Since the World Began

Since the World Began

This short lesson is from Rev. Ethelbert W. Bullinger’s book “The Witness of the Stars”.

After careful review of the twelve constellations we see such are the contents of this wondrous book that is written in the heavens. Thus has God been speaking and emphasizing and developing His first great prophetic promise of Gen. 3:15.

Though for more than 2,500 years His people had not this Revelation written in a book as we now have it in the Bible, they were not left in ignorance and darkness as to God’s purposes and councils; nor were they without hope as to the ultimate deliverance from all evil and the evil one.

Adam, who first heard that wondrous promise, repeated it, and gave it to his posterity as a most precious heritage------the ground of all their faith, the subsistence of all their hope, the object of all their desire. Seth and Enoch took it up. Enoch, we know, prophesied of the Lord’s coming, saying, “Behold the Lord with ten thousands of His saints to execute judgment upon all” (Jude 14). How could these “holy prophets, since the world began,” have recorded their prophecies better, or more effectually, or more truthfully and powerfully, than in these star-pictures and their interpretation?  This becomes a certainty when we remember the words of the Holy Spirit by Zacharias (Luke 1: 67-70).

Luk 1:67 Now his father Zacharias was filled with the Holy Spirit, and prophesied, saying:

Luk 1:68 "Blessed [is] the Lord God of Israel, For He has visited and redeemed His people,
Luk 1:69 And has raised up a horn of salvation for us In the house of His servant David,
Luk 1:70 As He spoke by the mouth of His holy prophets, Who [have been] since the world began

The same truth is reveled through Peter, in Acts 3:20-21

Act 3:20 "and that He may send Jesus Christ, who was preached to you before,
Act 3:21 "whom heaven must receive until the times of restoration of all things, which God has spoken by the mouth of all His holy prophets since the world began.

These words have new meaning for us, if we see the things which were spoken “since the world began”, thus written in the heavens, which utter speech (i.e. prophecy), and show forth this knowledge day after day and night after night, the heritage of all the earth, and their words reaching unto the ends of the world.

This Revelation, coinciding as it does in all its facts and truths with that afterwards recorded “in the Volume of the Book,” must have had the same Divine origin must have been made known by the inspiration of the same Holy Spirit.

Our study The Eternal Message in the Stars will proceed to compare the two, and we shall see how they agree at every point, proving that the source and origin of this Divine Revelation is one and the same.

Gen 1:14

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And God said, 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: