Biblical Astronomy
March/April 2004
Editor – Robert Scott Wadsworth <> P.O. Box 2272 , Oregon City , OR 97045
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AVIV BARLEY REPORT
Nehemia Gordon from
“During a two-day search on
The New Moon to be sighted on
On
I want to thank all those who made the Aviv Search
possible through their generous donations.
This allowed us to pay the necessary transportation costs to do a proper
Aviv Search. May YHWH bless you! I want to give special thanks to Ruthanne
Koch, a Certified Crop Expert, who flew in from the
NEW MOON REPORT
Nehemia Gordon from
“On
Happy New Moon and Happy New
Year!”
The next New Moon which will begin the second month
on the Astronomically Correct Hebrew Calendar is expected to be seen from
Jerusalem near sunset on April 20, except there be poor atmospheric conditions.
I regret that this newsletter is so late in being
published. Many will not get this until
after Passover (especially those in
The new 3-part video series should be in my hands by
the third week of April. The sound track
on the video did not come out well, but fortunately there was a backup
track. But it is taking a bunch of time
to dub it onto the 7 or 8 hours of video.
I was told that it would be available for me to order by April 7. If all works out as planned, I should have
them in my hands and available to ship by April 18. For ordering information, see the enclosed
Biblical Astronomy Products List enclosed with this newsletter. Disregard the April 1 date that I have on the
list for the tape series being ready to ship by. As written above, they will be in my hands
around April 18. I will be ordering 50
sets to begin with and if they run out real fast, it may take an extra week
before I get another shipment in. For online subscribers, go to www.biblicalastronomy.com enter the site and select Products in the
yellow bar for Products List.
NOGAH (VENUS) IN THE PLEIADES
Every eight years to the day (in this present epoch)
the planet Nogah (Venus – the bright and morning star) begins to enter a
retrograde path that takes it well above the ecliptic (the path that the sun,
moon, and planets move through the twelve signs) and into the star cluster the Pleiades
(Job 9:9 and 38:31 – Heb. Kemah), which are also called the seven
stars (Amos 5:8 – Heb. Kemah). From ancient times the Pleiades have
also been known as the seven sisters. These are also the seven stars representing
the seven angels of the seven assemblies of Revelation 1:16, 19.
The following is from E.W. Bullinger’s Commentary
on Revelation, 2nd edition, (written in 1909)
concerning the seven assemblies and the seven lampstands under the seven angels
or Sheliach Tzibbur;
"Angel of the Assembly.”
“The chief officer was the Archisynagogos,
or "Ruler of the Synagogue;" and after him came the Sheliach
Tzibbur; or "Angel of the Assembly," who was the mouthpiece of
the congregation. His duty it was to offer up public prayer to God for the
whole congregation. Hence his title; because, as the
messenger of the assembly, he spoke to God for them (See
As to the
"seven lamp-stands," ought not this expression at once to send our thoughts back to the one golden lamp-stand of the Tabernacle
(Exod. 25:31-39).
We must further
note that John was not told to send seven separate letters to seven separate
assemblies, as is generally assumed and believed. Indeed the contrary is the
fact. The great Voice said, "What thou seest, write in A BOOK and send IT
unto the seven assemblies."
For more insight on the seven angels of the seven
assemblies (churches) and the seven assemblies see the June 2003 issue of Biblical
Astronomy under the article Venus/Mercury Conjunction.
It was on
The despised sin offering, the One who paid the
price that covers, He cometh for His sheepfolds, to
deliver the captive bride and to deliver the redeemed.
When the moon started to go into a total blood red
eclipse about
The blood-red moon
(representing the blood of the lamb) on the Passover of 1996 brought this to
remembrance and was a sign of deliverance to
The moon at that time was in Bethulah (Virgo)
which represents the woman of Genesis 3:15 and Revelation 12. This woman with the 12 stars above her head
represents the faithful of the 12 Tribes of Israel. The moon was in conjunction with her womb and
passed from the upper part to the lower part of the womb during the span of the
eclipse. This was showing a type of
birthing. The moon was also in the same
exact longitudinal coordinate that the sun was in the day and hour that Messiah
was born on
The planet Nogah (Venus – the bright and
morning star) represents Messiah (Rev. 22:16) or the Bride, depending on
the context of surrounding celestial events.
