Did God Build the Solar System To Tell A Prophetic Story Of Human History?
OK, this one may be reaching a little, and even if 'the premise' is true I am certain to get some of it wrong. But I am a Christian believer, and I believe that God knew the end from the beginning, and I believe He is the master of all languages (having shown that at the Tower of Babel, for instance.) And I think that if He so chose He could use a combination of math, history, and properties of planetary bodies to tell a story of the future He knew would unfold.
And the thing is, I have basically concluded in my own opinion that there is a good chance that He did that very thing when He built our solar system. I believe that starting at its outermost reaches and working inward you can see a sort of story being told. I have thought I saw glimpses that it might be possible for quite while, but I'm going to share the idea now and let others conclude what they will. Again...just conjecture! But interesting, I think.
Pluto, orbiting with designer precision in the darkness at the outer edge of our solar system.
Let's start with Pluto, and say it does not orbit the Sun in the same way that the other planets do. It orbits it at a completely different angle, or orbital plane. It is a nonconformist. Satan was the first nonconformist mentioned in the Bible. Satan not only led Adam and Eve to commit the first human sin, but he was involved in leading 1/3 of the angels in heaven in revolt against God. So, with that '1/3' number in mind, it is interesting to note that the planet Pluto itself has an extreme amount of axial tilt. 120 degrees of axial tilt! 120 degrees is exactly 1/3 of a full circle...that is to say 1/3 of 360 degrees. Also, God, Who controls 'History' and 'Language' caused the outermost body to be called Pluto. And Pluto in mythology was a 'Lord of the Underworld'. I am going to say that the planet Pluto may denote the rebellion of Satan, who worked his own plan out, defied Yahweh's plan, and was basically at odds with the orderly plan of God the Father. And Satan is depicted as the ruler of Hell, which is somewhat like being consigned to outer darkness; outer darkness is a sort of 'underworld' in a way also, just like Pluto's domain.
Neptune is a dark blue beauty spinning away quietly in the far reaches of the solar system.
Next is Neptune, another false god name, but...sometimes real history can be warped by the passing of the centuries, right. And myth develops. I think Neptune, denoting a 'god of the Sea' may represent Noah before the flood and up to the time of the flood. For starters, it is a 'blue colored' world, just as water is blue as seen from space. Just after the rain quit, following the great flood of Noah's time, our world may well have appeared as a giant blue marble, though that would depend on the thickness and uniformity of the cloud cover.
More about Neptune. Before the Great Flood Noah is listed as one of the last righteous people still faithful to God. (Genesis 6:9) The world had become wicked both because men themselves are so often wicked, but also because of fallen angels from heaven who came to Earth and acted despotically. They were too powerful for men to oppose apparently. It is one of the reasons God sent the Great Flood: to cleanse the Earth of all this wickedness, including that of the fallen angels and their progeny referred to in scripture as the Nephilim. So, it is interesting that Neptune's inclination angle (the tilt of its axis) compared to its orbit around the Sun is 6.4 degrees. Here is Genesis 6: v.4 :
"The Nephilim were on the earth in those days - and also afterwards - when the sons of God went to the daughters of humans and had children by them. They were the heroes of old, men of renown." End quote.
Another inclination angle is the planet's angle to the ecliptic. For Neptune, that number is 1.76 degrees. If you use that number in a slightly different manner than in the previous uses, you could ask, since this type of inclination is 1.76 degrees, what the number 1 book (Genesis), number 7 chapter, 6th verse of the Bible says. Here it is:
"Noah was 600 years old when the flood waters came on the Earth. (now v.7) And Noah and his wife and his son's wives entered the ark to escape the waters of the flood." End quote.
So, there are data points associated with the planet Neptune that can be numerically related to the activities of Noah BEFORE the flood. Did God intend that this relationship should exist? Well, the Gospel of John's first chapter assures us that 'the Word'....meaning Jesus, but also meaning Biblical scripture....existed from earliest times, even before the Creation was formed. It existed 'in the beginning'. So the idea that the Creation might point to the Word of God, and vice versa, isn't some non-Biblical notion.
