Genesis Part 2: Days 2-4, Part 3

Greetings, friends and new listeners, and welcome to The Sound of Faith.

I'm Sharon Notz. Thank you for joining us today because we know faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God. Today's message is part two of a three-part series I did on Genesis, the recreation of heaven and earth. In part two, we discussed days two, three, and four.

In this exciting account, we discovered the greenhouse effect the earth once enjoyed due to a canopy of waters that protected it. We will also learn about the zodiac, how it declares the gospel, and how it has been corrupted in the Genesis series, part two. Before I discuss the 12 signs of the zodiac, I would like you to turn with me to Psalm 19. Psalm 19 tells us that God has written the story of the gospel in the stars. And that's what Psalm 19 tells us. Psalm 19, the heavens declare the glory of God, and the firmament shows his handiwork. Day unto day utter speech and night unto night shows knowledge.

There is no speech or language where their voice is not heard. Mine is going out through all the earth and their words to the end of the world. In them has he set a tabernacle for the sun, which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and rejoices as a strong man to run a race. His going forth, this is still speaking of the sun, his going forth is from the end of the heaven, and his circuit under the ends of it, and there is nothing here.

He hid from the heat thereof. So what we have here is a very poetic description of the heavens. So we see the heavens declare the glory of God, and the firmament shows forth his handiwork. The heavens there is the common Hebrew word for heaven, shamayim, and it's plural.

Shows forth his handiwork. The heavens declare. It means to recount, to relate.

It basically means to tell a story. The heavens tell a story, and the story they're telling is about the glory, about the honor, and the majesty of God. And the firmament shows forth, and that word shows forth there means to announce, to publish. It is being published across the heavens for every person on the earth to see. For the entire population of the earth can read this story in the heavens.

Publishes his handiwork. It means his deeds, his acts, and his labors. So anyone that wants to look up the constellation of the twelve zodiac signs will be able to see the story that God is declaring, and publishing about his works.

Day on the day utter speech and night on the night shows knowledge. There is a continual testimony 24-7. There is a continual testimony of God's creative power. And the heavens are saying, they're declaring, look at us! There's a creator! Look at us! There's a designer!

Look at us! We're telling you the story of man's redemption. Psalm 148 5 says he commanded and they were created. And he put them in the night sky. Because without the darkness of night, we would not be able to see the stars. I mean, how many stars do you see in the daytime? That's when you can see the stars.

And that's when you, I realize the earth now has a lot of smog, okay? And so we don't see them like they would have back then, in this time, amen? But nevertheless, those who do study astronomy, I didn't say astrology, I said astronomy, they study and they take pictures and we can go online and see them, we can read them in books, amen?

So without the night sky, we would never see the stars in the constellation. But day on the day and night on the night, they're out there telling the story. Amen? There is no speech nor language where their voice is not heard. They're telling a story. And it doesn't matter what culture you're from, where you live on the earth, what language you speak, amen?

It doesn't matter. It doesn't have to be translated into a language. You look at the constellations and you can read the story of God's plan of redemption because it's the language of the stars. And you know, Paul brought this out in Romans 1 when he was talking about those who the wrath of God was against them because he said they held down the truth of God's word. They held it down. It's not like they didn't know it in Romans 1. They knew it and they held it down.

They stifled it, amen? God's word that may be known of God is manifest in creation. In other words, God was saying even if nobody came to you with a Bible, if you live somewhere where there was no Bible or you couldn't read, he was saying God manifests the fact that there is a creator when you look at the creation. He said for the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen being understood by the things that are mentioned. He made even his eternal power and Godhead so that they are without excuse. In other words, they are without excuse if they say there is no God.

Because you look at the earth and how finely tuned it is for life. And that would be a whole other message, amen? And it cannot just be random and accidental.

Here's the word. There's too much complexity. And design. And design requires a design.

The human body with its 60 plus trillion cells is so intricately made it requires a designer. And so God says just look at the creation. I'll never forget I read a story and it's got a little rusty.