In Revelation 2:28 He who holds the seven stars in his right hand says
to the seven churches (Thyatira here) to him who overcomes He will give him the
morning star. How unique a portrayal
when Nogah is in the midst of the Pleiades (the seven stars).
As before mentioned, Nogah
is seen in the Pleiades every eight years to the day. It passes the star cluster once every year,
but well below them, except on the eighth year in this cycle. It is also during the eighth year of this
particular cycle and at this time in mid March and throughout April that Nogah
is at its brightest. As it was in 1996,
is now in 2004, and will be again in 2012, 2020, 2028, 2036, 2044 and so on.
The number 8 is an interesting number
concerning Messiah. The following is
from the Appendix 10 in The Companion Bible by E.W. Bullinger concerning
the number 8.
“EIGHT. Denotes Resurrection,
regeneration; a new beginning or commencement. The eighth is a new first. Hence the octave in music,
colour, days of the week, &c.
It is the number which has to do with the LORD, who rose on the eighth, or new “first-day.”
This is therefore, the Dominical number. By Gematria, IHSOUS (Jesus) makes the numbers 888. It, or its multiple
is impressed on all that has to do with the LORD’s Names, the LORD’s People, the LORD’s
works.”
Chart 344 below, shows the planet Nogah (Venus)
in the star cluster the (Pleiades) in the constellation and sign Shur
(Taurus) as seen from Jerusalem in the early evening of
Chart 344 – Venus in Pleiades on
The below illustration from the Starry Night Pro astronomy program
shows how Nogah would appear (except in reality it would appear much
brighter compared to the stars as shown here) as seen through a large
telescope.
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The star Alcyone in this cluster as well as
the cluster name in the Syriac means Succoth (Booths, Tabernacles. It
remains to be seen what treats lie in store for those who are faithful in
Messiah at this time and during the week of Passover and Feast of Unleavened
Bread. It is interesting that on the
evening of April 3, the two brightest objects in the evening sky other than the
moon will be in the constellations representing the Two Houses of Israel. Nogah, the brighter of the two, will
be in Shur (Taurus), which is the tribal sign for the tribe of
Joseph, but also represents the House of Ephraim (
PARTIAL SOLAR ECLIPSE
On April 19, 2004
there will be a partial solar eclipse in the sign Aries that will be visible
from southern Africa and parts of Antarctica . This eclipse will not be visible or
seen from the northern hemisphere. Chart
345 below, shows the position of the sun and moon during this
eclipse just within the boundaries of Aries and above the foreleg of the lamb
that is breaking the band of captivity of the fish that represents the ten
northern tribes that were sent into captivity into Assyria
to the north around 722 BC.
Chart 345 –
Solar
Eclipse in Aries
Chart 346 below, shows the path of Comet LINEAR (C/2002 T7) from
April 1 to May 17, 2004 . The path (the thin black line) goes from the
fish which represents the House of Judah when it was taken into captivity to Babylon BCE , through Cetus (the beast from
the sea) to the middle of the River
of Fire
Chart
346 – Path
of Comet LINEAR (C/2002 T7) from April 1 to
THE BIRTH OF MOSES AND THE EXODUS
I have been searching for at least the last eight
years for the celestial signs pertaining to the birth of Moses and the Exodus
80 years later. I was misled by supposed
quotes from the 19th century and misunderstanding or
misinterpretation of those quotes by those who wrote them from the works of
Abarbanel, a 15th century Jewish scholar who wrote down the word of
mouth accounts of the Jewish Sages and Rabbis which were passed down through
the centuries and millennia. I have also
searched in vain for copies of the original writings of Abarbanel concerning
what he wrote on celestial events handed down through the sages. What mislead me to a certain degree were
short descriptions of Abarbanel’s writings by Richard Hinkley Allen in his book
Star Names and Their Meanings (1899) and E.W. Bullinger’s book The
Witness of the Stars (1893). The
following is from Richard Hinkley Allen’s Star Names and Their Meanings, p.
341, concerning the constellation Pisces.
“Within their boundaries took place the three distinct conjunctions of
Jupiter and Saturn in the year 747 of Rome, - the year to which for a long time
was assigned Christ’s birth; these phenomena strikingly agreeing in some of
their details with Saint Matthew’s account of the Star of Bethlehem. The opinion that these appearances guided the
Magi in their visit to
Thus the Fishes were considered the national constellation of the Jews, as well as a tribal symbol. Jupiter and Saturn were again together here in February 1881, Venus being added to the group, - a well remembered and most beautiful sight.” (I checked, and this event did occur with Venus in February 1881, but Jupiter and Saturn did not actually go into conjunction – same celestial longitude - until they were in Aries).
