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Gemini? Wasn’t that the name
of a U.S.A. space program years ago?
It sure was. The name was appropriate because, unlike the astronauts flying
solo in the Mercury program, ten flights during 1965/66 were each manned by two
astronauts practising for the Apollo moon missions.
So how do you find Gemini in the night-sky?
If you extend a line northward from Rigel
and Betelgeuse you come to the bright
white star Castor with the even
brighter orange star Pollux nearby. Castor labelled ‘Alpha Geminorum’ was obviously once brighter than Pollux as ‘Beta Geminorum’ but is now the lesser
light.So what is the significance of Gemini in the Redemption story or to Israel?
This is where it gets trickier. Only idiots or liars try to rewrite history
but we’ve now moved into the future with Taurus so astrologers have really played
with this. Let’s start with what the Bible say about these two…
They’re in the
Bible??...didn’t you say none of the constellations are mentioned by name?
Yes but these twins score a mention in Acts chapter 28 verse 11 where we
find the Alexandrian ship that takes Paul the prisoner from Malta to Rome has ‘Castor
and Pollux’ as its parasemos or
insignia.
Why was that?....I
wonder why we are given that detail.
The twins were thought to represent mortal Apollo and immortal Hercules,
the twin sons of Jupiter (Zeus) and were known as the Dioskouroi who brought good luck to navigators of the sea.
Well I wouldn’t rely
on lucky stars for safety on the Mediterranean but let’s see if Gemini’s stars confirm this depiction
of twins…
In Castor (often holding a palm branch) we have:
Mebsuta
on his left thigh - Al mabsuta is
Arabic for ‘outstretched’
Propus on his
left foot - Greek for ‘forward foot’
In Pollux (holding a sickle) we have:
Alhena
on his left foot - Al han’ah is
Arabic for ‘brand’ or ‘ring’
Wasat marks his
navel - Arabic for ‘middle’
Exactly what Castor and Pollux mean is anybody’s guess – there
are so many opinions out there.
Fair enough. So how will
Jesus Christ be recognised by Israel at His Second Advent?
The apostles witnessed to the Jewish council in Acts 5 that Jesus, who they
“slew and hanged on a tree. Him hath God exalted with his right hand to be a
Prince and a Saviour…”
I see, a dual role: you
could say one immortal and one mortal….mmm, and didn’t Zechariah have something
to say about the Second Advent?
He sure did. He presents “the Man whose name is The Branch” (6:12) who comes
to Jerusalem “having salvation; lowly and riding upon an ass…” (9:9) only to be
betrayed for “thirty pieces of silver” (11:12) but “they shall look on me who
they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him…” (12:10) and “What are these
wounds in thine hands?...Those with which I was wounded in the house of my
friends.” (13:6).
That’s obviously the
mortal Saviour – where’s the immortal Lord?
“And the Lord shall be King over all the earth: in that day there shall be
one Lord, and his name one.” (14:9) We also find in Revelation 14, He is “the Son of Man, having on his head a golden crown, and in his hand…” - guess what?
A sharp sickle!
Acknowledgements:
Stellarium
Photo credit: lehightonhobbies.com
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