is the record of Jesus' prophetic words in Luke
17. After Jesus describes to his disciples the separation of the spiritually
masculine for differentiation from the spiritually feminine (and for
eventual righteously perfected union of such.) They ask "where" in the
cycling timepiece of the heaven this will occur. Jesus states, �Wheresoever the
body is thither will the eagles be gathered together.
The Zodiac of Dendera
The zodiac of Dendera in the Temple
of Hathor in Egypt is said to be the oldest zodiac in existence. Although this
temple was restored by the Romans in the 2nd century AD, it predates
that time by several thousand years. Helenia McNielly, author of The
Language of God, has this to say about the zodiac's age.
There is evidence that the Mazzaroth had been deciphered and understood
not long after Adam and Eve were created. This evidence can be found in the
oldest depiction of the forty-eight ancient constellations of the Zodiac ever
found - the Dendera Zodiac of Ancient Egypt. It is dated to 2000 BC, only 347
years after the Great Flood. Though
the actual stone carving of this Zodiac on the ceiling of a temple is dated to
2000 BC, however, the Dendera Zodiac reflects a much earlier time. This
can be deduced by observing the placement of the constellations shown at the
four Cardinal points in the Dendera Zodiac. Their alignment in the sky does not
point to 2000 BC but to 4000 BC
instead. This date corresponds closely with the date Biblical Chronology
gives for the beginning of mankind's history in 4003 BC
Besides the circular zodiac in the ceiling of the
temple there is a linear zodiac at the entrance to the temple. This zodiac has
two reliefs with the signs of the zodiac evenly distributed between them in the
order that they occur on the ecliptic of the sun's path. What is interesting
and also different about this zodiac is that there are two parallel lines of
figures. The figures in the upper line include those of the signs on the
ecliptic and the lower are of figures in small boats. Egyptologists say that
the figures depicted in boats are those of the gods. In the Egyptian religious
festivals figures of their gods were carried about in small reed
boats. These boats represent the ship that the Greeks later called Argo. Argo
was the ship that carried the company of travelers that will return from along
the outer periphery of the circle of the zodiac. The stellar representation for
Argo is next to that of Canis Major with Sirius or, in another word, nazir.
Within this context, what is revealing is that as
the upper row of the of the signs nears its end just beyond the sign of Gemini
the outer row of gods joins the upper row of figures with Orion moving from the
lower or outer row at the eagle and mace symbol of nazir in the upper
row. At this point in the upper row the god Orion, who symbolized the
divine child Horus to the Egyptians, has his body turned towards a female
figure in the upper row where he is now positioned in his small boat. The
female figure is not in a boat, has her body facing Orion and has her hand and
arm stretched out towards him. Although the front of Orion's body is turned
towards the female figure and his left forearm and hand towards her
outstretched right hand, his head and raised right arm are directed towards nazir
in the onward progression in the upper row of this lineal zodiac. From this
point of nazir onward both the figures in the upper row and lower row
are in boats. The final figure in the upper row is that of a royal man and
woman together in a boat. The final figure in the lower row is that of a royal
man and woman in a boat with a small child that appears to be male.
The circular zodiac on the ceiling of the Temple of
Hathor may be more recent than this linear zodiac since some say that the signs
are depicted in some places with Egyptian symbols and at other places with
early Greek symbols. The sign for Canis Major is though that of the Egyptian
hawk or eagle and it is located below Gemini at the six o'clock position, the
Eastern symbolic reference point for the beginning of a new day when the sun
sets. At this time, in the skies over Jerusalem, on the day before Pentecost,
preparing to set in the west, will be the conjunction of Saturn and Mars in
Gemini. It is also, at sunset on this evening of the day before Pentecost on
May 26th, when Sirius or nazir will be lingering on the west
southwestern horizon. It is very near this bright star that, at the same
moment, the second comet will be crossing the path of the first as Passover is
merging into Pentecost.
The Zodiac of Dendera
So here, during the season from Passover through Pentecost the eternal symbol of union through the cross of Christ is likewise portrayed symbolically by the yeast from the fermentation of barley seed combined with the wheat flour to bring forth bread for Pentecost and the next year, and is likewise signified by these two comets, figuratively as eagles, crossing next to nazir, the eagle, within Gemini the greater sign of Christ's one body where the two are made one.
One may consider these current celestial signs and those within this preceding eight-year period of time as the Lord speaking from heaven. The transit of Venus across the face of the sun on June 8, 2004 may be the culmination of all he has spoken in this day. (According to Bob Wadsworth there are no more foreseeable pronounced signs indicating the Messiah until a massing of planets in Virgo in 2040.) When Venus transits the sun again after 236 years on June 8th from the vantage point of earth, the sun will be between the horns of Taurus. Taurus is the tribal sign for Joseph. This sign contains the star clusters of the Pleiades, the congregation of the judge, and the Hyades, those belonging to the congregation of the judge. In Egyptology it was the god Hathor who was represented with a head ornament with the sun disk between two ox horns. It is also interesting to note that it is the temple of Hathor that contains the zodiacs of Dendera.
In closing, the first and last letter from the ancient symbols of the Hebrew alphabet may gain meaning. The first symbol is that of the head of an ox. As one of the meanings of the heavenly sign of Taurus the bull, so too is this meaning applicable to this ancient symbol of an oxen's head. It means to push or prod forward. The last ancient sign of the Hebrew alphabet is derived from the early Egyptian hieroglyph of two crossed sticks. It was to a couch in the form of this final letter tav that an initiate to the Egyptian priesthood was tied, plunged into a deep sleep and sealed in a cave or lower temple room for three days and three nights to be arisen at the beginning of a new day and for a new life. In writing, this letter is as a cross, such as today would be recognized as the type of cross the Lord of glory was crucified upon. It's meaning is that of "sign, monument, signal," or "the mark."
The Knot Tied
Copyright,
2004, Steve Santini
