The Stars Speak

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“I believe that when God created the universe he wrote a message in the stars for all the people on Earth to see, so that all mankind could understand his purpose. Just as God’s message ends with the pictorial book of Revelation, I believe it began with the story in the heavens.”




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Bonus Material

Bibliography

The Witness of the Stars - E.W. Bullinger - [Gutenberg Project free download]

Story in the Stars by Joe Amaral (available hard copy or Kindle)

Joe Amaral : The Story in the Stars [view on YouTube]

Christological Interpretations of the Deans by Dale M. Sides (ebook)

The Mazzaroth by Rabbi Dr Hillel ben David https://www.betemunah.org/mazaroth.html. (This link works only with the spelling here, even though mazzaroth only has one ‘z’!)

Stamps of the world showing Zodiac signs — https://www.stampcommunity.org/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=18448&whichpage=3&#491690

How to Find the 12 Zodiac Signs and The Meaning of Each in the Bible — https://www.yourtango.com/2019325890/12-zodiac-signs-where-find-each-bible-scriptures

Above the Zodiac - Astrology in Jewish thought — https://books.google.co.uk/books? id=CiC2CpjUZa0C&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_atb#v=onepage&q&f=false

The Zodiac - Ask: https://ohr.edu/this_week/ask_the_rabbi/2394

The origin of the zodiac - www.ancient-wisdom/zodiac.htm

Jewish library - The Safaria Library https://www.sefaria.org/texts

The Talmud - http://www.ntslibrary.com/PDF%20Books/The%20Talmud.pdf

https://forward.com/scribe/384377/what-the-talmud-has-to-say-about-the-stars/

https://www.freedomlifelight.com/gods-celestial-word-all-48-constellations/


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Angela Riley

Angela retired from partnership in her law firm in 2011, where she mediated with couples leaving relationships, whether married or not and regardless of sexual orientation. Her experience has broadened her outlook and enables her to empathise with situations beyond her Christadelphian experience. She has been married for over 50 years and is proud Grangie to four grandchildren from sixteen to twenty.

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