by  ROGER HATHAWAY  March, 2006

1125 Goldfinch Lane, Jewell Ridge, VA 24622

TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

GOD'S KOSMOS DEFINED

TWELVE TRIBES OF ISRAEL

TWELVE ZODIAC SYMBOLS

TWELVE DISCIPLES OF JESUS

THE FOUR NATURES OF GOD

TIME

JACOB'S TWELVE SONS

MOTHERS OF THE TWELVE SONS

TWELVE TRIBES = TWELVE AGES = ONE CYCLE

LEVI

JOSEPH

ISSACHAR - CANCER - BARTHOLOMEW

ZABULON - GEMINI - PHILIP

SYMEON - ARIES - NATHANAEL

GAD - PISCES - JAMES

MANASSE - CAPRICORN - MATTHEW

BENJAMIN - SAGITTARIUS - THOMAS

ASER - LIBRA - SIMON (Zealot)

NEPHTHALI - VIRGO - JAMES (of Alphaeus)

This essay is a major work which presents the Big Picture of long term history as a design by God, through which He expresses Himself in twelve epochs of about 2,000 years each, the total making one cycle of about 24,000 years, a period which astronomers call the precession of equinoxes. This long-term historical plan is an orderly design of God, His kosmos. Each of these 2,000 year epochs is defined by three significators. A Zodiac sign defines the spiritual path of civilization during the epoch. A Tribe of Israel symbolizes the path of God's Elect people during that age, defined by the blessings given to each. A Disciple corresponds to the previous two signs meaningfully. One important result of this work is that when you see how meaningful these are to the Big Picture you will have no more doubts about the inspiration of Scriptures, the Truth of Jesus Christ, and the very real presence of God. Here is an overview of Intelligent Design. The Big Picture is such that it cannot be accidental or coincidence, anymore than random squirting of liquid paints at a canvas could produce a great portrait.

        What might you get from this study of tribes here? One answer is that you will get an understanding of why the course of civilization has gone as it has. Another: a perspective of God's long term plan. Another: an insight into the Nature of our God who expresses Himself THROUGH the historical process. Another: an appreciation for the values which God instilled into us to function as instinctive compulsions. Another: an assurance that His program is going exactly as planned, and that you are actually an important character through whom He lives and acts. Another: a confirmed conviction that Intelligent Design is Fact, that nothing is accidental or random. Finally, you will get a grasp of the Big Picture, which then will make all the Bible thrillingly rich in significance.

If you want to understand the Big Picture of God's Grand Design, you must begin with the idea of "CYCLES." For it is within cyclic patterns that we see the order of His program, which is called Intelligent Design by some. More on this below.

The Greek word kosmos means "order. . .regulator. . .world-order, universe." Men have sought to understand the scheme behind the nature of our reality (universal order) for countless centuries because the reasons are compelling  that the design is NOT accidental but has a foundation of intelligent order. Rational ORDER does not result from accident; the tossing of debris into a pile does not produce a machine or even an orderly design. Philosophers from ancient times have pondered the question. Scientists of all types believe they are learning something about the Intelligent Design as they search the mysteries of natural laws and processes. Even Darwin did not believe that evolution was accidental, contrary to the claims of his anti-God followers.

The word, kosmos, means "order. . .regulator. . .world-order, universe." Simply, it means His Design. It is usually translated into English as World, but that is only part of what it means. In John 3:16, God so loved His ordered Design that He gave His Offspring. . .(Son = the Christ, the entire body of the Vine and the branches). In other words, it is the members of the body of the Christ which God gave to His Design, so that those "in Him" who believe (meaning that they share the creative faith) will have life during the coming ages of the Kingdom of God. Those coming-ages are the half-cycle of positive energy during which the Christ will exercise dominion instead of the current reigning negative energy of Satan.

During these end-times, now, God is revealing things that have never been known before. One of those things is His intelligent design. For me, it has been a step-by-step learning experience since the early 1980's. It is still ongoing, but I believe I can lay out the basic structure of His kosmos. I see His order being expressed as a historical process. I call His program God’s Divine Pageant, with our planet being the stage and we the actors. The play is more than three-dimensional with its many levels of reality, from the tiny atomic structures to the greater universe. I used to think the microcosm was a reflection of the macrocosm, but now I know that they are each expressing the same design/order. We creatures and other things of earth are symbols of truths which interplay in order to enact His expression. And then we are even more than just symbols; we are actual experiences of the Ultimate Orderer. It is really very true that God lives and experiences life through His kosmos! Each person can truly believe that he is a living activity of God. This is not at all to say that a person can therefore claim to be God! Rather, a workable concept would be to view oneself as a figment of God’s Mind, as a figment in His dream, perhaps.

On one hand, there are so many factors which interface that it is difficult to know where to start if I want to explain God’s order. On the other hand, once one sees the Big Picture, it seems like other pieces of the puzzle then fall into place so easily you will be astounded that this mystery has not been solved long ago. My answer to that question of why this hasn’t been understood before, is that the mystery was purposely hidden in order to prevent the grand Truth from interfering with the long term program of His design. Right now the time is near for us to transition from this Kingdom of World into the Kingdom of Heaven, and part of the transition process will be a realization of more and more of these Truths. What I explain in this article is but a foundation upon which others might easily build.

Why should you be interested in the Big Picture? After all, you have lived your life so far by doing each day what seems best, just as your ancestors have done for countless generations. After your birth, you live a span of years, and then you die; so what difference will it make to understand why things exist as they do, and how the process really works? For most people, it won’t make any difference at all. But for some precious few, the excitement of knowing the working-plan of God is incomparable; it is more valuable than life itself. The value is beyond description, and some would give their souls to know it. For me, I give my soul to it. At the very least, one who knows God’s program can live with a contented peacefulness that doesn’t depend on worldly events, situations, or relationships. You can have a confidence of who you are and what your purpose is and what your role on the great stage is. Then you have an identity which is eternal, for which you would happily cast off your earthly anchor.

The basis of God’s order is not a new concept, but a simple fact of Physics 101, that all things function as CYCLES. Period. There is nothing in the universe, from the smallest unit of energy in an atom to the largest galaxy, that does not pulse in cyclic patterns. That means that energy oscillates from negative to positive to negative to positive, ad infinitum. An atom might pulse at a frequency rate of millions of times per second, while a combination of atoms make up a molecule that pulses at a much slower rate. A group of molecules then makes up a larger entity, like a cell in your body, which then pulses at a still slower frequency. They say that our earth pulses at about 7.8 times per second. What is it that pulses? It is the electro-magnetic field of the atoms and molecules. That is the energy that can be measured in pulses-per-second. Physicists use the letters "cps" for "cycles per second." Another term for the same thing is "Herz," (Hz). As I said, the fact that all energies oscillate in cyclic patterns is not new.

Based on that fact, what then is the longest cycle-length pertinent to our planet? Astronomers work with a cycle they calculate to be about 24,000 years long, probably a little more than that; the exact length is not known. This particular cycle is called the precession of equinoxes, and is the time taken for our sun to circuit an apparent path around the sky within a band around the earth’s equator called the plane of the ecliptic. You need not understand the technicalities of astronomy to know that one cycle is about 24,000 years long. Then we will divide that cycle into two halves, one half being negative and the other positive. ALL pulsing energies (cycles) must have two opposite polarity halves, or else there would be no pulse. And there is no energy known in the universe which does not pulse. So, we don’t have to determine whether or not we are dealing with two energies of polar natures. That is a given.

One more thing about cycles that will help us, is that you can diagram one on a piece of paper in a linear format known as a sine-wave-curve. Take a piece of paper and draw a horizontal line from edge to edge, approximately in the middle of the page, dividing the upper half of the page from the lower half. Now, along that line you will draw a semi-circle below the line at the left portion of your page. Follow that semi-circle line from the left at its beginning, going downward to the bottom of the bowl and then upward until you touch the horizontal line. Now, from that point, continue the line as a semi-circle above the horizontal line that looks like a dome. You have drawn the letter "S" lying on its side. Now you will plot a 24,000 year period along that "S" curve. At the far left beginning, write the date of 10,000BC. Where the curve crosses the centerline, write 2,000AD. At the far right end of the curve, write 14,000AD. The upper half of the cycle is positive, being called  the Kingdom of Heaven. The lower half is negative and is the Kingdom of World. Christ is the Lord of the upper kingdom. Satan is lord of the lower kingdom.

