“A number of times the Scripture refers to Jesus as ‘The Branch.’ Behold the man whose name is The BRANCH’ (Zechariah 6:12). That is one of the names in the Old Testament for the coming of the Messiah. Also, concerning the Branch, we read in Zechariah 3:8, For, behold, I will bring forth my servant the BRANCH.’ Also ‘In that day shall the branch of the Lord be beautiful and glorious.’ (Isaiah 4:2a). He is the servant, He is a man, He is God; He is the God-man, Jesus, who has come… A confirmatory of this is that the brightest star in Virgo is called Spica, which has the ancient meaning of ‘The Branch’—a picture of the coming of Christ.” (D. James Kennedy) – 872:20-21
Although the constellations in the heavens do not form configurations that are definitively human, animal or vegetable, promoters of the false ‘Gospel in the Stars’ are of the same opinion as astrologers that Virgo holds a Branch, and that this Branch represents ‘the Christ’ who will come to redeem the world. E.W. Bullinger actually stated: “The day has here come to fulfill the prophecies concerning Him who is ‘the Branch,’ ‘the Branch of Jehovah,’ ‘the man whose name is the Branch.’” (939) Knowing that Virgo is the Great Mother Goddess of pagan religions, the Scriptures cited by Kennedy and Bullinger will undoubtedly be used to validate a false Christ, who will be promoted as ‘The Branch’ and whose name will actually mean “branch”.
And speak unto him, saying, Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, Behold the man whose name is The BRANCH; and he shall grow up out of his place, and he shall build the temple of the LORD: – Zech. 6:12
Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will raise unto David a righteous BRANCH, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth. In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely: and this is his name whereby he shall be called, THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS. – Jer. 23:5,6
In that day shall the BRANCH of the LORD be beautiful and glorious… – Is. 4:2
Isaiah 14 also mentions a branch. In the King James Version, this chapter describes the fall of Lucifer who will one day incarnate the Antichrist in his attempt to destroy the world:
How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High. Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit. They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms; That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his prisoners? All the kings of the nations, even all of them, lie in glory, every one in his own house. But thou art cast out of thy grave like an ABOMINABLE BRANCH, and as the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a carcase trodden under feet. – Is. 14:12-19
The Rev’d. Bullinger, Kennedy and fellow ‘Biblical’ astrologers inform us that “Spica, which has the ancient meaning of ‘The Branch’,” is “a picture of the coming of Christ.” Now in the ancient zodiacs, Spica, the ‘branch,’ was portrayed as a serpent. Note that in the sculpture of Hathor (right), the goddess is holding the ears of grain in her right hand and a serpent in her left hand. This ‘serpent’ (Spica) is the ‘branch’ or ‘coming son’ of the Egyptians. Hathor stands upon a lion (Leo) and, as the woman who rides the beast (Rev.17), is representative of the Mother Goddess — Virgo, Eve and Isis:
“Eve or Hawwah is explained by Robert Graves as possibly being the Hebrew version of Heba, Hebat, Khebat, or Khilba. She is depicted as riding a lion in a sculpture. She was worshipped in Jerusalem. Her Greek name was Heba, Heracles’ goddess-wife.
“Eve is similar to Demeter or Ceres as the grain goddess, or the goddess of the garden. This is Spica, an ear of corn. On Denerah Virgo is Isis. Spica in Hebrew astrology is named Tsemech or ‘branch’. This name is symbolic of a coming son or branch. Al Mureddin another star in Virgo is ‘the branch that cometh’ and is associated with a grape gatherer (Noah) who would redeem man from the curse of the earth by giving us wine.” (1067)Hathor as Qadesh the Syrian fertility goddess with phallic Min. Note the Hathor crown and headdress. She stands on a lion, holding a serpent and ears of grain (Graves 1946, Pritchard 1954) – 1060…
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