God’s Celestial Word: Messiah versus the Serpent, The Great Conflict

We have seen many things in the Book of Job, the first written revelation given to mankind. As such, it can act as a transition between God’s celestial Word about the Messiah and the written Word. God explained to Job the great story in the heavens–the story of the coming Messiah as told in the twelve signs of the zodiac. This story is “The Great Conflict” between good and evil, and the basis of all stories ever since.

It is the source of all mythology, legends, and epics that have a suffering hero who overcomes vast forces of evil. It is the story of the Messiah, the promised seed of the woman, who would have his heel bruised by the serpent, but who would ultimately bruise the serpent’s head and deliver all mankind from death and suffering.

The Great Conflict

It has been shown that the original star names carry significance regarding the Messiah. They also reveal truths about the serpent, the Devil, and his kingdom. This is the great conflict that God declared to Adam and Eve, immediately after the serpent tempted them and they disobeyed their Creator.

Genesis 3:15:
And I [God] will put enmity [conflict] between thee [the serpent, the Devil] and the woman, and between thy seed [the serpent’s seed] and her seed [the Messiah]; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.

God’s celestial Word repeats this story over and over. It gives knowledge of this great conflict, and it shows the Messiah in victory.

Psalms 19:1,2:
The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork.
Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge.

The following chart shows the 12 major constellations of the zodiac in boldface, each with three associated constellations below them. They are in the order that they appear in the heavens. All of the 48 total constellations that are visible to the unaided eye are listed.

The Great Conflict Part One: The Suffering Redeemer I Peter 1:11: …when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ…

Virgo – The Promised Seed Coma – the desired one Bootes – the coming branch Corona – the victorious one over the adversary

Libra – The Payment for Sin Centaurus – The sin offering Crux – His suffering being bruised by the adversary Lupus – The victim without sin

Scorpio – The Evil Serpent, the Adversary Ophiuchus – He shall bruise thy head Serpens – Thou shalt bruise his heel Ara – Future destruction of the adversary in the lake of fire

Sagittarius – The Conquering Messiah Hercules – The mighty one Lyra – The victor’s praise Draco – The conquered serpent

The Great Conflict Part Two: His People Redeemed Job 19:25: For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth.

Capricorn – The Atoning One Sagitta – God’s messenger sent Aquila – His passion and death Delphinus – His resurrection and ascension

Aquarius – The Blesser Piscis Australis – the promised blessings Pegasus – the blesser to come quickly Cygnus – the blesser’s return

Pisces – The Redeemer The Band – bound to his beloved bride Andromeda – the bondage of those he will redeem Cassiopeia – redemption accomplished

Aries – The Lamb Who Brings Victory Eridanus – God’s wrathful judgment pronounced Lepus – the adversary trodden down and destroyed Cetus – the adversary bound by the accomplishment of the Lamb

The Great Conflict Part Three: The Victorious Redeemer I Peter 1:11: …when it testified beforehand…the glory that should follow.

Taurus – The Coming, Ruling One (shepherd king) Perseus – the deliverer who breaks the enemy’s bonds Auriga – the good shepherd Cepheus – the coming branch – the Messiah (king)

Gemini – The Coming Prince Orion – the bright and morning star Canis Major – the prince of princes Canis Minor – the exalted one

Cancer – The Atoned Ones Ursa Minor – the smaller flock Ursa Major – the completed flock Argo – the final paradise

Leo – The Lion of the Tribe of Judah Prevails Crater – God’s wrath and justice accomplished Corvus – the enemy’s kingdom broken up Hydra – the Devil destroyed

Look at God’s amazing order in the heavens!

24 constellations–-exactly half of the total 48 constellations–-(and 10 of the 12 zodiac signs) specifically refer to the Messiah (color-coded red and in boldface type).

12 constellations–exactly half of those regarding the Messiah refer to the Messiah’s accomplished works and those redeemed (color-coded blue).

6 constellations–exactly half of the Messiah’s accomplished works specifically refer to to the adversary (color-coded pink).

And exactly 6 other constellations refer to the adversary’s works and God’s wrathful justice upon him (color-coded orange).