For your convenience, you can print out a basic format of one cycle by going to my website of www.divinepageant.com. On the main index page, find the link to SINE-WAVE DIAGRAM. Click on that so that you will have one handy for reference. Or if you are reading this online, click HERE for the link. The key to understanding God’s grand program is now in your hand. Unfortunately, the diagram only lists the 12 Zodiac signs. But, you can write in the Tribes and the Disciples as you read below. Also, for a comprehensive diagram, you can get one from me simply by asking, and give me your name and mailing address.

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The number twelve has long been recognized by Christians to have some kind of importance to God, but we never could figure out just why. There were twelve tribes of Israel and twelve disciples and twelve gates into the Holy City of Jerusalem (in Revelation 21). And you will see that the twelve Zodiac signs are also meaningful to the Bible. So, for the deep-thinker who ponders the mystery of God’s order, perhaps the number 12 is important to the basic structure of that order. Our commonly used mathematical system is based on the number ten, but that is probably because we have ten fingers and ten toes. There were also ten commandments. Other numbers appeared repeatedly, such as 7 and 40 and 1,000. But this article focuses on the number twelve.

The twelve Zodiac names come to us from the time/age of Taurus/Ruben, prior to written language. The group of Twelve Tribes of Israel came from the age of Aries, mentioned in Rev. 21 as being the angels of the Twelve Gates of God's Holy City. The group of Twelve Disciples came from the age of Pisces, mentioned in Rev. 21 as being the Twelve Foundation Stones under Jerusalem's wall.

Along the historical diagram on the sine-wave-curve, we will first plot the twelve Zodiac ages of about 2,000 years each. Starting at your far left, the first quarter consists of the three ages of Leo, Cancer, and Gemini. From the nadir at the bottom-most point, the next quarter cycle consists of Taurus, Aries, and Pisces. That makes six ages during the Kingdom of World. Above the line, the first quarter consists of Aquarius, Capricorn, and Sagittarius. After the apex of the curve are Scorpio, Libra, and Virgo. Those are the six ages of the Kingdom of Heaven. We will discuss each of those ages in detail, beginning with the age of Leo. And along with the twelve Zodiac signs, we will describe the twelve Tribes of Israel that correspond to them, and we will also describe the twelve Disciples that correspond. All three of these twelves are meaningful descriptions of the ages during one cycle of God’s kosmic order. You will see that many of them relate to each other quite meaningfully. It is my theory that Zodiac Signs define the Spiritual Nature of the program; the Tribes of Israel define the Personal Manifestation Nature of the program. The Disciples relate to both the Zodiac and Tribes, along with being the foundation stones of the Body of Christ which is the Holy City of God’s dwelling place. See Rev. 21.

So, along the sine-wave curve we can plot a sequence of ages which describe twelve acts on the stage of God’s Divine Pageant. Then, you will see the obvious theme and plot of His play. You will see that historical events are not accidental, but are expressions of the dynamus of the Father Himself. You will also understand who you are, and what your role is in this grand play.

On your sine-wave diagram, the ascending-path line indicates a natural improvement of civilization toward spiritual perfection and reunion with God. After the highest point of spiritual perfection has been achieved, there is a Fall as God's special race walks away from Him, toward the lure of earthly mastery and a deception that material reality is real. Then at the very nadir of civilization, God introduces a change which once again initiates a positive process of ascension and spiritual progress.

Here I must emphasize that it is most important to know this one fact in order to understand recorded history as a paradigm designed by the God of Israel. The plan of history relates ONLY to His race of children from Adam, through Noe, Abraam, and Israel. It is only this one genetic lineage of people that the Bible is about. Our Israelite ancestors were extreme racists because our Father taught them to protect their lineage above all else. There is no plan of God for the history for any other race of people. The one Supreme God of all-that-is concerns Himself ONLY with this one race! The slight qualification to that statement is that there is one other race that plays a part of secondary importance, and that is the race from Cain, later renewed as Esau/Edom, who make up the Jewish race of today. The Cain race makes up the body of Satan, just as the Adam race makes up the body of Christ. The eternal contest between good and evil is waged between these two races. The Satan race might be considered a divine race because of its origin from the devil, as Jesus states in John 8:44, so it acts as the opponent counter-race to Christ. Then the other darker skinned races of the world are earth-people, mere opportunists who do not have divine origins, existing in our world just like the animals do, living one life like the flowers in the field, and having no afterlife; but as opportunists, they are usable as pawns by the two divine brother races.

So, God's designed-patterns of history can be discerned by studying the events of the Adamic race, namely events of the white Europeans who are the diasporan Israelites from the 700's BC Assyrian purge, being those very lost tribes of Israel. The major events are diagrammed along a sine wave curve which is available by clicking on sine wave diagram.

Note that in this paper, all Biblical names and dates are based on the Greek Septuagint of 285 BC because that was the Bible of Jesus, his disciples, and early historians like Philo Judaeus and Josephus, and any other writers who referenced Old Testament writings. The so-called Hebrew Bible did not appear until nearly a thousand years after Christ, and there is no evidence that the Old Testament ever existed in that language prior to Christ. The so-called Hebrew language had developed as a combination of the Israelites' Phoenician language when it was combined with Aramaic from the time of the Assyrian Captivity about 721 BC. The mongrel language of Hebrew did not even have its own alphabet until the century prior to Christ when the Herodian square script alphabet was created, based on the Phoenician alphabet just like Greek alphabet had been. The Hebrew language Aramaized the Phoenician/Greek names of Old Testament people, often by adding an "h" as though for a serpent's hiss. In this book I shall use the real Greek names, except for the name Jesus which has been Anglicised for the English speaker. The word, Yahweh, and other words for God came from the Aramaic language and their pantheon in the Pagan Chaldean Mystery Religions. It is neither Phoenician or Greek, nor was it used by Israelites of the O.T., so I don't use it. Actually, Egyptian records indicate the word "YHWH" was used by some of Israel's neighbors, but there is no evidence it was ever used by Israel. The inescapable conclusion is that it was a name of other gods whom our God warned against. So, I consider "YHWH" a sacrilege.

Before you study the following historical paradigm in detail, please refer to the sine-wave diagram of the Ages  which covers one complete cycle of 24,000 years. The diagram on this website is very abbreviated, therefore, I am glad to send you a paper copy of a comprehensive diagram that includes other information if you write to me at

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and give me your name and mailing address. The diagram shows an ever changing pattern of civilization, declining for half a cycle and ascending for half a cycle. The decline is a path away from being spiritual-minded toward being earth-minded. The ascent is the path of the prodigal's return to God, our source. The negative half of the cycle, below the neutral line is the period of history ruled by negative energy, Satan, appearing as a kingdom of World. The positive half-cycle is that period above the line, which manifests as a relative, heavenly reality, a dimension of awareness that we call spiritual. On the Zodiac diagram there are twelve periods of time, each being 2,000 years long, and each symbolized by a Zodiac sign. Here is the paradigm or model which God has designed and by which our civilizations proceed along their courses. History is clearly not random at all; God has given us keys for understanding it and Himself, as He expresses Himself through His dynamic creation.

        Zodiac symbols represent the spiritual, heavenly process of history (zodiac/constellations/sky/ouranos/heaven), while the Tribe symbols represent the personal, earthly, mundane process of struggle.

        Perhaps I should mention that there is one obstacle which might hinder you from seeing God's grand plan, that being a human weakness called, cognitive dissonance, which is a reluctance to consider any idea that conflicts with a previously held belief. Christians cling devotedly to some politically motivated doctrines from medieval ages that contradict clear Bible statements. It is difficult for anyone to consider notions which conflict with childhood beliefs. Yet, in this end-time period, right now, that will be necessary in order for the Holy Spirit to bring you new insights.