I hope I can remember it correctly. But it was about a man who lived in an area where they didn't read, they didn't write, they knew nothing about God. It would be a place of paganism and heathenism. Something stirring in him. He had no satisfaction from bowing down to the sun or bowing down to whatever gods they were bowing down to. And one day he knelt down and cried out and said I don't know who you are or where you are but I believe that there must be someone who created all these things. Someone had to create all these things. And wherever you are and wherever you are, I want you to be my God.

And I want to serve you. On the basis of that, that man was born again. Born again. Of course he went on to know the Bible and all of that but I'm saying the creation spoke to his spirit and said there has to be a creator. And that's why God says they're without excuse. Some people say how is God going to judge certain people? Well, some of them he's going to judge. He's going to judge by the creation. Amen. And what about all those ones that are saying there is no creator? What kind of judgment are they going to get?

Because they know and they've studied. Amen. Verse 4 says their line, and that means their words, their speech is going out through all the earth and their words to the end of the world. And in them he has set a tabernacle for the sun.

Now this is very poetic. Basically in Hebrew means a tent. So it's like God has a celestial tent for the sun to go into. At night the sun goes into that celestial tent but every morning it comes out of its tent and moves across the circuit of the heavens.

Amen. The sun makes its course through the sky and it says the sun goes through its circuit like a bridegroom coming out of his tent with strength and joy. Now how many know a bridegroom is a very happy man? He's very happy. Life is wonderful. He's strong and he's got joy.

And that's what the writer is saying. The sun is like a happy bridegroom coming out of his tent to say good morning everybody. It's a beautiful world.

Amen. You know Benny and I were in Snyder's the other day having dinner and they were playing music and they were playing that song and I think to myself it's a wonderful world. You know the one who made it famous was Louis Armstrong.

Nobody sings it like him. What a wonderful world. And the sun comes out every morning and says what a wonderful world. Let's get on with the day. Everything's ready to happen. Amen.

It rises from one end of heaven and moves in its circuit and then it sets. And there is absolutely nothing hidden from its heat. And that's a good thing. Amen. But it's Satan who has perverted the story of the zodiac. And he's caused pagan empires to rise up and create alternative stories about the stars and its nature. And he's conditioned us to be afraid of the zodiac and stay away from the zodiac. And now I must say you should stay away from astrologers who try to use the signs of the zodiac. What's your sign?

When were you born? Oh you're under this sign. Well let me tell you your horoscope.

Let me tell you your fortune. You don't want to do that. God forbids it. There are verses in the Bible where he says it is an abomination unto him. He forbids it for a reason. He says you shall not go to those who observe times and tell fortunes. You can find in Leviticus 19 26 and Deuteronomy 18 10.

He says it is abomination unto the Lord. So you don't want to do that. And not only that you can open the door to a spirit of fear. Because the devil would be glad to get a Christian to come get a reading whether whatever way it gets read your palm the tarot cards or the zodiac.

He would love to get a reading because he's going to tell you something bad that's going to happen so fear can jump on you. Don't do it. Even in your newspaper don't think it's just fun. They put it with the comics.

They always put it next to the comics and the crosswords like it's some benign thing. Don't open the door to that suggestion. Amen.

That's what Satan has done to pervert it. He's been there. His plan of redemption.

Amen. Says in Psalm 147 4 he appoints the number of the stars and he gives names to all of them. Now very quickly I'm going to go through some things in the time that I have left. Here are a few examples. I'm going to go right to the signs. So each one of these 12 zodiac signs within their constellation there's a lot of other stars.

They're called deacons. And we can't discuss them all but I'm going to hear them. I'm going to hit on some major ones.

Okay. The zodiac starts with Virgo and goes around and ends with Leo. Number one is Virgo. We go around and we end with number 12 Leo.

So very quickly let me give you some information. Virgo is a picture of a virgin woman with a branch in her hand. This represents the seed of the woman, the virgin, that Isaiah said behold this will be a sign to you a virgin shall conceive and bring forth a son and he shall be called Emmanuel which means God with us.

So it's a picture of a woman. She would be the seed that God said in Genesis 3 15 is going to crush the head of the serpent. Her three deacons under Virgo.