Accordingly to the quote above, I searched for a
triple conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn in the constellation Pisces for the
time of the birth of Moses, which supposedly occurred about three years
later. A triple conjunction of these
planets did occur ending with the Massing of Jupiter,
Mars and Saturn between 7 BC and 6 BC, about 3.5 years before the birth of
Messiah. There were conjunctions of
Jupiter and Saturn in Pisces in the mid 20th to early 19th
century
There is an important clue to this dilemma hidden in
the following quote from E.W. Bullinger’s The
Witness of the Stars, pp. 96-97,
which is similar to the previous quote by Richard Hinkley Allen.
“Indeed, this Sign of Pisces has always been
interpreted of
Again, it appears that Abarbanel is speaking of a
conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn in the constellation Pisces, since it is all
in the same paragraph with Pisces as the main subject. However, upon searching
for a conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn around the year 1480, I found that the
two planets did come into a single conjunction on
So, what were the celestial events preceding the
birth of Moses, which also made the court of Pharaoh tremble? If you have seen and/or remembered the movie The
Ten Commandments or have the opportunity to watch it; in the beginning of
the movie (most of which was taken not only from the Holy Scriptures but also
from records of ancient historians which had writings in their possession which
have long been lost) there is a scene in the court of Pharaoh. In this scene his astrologer’s and “wise men”
(more like court jesters – my opinion) speak first of an evil star that had
appeared in the House of Egypt. Their
first interpretation was that
There were some very interesting and big celestial
events that occurred in the sign Taurus starting in 1536 BC. It is the sign Taurus (the bull) that the
Egyptians corrupted and fashioned their sacred cow or bull god Hathor (sun god
worship) after. This sign was also
considered as one of the signs for the House of Egypt. The other sign for the House of Egypt was
Virgo who they corrupted and fashioned
It was around 3500
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It was in 1536
The sign Shur (Taurus) represents the
deliverer of
Chart
347 – Paths
of Jupiter and Saturn from
There were some very interesting massings of planets
in Taurus that followed the conjunctions of Jupiter and Saturn. Chart 348 below, shows the
triangular massing of Jupiter, Venus and Saturn in Taurus and a unique
planetary alignment of all 5 planets with the first crescent New Moon on
Chart
348 - Massing
of Jupiter, Venus, Saturn and Planetary Alignment on
Chart 349 below, shows the first equidistant massing of
Jupiter, Mars (Michael) and Saturn (Satan) on
Chart 349 – Massing of Jupiter, Mars, Saturn and Planetary
Alignment on
Chart 350 below, shows the second close equidistant
massing of Jupiter, Saturn and Mars in Taurus on
Chart 350 – Massing of Jupiter, Mars and
Saturn in Taurus on
It was 80 years after Moses was born that the Exodus
occurred (Exodus 7:7 plus 40 years in the wilderness to the age of 120 when he
died per Deuteronomy 34:7). If Moses was
born in 1533 BC, then the Exodus occurred in 1453 BC, 400 years after the birth
if Isaac in 1853 BC who was born to Abraham when Abraham was 100 years old, the
birth of Abraham being in 1953
According to what Yahuweh told Abraham in Genesis
15:13, his seed (began with the birth of Isaac in 1853 BC) would be a
stranger in a land that was not theirs (includes their sojourning in Canaan and
Egypt as most Biblical scholars agree)and would be a
stranger in a land that was not theirs and be afflicted for 400 years. 400 years from 1853
The following are from notes in E.W.
Bullinger’s Companion Bible on Exodus 12:40 and 41. (KJV)
40 sojourning. Commenced with Gen 12:1. Quite a different
subject from the dwelling in
Who dwelt in
Four hundred and thirty
years. There are two reckonings of
sojourning: one starting from the “promise” to Abraham, Gal.
41 the selfsame day: i.e. the fifteenth day of the seventh month. The years of the solar cycle show that it was
the day that Abraham left “
Chart 351 below, shows the path of Tzedek (Jupiter)
from
Chart
351 – Path
of Jupiter from
Yahuweh bless you and keep you.