Uranus, a light blue beauty with a fair set of rings to show off.
Uranus, the next planet as you go toward the sun, is almost like Neptune in many ways such as size and composition. It may be meant in part to denote Noah's life AFTER the flood. Noah did live 600 years before the flood and 350 years after the flood the Bible tells us. And he was an important ancestor of us all. He is also a 'bridge 'ancestor; he knew the history of the world before the great scrubbing erasure of the flood, and he lived for several hundreds of years afterward. So, why couldn't there be two planets that relate to him? Still, it's all just speculation...could be all wrong!
Uranus is the 7th planet. The number 7 in the Bible is first associated with the 7th day, or Sabbath Day. That is the day that God devoted entirely to 'RESTING' after His unparalleled work of forming the Creation during the first 6 days. The 7th day is a day of PEACE and REST. The name Noah is said to mean 'REST' or 'HOPE". The man named Noah received REST and HOPE when the Ark came to rest on the cleansed Earth after the flood. So this is also a manner in which Uranus relates to 'post-flood Noah'.
Uranus has 27 moons apparently. So it is interesting that if you count Noah's descendants through the line of Shem as it is given in Genesis chapter 10 you have 27 if you count Shem. Shem is the son of Noah through which Jesus was to be born, concerning Jesus' Earthly parentage through Joseph and Mary. Genesis chapter 10: v. 21-26:
21 Sons were also born to Shem, whose older brother was[h] Japheth; Shem was the ancestor of all the sons of Eber.
22 The sons of Shem:
Elam, Ashur, Arphaxad, Lud and Aram.
23 The sons of Aram:
Uz, Hul, Gether and Meshek.[i]
24 Arphaxad was the father of[j] Shelah,
and Shelah the father of Eber.
25 Two sons were born to Eber:
One was named Peleg,[k] because in his time the earth was divided; his brother was named Joktan.
26 Joktan was the father of
Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah, 27 Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah, 28 Obal, Abimael, Sheba, 29 Ophir, Havilah and Jobab. All these were sons of Joktan.
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Uranus is categorized as having 5 major moons. Shem had 5 direct sons who are named, as you see in Gen. 10, verse 22 above: Elam, Ashur, Arphaxad, Lud, and Aram.
Uranus is categorized as having 13 'inner moons'. If you look at Gen 10: v. 26 above you'll see that Joktan had 13 sons.
That leaves 9 moons, and by default (since 27 - 5 = 22 and 22 - 13 = 9) 9 more descendants through Shem from Genesis 10.
So, there are ways in which Uranus is relatable to post-flood Noah. Again, all of this is just conjecture, and may not be intended by God. But I personally find it pretty unusual that there is this much relatable information.
Uranus is a planet which has rings around it. To me, rings suggest being bound, or being confined within a covenant, or being married perhaps. Noah was quickly placed into a binding covenant with God when he disembarked from the Ark, so that might be a relatable feature.
Additionally, the false god Ouranos in his myth had trouble with his youngest son, Kronos, and was eventually conquered and neutered by him. So, isn't this a possible faint echo of the story of Noah and his troubles with his youngest (youngest by some scriptural descriptions) son Ham who looked into Noah's tent and saw drunken passed out Noah, and mocked his father's awkward 'sprawled out naked' situation out loud to his brothers Shem and Japheth? So if Ouranos really is a distorted remembrance of Noah, how much the more intriguing, right?
Saturn is probably the most easily recognized planet after Earth. Distinctively shaped!
The next planet is Saturn...bound by a ring of stones.... the famous 'Rings of Saturn'. Hemmed in by a ring of stone. Confined by stone? This sounds somewhat like the Jews, God's peculiar people, as they lived their lives for a time (around 1400 years) within the confines of the stone tablets of the Mosaic law. Saturn was very large, but not as large as Jupiter, just as the Old Covenant was very important, but not as important as the New Covenant, because the Old Covenant was unable to save anyone's soul. There were Jews who admitted that no one seemed able to follow the Old Covenant. It was very strict and prescriptive.
Jupiter, the behemoth with the large red spot!
