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3. Astrology and the Bible
According to biblical history, Adam and Eve were created around the year 4,000 to 4,500 bc. Since the very beginning of time God instructed them to study the cosmic cycles and organised their individual and social lives in harmony with those cycles (Genesis 1:14-19). Thus as Adam and Eve obeyed God in other matters, such as the practice of animal sacrifices (following the example God set before them when he killed an animal to make clothes for them) we may assume they obeyed him in this matter also.
Now we must comprehend the prediluvial world was different from the present world. Humans were potentially more intelligent and had a completely different physiological structure; but because of the lack of a highly developed and organised social system, some individuals developed this potential fully, while others corrupted their ways, becoming almost like beasts. Also, as the traditional interpretation of Genesis 6:1-2 says, extraterrestrial beings (known within the Bible as celestial messengers (angels)) visited the earth in those days and cohabited with human females. Their offspring became the giants and heroes of ancient mythology (Genesis 6:4).
The world at that time was completely different from the world we know today. The Earth was covered with a canopy of water that protected the environment and maintained a constant temperature around the globe. The seasonal variation was minimal and the Earth was in all probability somewhat of a tropical paradise. It had to have been very warm in order to cultivate the survival of those great, cold-blooded creatures, known as dinosaurs. In such a prediluvial world and under these social conditions, Astrology was born and developed for over a 1,500-year period. According to the Bible, about 1,600 years after the creation of Adam, the Universal Flood came to destroy that wonderful civilisation that enabled the prehistoric world to flourish.
From the biblical narrative we may conclude Noah and his sons were not intellectuals or scientists; thus, their understanding of Astrology must have been very limited. However, as their offspring multiplied and spread throughout the Earth, the remembrance of Astrology as a great science of the past must have spread with them. As their descendants came in contact with the astrological monuments remaining from the prediluvial era, they approached them not with an analytical or scientific mindset, but with a religious mind, treating them as objects of worship.
Thus, what had been a science became a mystery religion inherited from the ‘past’ and based upon the ‘wisdom’ of the ancient ‘masters’.
Many Christians have been led to believe by some religious leaders that it is wrong to study astrology. They therefore feel uncomfortable looking up into the heavens to see what is going on in our solar system and beyond.
The fact is:-
‘…..Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years.’
Now, the first chapter in the first book of the Bible states quite clearly the lights in the heaven were to be used to form our calendar, to designate the seasons, and to determine the signs of the times.
Jesus, the master avatar who the Christian religion is based upon, was actually born under the precept of a star, which is related in Matthew 2:2:-
‘…Where is he that is born King of the Jews? For we have seen his star in the east and are come to worship him.’
Now surely, if the writers of the Bible did not want people to study astrology, they would not have made such a reference to it in their writings.
Before Jesus was born, the Jews were already waiting for him to incarnate into the Earth plane, as told in Isiah 7:14-
‘Therefore, the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.’
If the reader is not by this time convinced that astrology was very much a part of early Christianity then it is worth noting Corinthians I 15:41, which states:-
‘There is one glory of the Sun, and another glory of the Moon, and another glory of the stars: for one star differeth from another star in glory.
If the early Christians wanted to keep their followers from studying astrology then it seems only reasonable they would have ensured any reference to what was going on in the heavens was omitted from their works. They have instead made copious references to celestial bodies, which indicates they must have observed the heavens quite often during the course of their lives. It is also important to keep in mind that in ancient times a wise man was considered to be an astrologer, and wise men were mentioned 231 times in the Old and New Testaments.