We have Coma that represents the woman with her desired son. We have a Centaurus which represents the dual nature of Jesus Christ, the Messiah, her son. And we have Butes which represents a shepherd, the coming of a shepherd to guard over his sheep.

And it's also very important the word branch. I don't have time to go to these verses but let me tell you what they are if you want to look them up. Isaiah 11 1. Jeremiah 23 5 and 6.

And Zechariah 6 12. They talk about the coming Messiah and he shall be called the branch. And it will be spelled in all caps in your King James Bible because it's talking about Messiah. 11 1 of Isaiah says and there shall come a root out of Jesse. And Jesse was the father of David thereof the tribe of Judah and Messiah has to come from Judah. Amen.

And he shall be called the branch. So that's what the sign Virgo is. Moving on to the sign 2, Libra. Libra is a picture of scales. The old kind of scales with the chains and the little cups down the bottom. The way they used to weigh things back then. And that represents the price.

What will be the price that is going to have to be paid? We were not redeemed with corruptible things as silver and gold. But God put the soul of mankind, all the souls of Israel, all the souls of men on one side of the scales.

And the only way he could balance it is to put the blood. But the precious blood of the Lamb of God, of Christ without spot and without blemish. The three deacons of Libra. Verona is a crown. That same Messiah is going to be crowned.

Amen. Number 3, Scorpion. It's called Scorpio. It's a picture of a scorpion. It represents how that the evil one is going to try to come and wound the Messiah, the son of the woman. But remember, Genesis 3.15, the seed of the woman is going to crush the head of the serpent. Ophiuchus represents the mighty one holding the serpent so that the serpent cannot take the crown. And Hercules is the mighty man, the mighty one victorious. If I give you a thought over all the power of the enemy, you will tread on the serpent and the scorpion under your feet. Amen. We are like Hercules.

Number 4, Sagittarius. The picture is half man, half goat. But the man is an archer and he's got a drawn bow in his hand. And this represents the victorious redeemer. The three deacons of Sagittarius. A harp means we're going to praise the victorious redeemer.

Eire is the burning pier, which is when they burn dead bodies like they do in India and some other nations. And so it's showing the judgment that's being prepared for the evil serpent Satan and his angels. And the last one is Draco. It's the dragon and he's cast down. Amen. Because we read in Revelation 3. He's 12 and there's war in heaven and that old serpent, that dragon Satan is cast out of heaven.

Amen. And eventually into the pit and then into the lake of fire. Number 5, Capricorn is the picture of the goat. This is a representative of Jesus who is the scapegoat. If you read in the Old Testament, he not only had to be the lamb, but in addition to that sacrifice that day, they had to take a scapegoat, put their hands on him and pronounce all the sins of Israel on the scapegoat and then send him out in the wilderness so he could die there and never bring the sin back into the camp of Israel. Messiah was the scapegoat. The three deacons of Capricorn.

Sagitta is an arrow. Again, it's showing God's judgment against sin. That judgment is going to come against his Messiah. On the cross, Aquila, the falling eagle, the pierced one is falling. But Delphinus, the dolphin springs out of water because that represents his resurrection. And Jesus said, I am the resurrection and the life.

He said, I am he that was dead and am alive and behold, I'm alive forevermore. Number 6, Aquarius is a water bearer. Carrying water. And that is an obvious picture of Messiah. He said in John the 7th chapter that he is the living water.

Amen. The living water that if we drink this water, he told the one woman at the well in John 4, drink this water, you'll never thirst again. The three deacons of Aquarius, Pisces, it's a picture of the fish.

And it means receiving that living water in its fullness. Pegasus is the winged horse. And he represents the soon return of the redeemer. Cygnus is a swan and represents the sure return of the redeemer.

Number 7, Pisces, two fish. And they represent the ingathering of the souls, the remnant that will come to Messiah. Jesus said to his disciples, follow me and I will make you fisher of men.

Amen. And we know one time when they were out fishing, the 12 disciples fished all night and caught no fish. And Jesus showed up and said, throw your net on the right side.