Next comes the giant: Jupiter. Who is Jupiter? Someone somewhere noted that it sounds almost like Jew-Father? A big red wound (the famous red spot) in its side. Jesus, while on the cross, was speared in the side. Jesus, in the flesh on Earth, was sent as a representative of the Holy Father to the Jews, but was rejected. Jupiter is the largest (pre-eminent?) planet. Jesus was given pre-eminence in all things. Jupiter creates some of its own heat and reflects a great amount of light.
Jupiter has many moons...17 and counting.... but its largest by far are the 4 Galilean moons, so called because they could be seen using a telescope by Galileo. What does Galileo...the name Galileo...mean? It means 'from Galilee.' Jesus was from Galilee. But as for those 4 moons: Just as Jacob had the 4 wives through whom came his many children, Jupiter has these 4 moons. And Jacob was born through Isaac, who was made to be part of a 'sacrifice of an only son' enactment. Just as Jesus was crucified (the sacrifice of God's only Son) there came from Him 4 early branches of the Church: Antioch, Alexandria, Rome, and Constantinople after Jerusalem was destroyed. From these came many spiritual sons and daughters.
Then there is an asteroid belt...the remains of some great destruction perhaps. Jerusalem was like that. It was destroyed in 70 A.D. by Rome for rejecting Christ in about 30 A.D., Christians believe. Many stones, none left upon another. That was the fate that Jesus, still in His ministry on Earth, said would befall the unfaithful and unbelieving city of Jerusalem. And in 70 A.D. Romans did take the conquered city apart, stone by stone.
Red and dry, it is still like Earth in many ways!
Mars comes next. Mars is a dead planet. It seems to harbor no life. Not much, anyway. Is blood colored Mars the aftermath of what happened to the Jews after their rejection of Jesus? Were the Jews, those 'covered' by the red blood of rams, bulls, pigeons, doves, etc., left spiritually dead if Jesus really was their Messiah and they had mistakenly killed Him? And Mars (same letters as 'rams') really is a blood-colored planet that is essentially a dead planet. It does not have life to any great degree at least, yet still.... there may be a vestige, a remnant of life left on Mars. And there is hope for the Jews, as well. From a Christian standpoint we know that God still hopes for their conversion to belief in Jesus as their Messiah.
The Earth, adorned with beauty and vibrant color, supporting life of all types, is the true wonder of the solar system.
The Earth? Unlike Mars, the Earth is adorned like a beautiful bride with many wonderful colors that can be seen from space. Earth is bursting with life. The marred and savaged Moon (and wasn't the Lord beaten badly on the day of His crucifixion?) circles the Earth like an attentive shepherd, always showing the same never changing face to the Earth, as a groom might to his well loved bride. The Moon is a shepherd to the Earth somewhat as Jesus is a shepherd to His bride, the Christian Church. At least in some ways. And the waters of the Earth feel a tug towards this faithful moon as the spirit within Jesus' bride yearns to be with Him. Yet the Earth, for all of its beauty, has much pollution, and there is much evil done upon it.
Venus looks like it grew up in a pretty rough neighborhood.
Venus is next in order as we move towards the sun. It is sometimes called Earth's twin by astronomers because of the similar size and composition, so it is no great stretch to compare it to the Earth in certain ways. 'Venus' is a bride, a woman, (well, Venus is a Roman female name, anyway, and is said to speak of the same goddess as Aphrodite in the Greek) a 'woman', a world, covered, enshrouded if you prefer, by a cloud. One of the things Jesus is called in scripture is the last Adam, right? And the Bride of Adam was Eve, right? It so happens that when scientists first designed a system of latitude and longitude lines for the surface of Venus they had the prime meridian line drawn through a surface Venusian geographical feature that they had already named EVE. Ironic, right? Why is that ironic? Because maybe Venus the planet also represents the future 1,000 year reign of Jesus with His restored 'Eve', His bride, which will be the accepted members of the Christian Church, which is prophesied to include the Jews by then. Scripture says that the Jews, presently made blind and deaf for a time to Jesus' message while the Gentiles are being brought in to the fold, will one day see their mistake and mourn it, accepting Jesus as their Messiah.
