The Witness of the StarsBullinger, E. W. (Ethelbert William)
Religion
The Witness of the Stars
Bullinger, E. W. (Ethelbert William)
Astronomy; Astronomy in the Bible; Bible and science; Constellations
The Church, or Body of Christ, is totally distinct from every class of
persons who are made the subject of prophecy. Not that the Church of God
was an after‐thought. No, it was a Divine secret, kept as only God Himself
could keep it. The Bible therefore would have been complete (so far as the
Old Testament prophecies are concerned) if the Epistles (which belong only
to the Church) were taken out. The Old Testament would then give us the
kingdom prophesied; the Gospels and Acts, the King and the kingdom offered
and rejected; then the Apocalypse would follow, showing how that promised
kingdom will yet be set up with Divine judgment, power, and glory.
If these Signs and these star‐pictures be the results of inspired
patriarchs, then this Sign of PISCES can refer to “His seed,” prophesied
of in Isa. liii.: “He shall see His seed.” It must refer to
“The nation whose God is the LORD,
And the people whom He hath chosen for His own inheritance.”
(Ps. xxxiii. 12.)
“Such as be blessed of Him shall inherit the earth.”
(Ps. xxxvii. 22.)
“The LORD shall increase you more and more,
You and your children,
Ye are blessed of the LORD.”
(Ps. cxv. 14, 15.)
“Their seed shall be known among the Gentiles.
And their offspring among the people;
All that see them shall acknowledge them,
That they are the seed which the LORD hath blessed.”
(Isa. lxi. 9.)
“They are the seed of the blessed of the LORD,
And their offspring with them.”
(Isa. lxv. 23.)
The prophecy of this Sign was afterwards written in the words of Isa.
xxvi. 15—the song which shall yet be sung in the land of Judah:
“Thou hast increased the nation, O LORD,
Thou hast increased the nation.”
And in Isa. ix. 3 (R.V.), speaking of the glorious time when the
government shall be upon the shoulder of the coming King:
“Thou hast multiplied the nation,
Thou hast increased their joy.”
Of that longed‐for day Jeremiah sings (xxx. 19):
“I will multiply them
And they shall not be few;
I will also glorify them,
And they shall not be small.”
Ezekiel also is inspired to say:
“I will multiply men upon you,
All the house of Israel, even all of it:
And the cities shall be inhabited,
And the wastes shall be builded;
And I will multiply upon you man and beast,
And they shall increase and bring fruit.”
(Ezek. xxxvi. 10, 11.)
“Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them;
It shall be an everlasting covenant with them!
And I will place them, and multiply them,
And will set My sanctuary in the midst of them for evermore.”
(Ezek. xxxvii. 26.)
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