TWELVE TRIBES OF ISRAEL

Beside the twelve Zodiac signs discussed above, there were twelve sons of Israel born about 1850BC who became twelve Tribes of Israel, each tribe having its own symbol (like Lion of Juda). When the Promised Land of Canaan was divided into portions, each tribe was allotted a portion. In spite of the fact that Levi would not get a portion, the division into twelve parts was maintained by using the two sons of Joseph to replace Levi and their father, Joseph, who stayed in Egypt. In this paper we are going to look at the three blessings pertaining to each son/Tribe, along with the historical period which the tribe defines. There is a recorded statement of each son’s mother upon his birth, usually explaining the meaning of his name. Then there was a blessing/prophecy for each son by Jacob, their father, from his deathbed. And thirdly, Moses pronounced a statement upon each tribe. We will also look at the location around the Tabernacle in the desert at Mount Sinai where God appointed each tribe to camp. And we will discuss the nature of the epoch which each tribe defines.

There are twelve constellations in the sky around the plane of the ecliptic. These constellations were named prior to any recorded history or any written language. We don't know where the names came from. But, it appears that these twelve symbols are the highest echelon of all symbols, and may be the very basis for God's emphasis on the number twelve. I am not here accrediting the art of Astrology, but am speaking only about the twelve symbols of the Zodiac. In Genesis 1:14, on the Fourth Day of God's design, we read: "Let there be lights in the form of Heaven for shining upon the Earth; to divide between the day and between the night, and let them be for signs and for seasons and for days, and for years." That they are important as signs and for seasons to scripture is obvious when one looks at the evidence, even superficially! At the beginning of each Zodiac age, a significant person was born. Jesus was born at the beginning of the age of Pisces (fish), thus we see Him and his followers placing an unusual emphasis on fish. Abram was born at the beginning of the age of Aries (Lamb), and we see him instituting a new religion focused upon veneration of the Lamb, and prophesying that at the end of Aries God's Lamb would come. Jesus was born at the end of Aries as that Lamb. Gemini means heavenly twins. At its beginning, Eve's twin sons, (fraternal twins, of different fathers) fathered races which wage eternal contest by their instincts of good and evil. The next age after the present Pisces is Aquarius (water carrier), and we have Jesus telling his disciples to follow the water-carrier to the upper room, a hint that the next age of Aquarius, the Water Carrier, begins the Kingdom of Heaven. The Bull of Taurus is especially prominent in our Old Testament, as the children of Israel were reluctant to let go of it after they had entered the age of the Lamb.

TWELVE DISCIPLES

There were twelve disciples chosen by Jesus. There were actually other followers who were as close, or closer, to Jesus than these twelve, such as Lazarus (who might be the real author of the Gospel of John, and might be the one whom Jesus loved most) and Jesus' brother James (who later headed the Jerusalem group), but Jesus selected a specific twelve to make up a special group. It will probably surprise you that most of the twelve disciples did not distinguish themselves well. And neither did all twelve sons of Jacob! Keep in mind that long term history consists both, of prodigals walking away from the Father, and of those walking toward Him. After Judas had betrayed Jesus and hanged himself, the group felt it was important to select a replacement for him in order to maintain that number of twelve. We aren't given much hint at why the number is so important, and we are given very little information about the individuals disciples. But Rev. 21:14 says the wall of Holy City of Jerusalem has twelve foundations and on them are the twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb. It is impressive that the 12 disciple names are on the very foundations of the city walls; that would imply a substantial importance! We might remember that they were the founders of the Christian Church.

It is amazing how some of the disciples correlate with the Tribe descriptions and with the Zodiac descriptions. We can easily place the four most significant disciples in their proper places. The four important disciples include the three of Jesus' closest group, Peter, Andrew, and John. The fourth is Judas, who played an important role. Peter was named "the rock" which we might think of as "earth," or as Physical Nature, therefore placing him with the Living Being, LION, as represented by Juda and by the Zodiac age of Leo. Andrew's name means "Man" in Greek, which equates with one of the Living Beings of Revelation 4. Andrew was also the first disciple chosen by Jesus, just as Ruben was the firstborn of Jacob. So, Andrew equates with Ruben whose symbol is also Man, and is coincident with the Zodiac age of Taurus. While Peter was selected by the western half of Christianity, headed by Rome, it was Andrew whom the eastern Orthodox half of Christianity selected as the most important disciple.  There was one more member of the group closest to Jesus; that would be James, the brother of St. John. James is the significator of the 2,000 year age of Pisces, the very age which Jesus keynoted, but he doesn't hold the important position of being the first age of a quarter cycle.

AND THIRTEEN?

THE FOUR NATURES OF GOD

        The four Natures of God are manifested into the "reality" which we perceive with our senses and in which we live. What I am saying is that four Natures of God are the forces, or intelligences, which emanate from the Father into experiences of Life. Some creatures live by the empowerment of only one Nature, some of two, three, or all four. Of those four Natures, the Physical Nature (Lion) empowers the biological & botanical functions of ALL living beings. It is the physical reality which we perceive most strongly and which we think of as absolute because we can see it and touch it. From the tiniest aspect of molecular life to the physiology of the highest creature, it is the Physical Nature which empowers physical/biological functions. The Emotional Nature (Bull) is not part of those primitive micro-organisms or of the lower level animals who just eat or get eaten, but is operative in all higher animals, perhaps from dogs up to and including God's Elect ones. For the primitive Races, the Emotional nature is the highest level of mind with which they think. Consider the blacks of interior Africa who never thought of a wheel or even of domesticating any animal or of growing any crops. Mud/thatch huts are their highest achievement and that was surely a matter of copying someone else. Their lives consist of surviving by doing violence and sex. The Emotional Mind creatures can learn to do things by copying or by rote, but not much beyond that unless the person is a result of race-mixing with a higher Mind Race. The Intellectual Nature (Eagle) empowers only two races: the two sons from Zoe (aka Eve) who were fraternal twins, one fathered by Adam and the other by Satan. The eternal contest on our stage is waged between these two brother races, the Adamic race versus Cain race. The contest was later renewed in Abraam's grandsons: the brothers Jacob and Esau, again twins. Esau/Edom then married Cain-race wives and fathered the Edomite race of people who are known today as "Jews." Jacob/Israel fathered the white race which got dispersed to Europe and became the flock which recognized Jesus as its rightful Shepherd. Anyway, both of these races have mental capabilities to think original thoughts, to philosophize, to abstract concepts, to strategize, to organize, to build cities and inventions and civilized societies. Finally, the Spiritual Nature of God (Man symbol, with whom Jesus identified) is expressed through ONLY His chosen people from Adam and later from Israel. We, the white race true Israel, are empowered by a powerful spiritual instinct which compels us toward spiritual life and away from material earthly life. We possess instincts of goodness and honesty and fairness and justice and compassion and benevolence and the Golden Rule and innocence. Those instincts make us somewhat vulnerable to our brother race from Cain/Edom who uses his intellect to deceive us and exploit us and cheat us and murder us, just as Jesus accused the Edomite priests in John 8:44.

        Each of the four Living Beings has six wings which then make up the 24 Elders. Those having but one Nature of God are the simple Physical creatures like microbes and lesser animals. Those having only two sets of six wings (two Natures) are the higher animals and dark skin races. Those having only three sets of six wings are the Edomite race. Those having all four Natures of God are His Spiritual Offspring, true Israel (not the Edomite deceivers who call themselves Israel today).

        As a sidenote, I would suggest to anyone who seeks further information about the four Natures/Minds of God, that you read about them in the book of Job. The man Job represents Man - the Spiritual nature. Eliphaz represents the Physical nature. 4:10,11 roaring lion, fierce lion, young lions, old lion, stout lion's 5:25 "seed" shall be great 4:19 flesh man (clay). Bildad represents the Emotional nature 18:3 counted as "beasts" 18:4 teareth himself in "anger." Zophar represents the Intellect nature 11:2 words, talk 11:3 lies 11:4 doctrine 11:5 God would "speak" 11:6 secrets of "wisdom" 20:2 thoughts 20:3 understanding. Click on Job for an excellent article about this, by Bob Steffens. Click on Four Minds/Natures of God for further study of this subject.

TIME

        If we consider the twelves to represent periods of time, we will find that pieces of the great puzzle begin to fall into place, and we start seeing a view of the Big Picture. Biblical symbols often mean time-periods.  Time is a force which scientists struggle to understand better, and it becomes more elusive as it is studied. It is now known to particle physicists and quantum-mechanic physics that time is relative to the perceiver, and that it goes backwards as well as forwards. Time is not an absolute, but is a projection from the mind of God, within which we live and experience life.  It is through time and through His  Elect  that God functions and experiences life. Time and the Elect are ultimately the same thing, as John tries to describe in his vision on Patmos.

