The fourth day of creation has arrived.
How much we have already grown as a new creation.
The forms of the new heavens and the new earth are beginning to become more and more visible.
Today God will again feed us well, so that we can continue to grow into all fullness.
For….
Matthew 4:4 (NKJV)
Man shall not live by bread alone,
but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.
Genesis 1:14-19 – From Horoscope to Biblical Truth
Everything God says is to show you who you truly are.
He made you in His image and after His likeness.
That is who you are!
You are the son of God.
All His attributes are in you.
That identity is the fullness of Christ.
We have lost this identity, however, by eating from the same tree that Adam and Eve also ate from.
Genesis 3:6 (NIV)
A tree that was desirable for gaining wisdom.
The tree of knowledge of good and evil.
This knowledge makes you think that you are not a son and that you are not perfect.
This knowledge makes you think that you have to work hard to be a son of God.
But God has already made you in His image and likeness. (Genesis 1:26-27)
Thát is your identity.
When you live from that identity, you are in Christ.
And when anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation! (2 Corinthians 5:17)
Let’s see what God is saying today, so that we can continue to grow into the fullness of Christ; the fullness of the new creation.
Genesis 1:14-18 (NKJV)
God said, “Let there be lights in the firmament of the heavens
to divide the day from the night.
And let them be for signs and for seasons, and for days and years!
And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heavens to give light on the earth”
Then God made two great lights:
the greater light to rule the day,
and the lesser light to rule the night.
He made the stars also.
A verse I often use in my studies is found in Colossians 1:27, which says that Christ in you is the hope of glory.
Colossians 1:27 (NKJV)
Christ in you; the hope of glory.
The same truth can be found in the text we just read in Genesis 1 (verses 14-18).
I’ll show you. It is really awesome!
The sun, moon and stars were placed in the firmament created when God separated the waters on the second day of creation.
This firmament He called the heavens (Genesis 1:8).
So in the heavens God placed the sun, moon and stars for signs and for seasons, and for days and years!
Everything we read in Genesis 1 happens within you so that you become a new creation.
And God uses all the natural to teach us that spiritual truth.
So it is with the sun, moon and stars in the heavens.
Man, however, has used these signs in the heavens as idols to create their own invented religions.
This gave birth to astrology and we started seeking wisdom and the purpose of our lives in the positions of the stars.
Even today, horoscopes are still widely read in newspapers, magazines and on the Internet.
But this horoscope is earthly wisdom.
It is the wisdom of men.
1 Corinthians 1:24 (NAS)
But Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.
Christ in the Stars: The True Gospel
Therefore, every text in the Bible is about Jesus Christ!
So is this text in Genesis 1.
For….
Galatians 4:4 (NAS)
When the fullness of time came, God sent His Son, born of a woman.
That fullness of time can be seen in the sun, moon and stars, because that is why God had placed them in the heavens.
God placed the sun, the moon and the stars in the heavens for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years!
This is why, when Jesus is born, we read about the wise men from the east saying:
Matthew 2:2 (NAS)
“Where is He who has been born King of the Jews?
For we saw His star in the east and have come to worship Him.”
On this fourth day of the creation of the new heavens and the new earth, in the middle of the week, we see the birth of sonship within you.
Just as Mary gave birth to the Son of God, you must also give birth to sonship, so to speak.
I have already made a study about this earlier, and I warmly invite you to watch and/or read it after this series as well.
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So in the stars we do not find our horoscope, but we find Jesus Christ there.
Most of the stars still bear the same name that God Himself gave them when He created them on the fourth day of creation.
Psalm 147:4 (ESV)
He determines the number of the stars.
He gives to all of them their names.
Some of the brightest stars visible from Earth are a great example.
Sirius is the brightest star in the sky.
Its name, in fact, means brilliant or Prince.
Other examples of names that God Himself has given to stars are:
Canopus ➡️ this means Golden city (Revelation 21:18)
Vega ➡️ this means Fallen Eagle (Obadiah 1:4)
Achernar➡️ this means River of fire (Revelation 20:15)
Rigel ➡️ this means the foot that crushes (Romans 16:20)
Procyon ➡️ this means Redeemer (Romans 3:24)
Altair ➡️ this means Flying Eagle (Deuteronomy 32:11)
Spica ➡️ this means Ear of Wheat (John 6:51)
These stars are the same stars that Adam saw.
They are the same stars that Abraham and Noah saw.
God drew pictures around these stars to tell us a story.
These drawings form the constellations.
Each of these constellations tells part of God’s masterpiece.
