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Yahweh’s Calendar

The study of the early foundations of human history and this present creation would be incomplete
if it did not include an examination of the celestial testimony that Yahweh wrote upon the immense
canvas of the heavens. It is a message placed where all mankind and the angels can read it. In this
present age the heavenly constellations are viewed with great disdain by the church. Christians have
been taught to associate the constellations of the zodiac with pagan astrology. To many believers,
looking to the stars to discern a divine message is considered as great of an evil as consulting a
medium, or participating in a seance. The majority of Christians today have been taught that the
practice of star-gazing to receive a divine message has its origins in idolatrous religions.

The rejection of Yahweh’s heavenly message provides evidence of how little most Christians study
the Scriptures to discern truth for themselves. Many, having heard their pastor, or some Christian
teacher, warn against paying heed to occult astrology and horoscopes, have been all too willing to
relegate the entire field of celestial signs and messages to Satan’s domain. This constitutes an
imprudent overreaction to Satan’s corruption of a mode of communication that Yahweh originated.
Rejecting celestial signs and messages is an untenable position to adopt from a purely Biblical
perspective.

Christians exhibit a mental contradiction when they annually recount the story of the magi who were
informed of the birth of the King of the Jews by their observations of the heavens, while at the same
time condemning the practice of receiving divine messages from the stars. In the Gospels we read of
the wise men seeing the Messiah’s star announcing His birth. Acting upon the celestial revelation,
these wise men traveled to Jerusalem, ultimately arriving at the home where Joseph and Mary dwelt
with the young Messiah in Bethlehem.