        It is not enough to say that God expresses Himself through time; there is something far greater to this concept, and I hardly know how to say it.  But, here it is: John considers time to be God. The first verse of Revelation speaks of “time,” and three verses later God is identified as “the one who (that which) is and who was and who is to come.”  God IS the past, the present, and the future.  What John reveals in his Revelation is the identity of the path of time as God.  The seven “stars” in Jesus’ right hand are symbols of separate pieces of God: time periods! The nature of those seven periods is defined in the messages to the seven churches. The seven periods are "church ages" within the Kingdom of Heaven, each being about 1,700 years long. Let me take just a moment to show you something wonderful. If you look at a map of that region of what is now Turkey, and locate the cities of the seven churches of Revelation, you will see that they sit in a general orientation the same as the positive half of the sine-wave diagram. Ephesus is at lower left, then northward to Smyrna and Pergamos and Thyatira, and gradually swinging to the east and then southward with Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea. If you plot them on your diagram, beginning with Ephesus parallel to Aquarius/Ephraim/John, you will find that the messages to those churches speak directly to the coming ages of the Kingdom of Heaven, ending with Laodicea at the end of Heaven when God will "spit you out of my mouth." You might also note that the island of Patmos, where John had his vision, lies to the southwest of Ephesus, offshore across some ocean water. So, when John saw seven church ages, he saw them as the upper half of the sine-wave time-line, and he saw them from a position just prior to that in the position of Pisces. Amazing? Is this just coincidence or clues to the mystery?

         Now, I want to propose a new idea for you.  As God lives through His Elect, these Elect express and reveal HIM.  We are all symbols of characteristics of God.  Seven stars are symbols of “time periods.”  The 144,000 Elect are symbols of time periods (of God’s expression) made up of the twelve sons of Jacob. The highest level of “time” symbol is that of twelve Zodiac signs which underlie the entire Bible. We are getting a look at God, but understanding what we see is yet another matter.

        Again, I urge you to keep the sine-wave diagram at hand and follow it closely. Print a copy for quick reference. The diagram on this website is very abbreviated, but I will be glad to send you a comprehensive diagram if you write to me and give me your name and mailing address.

        If we begin a cycle at the horizontal line, and follow the ascending path, the plan indicates a natural improvement of civilization toward spiritual perfection and reunion with God. After the highest point of spiritual perfection has been achieved, there is a Fall as God's special race walks away from Him toward the lure of earthly mastery, and a deception that material reality is real. Then at the very nadir of civilization, God introduces a change which again initiates a positive process of ascension and spiritual progress.

The following study was first worked out as a study of the Twelve Tribes of Israel, so that will be the foundation, upon which I will add information about the corresponding Twelve Zodiac Signs and the Twelve Disciples.

JACOB= S TWELVE SONS

        The following study of the twelve sons of Israel was prompted by my questions of: Why twelve? How are these twelve meaningful to history? Are they symbols of something more than a large family? Do their names mean something? Do the blessings given by their father and later by Moses mean something for the history of their tribes? Certainly, symbolism was paramount among the people of that ancient culture; they seemed to live with a focus upon symbols. For every special event, they would create a monument to forever symbolize that event. Every name given at birth had an important symbolic meaning. The fact is that our Bible is a book of symbols, with every event and name and series-of-events symbolizing something for the future. And then, each event/symbol is also part of a paradigm or model, to be fulfilled repeatedly at future times and sometimes different levels of reality. So it is that each event really serves as a prophecy. For instance, the 400-year-Egypt sojourn with its supernatural liberation, wilderness cleansing, and Promised Land is a model being repeated in our 400 year occupation of America. Part of the end-time process will be our supernatural liberation (magnetic polarity reversal), followed by a wilderness period, and then a transition into the final Promised Land to be led by a Man named Jesus (Joshua in Aramaic). Jacob's blessings of his twelve sons were prefaced by saying, (Gen 49:2) "Assemble yourselves, that I may tell you what shall happen to you in the last days." The way he stated that indicates that his words have a meaning that is more than just a simple blessing of their individual lives, but that the blessing pertains to some future last days.

        To my knowledge, no one has ever studied the twelve tribes of Israel from this perspective. Yet, there seems to be this kind of meaning underlying Bible history. Also, most scholars only look at Old Testament studies through the Hebrew language, assuming it to be the original language of the patriarchs. But it is the Phoenician/Greek names, as listed in the Septuagint, that are meaningful here as symbols. I am convinced that much has been missed by scholars because they wrongly assume Hebrew to be the language of the Patriarchs. Evidence supports a thesis that Hebrew only came into being since the Assyrian captivity, resulting from the mix of the Israelites' native Phoenician language with the Aramaean language they were forced to learn during their captivity. Phoenician is the direct parent of Greek, and with Aramaic is also co-parent of the so-called Hebrew. At the time of Jacob, about 1850 BC, Israelites spoke Phoenician. The Greek language developed from it after descendants of Zara, a son of Juda, settled the Aegean; for details see Homer, Aeneas, Geoffrey of Monmouth. We can find that the names of the twelve sons, and their mothers, have some pretty significant relationships to the ancient Greek language, which I am calling Phoenician/Greek.

        The record of the births of the twelve sons of Jacob/Israel is recorded in Genesis 29 and 30, as follows: From Lea came Ruben, then Symeon, then Levi, and then Juda. Next, from Rachel's maid, Balla, came Dan and then Nephthali. Next, from Lea's maid, Zelpha, came Gad, and then Aser. Then Lea bore Issachar, and then Zabulon, and then a daughter, Dina. Lastly, Rachel bore Joseph, and then died giving birth to Benjamin (Gen 35:18). At the birth of each child, the mother made a statement that is recorded as a type of blessing. That statement usually explains the meaning of the name given to the child. In that culture, and with our God, names were extremely important, sometimes so important that a name was later changed to indicate a change in the person's life or destiny, such as Abram to Abraam, and Jacob to Israel, and Esau to Edom.

        While the order of birth indicated birthrights, authority, and position in a family, it happened later at Sinai (see Numbers 2) that God set a different positioning of the tribes around the Tabernacle of Witness, and this new commanded-ordering has great importance if one is to understand each tribe's symbolism as prophetic for future ages. It is this new ordering of the tribes around a circle (cycle) which is meaningful to the process of history as each tribal name symbolizes a 2,000 year epoch. It is this ordering which is depicted on my sine-wave diagram, with each name corresponding to a Zodiac-age.

        Below, for this study of the tribes, I list each tribe in the order of its birth, along with (1) a quotation of the mother's statement, and (2) of Jacob's blessing from his death-bed, and (3) of Moses's blessing. These blessings define the general characteristics of an individual tribe, and how that tribe represents its specific period of history as diagrammed on sine-wave curve attached to this thesis. I also list the Tribe symbols, which are important because they represent the Tribe's symbolic period of history, and are also important symbols in the book of Revelation. These tribes and their symbols make the entire Bible text into a coherent whole with an intelligent design. The symbols also identify the various nations of Europe where those tribes settled after being dispersed from their Promised Land by the Assyrians in the 700's BC.

        I would remind the reader that God's Temple is His genetic family of Israel. It is within us that He resides. We make up the actual City of God. We are Israel, a nation/family that is a people and not a geographical place. We will be the New Jerusalem. We tribes are the angels at the twelve gates to God's City. Revelation 21:10-12 says, "And He bore me away in spirit to a great and high mountain, and showed me the holy city of Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God, having the Glory of God, its light was like a precious stone, as a diamond clear as crystal; having a great and high wall, having twelve gates and at the gates twelve angels and names inscribed on them, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the sons of Israel." There are no other Gates to God's City. At no time in the Bible did God ever hint that He was changing His program to draw into His family/City/Temple anyone outside the tribes of Israel. Jesus said, "I came not except unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel." And here at the very end of John's Revelations, we see that it is still the twelve tribes who are the City of God. The allogeneis (other races) were permitted to worship our God at a distance, but NEVER inside the Temple walls. Until we understand the meaning of the tribes and their significance, we cannot envision the City of God's design and will continue to languish in darkness and ignorance. I'm not going to argue the question of Universal Gospel here except to mention that the Greek word for gentile, namely ethnos, never meant non-Jew to ancient Greeks. It meant ethnic group/race, used most often to refer to their own people of Israel. The non-Jew definition has been promoted as a deliberate attempt to promote a Universal Gospel doctrine which would have been abhorrent to ancient Israelites who knew their God as the God of Israel, Isaac, and Abraam. They also knew their God was jealous of His own!