And they brought in so many fish, it broke the net. So it's showing the harvest for the gospel. Amen. The three deacons. The band, it's a cord.

Meaning the reward. The redeemer will be bound. Andromeda represents the chained woman. She's in chains because Israel, who is the woman, is still chained by unbelief.

Amen. By and large, the Jewish people are in chains of unbelief. And Cepheus is the crowned king, the deliverer coming to rule.

Number 8, the ram. The ram is Messiah. It represents the Messiah, the lamb of God. John said in John 1 29, behold the lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world. Then in Revelation, John saw him. Even then, even then in heaven, in glory, he saw somebody sitting on the throne and he said he looks like a lamb who was just slain.

Amen. Number 9 is Cassiopeia, an enthroned woman preparing to get married. Cetus, the sea monster, the great enemy has been subdued and bound. Perseus, the breaker, the mighty deliverer. Number 9 is Taurus, the bull. It represents the Messiah coming to judge.

To judge and to rule. Cetus, or Orion, represents the prince of glory coming in the brightness of his coming. Eridanus represents a river of fire. God's wrath will be poured out on Satan and his enemies.

Eriga is a shepherd. God's people will be protected in the day of wrath. The shepherd protects and lays down his life for his sheep. Number 10, Gemini, the twins, represents the dual nature of Jesus Christ, the son of God and the son of man. He is both king of kings and yet he is our savior. The three deacons of Gemini.

Lepus, an enemy being trodden underfoot. Canis, major Sirius, represents the prince coming in glory. Canis, minor, prosin, represents the redeemer.

The redeemer coming. Number 11 is the crab, represents the Messiah as a protector in a secure resting place. The three deacons of Cancer are Ursa, minor, the sheepfold. Also the great bear, protecting the sheep or protected. Ursa, major, it's the flock assembled, protected by the sheep. The shepherd. Argo is the ship in a safe harbor.

The travelers finally are coming home to safe harbor. And number 12, Leo the lion. King of the jungle. Messiah is king of kings and lord of lords. He is the victor who destroys all of his enemies.

Let me tell you the three deacons. Hydra is a serpent. The old serpent is destroyed, trampled underfoot.

Crater, a cup. The cup of God's wrath is poured out on the kingdom of the serpent and the dragon. And last, Corvus, the raven. The raven represents the devouring of the old serpent because ravens are carnivorous. Amen. They're eaters of meat. And one more I want to tell you.

I want to give you a fourth one and this last one. I'm not sure if I'm saying it right, but Denebola. And it means the lord who comes. So you see that redemption in the gospel was written in the stars. And yet Satan is the one who has corrupted it. Amen.

Amen. I hope you are following us in this comprehensive study from my Genesis series, part two, the recreation days two through four. In this eye opening account, we discussed the greenhouse effect of the firmament that once covered the earth, making it a virtual paradise with universal warm temperatures and lush vegetation before there was rain. What happened to the firmament that altered this canopy of waters? You may be surprised to learn that day two is the only day God did not speak of his handiwork saying it is good.

Why? Find out who was entrenched in the heavens and why God did not bless this day. The Bible forbids astrology and consulting the signs of the zodiac because they are corrupted by Satan.

Yet scripture says the heavens declare the glory of God and the firmament shows forth his handiwork. Discover what each of the twelve signs of the zodiac relate in the story of Messiah. The serpent's demise and man's redemption. If you'd like more of this teaching, the entire three part series is available on three CDs for your love gift of only twenty dollars or more for the radio ministry. You will receive part one, the recreation of heaven and earth.

Part two, recreation days two through four and part three recreation days five through seven. Send your minimum love gift of twenty dollars. To Sound of Faith P.O. Box 1744 Baltimore Maryland 21203 or go to our e-store at soundoffaith.org where MP3s are also available. But to order the Genesis series, the complete set of three CDs by mail, send your love gift of twenty dollars or more to P.O. Box 1744 Baltimore Maryland 21203. Request SK777. Until next time, this is Sharon Notzeng, Maranatha.