Amos 5:8 He who made the Pleiades and Orion and who turns the shadow of death
into morning, who also darkens day into night, who calls for the waters of the sea
and pours them out on the surface of the earth, Yahuah is His name.
The Kiymah/H3598 𐤊𐤉𐤌𐤄 translated as Pleiades or seven stars is mentioned 3 times in the OT i.e. Job 9:9, 38:31 & Amos 5:8
The kesiyl/H3685 𐤊𐤎𐤉𐤋 translated as Orion or constellation is used 4 times in scripture. 3 times along with the Pleiades/seven stars and one additional place in YashaYahu 13:10
Isa 13:10 For the stars of the heavens and their constellations/kesiyl/H3685 𐤊𐤎𐤉𐤋 do not give off their light. The sun shall be dark at its rising, and the moon not send out its light.
Kiymah H3598 𐤊𐤉𐤌𐤄: The Kiymah shine as hot blue stars and is a constellation of 7 stars. Please look at the image below
Now let's examine the usage of this in scriptures:
First we see Ayob/Job acknowledges Yahuah as the creator of these constellations
Job 9:9 who made Ash, Kesyil, and Kiymah, and the rooms of the south;
While Ash a bear like constellation is mentioned by Ayob in 9:9, we will only look at Kesiyl and Kiymah in this study. And to understand this better we must look at what Yahuah asks Ayob
Job 38:31 Can you bind the chains of the Pleiades, or loose the cords of Orion?
While Ayob cannot bind the chains of the Pleiades/seven stars constellation, or loose the cords of Orion, Yahuah by this question lets Ayob and us know that ONLY HE CAN.
I will come straight to the context but before that lets look at Kesiyl
Kesiyl H3685 𐤊𐤎𐤉𐤋 translated as Orion or constellation:
Kesyil the same word defined by Strong's H3684 means 'foolish/stupid/silly'
When Yahuah asks Ayob whether he could loose the cords of Orion/Kesiyl, the picture is of a foolish man bound to his seat of beliefs of foolishness, whom only Yahuah can loose.
The 7 star cluster named as the Kiymah/Pleiades speaks of the wisdom of Yahuah who alone can gather the blue stars to form a Bright and Morning star and the constellations named as Kesiyl/Orion speaks of Yahuah who alone can separate one from the seat of his foolishness, just as He has the power to separate the stars from a constellation.
Coming to Amos 5:8 the KJV uses 'Seek him' in Italics tying the verse to verse 6. Moreover, Amos prophesies that Yahuah alone is One who turns the shadow of death into morning & darkens day into night. The contrast changes, He alone has the power to do so.
Amos 5:6 Seek/darshu 𐤃𐤓𐤔𐤅 Yahuah that you may live, else He shall break forth like a fire,
O house of Yoseph, and it shall consume with none to quench it for Beyth’El,
Amos 5:7 For those who turn justice into wormwood
and cast righteousness down to the earth.
Amos 5:8 Seek him He who made the Pleiades and Orion and who turns the shadow of death/tsalmaweth 𐤑𐤋𐤌𐤅𐤕 H6757 into morning, who also darkens day into night, who calls for the waters of the sea
and pours them out on the surface of the earth, Yahuah is His name.
Psa 23:4 When I walk through the valley of the shadow of death/tsalmaweth 𐤑𐤋𐤌𐤅𐤕 H6757, I fear no evil. For You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.
In pagan Greek mythology the seven stars/Pleiades are called seven sisters. We don't want to get into the pagan mythology with the names of the daughters of the Greek god which science adopts the names, we will look at proof from scriptures itself.
Rev 1:16 And in His/Yahusha's right hand He held seven stars, and out of His mouth went a sharp two-edged sword,b and His face was as the sun shining in its strength.
Rev 1:20 “The secret of the seven stars which you saw in My right hand, and the seven golden lampstands: The seven stars are messengers of the seven assemblies, and the seven lampstands which you saw are seven assemblies.
Rev 2:1 “To the messenger of the assembly of Ephesos write, ‘He who is holding the seven stars in His right hand, who is walking in the midst of the seven golden lampstands, says this:
Rev 3:1 “And to the messenger of the assembly in Sardis write, ‘He who has the seven Spirits of Elohim and the seven stars, says this, “I know your works, that you have a name that you are alive, but you are dead.
4 times in the book of Revelation we see the seven stars are termed as to be held in the hands of Yahusha's right hand & Yahusha says in Rev 1:20 "The secret of the seven stars which you saw in My Right Hand''
While shallow readers would only tie up these 7 stars to the seven messengers/angels of the seven assemblies, the Ruach shows His children that the 'kiymah/seven stars (Pleiades)' mentioned 3 times in the OT i.e. Job 9:9, 38:31 & Amos 5:8 is tied up to Yahuah and hence, we see Yahuah=Yahusha.
Star of Bethlehem:
While there are various scientific theories that Venus and Saturn were brought together to form the star of bethelem, a dying star was born in the sky during Mashiyach's birth which later died out etc etc, all these are beyond the scriptures imagination of a foolish and carnal mind.
We must revisit Job 38:31. We saw Yahuah questioning Ayob whether he could bind the chains of the seven stars/Pleiades? While Ayob can't, Yahuah alone can. And that's exactly was a sign given in the heavens which the Magi/Wise men understood.