MOTHERS OF THE TWELVE SONS

        Two sons from ZELPHA - Ζελφ�

The basis for this name is the three letter Greek prefix ζηλ/zel which means jealousy. Zelpha is the servant of Lea, who became jealous that Rachel had children through her servant while Lea had seemingly become barren. So, Lea would copy Rachel's tactic of using her servant as surrogate.

        Two sons from RACHEL - {Ραχ¬λ:   The Phoenician/Greek basis for her name is Õαχός/rhachos which means "thorn-hedge." Rachel has certainly been such a thorn-hedge in her battle with Lea, for Jacob still loves her most, in spite of all the children that Lea produced.

TWELVE TRIBES = TWELVE AGES = ONE CYCLE

        INTRO: It is unfortunate that most Christians are not in love with the Old Testament history that Jesus' Disciples and all the early Christians knew as their Bible. There was no such thing as a New Testament yet. The New Testament collection of writings would not be set until centuries later. They knew God as "The God of Israel," and they knew Him as a jealous God who related to no race other than themselves. For myself, the more I learn of the Old Testament, the more I stand in open-mouthed-awe at the inspiration of the Prophets and their writings, of the majesty and greatness of our personal Father, and of the richness of the foundation upon which Jesus would institute a new type of spiritual relationship for God's beloved children.

        Next is a listing of all twelve sons with their blessings that serve as prophecies, as descriptions of the twelve ages which each represents. These blessings reveal that their mothers, and their father, Jacob, and then Moses were all mouthpieces for God, hinting at Truths which outline God's Plan of the Ages. It did not end up that each of the twelve sons directly corresponded to an age, for there were a couple qualifications. The son named Levi (third-born) does not represent a specific age, but as the Priest-Tribe, his function of mediation works through all the applicable ages. The son named Joseph (eleventh-born) went to Egypt (always a symbol for World) and became a government official, so the primary blessing went to his two boys, Manasse and Ephraim. So, of fourteen people, Levi and Joseph are replaced by Ephraim and Manasse, keeping a total of twelve, with one corresponding to each Zodiac Age.

        The Zodiac Ages signify the spiritual course of civilization, or in particular, the spiritual path of God's Adamic race, who eventually got reduced to the one family of twelve sons from Jacob. The Tribe Ages seem to signify the personal earthly path of their civilization. Each quarter-cycle of history (6,000 years) progresses while under the dominant influence of one of God's four Natures. For instance, the quarter cycle of three ages since the time of Noe (Noah) have been under the primary Zodiac influence of the Emotional Mind (Bull of Taurus) of God, while the influence at the Tribal level has been Spiritual Empowerment of Ruben and Andrew (Man). These forces, or "four winds" of God effectively guide the path of God's Elect ones.

        Since Levi and Joseph do not correspond to particular Ages, I will present information about them first, because that info will help toward understanding the importance of the other Tribe members in their Ages.

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Birth: Gen 29:34 "In the present time my husband will be with me, for I have born him three sons; therefore she called his name Levi."

Blessing by Jacob at death: Gen 49:5; "Symeon and Levi, brothers, accomplished the injustice of their cutting off. Let not my soul come into their counsel, and let not mine inward parts contend in their conspiracy, for in their wrath they slew men, and in their passion they houghed a bull. Cursed be their wrath for it was wilful, and their anger, for it was cruel; I will divide them in Jacob and scatter them in Israel."

Moses' blessing: Deut 33:8; "Give to Levi his manifestations, and his truth to the holy man, whom they tempted in the temptation; they reviled him at the water of strife. Who says to his father and mother, I have not seen you; and he knew not his brethren, and he refused to know his sons: he kept your oracles, and observed your covenant. They shall declare your ordinances to Jacob, and your law to Israel: they shall place incense in time of your wrath continually upon your altar. Bless, Lord, his strength, and accept the works of his hands; break the loins of his enemies that have risen up against him, and let not them that hate him rise up."

Tribe Symbol: none since Levi was spread throughout Israel as priesthood.

Countries: throughout all Israel

Levi's sons: Gedson, Caath, Merari. Then Caath begat Ambran who married Jochabed and begat Aaron & Moses. (Ex 6:20)

LEVI'S PLACE IN HISTORY: There is no age of Levi because the tribal members were not numbered or given a placement around the tabernacle in Numbers 2. This tribe of priests, being God's representatives, were scattered throughout all the tribes, so they are prominent throughout all the ages, just as he was included in an act with his brother, Symeon, even if Levi doesn't define a specific epoch. Nor is there a disciple counterpart to Levi.

INTERPRETATION OF LEVI'S BLESSINGS: Jacob pairs his son Levi with Symeon in his angry blessing. His words profoundly describe the age of Symeon/Aries during which all Israel cut themselves off from God, and did wickedly, bringing upon themselves a divorcement from God and a dispersion. See The Nature of Symeon. Moses' blessing recognizes the Levi tribe as a priesthood and asks God to give His truth to these holy men who had been tempted and reviled. Moses praises the holy men for separating themselves from their parents and brethren, and even their own sons in order to keep God's oracles and covenant. Their function shall be to declare God's will to Israel and to perform the altar rituals. Even though the Levi tribe, along with Symeon, contributed significantly to the apostasy of Israel and the cutting off, yet these two tribes are given prominence by God because they were accomplishing the design of His plan. What they did was wrong, nevertheless, it was necessary because they were following the script. [Sidenote: If you compare the Greek Septuagint reading with the modern versions that are based on the Masoretic Text of 1,000AD, you see that the Greek Old Testament never speaks of any Urim and Thummim. That breastplate was a spurious addition by the Edomite Jewish masoretes who created the recent Hebrew Old Testament Text. The Greek LXX, however, does speak of a shoulder-piece and a full length robe, to be worn by the High Priest, which have some jewels on them.]

Levi represents the spiritual head of the tribe family. Levi is a symbol of Jesus, the Head of the body of Christ. The twelve tribes represent the body of Christ. Moses blessing applies to Jesus. It is the offspring body of Christ (all 144,000 Elect) which creates our perceptible reality by its beliefs; in other words, the Christ creates the manifestation which we consider to be our reality. Also in Moses' blessing we see Jesus denying His own mother and family, which He did, and keeping the Covenant perfectly. And Jesus declared God's will to Israel, and it is to Jesus that we make altars in our churches. Other corresponding details are beyond the purpose of this paper, including the application of Jacob's blessing.

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Birth: Gen 30 24; "God has taken away my reproach, and she called his name Joseph, saying, Let God add to me another son."

Blessing by Jacob at death: Gen 49:22 "Joseph is a son increased; my dearly loved son is increased; my youngest son, turn to me. Against whom men taking evil counsel reproached him and the archers pressed hard upon him. But their bow and arrows were mightily consumed, and the sinews of their arms were slackened by the hand of the mighty one of Jacob; thence is he that strengthened Israel from the God of your father; and my God helped you, and he blessed you with the blessing of heaven from above, and the blessing of the earth possessing all things, because of the blessing of the breasts and of the womb, the blessings of your father and your mother -- it has prevailed above the blessing of the lasting mountains and beyond the blessings of the everlasting hills; they shall be upon the head of Joseph, and upon the head of the brothers of whom he took the lead."

Moses blessing: Deut 33:13; "His land is of the blessing of the Lord, of the seasons of sky and dew, and of the deeps of wells below, and of the fruits of the changes of the sun in season, and of the produce of the months, from the top of the ancient mountains, and from the top of the everlasting hills and of the fulness of the land in season: and let the things pleasing to him that dwelt in the bush come on the head of Joseph, and on the crown of him who was glorified above his brethren. His beauty is as the firstling of his bull, his horns are the horns of a unicorn (rhinoceros); with them he shall thrust the nations at once, even from the end of the earth: these are the ten thousands of Ephraim and these are the thousands of Manasse."