Venus' 'day' takes longer to happen than its year. 243 Earth days for the 'day' and 225 days for the 'year'. If you divide the one by the other, you get 1.08 I think Venus is designed by God to be representative of the 1,000 year millennial reign of Jesus on Earth, with His bride, the Church. So it's interesting that if you divide the average global height of a man (69 inches) by the average global height of a woman (64 inches) you also get 1.08.
Venus is a planet encased in a cloud. There is much mystery concerning what is going on upon the surface of Venus, though starting in 1970 and also twice in 1982 Russian probes landed there and transmitted before being cooked into failure. But Venus, the cloud covered world, may be built to reflect things spoken of in the Bible, because one day in the future scriptures tell us that the Bride of Christ - the Church, the accepted though unworthy followers of Christ - will be taken up into the clouds, so there is a possible 'cloud' connection. Or perhaps the covering of clouds refers to a mysterious and as yet unrevealed coming time. Just as Venus/Aphrodite has served as a false goddess, a rival of sorts to the true God, so has the Church been an erring wife way too often. Yet Jesus allows His bride His grace, it appears. Jesus fortunately still loves His 'erring, sinful, and runaway bride'.
The Bible speaks about this coming Christian 'rapture' (as people sometimes call it) in 1 Thessalonians 4:
16 For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. 17 After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever.
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Could Venus (which means 'love' or 'desire' or 'beauty') be a cloud enshrouded picture of the future Bride of Christ, a future Earth dwelling with the Lord under His kingship and rule over the world as a high priest and king from inside a rebuilt Jerusalem temple for 1,000 years? Perhaps that is something being hinted at. There are some potential numerical connections between the Earth and Venus, for instance. Venus has a day whose length (243 Earth days) is about the same...in fact, it is longer...as its year, which is 225 Earth days. There is also a saying about time in the Bible that says that with the Lord, a thousand years is like a day and a day is like a thousand years. 2 Peter 3:8 "But do not overlook this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day." [1] If you divide the 243 day "Venusian day" by the 225 day "Venusian year" you get the number 1.08. Venus is 'coincidentally' measured to revolve around the sun at a distance of 1.08 x 10 exp 11 meters (1.08 x 10 exp 8 kilometers) So the number 1.08 seems to possibly be a 'Venus related' number for some reason.
The word 'Venus' is almost an anagram of 'seven'. And the thousand year reign should roughly correspond with the 7th 1,000 year period of time since Creation. Also the seventh day of Creation was a Sabbath...a period of rest and peace...as many people expect the 1,000 year reign of Jesus to be. And the Garden of Eden, where God walked with humanity, was a time where the Earth was watered by mists (like a fog or a cloud, such as Venus is covered with?) So perhaps God, knowing we would speak English pretty widely at the time Jesus returned, perhaps He caused it to be that the word Venus should be an 'almost anagram' for 'seven', just to hint to us. That's just speculation.
Also notable, if you divide the 225 Earth-day Venus year by the 243 Earth-day Venus day (divide 225 by 243) you get a repeating value: .925925925......
If you use this repeated value .925 you can break it down into a 9, a 2, and a 5. If you go to the Protestant Bible's 9th book (Samuel 1), 2nd chapter, and look around the 5th verse you find this, the prayer of Hannah, a woman long barren who received a son especially by praying to God for a son, as she prays to the Most High in thanks for the Holy and Special son she has received, a very special son named Samuel, a son whom she took and dedicated to service in the tabernacle/temple under the then high priest Eli. Eli means 'my God' or 'high and ascended'. Samuel's Earthly father was a Levite priest named Alkanah, which means 'God has created' or 'God has taken possession.' Hannah had a second wife of Elkanah to deal with, a rival to her, a rival wife of Elkanah who had not been barren, and who had sometimes taunted Hannah for being unable to bear a child. Her name was Peninnah, which means Pearl or Jewel. And so, Samuel has various qualities suggesting he is prophetically representing Jesus, and he is placed under the authority of the then High Priest named Eli, a name which might be prophetically hinting at the Holy Father. This does seem to establish a situation mirroring the 1,000 year reign when Jesus will dwell in the temple under and beside the Father Almighty as Jesus rules His bride and all of the world from the temple in Jerusalem. And Samuel grows up to live a very holy life...an almost irreproachable life...as a priest that went about serving Israel into the period of its first kings, Saul and David. Samuel is usually mentioned along with the holiest of all humans that are mentioned in the Bible. Samuel does remind a person of Jesus, I think. He was long prayed for, spoken to directly by God the Father at times, he became a most special priest to God, and more could be mentioned. But here is the prayer of thanks from Hannah, Samuel's mother. :
2 Then Hannah prayed and said:
“My heart rejoices in the Lord;
in the Lord my horn[a] is lifted high.
