FELLOWSHIP CHAPEL

THE LAST DAY MESSENGER

THE SUN, MOON, AND STARS

Author: Pastor O.E. Bogart Copyright October 18, 2006 Study # 11

The creation of the three Lights, the SUN, the MOON, and the STARS was for the purpose of transmitting light, heat, and life, to the earth. Genesis 1:15 “And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.

16. And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.

17. And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,

18. And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.”

The SUN is the source of all light, and without it this world would become a frozen planet. The earth is supplied with all heat, power, and life by the Sun. The Sun is the manifest-ation of the invisible God, Who dwells in the light which no man can approach unto, 1 Timothy 6:16.

Moses says in Deuteronomy 33: 13 “Blessed of the Lord be his land, for the precious things of heaven, for the dew, and for the deep that coucheth beneath,

14. And for the precious fruits brought forth by the sun, and for the precious things put forth by the moon.”

The SUN shows forth all the attributes of God the Father, and in some places on the earth, the Sun is worshipped by the heathen, as their God. The SUN truly is revealed in the Bible as a TYPE of God. “God is LIGHT and in HIM IS no DARKNESS at all.” 1 John 1:5.

Psalms 19:1-6 The heavens DECLARE THE GLORY OF God, and the FIRMAMENT sheweth his handywork.”

2. Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge.

3. There is no speech nor language,where their voice is not heard.

4. Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In THEM, (the Sun, Moon, and Stars) hath he set a tabernacle for the SUN.

5. Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and rejoiceth as a strong man to run a race.

6. His going forth is from the end of the heaven, and his circuit unto the ends of it: and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof.”

David was speaking of the importance of the Sun, Moon, and Stars, and was using their attributes as a type of God’s wonderful knowledge, and the benefits of His people knowing and understanding the full meaning of this truth.

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In verse 5, David refers to the Sun, Moon, and Stars, as a bridegroom (Jesus) coming out of His chambers and is glad because of His coming wedding. There is certainly no place on the earth, where the Sun, Moon, and Stars are not seen. They are symbols of the three-ness of God the Father, the Son Jesus, and the Holy Spirit, the numberless One, the Multiplier of all things.

Romans 1:20 “The invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and godhead so that they are without excuse.” The Sun, Moon, and Stars, are the only symbols that are left from the creation of the world, that are still clearly seen by every living person in the world today.

The Sun, Moon, and Stars are created symbols of the three-ness of the Godhead. The God-head, cannot be seen by the natural eye (for God is a Spirit) yet Paul tells us that by the made and created things from the beginning of the world, the Godhead is clearly seen, and that the world is without excuse if we do not recognize this.

The Sun, Moon, and Stars are also symbolic of the whole Family in heaven. What some Christians don’t understand is, that there IS a complete Family in heaven. Ephesians 3:14 “For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

15. Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named.”

So what is each of their names? The Father’s name is Lord, the Son’s name is Jesus, the Holy Spirit’s name is Christ.

Throughout the Ages of time the Prophets and people of the Lord, have been curious about the name of the Lord, and in Judges 13 when the angel of the Lord came to Manoah’s wife and told her that she would have a son, her husband Manoah asked the angel “What is thy name, that when these sayings come to pass we may do thee honor?”

And the angel of the Lord said unto him, Why askest thou thus after my name, seeing it is secret?”

Isaiah 42:8 “I am the Lord: that is my name.” Jeremiah 16:21 “”Behold, I will this once cause them to know, I will cause them to know mine hand and my might; and they shall know that my name IS THE LORD.”

Matthew 1:21 “And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS:”

The Holy Spirit’s name is Christ because it is the anointing that comes with Power from God the Father. The word Christ means “Anointing”.