Tribe Symbol: his two sons had the tribe symbols

Countries: see Ephraim & Manasse

ISRAEL BLESSES EPHRAIM & MANASSE   Prior to blessing the other sons.

JACOB'S PRELUDE TO HIS GRANDSONS' BLESSINGS Gen 48:1-15; "And it came to pass...that it was reported to Joseph, Behold your father is ill; and having taken his two sons, Manasse and Ephraim, he came to Jacob. ² And it was reported to Jacob, saying, 'Look, your son Joseph comes to you;' and Israel having strengthened himself, sat up on the bed. ³And Jacob said to Joseph, 'My God appeared to me in Luza, in the land of Chanaan, and blessed me, ⁴and said to me, 'Behold, I will increase you, and multiply you, and will make of you multitudes of nations; and I will give this land to you, and to your seed after you, for a possession during the ages."  ⁵Now then, your two sons, who were born to you in the land of Egypt, before I came to you into Egypt, are mine; Ephraim and Manasse, as Ruben and Symeon they shall be mine. ⁶ And the children which you shall beget hereafter shall be in the name of their brethren; they shall be named after their inheritances. ⁷ And as for me, when I came out of Mesopotamia of Syria, Rachel, your mother, died in the land of Chanaan, as I drew nigh to the horse-course of Chabratha of the land of Chanaan, so as to come to Ephratha; and I buried her in the road of the course; this is Bethlehem."

JACOB BLESSES JOSEPH'S SONS Gen 48:15-21; ¹⁵And he blessed them and said, "The God in whose sight my fathers were well pleasing, Abraam and Isaac, the God who continues to feed me from my youth until this day; the angel who delivers me from all evils, bless these boys, and my name shall be called upon them, and the name of my fathers, Abraam and Isaac; and let them be increased to a great multitude on the earth." ¹⁷And Joseph saw that his father put his right hand on the head of Ephraim -- it seemed grievous to him; and Joseph took hold of the hand of his father, to remove it from the head of Ephraim to the head of Manasse. ¹⁸And Joseph said to his father, "Not so, father; for this is the firstborn; lay your right-hand upon his head." ¹⁹And he would not, but said, "I know it, son, I know it; he also shall be a people and he shall be exalted, but his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his seed shall become a multitude of nations." ²⁰And he blessed them in that day, saying "In you shall Israel be blessed," saying, "God make you as Ephraim and Manasse;" and he set Ephraim before Manasse. ²¹And Israel said to Joseph, "Behold, I die; and God shall be with you, and restore you to the land of your fathers."

MOSES BLESSES JOSEPH Deuteronomy 33:13-17; ^"13And to Joseph he said, 'His land is of the blessing of the Lord, of the seasons of sky and dew, and of the deeps of wells below, ¹⁴and of the fruits of the changes of the sun in season, and of the produce of the months, ¹⁵from the top of the ancient mountains and from the top of the everlasting hills, ¹⁶and of the fulness of the land in season: and let the things pleasing to him that dwelt in the bush come on the head of Joseph, and on the crown of him who was glorified above his brethren. ¹⁷His beauty is as the firstling of his bull [Ephraim = bull, the first age in the Kingdom of Heaven], his horns are the horns of a unicorn (one horn - rhinoceros); with them he shall thrust the nations at once, even from the end of the earth: these are the ten thousands of Ephraim, and these are the thousands of Manasse."

        Why did Ephraim and Manasse get the primary blessing from Jacob? It was because the real inheritance consisted of the great vineyard God had prepared for His people: the Kingdom of Heaven. Since Ephraim and Manasse are the first two ages in the coming kingdom, Jacob is actually stating the simple fact of the matter, and he crosses his arms over their heads to indicate the proper sequence of the two grandsons/ages. As the Big Picture continues to develop and I see how accurately the Bible presents all the varying pieces of information, I am more and more awed at the level of inspiration.

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THE TWELVE AGES LISTED BELOW ARE IN THE ORDER THAT GOD DIRECTED IN NUMBERS 2, WHICH IS THE SAME ORDER AS THE ZODIAC CONSTELLATIONS

JUDA / LEO / SIMON PETER

JUDA - zIoύδαv [b. 1849 BC, Son of Lea] Fourth son of Jacob.

        The Phoenician/Greek basis for this name is twofold: Æό is the color violet or purple, the color of royalty which would be Juda's destiny, though it may not have been on the mind of Lea at this time. Her feeling is probably that of Æoύ which is a loud expression of sorrow or joy, perhaps reflecting her feeling of frustration and sadness from failing to win her husband's love. So she resigns herself to this, and turns to the Lord with thanks, and doesn't get pregnant the following year. Though she would bear again later.

Birth: Gen 29:35; "Now yet again this time will I give thanks to the Lord; therefore she called his name Juda, and ceased bearing."

Blessing by Jacob at death: 285BC Greek Septuagint text (Brenton translation) of Gen 49:8-12; "Juda, your brothers have praised you, and your hands shall be on the back of your enemies; your father's sons shall do you reverence. Juda is a lion's whelp, from the tender plant, my son, you are gone up, having couched you lie as a lion, and as a whelp; who shall stir him up? A ruler shall not fail from Juda, nor a prince from his loins, until there come the things stored up for him; and he is the expectation of nations. Binding his foal to the vine, and the foal of his ass to the branch, he shall wash his robe in wine and his garment in the blood of the grape. His eyes shall be more cheering than wine, and his teeth whiter than milk."

Moses blessing: Deut 33:7 "Hear, Lord, the voice of Juda, and do visit his people: his hands shall contend for him, and you shall be a help from his enemies."

Tribe Symbol: LION, secondary are 3 LIONS, SCEPTER, GRAPEVINE.

Countries: Britain, Netherlands, Scotland, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Belgium

JUDA'S TRIBE LOCATION AROUND THE TABERNACLE: In Numbers 2, Juda is placed to the East of the Tabernacle, a Brigade Tribe whose Brigade emblem is Lion, but who also has secondary emblems of A three lions," and a sceptre.

g LION: THE LIVING BEING OF REVELATION 4:7 "Lion" represents one of God's four manifested Natures, specifically, the Physical Nature (or Mind). At the beginning of the Kingdom of World, the obsession of God= s children was for mastery of worldly powers. The Royal Lion was the leader who keynoted, set the tone, for the quest for physical experiences that were not possible in the previous kingdom in their glorified bodies.

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ISSACHAR / CANCER / BARTHOLOMEW

SECOND AGE OF KINGDOM OF WORLD (8,000BC - 6,000BC)

ISSACHAR - zIσσάχαρ [b. ca.1847 BC, Son of Lea] Ninth son of Jacob.

        The Phoenician/Greek basis for this name is Çσσα/issa, an exclamation of triumph over another's distress.

Birth: Gen 30:18; "God has given me my reward, because I gave my maid to my husband."

Blessing by Jacob at death: Gen 49:14; "Issachar has desired that which is good; resting between the allotted lands/estates. And having seen the resting place that it was good, and the land that it was fertile, he subjected his shoulder to labor, and became a husbandman."

Moses' blessing: Deut 33:18;  "Rejoice, Zabulon, in your going out, and Issachar in his tents. They shall utterly destroy the tribes (§θvη), and you shall call there, and there offer the sacrifice of righteousness; for the wealth of the sea shall suckle you, and so shall the marts of them that dwell by the sea-coast."

Tribe Symbol: LADEN-ASS

Countries: ?

TRIBE LOCATION AROUND THE TABERNACLE: Issachar is at the East of the Tabernacle as part of the Lion Brigade which Juda leads.

PLACE IN HISTORY: The age of Issachar coincides with the Zodiac age of Cancer. It was from about 8,000BC to 6,000BC. On the historical diagram it is midway between the beginning of the start of the Kingdom of World and the nadir of a cycle. It does not inaugurate the World kingdom, nor does it experience the very basest level that civilization can reach. It rests between those two.