Constellations specifically of the Messiah

1. Virgo – The Promised Seed
2. Coma – the desired one
3. Bootes – the coming branch
4. Corona – the victorious one over the adversary
5. Libra – The Payment for Sin
6. Centaurus – The sin offering
7. Lupus – The victim without sin
8. Ophiuchus – He shall bruise thy head
9. Sagittarius – The Conquering Messiah
10. Hercules – The mighty one
11. Capricorn – The Atoning One
12. Sagitta – God’s messenger sent
13. Aquarius – The Blesser
14. Pisces – The Redeemer
15. Aires – The Lamb Who Brings Victory
16. Taurus – The Coming, Ruling One (shepherd king)
17. Perseus – the deliverer who breaks the enemy’s bonds
18. Auriga – the good shepherd
19. Cepheus – the coming branch – the Messiah (king)
20. Gemini – The Coming Prince
21. Orion – the bright and morning star
22. Canis Major – the prince of princes
23. Canis Minor – the exalted one
24. Leo – The Lion of the Tribe of Judah Prevails

Constellations of the Messiah’s accomplished works and those redeemed

1. Lyra – The victor’s praise
2. Aquila – His passion and death
3. Delphinus – His resurrection and ascension
4. Piscis Australis – the promised blessings
5. Pegasus – the blesser to come quickly
6. Cygnus – the blesser’s return
7. The Band – bound to his beloved bride
8. Cassiopeia – redemption accomplished
9. Cancer – The Atoned Ones
10. Ursa Minor – the smaller flock
11. Ursa Major – the completed flock
12. Argo – the final paradise

Constellations specifically of the adversary, the Devil

1. Scorpio – The Evil Serpent, the Adversary
2. Serpens – Thou shalt bruise his heel
3. Draco – The conquered serpent
4. Lepus – the adversary trodden down and destroyed
5. Cetus – the adversary bound by the accomplishment of the Lamb
6. Hydra – the Devil destroyed

Constellations of the adversary’s works and God’s wrathful justice upon him

1. Crux – His suffering being bruised by the adversary
2. Ara – Future destruction of the adversary in the lake of fire
3. Andromeda – the bondage of those he will redeem
4. Eridanus – God’s wrathful judgment pronounced
5. Crater – God’s wrath and justice accomplished
6. Corvus – the enemy’s kingdom broken up

Constellations by Category with Related Scriptures

The following list shows all 48 constellations by category. Scriptures related to the signficance of the constellation or its stars are included for reference. The 12 zodiac signs are in boldface type.

Constellations specifically of the Messiah

Virgo – The Promised Seed

Jeremiah 23:5:
Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth.

Coma – the desired one

Haggai 2:7:
And…the desire of all nations shall come: and I will fill this house with glory, saith the Lord of hosts.

Bootes – the coming branch

Psalms 96:13:
…for he cometh, for he cometh to judge the earth: he shall judge the world with righteousness, and the people with his truth.

Corona – the victorious one over the adversary

Hebrews 2:9:
But we see Jesus, who was made…for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man.

Libra – The Payment for Sin

I Peter 1:18,19:
Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things,
But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot.

Centaurus – The sin offering

Isaiah 53:3,10:
He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin.

Lupus – The victim without sin

I Peter 1:18,19:
Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things,
But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot.

Ophiuchus – He shall bruise thy head

Genesis 3:15:
…it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.

Sagittarius – The Conquering Messiah

Psalms 45:5:
Thine arrows are sharp in the heart of the king’s enemies; whereby the people fall under thee.

Hercules – The mighty one

Psalms 24:8:
Who is this King of glory? The Lord strong and mighty, the Lord mighty in battle.

Capricorn – The Atoning One

Hebrews 9:13,14:
For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh:
How much more shall the blood of Christ, who…offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works.

Sagitta – God’s messenger sent

Psalms 38:2:
For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore.

Aquarius – The Blesser

Isaiah 35:5:
Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped. Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert.

Pisces – The Redeemer

Genesis 48:16:
And let my name [Israel] be named on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth.

Aries – The Lamb Who Brings Victory

Revelation 5:12:
Saying with a loud voice, Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory, and blessing.

Taurus – The Coming, Ruling One (shepherd king)

Job 9:9:
Which maketh Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades, and the chambers of the south.

Perseus – the deliverer who breaks the enemy’s bonds

Micah 2:13:
The breaker is come up before them: they have broken up, and have passed through the gate, and are gone out by it: and their king shall pass before them, and the Lord on the head of them.

Auriga – the good shepherd

Ezekiel 34:23:
And I will set up one shepherd over them, and he shall feed them, even my servant David [Jesus Christ, the son of David]; he shall feed them, and he shall be their shepherd.

