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an assigned course for the stars of the heavens from which they cannot deviate. Obviously Job could
not answer affirmatively to the question God posted to him, for to be able to know the ordinances of
the heavens Job would have to know the future. It is not given to man to know the specific hour and
day of the appointed times of Yahweh.

Acts 1:6-7
And so when they had come together, they were asking Him, saying, “Lord, is it at this time You are
restoring the kingdom to Israel?” He said to them, “It is not for you to know times or epochs which
the Father has fixed by His own authority...”

Yahweh then asked Job another rhetorical question, “Can you set their dominion over the earth?” In
what way do the stars hold dominion over the earth? To hold dominion over something is to rule over
it. In Genesis chapter one we read, “God made the two great lights, the greater light to govern the day,
and the lesser light to govern the night; the stars also.” The dominion of the stars is in this sense: they
are given for signs and seasons to announce the appointed times for specific works of Yahweh among
the creation. What the stars announce cannot be resisted, for they declare the will of God. What He
has appointed the stars to speak will be fulfilled. The stars are one form of Yahweh’s voice. No word
of God will fall to the ground empty.

Isaiah 55:11
So shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth; It shall not return to Me void, but it shall
accomplish what I please, and it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it.

If the heavens declare a thing, it must come to pass. The stars are moved by the power of Yahweh.
They are instruments of His dominion. Though Satan and all the angels in league with him should
seek to thwart a work of God, they must fail absolutely. They have not the power to forestall a work
of God so much as a second. Many times Satan sought to abort the promise of the Seed of the Woman
from coming forth, the One who was prophesied to crush his head. When Cain slew Abel, Satan was
attempting to cut off the promised Seed, but he failed. When the devil inspired Pharaoh to kill all the
males born to the captive Israelites he was attempting to cut off the promised Seed. When the great
adversary induced Herod to murder all the male children three years old and younger in the vicinity
of Bethlehem, he was seeking to cut off the promised Seed.

Satan was fighting against the heavens, for the heavens were declaring that the appointed time was
at hand. The King of the Jews had been born. Neither Herod, nor Satan, nor any created thing, could
overrule the will of God. Yahweh’s plan would stand. Throughout the life and ministry of the
Messiah, Satan sought to destroy His life. He stirred up the Jewish rulers and people of Israel against
the Son of God. In their jealousy and blind ambition they sought to kill Him time and again. From the
announcement of His ministry in Nazareth, Satan sought to kill the promised Seed. The people of
Nazareth, provoked at the words of Yahshua, took Him to the brow of the hill upon which the city
was built, intending to cast Him down to His death, but Yahweh intervened and the Son of God
walked through their midst escaping their deadly intent. Time and again Yahweh escaped from their
hands, awaiting the hour appointed where He would lay His life down freely.