NATURE OF THE AGE OF ISSACHAR: Being midway between the start of the World kingdom and its lowest point, civilization is deteriorating/degenerating. The physical realm had been mastered and it was here possible to gain the satisfaction of survival by one's own efforts. Food could be obtained by the raising of livestock. Nevertheless, relationships with enemies were terrible because violence was rampant. There was no compassion or charity or good will or fairness or any other facet of the Golden Rule.

        Moses' blessing says they shall utterly destroy the ethne. That word, ethne, is the most mistranslated word in the Bible, often into English as "gentiles," with a meaning of non-Jews. But it means ethnic group and race and sometimes means tribes. Since we know the Big Picture, and that God's children were foreigners in the World, we can assume that they were hated and assaulted from all sides. This passage only makes sense if we understand the word ethne to mean the race of Adam, or as we might think of them in this study, the tribes. In order to understand how they were utterly destroyed, look at the reciprocal age on the sine-wave diagram, the age of Capricorn. During that period, according to John's Revelation, Satan had been released just prior to that age, and was able to be somewhat active during it, and then about three fourths through that age Satan was destroyed by being cast into the fire. By Satan, the Bible is here speaking of the corpus of Satan, namely the Cain/Edom race who are called "Jews" in the N.T. So, during the age of Issachar, we can assume that a reciprocal activity occurred, in that members of the Christ found some rest and by their labors began to flourish, even offering sacrifice of righteousness, and then were subsequently eliminated about three fourths through the age. According to Moses, they must have received considerable blessing from God for the wealth of the sea to suckle them unto prosperity. But it couldn't last.

        Now that we can see how events are patterned; whatever happens to the positive race in World will happen to the negative race in Heaven, and vice versa. Therefore, if Christ's race was permitted a period of success in the age of Issachar/Cancer, then we can expect Satan's race to have a similar degree of success during the age of Manasse/Capricorn. What's fair for one is fair for the other.

        Consider that, with  the age of Cancer, we might think of the now-common disease which is an out-of-control degeneration of tissue in one's body. So it was that civilization had no restraints to prevent its slide into depravity.

ZODIAC AGE OF CANCER:  a parallels the Tribe Age of Issachar, from about 8,000BC to 6,000BC. This Zodiac Sign is considered "Cardinal" and a "Water" sign by astrologers. Its symbol is a crab. It is generally described as an influence which grasps for material possessions. The Cancer Age is part of the quarter cycle significated by the Lion which represents the Physical Nature of God. In this location on the sine wave diagram of history, it is the last age prior to Gemini in which God reintroduces His Spirit into His people. So, during this age of Cancer, material lusts and worldly mastery are nearly unrestrained. Like the disease of cancer, the people are degenerating to the lowest depths of depravity and wickedness possible. The Christ influence operated during the first three-quarters of the age but only to a minimal extent.

DISCIPLE AGE OF BARTHOLOMEW: We are not given details of the call of this disciple by Jesus. He is mentioned in lists recorded in Mat 10:3, Mark 3:18, Luke 6:14, and Acts 1:13. But he is not mentioned elsewhere in the N.T. We are left to assume that he made little or nothing of the ministry to which he had been ordained. The age that he represents was nothing more than a continued descent into materialism and depravity, a disease that seemed unstoppable.

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ZABULON / GEMINI / PHILIP

THIRD AGE IN KINGDOM OF WORLD 6,000BC - 4,000BC

ZABULON - Ζαβoυλώv [b. ca.1846 BC, Son of Lea] Tenth son of Jacob.

        The Phoenician/Greek basis for this name is twofold: ζά/dza is a more ancient Greek word which in Koiné became δια/dia meaning "through," and βoυλή/boule which means "will, determination of the gods, council, design." So, Lea is exclaiming that it is through her deliberate determination that she is the primary wife of Jacob, by virtue of bearing six sons. We must imagine that Jacob's household was not a peaceful place with these two women rivals!

Birth: Gen 30:20; "God has given me a good gift in this time; my husband will choose me, for I have born him six sons."

Blessing by Jacob at death: Gen 49:13; "Zabulon shall dwell on the coast, and shall be by a haven of ships, and shall extend to Sidon."

Moses blessing: Deut 33:18;  "Rejoice, Zabulon, in your going out, and Issachar in his tents. They shall utterly destroy the tribes (§θvη), and you shall call there, and there offer the sacrifice of righteousness; for the wealth of the sea shall suckle you, and so shall the marts of them that dwell by the sea-coast."  

Tribe Symbol: SHIP

Countries: England, Holland, Scotland, Denmark, Netherlands

ZABULON'S TRIBE LOCATION AROUND THE TABERNACLE: In Numbers 2, God places Zabulon to the East in the Juda Brigade under the banner of the Lion emblem.

ZABULON'S PLACE IN HISTORY: The age of Zabulon coincides with the age of Gemini, from about 6,000BC to 4,000BC. Here is the start of our own Bible history with the appearance of Adam. The Genesis story summarizes the ancient creation story in only two chapters, telling it as a simple overview that would suffice for God's children.

NATURE OF THE AGE OF ZABULON: As I read the blessings, my mind quickly turns to the Great Flood of Noe, which happened around the end of the Zabulon age. The tribe-emblem for Zabulon is a Ship, and I think of the Ark. The age of Zabulon was on the coast, the lower edge of the descending path of God's children, after which a Flood happened and an Ark saved one family to repropagate the race. Moses' joint blessing for the two brothers brings a slightly different application of the destruction to mind here than for the age of Issachar. At the Great Flood, it is again the ethnic Adamic race which gets destroyed. Let's review the story of Adam and his descendants during this age of Zabulon/Gemini. The story starts with them in Edem, a paradisaical garden that was the Pamir Plateau up in the mountains north of Pakistan, in what is now Tajikistan. Here is the only place in the world where major rivers are born running in all four compass directions. From the Pamir (Edem) the family left to the eastward into the Tarim Pendi basin of western China, a large basin surrounded by mountains, with the Tien Shan mountains at the north edge. In recent years marvelously-preserved ancient white race mummies, of thousands of years ago, have been discovered at the base of the Tien Shan mountains. See the book Mummies of Urumchi, by E.W. Barber. After  the Great Flood, Noe's descendants migrated westward, with Sem's progeny settling for a while in the Punjab region of northwest India, where the Sanskrit Upanishads still witness to the presence of our ancient ancestors there, giving us some hint of their spiritual ideas. Brother Cain's family had already left the far east prior to the Flood to settle in Mesopotamia. Sem's descendants would be led from the Punjab, by Heber, to Sumer around 2,600BC where the Cain race had settled.. Japhet's descendants migrated into Europe as Phoenicians, and Cham's people went to Egypt to found the Pharaoic dynasties. But, with this information we have gone far beyond the age of Gemini. Jacob mentions the coast and the city of Sidon. The area of the Promised Land allotted to Zabulon was from the Sea of Galilee to the west almost to the coast, and northward toward Sidon, but Aser and Nephthali were yet to the north of Zabulon, and even they did not reach as far as Sidon. So, during this tribe's sojourn in the Promised Land, Jacob's prophecy was not fulfilled. That leaves us to look at the age of Zabulon for something that looks like fulfillment. That the Tarim Pendi Basin was flooded and Adam's people (Noe) forced to leave might be applicable, but that did not happen until the very end of Gemini and into the first part of Taurus. Perhaps my speculation is inappropriate, but I don= t know what else to conjecture.

ZODIAC AGE OF GEMINI: parallels the Tribe Age of Zabulon, from about 6,000BC to 4,000BC.The symbol for Gemini is the Roman Numeral II. Gemini means "heavenly twins." It was during this age that the story of Adam begins. Eve had two children, the first fathered by Satan and the second fathered by Adam. These two brothers represent two races of men in eternal contest. The descendants from Adam have native instincts of goodness, fairness, honesty, compassion, benevolence, peace, Godliness, Righteousness, and the Golden Rule. The descendants from Cain have instincts directly opposite those just listed. Jesus, in John 8:44, says their primary instincts are lying and murdering.