THE SUN, MOON, AND STARS, ARE TYPES OF THE GODHEAD

THE SUN IS A TYPE OF THE FATHER

The Sun shows the glory of God the Father, because all life and power on the earth is given through the Sun. Without the Sun nothing could live or grow. Without the Lord, the Father, nothing in heaven or earth, could exist. The Sun shows all the characteristics of God the Father. The Sun supplies all light, power, seasons, days and years. Light is invisible, and is composed of three rays, (3 is the three-ness of the Godhead). The characteristics of the Father

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are shown in the Sun, therefore we apply the Sun to the same dispensation of the Ages as that of the Father, the first dispensation of the Creative Week of the World. All light is of God the Father. There is no light but that which comes through the Father whether it be literal light or Spiritual light. God the Father IS light, 1 John 1:5 “God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.” James 1:17 “Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.” Isaiah 60:19 “The sun shall be no more thy light by day; neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee: but the Lord shall be unto thee an everlasting light and thy God thy glory.

20. Thy sun shall no more go down; neither shall thy moon withdraw itself: for the Lord shall be thine everlasting light, and the days of thy mourning shall be ended.”

THE MOON IS A TYPE OF THE SON

We saw how the Sun was a type of God the Father, and now we can see that the Moon is a type of Jesus the Son of God. The order and government of Heaven never changes. The Father is always God; Jesus is always the Son of God; and the Holy Spirit is always the third Person in the Godhead. Jesus is the central Being in the Godhead, and the Moon is always the central Being in the heavenly witnesses.

The Moon receives its light from the Sun and reflects it upon the darkened side of the earth when the Sun travels to other parts of the earth. The supreme characteristic of the Son of God is blood, (all of the blood that was shed throughout the Ages of time by the sacrifices of bulls and goats under the Law of Moses, the blood that was shed in the Garden of Eden to make coats for Adam and Eve, Genesis 3:2, the blood that was shed in type, by Abraham in the sacrifice of Isaac, Genesis 22, etc) these were all a type and symbol of the blood that Jesus shed on the Cross for the sins of the world.

The Moon is symbolic of Jesus and as Jesus shed His blood on the Cross of Calvary for the sins of the whole world, the Scriptures indicate that the Moon will turn to blood before the end of this dispensation of Grace, Joel 2:31, Acts 2:20, Revelation 6:12. The unchristian world will recognize this sign, and the many times that He pleaded with them to receive Salvation. They will remember their rejection of Jesus and how they trampled His blood which He shed for them under foot, but it will be too late to change their lives, and they will cry for the rocks and the mountains to fall on them and hide them from the face of God that sets on the throne, Revelation 6:12.

The Moon cannot be separated from the blood, Acts 2:20, “The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, BEFORE that great and notable day of the Lord come.” It is a sign of the coming of the Son of Man, Matthew 24:29-30.

THE STARS ARE A TYPE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT

The Stars are a symbol of the Holy Spirit Who is the THIRD Person in the Godhead: the Stars also are the THIRD created symbol in the heavens. The Holy Spirit is the REVELATOR of the Godhead and His plan to the Church. It is the Holy Spirit that creates in each of us the glory of God. It is the Holy Spirit that we are to be baptized with for POWER in our lives, Acts 1:8.

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The Stars are numberless in the heavens. The characteristics of the Holy Spirit is numberless, Genesis 15:5, and God promised Abraham that his seed should be as the stars of heaven if he could count them, numberless. A Star is symbolic of a Spirit filled Christian, Daniel 12:3.

The Sun, Moon, and Stars are used as symbols in the Last Days of time. I only want to touch on them lightly at this writing, and I will come back to them at a later date. Revelation 12:1 “And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars.”

The ecclesiastical world interprets this woman to be the nation of Israel, and says that this part of Revelation has already been fulfilled. But John begins to use a language that is filled with symbols and types that has been shown throughout the Ages of time. The Woman is clothed with the Sun, (the glory of God the Father). She is standing on the Moon, (the type of Jesus), and on Her head is a crown of 12 Stars, (the type of the Holy Spirit), then taking our information from the Scriptures that I have used in this study, let us apply this information to the clothing that She wore and see if this doesn’t fit the description of the Bride of Jesus Christ and not the description of the nation of Israel.

I just want to give us something to study and think upon, and at a later time I will definitely go into this Scripture more fully and completely and I’m sure that we shall see that God is speaking of a Woman that will come in the End of the Age, and not one that is already past.

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