Category: bible
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The Children’s Six Minutes: The Most Beautiful Thing in the World
THE MOST BEAUTIFUL THING IN THE WORLD The most beautiful thing in the world! Now what is it? If you will lift your eyes just a little you will see the flowers on the table, but lift them higher than the flowers, higher than this pulpit, higher than the pipes of the organ, above the…
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Witness of the Stars: CANIS MAJOR (The Dog), or SIRIUS (The Prince) & CANIS MINOR (The Second Dog)
This second constellation carries on the teaching, and tells of the glorious Prince who will thus subdue and reign. In the Denderah Zodiac he is called Apes, which means the head. He is pictured as a hawk (Naz, נַץ, caused to come forth, coming swiftly down). The hawk is the natural enemy of the serpent,…
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The Witness of the Stars: LEPUS (the Hare), THE ENEMY
1. LEPUS (the Hare), THE ENEMY The Enemy Trodden under Foot. The names of the three constellations of this Sign, as well as the pictures, are all more or less modern, as is manifest from the names being in Latin, and having no relation to the ancient names of their stars. To learn their real meaning,…
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Witness of the Stars: Chapter II. The Sign GEMINI (The Twins)
Chapter II. The Sign GEMINI (The Twins) Messiah’s Reign as Prince of Peace. All the pictures of this sign are confused. The Greeks claimed to have invented them, and they called them Apollo and Hercules. They are given in our illustration. The Latins called the Castor and Pollux; and the name of a vessel in…
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The Witness of the Stars: AURIGA (The Shepherd)
3. AURIGA (The Shepherd) Safety for the Redeemed in the Day of Wrath. Here is presented to us the answer to the question (from the last section), “Who may abide the day of His coming?” “Behold, the Lord God (Adonai Jehovah) will come as a mighty one, And His arm shall rule for Him: Behold, His reward is…
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Witness of the Stars: ERIDANUS (The River of the Judge)
2. ERIDANUS (The River of the Judge) The River of Wrath Breaking Forth for His Enemies. It issues forth, in all the pictures, from the down-coming foot of Orion. While others see in it, from the ignorance of fabled story, only “the River Po,” or the “River Euphrates,” we see in it, from the meaning of its name, and…
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Witness of the Star: ORION (The Coming Prince)
1. ORION (The Coming Prince) Light Breaking Forth in the Redeemer. This picture is to show that the coming one is no mere animal, but a man: a mighty, triumphant, glorious prince. He is so pictured in the ancient Denderah Zodiac, where we see a man coming forth pointing to the three bright stars (Rigel, Bellatrix,…
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Testigo de las estrellas: Crux (la Cruz)
Crux (la Cruz) La cruz perduró El nombre hebreo era Adom, que significa «cortar», como en Daniel 9:26: «Después de sesenta y dos semanas, el Mesías será exterminado». La última letra del alfabeto hebreo se llamaba Tau, que antiguamente tenía forma de cruz. La antigua letra fenicia era [Símbolo: cruz inclinada a la derecha]; la…
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Witness of the Stars: The Third Book – The Redeemer: Chapter I. The Sign TAURUS (The Bull)
The Third Book. The Redeemer His Second Coming. In this Third and Last Book we come to the concluding portion of this Heavenly Revelation. Its subject is Redemption completed, and consummated in triumph. No more sorrow, suffering, or conflict; no more the bruising of the heel of the Redeemer. We have now done with the…
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The Children’s Six Minutes: Love and Loyalty
LOVE AND LOYALTY Once upon a time, long, long ago, there was a man who had a wife and two sons. There was a famine in the land where he lived, so he said to his wife and sons, “We will journey down to another country where the crops have not failed. There shall we…