The Gospel in the Stars

Last Sunday I spoke at Evangeliegemeente Zoetermeer about the signs of the Zodiac. Not exactly a biblical subject, of course, yet Scripture provides enough to arrive at a fascinating perspective on it. It is well known that the Bible has little use for astrology. There is a very good reason for that. Events in the world in general and in our personal lives in particular are not orchestrated by stars (or constellations), but by Him who made the stars. But please don’t draw the wrong conclusion from that! The stars really do have a great deal to tell us. Psalm 19 says that the heavens proclaim God’s glory and that, night after night, they proclaim knowledge to humanity. In other words, the starry sky does not speak of our lives (as horoscopes would have us believe), but of God’s glory and of His work! Consider, too, that God not only knows the names of all the stars (Psalm 147:4), but also that He made the constellations. In Job 9:9 it says: “Who is making the Great Bear, Orion And the Pleiades, besides the chambers of the south,”

The God who gave us the holy Scriptures is the same God who also made the constellations. It should therefore come as no surprise that the story of the constellations corresponds with the plot of the Bible. The story of the constellations goes back to the (so-called) mother promise (Genesis 3:15), where God promises humanity a Redeemer who, through struggle, achieves victory. One by one, the constellations are about that. All nations are familiar with these ancient traditions. I referred to the famous Sphinx in Egypt, a monument thousands of years old that, as an emblem, points to the head and tail (beginning and end) of the Zodiac. The Zodiac begins with the Virgin and ends with the Lion… Anyone familiar with biblical symbolism will immediately recognize one of the threads running through the Bible.

Anyway, it is incredibly fascinating to discover how the Gospel is written in the constellations! For anyone interested: next Sunday I will continue my presentation in Zoetermeer about the Gospel in the constellations.

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