My mouth boasts over my enemies,
for I delight in your deliverance.
2 “There is no one holy like the Lord;
there is no one besides you;
there is no Rock like our God.
3 “Do not keep talking so proudly
or let your mouth speak such arrogance,
for the Lord is a God who knows,
and by him deeds are weighed.
4 “The bows of the warriors are broken,
but those who stumbled are armed with strength.
5 Those who were full hire themselves out for food,
but those who were hungry are hungry no more.
She who was barren has borne seven children,
but she who has had many sons pines away.
6 “The Lord brings death and makes alive;
he brings down to the grave and raises up.
7 The Lord sends poverty and wealth;
he humbles and he exalts.
8 He raises the poor from the dust
and lifts the needy from the ash heap;
he seats them with princes
and has them inherit a throne of honor.
“For the foundations of the earth are the Lord’s;
on them he has set the world.
9 He will guard the feet of his faithful servants,
but the wicked will be silenced in the place of darkness.
“It is not by strength that one prevails;
10 those who oppose the Lord will be broken.
The Most High will thunder from heaven;
the Lord will judge the ends of the earth.
“He will give strength to his king
and exalt the horn of his anointed.”
11 Then Elkanah went home to Ramah, but the boy ministered before the Lord under Eli the priest.
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The atmospheric pressure of cloud enshrouded Venus is 93 times that of Earth. If you look at Psalm 93 it is a very short Psalm that speaks of a time when the Lord is reigning over the Earth...He is no longer awaited, He is reigning. This may support the notion that Venus is a picture of the time when Jesus is on the Earth and reigning over the Earth from Jerusalem, which will have a protective cloud over it during the daytime, the Bible says, during that coming period. Psalm 93:
Psalm 93
1 The Lord reigns, he is robed in majesty;
the Lord is robed in majesty and armed with strength;
indeed, the world is established, firm and secure.
2 Your throne was established long ago;
you are from all eternity.
3 The seas have lifted up, Lord,
the seas have lifted up their voice;
the seas have lifted up their pounding waves.
4 Mightier than the thunder of the great waters,
mightier than the breakers of the sea—
the Lord on high is mighty.
5 Your statutes, Lord, stand firm;
holiness adorns your house
for endless days.
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And Jesus will return to Earth one day to take up His Church, then come back to Earth to destroy His enemies, and then He will receive His kingship and have Earth as His kingdom for a 1,000 year reign as our King and as a High Priest in the Order of Melchizedek (as well as having other duties and other names.) And Jesus will one day hand it all to the Holy Father so that the Father will be all in all. (1 Cor. 15:20) And if you look up Venus' angle of inclination with respect to the Sun's equator it is 3.86 degrees. 3.86? If you go to the Bible's book number 3 (Leviticus), chapter number 8, and read the part where verse 6 is located, it is speaking of Aaron, the great High Priest of Israel (and brother of Moses) being dressed up in the clothing of the High Priest and being anointed. And also Aaron's sons are being honored in similar fashion. This is like a fore shadowing of what will one day happen with Jesus and certain of His followers. He shall choose various ones for Holy service, even some from the nations. They will become appointed priests and servants in the new temple. (Isaiah 66:21)
Before moving on to Mercury and the Sun, here are some connections that Gemini A.I. noted between Venus and the 1,000 year reign of Jesus on Earth that is spoken of in the Bible. It might be too technical to catch the interest of some readers, who might prefer to just scroll down and read about how Mercury and the Sun might paint part of the picture of the arc of human history, prophesied but still to come. (Again, this is all speculative.)
