3. ASTROLOGY     --page 14--

         Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion? (Job 38:31).

         1. I believe in the influence of the planets as a part of God's machinery to control the physical World & its system!
         2. Life is a voyage on which you choose neither vessel nor weather, but much can be done in the management of the sails & the guidance of the helm.
         3. You can overcome your environment & your heredity if you've got the guts & the faith & the push & the drive & the determination to do something about it!
         4. Those people with astrological signs where intellect rules with so much self-discipline, self-control & mind over matter, are inclined & tempted to be the victims of the greatest sin of all, pride & self-righteousness!
         5. Your personality is influenced by your ancestors, your zodiac & your environment, but it is up to you & the Lord what you do with it.
         6. With a lot of self-determination & discipline & the Lord's help, you can pull yourself out of a real hole as far as your background or astrology is concerned!
         7. Don't tell me you can't get along with someone because your astrological signs aren't compatible!--Jesus is greater than your signs & can overrule all of that!
         8. If you can get people to believe in astrology, then they've got to believe in God!
         9. You're born with certain characteristics according to your sign, but it is up to you how you use them & what you do with them.
         10. In every (sun) sign there is a good side & a bad side...& what you are depends on which side you choose!--Whether you choose to be good or evil.
         11. The influence of the stars is a part of His physical Creation and can be completely overruled and overcome by the spiritual power of His Spirit.
         12. Stars are God's machinery to pass out personality!
         13. Up in the stars, I think you'll find,
         That life down here is all designed!
         14. Astrology is a tremendous proof of the existence of God & a Divine Plan!
         15. The heavenly spheres that God has made operate like the wheels of a great clock with perfect precision, virtually unvarying in course & speed & degree, so that these things can be calculated to the split second: Sunrise & sunset, phases of the moon, moonrise & moonset & tides & eclipses of the moon & the sun.
         16. Anything that glorifies the marvels of God's Creation is not very much marvelled at or emphasised in school any more because it's too good proof of a Designer & Creator & Builder & Architect of the Universe! So they don't teach you the marvels & the wonders & the plan & the design--the intricate precision & the marvellous planning & perfection of everything--working just like clockwork, right on time!
         17. These marvellous creations of God, the major astral bodies & solar systems such as the Solar System of our Sun & its planets & their moons & the Earth etc., as well as the stars & the constellations, have not changed for thousands of years since God first created them!
         18. God's Creation is here to stay! His Earth, Sun, Moon & Stars & all of His marvellous wonders of His astronomical Creation are here forever!--They're going to endure as long as His Throne, which is forever, & they will still be of use to God in some way.
         19. The Bible talks about the "sweet influences of Pleiades", one of the constellations, & "canst thou guide Arcturus & his sons"--which seems to be a wandering constellation, but travels throughout the heavens on a distinct orbit or path which scientists can calculate but can't guide, & still misses all the others! How about that! (Job.38:31,32.)
         20. God made it so the heavenly bodies work perfectly & stay put where they belong & only orbit where they're supposed to be, in the paths they're supposed to follow, & at the speed they're supposed to go, so that they don't bump into each other & don't collide--except for some of the Devil's meteoric showers & some of God's signs, the comets.
         21. Those constellations are out there as signs & influences upon the Creation of God. I was convinced as I saw the Heavenly City, its interior & those great revolving crystals that seemed like control centers etc., that all of these things are created for a purpose, for the governing of God's Creation & the control of God's Creation!
         22. "Readest thou what sayest the stars? Knowest thou not that I am He that hath created them, and I see more than they can tell thee? Readest thou the stars? Readest thou the life of this My Aquarius that I have poured forth as water unto the World? Kiss thou his stars!"
         23. God has ordained the stars & the planets to control & influence our lives & at least our personalities, if not actual events! You can certainly determine pretty much what a person is going to be like by the month in which he was born, believe it or not. Genesis 1:14 tells us that God made the stars & planets primarily for signs, and for seasons (not just Summer & Winter seasons, either!), and for days, and years...as well as for lights!
         24. And did you know that "the stars in their courses fought against Sisera?" (Judges 5:20) Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 explains that God has a set time for everything.
         25. It was even the proper reading of a star that led the Wise Men to Jesus' Birthplace, & Luke says that in the last days, "there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars" of the end of things, & the coming of the Lord! (Lk.21:25.)
         26. We can admire God's glorious creation & we can wonder at its marvels, even the way God influences us according to His Will by the stars, a part of His great machinery for controlling the Universe & us.
         27. Anyone full of the Spirit of God & in direct communication with the Creator can do ten times better than those who try to find out His purposes merely by reading His Creation, as Daniel 1:20 makes very clear.
         28. It's amazing, & makes you praise God all the more for His wonderful Creation & how He runs it! Why not? If He didn't apportion personality characteristics like the balance in His Creation & other of its miracles by some scientific means, or spiritual means, if you prefer, then we might have all wound up like a bunch of robots, exactly the same, like some kind of identical, assembly-line productions!
         29. In order to vary the kinds & types of people that He wanted living on Earth, & to properly proportion their personalities throughout all the varied hues of the spectrum of characteristics of the human race, as well as perhaps even the guidance of animal & vegetable creatures & their distribution & balance, why couldn't God use a very "scientific" system of control & apportionment for distribution & ordination & foreordination by means of some instrumentalities of His Own Creation, such as the stars!
         30. Your sign is either positive or negative. You can choose the positives or the negatives, the good or the evil. You can choose the good & eschew the evil. That's what God has left up to your choice. And that's the evil the Devil brought into the garden, the choice of the knowledge of evil.

         (See also No. 107, 123, 1307, 1308, 1309, 1310.)


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