Most important to Christians is the fact that God re-empowered His children with His Spirit about 7,500 years ago in this age of Gemini, thereby enabling us, His Spirit Offspring, to struggle upwards along the difficult ascent toward Him and perfect Righteousness. Only the act of spiritual-yielding can counter the intellectual-bondage of knowing good and evil. In other words, only the Spiritual Nature can balance or correct the Intellectual Nature which was perverted at the time of Man's "fall" from Holiness. Fortunately, it is ONLY God's special race who are born with Spiritual Minds, through which God expresses Himself. But, alas, the dark side of our Physical, Emotional, and Mental natures (aka human nature) is difficult to overcome. That is the same as to say, "The Beast is difficult to overcome." Each of the three Natures, Physical, Emotional, Mental, have six wings/aspects, so it is that "mark of the Beast" which we war against. It is a war which we are born into. Jesus said, "Don't think I came to bring peace; I did not come to bring peace, but a sword." In the Gospel of Thomas, #16, "Jesus said, 'Men think, perhaps, that it is peace which I have come to cast upon the world. They do not know that it is dissension which I have come to cast upon the earth: fire, sword, and war. For their will be five in a house: three will be against two, and two against three, the father against the son, and the son against the father. And they will stand solitary.'" Obviously most Christians choose to follow a Jesus of their own imaging rather than this one who leads His people against Satan, His eternal foe. Christians today sing about "peace on earth," without realizing they are deserting our Lord's Service. GEMINI = twins/battle/war/eternal-contest/two-opponent-races! Christ versus Satan. Our war began in Gemini.

DISCIPLE AGE OF PHILIP: parallels Tribal age of Zabulon. Philip was another from Bethsaida, who had gone to Bethany to hear John the Baptist. It was there that Jesus called him. (Jn 1:43) Philip then told Nathanael. According the the Genealogies of the Twelve Apostles, Philip was of the Tribe of Zabulon. Appropriately then, the age of Philip on our chart coincides with that of Zabulon. Philip was certainly an active evangelist to the lost sheep of Israel. Acts 21:9 says he had four unmarried daughters who had the gift of prophecy. So, here in the age of Gemini, we are seeing a renewal of Spiritual life after several ages of its decline.

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RUBEN / TAURUS / ANDREW

RUBEN - {Ρoυβ¬ v [b. 1852 BC, Son of Lea] First son of Jacob.

        The Phoenician/Greek root for this name comes from Õoβα/rhoba which means dress or garment. For Lea this son is something to cover her humiliation, something to make her more lovable to her husband.

Birth: Gen 29:31-32; "When the Lord God saw that Lea was hated, he opened her womb; but Rachel was barren. And Lea conceived and bore a son to Jacob, and she called his name Ruben, saying, 'Because the Lord has looked on my humiliation, and has given me a son, now my husband will love me.'"

Blessing by Jacob at death: Gen 49:3; "Ruben, you are my first-born, you my strength, and the first of my children, hard to be endured, and self-willed. You were insolent [wanton, extravagant] like water, not as a boil, for you went to the bed of your father; then you defiled the bed, whereupon you went up."

Moses blessing: De 33:6; "Let Ruben live, and not die, and let him be many in number."

Tribe Symbol: MAN, secondary symbol is WATER.

Countries: Denmark, Greece, Iceland

        After Rachel's death, Ruben had sex with Balla, a stepmother, who was Rachel's maid and also the mother of his brothers, Dan & Nephthali. Thus Ruben lost favor, and his primo-geniture birthright to the descendants of Joseph (Gen 49:4; I Chron 5:1)

Ruben's 4 sons: Enoch, Phallus, Asron, & Charmi (Ex 6:14)

Ruben was the first-born and according to the law of primo-geniture, the inheritance of the estate is due to him. But, what is that inheritance which Ruben lost because of his insolence? It was the estate God has prepared for His people, that great vineyard called the Kingdom of Heaven. Now, look at the sinewave diagram. Jacob's twelve sons were born around the 1850's BC, early in the age of Aries/Symeon. The age of Ruben was the age preceding that. It was past. It was not possible for the age of Ruben to inherit the Kingdom of Heaven. So, this is why the primary blessing was given to Ephraim and Manasse, who would be the first two ages of the Kingdom of Heaven.

RUBEN'S TRIBE LOCATION AROUND THE TABERNACLE: In Numbers 2, God places Ruben to the South. Ruben is a Brigade tribe, namely the leader of a three tribe group on the South side of the tabernacle. The next two tribes mentioned are Symeon and Gad, so they are part of the Ruben Brigade. Ruben's symbol is Man, signifying God's Man/family in which the Spirit of God dwells in each member. It is God's Man (Adam) who is being revived at the time of the age of Ruben following the nadir of the cycle. Man is one of the Living Beings of Rev. 4:7, representing God's spiritual nature which would be expressed through His family during this quarter cycle that begins with the Zodiac age of Taurus (Bull), which represents God's emotional nature as another of the Living Beings in Rev. 4:7.

 g MAN: THE LIVING BEING OF REVELATION 4:7. Man represents one facet of God's Mind (vooς = the active principle of all manifestation). The Living Being, Man, is one of God's four manifested Natures, specifically, the Spiritual Nature. The other three natures are Lion/Physical, Eagle/Intellect, and Bull/Emotional. These Living Beings are the powers which call forth the four horses of Rev. 6 as forces which influence all the manifestation. Each of these Beings/Natures/Powers/Influences is, in its turn, relatively dominant over its specific quarter of the historical cycle, which is a dynamic process. In the case of Ruben, the Man/Spiritual Nature of God is to be expressed through the selected race from Sem, a son of Noe, during the6,000 year quarter-cycle from 4,000BC to 2,000AD. This Spiritual influence, beginning with the age of Ruben, turns God's family upward in a climb toward eventual reunion with our Father, our Source. The Spiritual Nature is the influence needed in order to counter the powerful negative energy of World and the Emotional influence of Taurus, so that we are instinctively compelled to focus upon Him who calls His prodigals homeward. The Bible relates the history of God's Men during the past 6,000 years, the quarter begun with Ruben. It is OUR story, and it is about a spiritual struggle. The four Natures or Minds of God are mentioned as four Living Beings in Revelation 4:7, as four Living Creatures in Ezekiel 1:10, and as Seraphs in Isaiah 6:2. They also appear as the Brigade Emblems of Juda (Lion), Ephraim (Bull), Ruben (Man), and Dan (Eagle). Their emblems today still serve to signify Royal Britain (Lion of Juda), English people (Bull of Ephraim), Denmark and Greece (Man of Ruben), and Germany & U.S. (Eagle of Dan). The four Natures/Minds of God comprise the essential substance of all that exists! In Ezekiel we see the four symbols in the wheels which represent the cycles of time, which are empowered by the Spirit of Life. God lives through His four Natures.

RUBEN'S PLACE IN HISTORY: The age of Ruben coincides with the age of Taurus (Bull), from about 4,000 BC until the birth of Abram about 2,000 BC. Consider this location on the sine-wave diagram; it begins at the very nadir of a cycle and it is the first age in which there will be spiritual progress instead of decline. The energy has just changed. After six ages of decline from "spiritual life" into decadence and worldly materialism, here begins a change of direction toward spirituality. God's children had become destitute, hated, foreign, and naked victims of Satan's oppression. Ruben is like a robe covering over that shame and humiliation. With this change of direction, there is a notion that now God, the husband, will begin to love His wife, the body of Christ called "Israel." The statement made in Gen 29:31 might be reworded to say, "When the Lord God saw that His people of Israel were hated, He blessed them; but it was not yet time for Rachel's heavenly age. And an age was born, called Ruben, because the Lord saw His people's shame and provided a cover for their humiliation. Perhaps now, God will begin to love His children." Note that first-born Ruben's position is to begin the ascending path toward reunion with God, and then last-born Benjamin is positioned at the very ending of that ascending path. With Benjamin, Rachel, the most loved wife, died. The other half of the cycle, following the age of Benjamin, is the wicked descending path away from God, back into world materialism. None of Rachel's children represent that descent.

NATURE OF THE AGE OF RUBEN: We look at Jacob's blessing for his description of the nature of his first-born as defining the nature of this age of Ruben. Jacob says, "hard to be endured, and self-willed. You were insolent..." God's children would certainly be hard to endure for those children of Cain who try to rule the World under their lord and father, Satan. We, of God, were given free-will along with insolent attitudes that make us difficult to enslave. The age of Ruben is very important, for in it Noe's flood cle