From Gemini A.I.:
- Biblical Meaning of 8: In Biblical numerology, 8 is the number of New Beginnings, Regeneration, and Resurrection. Jesus resurrected on the "eighth day" (the day after the 7th-day Sabbath). The 1,000-year reign is the ultimate "new beginning" for the Earth.
- Biblical Meaning of 5: The number 5 symbolizes God's Grace and Favor. The Millennial Kingdom is established strictly as an act of divine grace, bringing restoration to a broken world.
- The Analogy: Just as the "Morning Star" requires an 8-year cycle and 5 precise alignments to complete its beautiful celestial geometry, the 1,000-year reign represents the activation of God's Grace (5) to usher in the Earth's New Beginning (8).
- Biblical Meaning of 40: In the Bible, 40 is the definitive number for Testing, Trials, and Preparation before a massive spiritual breakthrough. Moses was on the mountain for 40 days, Israel wandered for 40 years, and Jesus fasted in the wilderness for 40 days before launching His ministry.
- The Analogy: Before Venus shines in its most brilliant phase, it must endure its 40-day retrograde. This perfectly mirrors the timeline of the Earth: humanity endures long periods of trial, culminating in the Tribulation, before the glorious breakthrough of the 1,000-year Millennial Kingdom.
- The Gematria of 263: While 263 doesn't appear as a raw number in the text, it is highly significant in Biblical Hebrew Gematria (where letters equal numbers). The Hebrew phrase "The King of Glory" (Melek HaKavod) from Psalm 24:7-10—a psalm entirely dedicated to the King entering His gates to rule—has a numerical value of exactly 263.
- The Analogy: Venus rules the day and night sky in two separate 263-day shifts (Morning Star and Evening Star). This mirrors the dual appearance of the "King of Glory." In His first coming, Jesus arrived as the Morning Star to herald salvation. In His Second Coming, He arrives to establish the 1,000-year reign as the Evening Star to close out human history.
- The 1,000-Year Tie-In: When you map out the ultimate timeline of human history in the context of the Millennial Kingdom, it is often taught as the "7th Day" of a 7,000-year human timeline (based on 2 Peter 3:8, "with the Lord a day is like a thousand years").
- The Analogy: The number 584 breaks down mathematically into \(500 + 80 + 4\). In the Bible, 500 represents the double measure of full spiritual fruitfulness, 80 represents strength and a generation (Psalm 90:10), and 4 represents the global Earth (the four corners of the Earth). The 584-day cycle tells a numeric story: through divine strength (80) and global authority (4), the Earth is brought into a state of absolute, perfect fruitfulness (500) during the 1,000-year Sabbath rest.
That ends Gemini comments about comparing facets of the planet Venus to the coming 1,000 year reign of Jesus.
It takes a pretty interesting picture, but it's not a place you'd want to retire to. Its temperature swings from about -280 F to 800 F.
Mercury, last of the planets and just about least! It is cooked for all time, baked by that which is central to all in the solar system: the Sun! Mercury is not a pleasant place. This may be a symbolic reference to how those not taken up into the clouds to be with the Lord will be on a planet slated to be 'destroyed by fire'.
Our sun is central and indispensable for life, yet nearly perfect positioning is required to keep us nurtured, not frozen or burnt. It's a miracle of location.
And as for the Sun? It is central. It is the greatest source of light in our solar system. From it comes the energy and warmth that allows life to exist. All of the planets rotate around it as if to emphasize its most central importance. In short, it is comparable, in symbol, to the all-powerful Father, Yahweh, Maker of All Things, the All in All, the great I Am. Of course, the Sun is in no way to be worshiped as God the Father is. But its role in the solar system can be compared in some ways to God the Father's role in all things.
And so, that is a quite questionable description of how the Solar System could be viewed - or could be imagined is a better description - as an illustration of the events leading up to our time and also those events prophesied for the future by some of the Biblical books. It's just a thought, and certainly should not be given any real credence unless God should ever lend it some. There is no doubt that the Father could have done it, but that does not mean that He did!