Prologue: This article, written by a Christian scholar who has written some books on Christian theology, is essentially written as a challenge to certain well meaning but foolish Christians. These many Christians show their ignorance of actual evidence in their disrespect about the astrology and geomancy traditions of the ancient cultures. They do not realise that the Holy Bible is full of references to men of God practising astrology and geomancy. Read on.

With respect to the implications of archaeological texts in the Middle East, one most startling exciting research finding is that the prophecies of the Biblical Book of Revelation could be found in ancient Babylonian cylinder texts!

Christian writers (Fleming, 1981; Seiss,1972; Bullinger,1964; Adam, 1937) have noted that the Bible uses astrological terms favourably. Many well meaning but ignorant Christians misleadingly view astrology as demonic. They are quite ignorant of Hebrews traditions which state that it was God who created the Zodiac and that the great Biblical patriarch Abraham invented Hebrew astrology.

• In the Midrash Pesikta Rabbati, we are told that the planets and signs of the zodiac were among God's first creations. .. (Janice Barsky 2001)

• early sources, including the Hellenistic Jewish writer Eupolemus, credited Abraham with the invention of astrology. Likewise, Abraham is said to have written The Book of Formation (the Sefer Yetzirah) (Janice Barsky 2001)

ASTROLOGY IS HIGHLY BIBLICAL! Many are naive, as they do not realise the rich Hebrew traditions that the holy men of God practised astrology and geomancy. This above medieval Christian picture actually is the same picture as the ancient Chinese word for "Feng", wind.

The Two Books

Traditions stated that the Hebrews received two sets of revelation from God, one the Holy Bible and the other a "lost astrological book". Psalm 19 indicates that the ancient Hebrews were guided by two books of revelation. The second book... The law of the Lord... (Psalm 19:7 onwards) is connected with:

• the heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament shewed forth his handywork. Day unto day uttereth speech and night unto night sheweth knowledge .. (Psalm 19:1-6)

Psalm 19:1-6 refers to a second book on astrological knowledge! The astrological knowledge actually prophesied of the coming Christ (Bullinger, 1964. Appendix 12, Companion Bible). Some scholars propose that the New Testament Book of Revelation is and End-time version of this second book of astrology.

Read the Opening Chapter of Book of Revelation

There is new evidence that the prophecies of the Biblical Book of Revelation originated from ancient Babylonian astrological prophecies! Look carefully at this passage of Revelation:

• I am Alpha and Omega… in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle… His voice as the sound of many waters… And he had in his right hand seven stars and out of his mouth went a sharp two edged sword and his countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength… (Revelation 1:13-20).

Of significance about the real origins of the prophecies of the Book of Revelation is an ancient cylinder seal from Babylon-Assyria, circa 870 BC (Cook 1964 Vol.1 p.577), illustrated below.

Figure 446, Cook 1964. Cyliner depicting Ramman the Bellowing One

Ramman the Bellowing One

Cook (1964 Vol.1 p.576-577) made this significant comment:

• Adad was connected with the bull long before he became known throughout the Greek and Romnan world as the Zeus or Jupiter of Heliopolis. In the Babylonian and Assyrian religion Adad was also called "Ramman", an epithet which, being the participle or the word 'ramman', "to bellow or roar", denotes properly "the Bellowing or Roaring One". Now Ramman is commonly represented on the cylinders as standing on the back of a bull (fig 446) or as planting one foot on a bull..

Amazing Correspondence between Revelation and Babylonian cylinder seal of "Ramman the Bellowing One"

Note the great similarities of the features of the above ancient cylinder seal from Babylon-Assyria, circa 870 BC (Cook 1964 Vol.1 p.577) to the opening passage of the Book of Revelation:

The statistical probability of Revelation and the Babylonian seal having so many correspondence is 1 in 128, i.e. it is very significant at 0.0078 probability.

The statistical analysis means that the Revelation prophecies originated from ancient Babylonian astrological prophecies!

A number of Biblical scholars have correctly pointed out that the Book of Revelation is full of astrological symbolisms. The ancient traditions are right in that there was a continuous transmission of astrological lore from Adam through Enoch, Seth and Abraham in ancient Mesopotamia to the ancient Hebrew-Chinese-Babylonian circumpolar astronomy and astrology.

It is foolish for many to deny that the holy men of God study the astronomy and astrology of the sky

Both Chinese and Hebrew astrology emphasise similar star systems of the circumpolar North Pole region. The "7 stars" in both Revelation 1 and the babylonian cylinder seal are the Big Bear, Ursa Major, which the Chinese astrology called "Pei Tuo", the central star constellation in Chinese astrology and Feng Shui.

The Hebrew Prophets in Babylon

The prophecies of God were originally revealed to Adam, circa 4,000 BC, who was the same person as Emperor Fu Hsi, circa 2950 BC, the first world emperor in Chinese legends. These prophecies were handed down to Noah who survived the Great Flood with his family of 8. The prophecies were transmitted to other descendants like Shem the son of Noah. Shem, whom Hebrew traditions equate with Melchisedek king of Jerusalem, was actually the same person as Zeus, the Greek king of gods, and also the Chinese Yellow Emperor Huang Di, circa 2650 BC. It is very foolish of Christians not to realise that the figures in the ancient mythologies, despite some differences, are actualy the same ancient heroes!

What many Christians do not realise is that these ancient prophecies of God, often associated with astrology, were floating around among the ancient cultures in many forms. These prophecies of God were written down by the Babylonians onto the cylinder seals. It was because the Babylonians were aware of these prophecies that God gave Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon prophetic dreams, which were interpreted by Daniel the famous Hebrew prophet. It has not occured to Christians that God will give prophecies, especially such great world shaking prophecies, only to the "men of God" and that, despite the erratic typical Christian interpretation, Nebuchadnezzar was a "man of God"..

Both Hebrew and Babylonian prophets were actually discussing these same prophecies which have much astrological connections. There are much many immature Christians have to learn!

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