So the stars are not meant as a horoscope telling you what is going to happen today or in the future.
They tell the full gospel of Jesus Christ!
I’ll show you.
I already mentioned the star Spica.
Spica is the brightest star in the constellation called Virgo.
Virgo is the first constellation of the twelve.
The last constellation is Leo.
So even in the stars the gospel of Jesus Christ can be found!
He was born of a virgin, died on the cross and rose again the third day; The Lion of Judah; conqueror!
He is the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End, the First and the Last.
Even in the stars!
Revelation 22:13 (NKJV)
I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End, the First and the Last.
I would love to show you the gospel of Jesus Christ in each constellation separately, but that would really make this video far too long.
Also, the core of this video is not the gospel of Jesus Christ in the stars, but the formation of the new heaven and the new earth.
Still, to give you an impression of how detailed God shows us His wisdom in everything, I will briefly tell you something about the constellation Virgo.
Christ in the Constellation Virgo
This is a photo of the constellation that forms the constellation Virgo (Virgin).
In her left hand she is holding an ear of grain.
The bright star in the middle of it is therefore called Spica, which means ear of grain.
From grain, bread is made.
And Jesus says:
John 6:48 (NKJV)
I am the bread of life.
This bread was born of the virgin Mary.
Near the virgin’s right arm you’ll find the star Vindemiatrix.
This means “He who is coming. (Revelation 1:8)
At the bottom of her dress you find the star Syrma.
This means “clothed. (Revelation 19:13)
At her shoulder you find the star Zaniah.
This means “cornerstone. (1 Peter 2:7)
With every constellation it is like this.
All the stars tell of the glory of God seen in Jesus Christ.
Psalm 19:2-3 (NKJV)
The heavens declare the glory of God,
and the firmament shows His handiwork.
Day unto day utters speech,
and night unto night reveals knowledge.
The Fullness of Time
Do not read the horoscope to discover your future.
The future that God has for you and that He has recorded in the stars, you can read in the Bible.
There you can read about sonship as Jesus shows it to us.
This way, you can grow in sonship to the fullness of Christ and you will shine like a bright star in the sky yourself.
Then, like Jesus, you will shine like the sun.
Matthew 17:2+5 (BSB)
His face shone like the sun, and His clothes became as white as the light.
And a bright cloud enveloped them, and a voice from the cloud said,
“This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Listen to Him!”
For In the fullness of sonship, which is the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ, you will say exactly the same as the Spirit of God.
And that word is God (John1:1).
A very clear and beautiful example of this is found in the book of Revelation.
Right at the beginning of the book, you read:
Revelation 2:7, 11, 17, 29 + 3:6, 13, 22 (NIV)
Whoever has ears, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.
Throughout the book of Revelation, you can read how a person grows into the fullness of sonship by having ears that can hear and understand what the word of God says.
At the very end of the book of Revelation, therefore, you read:
Revelation 22:17 (NIV)
The Spirit and the bride say, “Come!”
And let him who hears say, “Come!” ➡️ he who has ears to hear what the Spirit says.
That bride is you in the fullness of Christ.
You have come to hear what the Spirit is saying and thus you have come to say exactly the same thing the Spirit is saying.
Another image of you in the fullness of Christ is the new Jerusalem.
An angel says to John:
Revelation 21:9+23 (NKJV)
9. “Come, I will show you the bride, the Lamb’s wife.”
And what does the angel show?
10. and he showed me the great city, the holy Jerusalem.
The city is the bride.
The city and the bride are both an image of you when you have grown into the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ. (Ephesians 4:13)
That is the fullness of sonship.
23. That city has no need of the sun or of the moon to shine in it,
for the glory of God illuminated it and the Lamb is its light.
The sun indicates seasons and days and years.
The sun tells the time.
But in the fullness of Christ you live outside of time.
In Christ, you live in the fullness of time.
Then it no longer becomes night after the day.
Isaiah 60:19-20 (ESV)
The sun shall be no more your light by day,
nor for brightness shall the moon give you light
but the LORD will be your everlasting light,
and your God will be your glory.
Your sun shall no more go down,
nor your moon withdraw itself;
for the LORD will be your everlasting light,
and your days of mourning shall be ended.
I would like to tell you so much more about the sun, the moon, and the stars.
Like, for example, God’s promise to Abraham in Genesis 15, or the star called wormwood in Revelation 8.
But I’ll save that for another video.
In the next video of this series, we arrive at the fifth day of your creation as a new heaven and new earth.
The birds and fish that God makes on that day also have deep spiritual meaning within you.
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