John 10:11:
I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.

Cepheus – the coming branch – the Messiah (king)

Jeremiah 23:5:
Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth.

Gemini – The Coming Prince

Isaiah 32:1:
Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness.

Orion – the bright and morning star

Job 9:9:
Which maketh Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades, and the chambers of the south.

Revelation 22:16:
I Jesus…am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star.

Canis Major – the prince of princes

Revelation 19:16:
And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.

Canis Minor – the exalted one

Isaiah 53:12:

Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.

Galatians 3:13:
Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree.

Leo – The Lion of the Tribe of Judah Prevails

Genesis 49:9,10:
Judah is a lion’s whelp: from the prey, my son, thou art gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up?
The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.

Revelation 5:5:
And one of the elders saith unto me, Weep not: behold, the Lion of the tribe of Juda, the Root of David, hath prevailed to open the book, and to loose the seven seals thereof.

Constellations of the Messiah’s accomplished works and those redeemed

Lyra – The victor’s praise

Psalms 108:1:
O God, my heart is fixed; I will sing and give praise, even with my glory.

Aquila – His passion and death

Genesis 3:15:
…it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.

Delphinus – His resurrection and ascension

Romans 4:25:
Who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification.

Piscis Australis – the promised blessings

Matthew 4:19:
And he [Jesus] saith unto them, Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.

Pegasus – the blesser to come quickly

John 14:3:
And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.

Cygnus – the blesser’s return

Psalms 147:15:
He sendeth forth his commandment upon earth: his word runneth very swiftly.

The Band – bound to his beloved bride

Luke 4:18:
The Spirit of the Lord is upon me [Jesus Christ], because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised.

Cassiopeia – redemption accomplished

Psalms 45:11:
So shall the king greatly desire thy beauty: for he is thy Lord; and worship thou him.

Cancer – The Atoned Ones

Job 39:5:
Who hath sent out the wild ass free? or who hath loosed the bands of the wild ass?

Ursa Minor – the smaller flock

John 10:9:
I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.

Ursa Major – the completed flock

Ezekiel 34:15:
I will feed my flock, and I will cause them to lie down, saith the Lord God.

Matthew 9:36:
But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion on them, because they fainted, and were scattered abroad, as sheep having no shepherd.

Argo – the final paradise

Psalms 107:29,30:
He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are still.
Then are they glad because they be quiet; so he bringeth them unto their desired haven.

Constellations specifically of the adversary, the Devil

Scorpio – The Evil Serpent, the Adversary

Psalms 91:13:
Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet.

Serpens – Thou shalt bruise his heel

Genesis 3:15:
…it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.

Draco – The conquered serpent

Isaiah 27:1:
In that day the Lord with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea.

Lepus – the adversary trodden down and destroyed

Revelation 20:2:
And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years.

Cetus – the adversary bound by the accomplishment of the Lamb

Psalms 74:13,14:
Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters.
Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces.

Hydra – the Devil destroyed

Revelation 12:9:
And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.

Constellations of the adversary’s works and God’s wrathful justice upon him

Crux – His suffering being bruised by the adversary

Daniel 9:26:
And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off [karath].

Ara – Future destruction of the adversary in the lake of fire

Psalms 21:9:
Thou shalt make them as a fiery oven in the time of thine anger: the Lord shall swallow them up in his wrath, and the fire shall devour them.

Andromeda – the bondage of those he will redeem

Jeremiah 14:17:
Therefore thou shalt say this word unto them; Let mine eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease: for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach, with a very grievous blow.

Eridanus – God’s wrathful judgment pronounced

II Thessalonians 1:7,8:
And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels,
In flaming fire taking vengeance [executing justice] on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Crater – God’s wrath and justice accomplished

Psalms 11:6:
Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and an horrible tempest: this shall be the portion of their cup.

Corvus – the enemy’s kingdom broken up

Revelation 19:17,18:
And I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven, Come and gather yourselves together unto the supper of the great God;
That ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, both small and great.

The Great Conflict in Detail

We have seen that half of the constellations refer specifically to the Messiah, one fourth of them refer to his accomplished works and those redeemed, and another fourth refer to the adversary and God’s justice upon him. Next time we will look at the detail of each constellation’s specific star names in God’s Celestial Word: All 48 Constellations. They give amazing insight about the great conflict and the Messiah’s valiant victory over that old serpent, the Devil.

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