Job 38:31 Can you bind the chains of the Pleiades, or loose the cords of Orion?
Remember, the image shared above of the 7 stars are the hot blue stars which form the sapphire color. The color for the Torah pavement.
Light: Aur/אור has the root word AR/אר which means order. The light fell in order just as the word dabar/דבר which is translated as Word and is also order of things.
In the word dabar we see the Dalet/ד as the doorway and bar/בר means son.
The light/אור fell in order /דבר (dabar) of things to give us the PATH.
Psa 119:105 Nun Your word/dabar דבר is a lamp to my feet And a light/ אור to my path.
The Dabar is also the substance identified by Yahuchanan in John 1:1 and 1John 1:1.
Even when it says “ You are a kohen forever according to my order/Dabaratay דברתי of Malchitsedek.
The order of priesthood which came forth to light was after Yahuah Himself who appeared in Exodus 24:10 as the estsem/עצם (bone) of heaven in its clearness . This appearance was unique as Mosheh, Aharon, his two sons and 70 elders saw and ate and drank before Him and yet they were not killed. Under His feet was a paved work of sapphire which is the blue stone and a blue print of the path He Himself walked on as He is the attendant of the heavenly of which a pattern was given in earthly form as a reflection or substance of the actual.
Exo 24:10 and they saw the Elohim of Yisra’ěl, and under His feet like a paved work of sapphire stone, and like the heavens for brightness.
Hence, the Torah of Life path is the blue print we need to walk in which is the order of things which fell beginning from Him.
YashaYahu saw Him high and lifted up and the trail of His robe filled the temple which shows us He is Yahusha the High Priest who put the earthly things in the order of the spiritual or heavenly things which He Himself held in His etsem/עצם (bone pattern) in its clearness. While all Christians and carnal Torah keepers confess Psalms 119:105 but many fail to see the order or light brought about by the Son in the paved work which is the blue print which we need to walk on.
Sapphire the blue stone was number 5 stone in the kohen ha gadul’s breastplate where number 5 points to Torah.
Eze 1:26 And above the expanse over their/cherubim heads was the likeness of a throne, in appearance like a sapphire stone. And on the likeness of the throne was a likeness as the appearance of a man high above it.
Eze 1:27 And from the appearance of His waist and upward I saw what looked like glowing metal with the appearance of fire all around within it. And from the appearance of His waist and downward I saw what looked like fire, and brightness all around.
Eze 1:28 As the appearance of a rainbow in a cloud on a rainy day, so was the appearance of the brightness all around it. This was the appearance of the likeness of the esteem of יהוה. And when I saw it, I fell on my face, and I heard a voice of One speaking.
YashaYahu 6 is defined by Yahuchanan as he states in Joh 12:41
Yeshayahu said this when he saw His (Yahusha) esteem and spoke of Him.
Shaul defined this Light as shining in our hearts and gave a context to Gen 1:3 in 2Corn 4:6
2Co 4:6 For Elohim, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” is the One who has shone in our hearts for the enlightening of the knowledge of the esteem of Elohim in the face of יהושע Messiah.
The same Yahuah who came into a visible form, came with a purpose to be face to face with His creation. If the creation doesn’t understand this mystery then they fall short of the esteem of Yahuah and look only towards temporary luminaires as the sun and moon for their calendars for feast observation. The ones fallen in order of things attain the goal of the Torah which is the blue print of Yahuah.
Gen 1:14 And Elohim said, “Let lights come to be in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night, and let them be for signs/auth H226 and appointed times/moead H4150, and for days/yom H3117 and years/shanah H8141,
Gen 1:15 and let them be for lights in the expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth.” And it came to be so.
Gen 1:16 And Elohim made two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night, and the stars.
While the calendars had the sun and the moon path following in observing the feasts, what were stars meant for to be as signs/auth if they were not having a spiritual significance? The symbolism of the Pleiades/seven stars in the right hand of Yahusha ha Mashiyach is a proof of the 7 assemblies as ONE in Him. Hence, the phenomenon of Aluahym bringing the cluster of the 7 blue stars together can be understood from Ayob 38:31 where He questions Ayob whether he is able to bind the seven stars together. Moreover, the seven assemblies have the element of feminine in them as the assembly is the bride of the bridegroom Yahusha ha Mashiyach.
The mystery is deep and there is so much to it even in names.
Deborah was a nurse to Rebecca and the name Deborah is the feminine form of Dabar and means “her order” The word nurse is ינק (yanaq) which also means one who gives suckling as a mother. While the scriptures are silent, the sons of Rebecca (Esau and Yaaqob) would have been brought up under her care, and that’s why lamentation was made when Deborah died.
Gen 35:8 And Deḇorah, Riḇqah’s nurse, died, and she was buried below Běyth Ěl under the terebinth tree. So the name of it was called Allon Baḵuth.
Allon Bakuth means oak of weeping. The sons born fell in a she order who would nurse them as a mother herself would.
1Pe 3:3 Your adornment should not be outward – arranging the hair, wearing gold, or putting on dresses –
1Pe 3:4 but the hidden man of the heart, with the incorruptible ornament of a meek and peaceable spirit, which is of great value before Elohim.
The hidden man of the heart is Mashiyach Yahusha. The order that the character of Deborah which means ‘her order’ shows. The woman falls into the order of her husband in her heart to walk the sapphire path.
Then there was Deborah the prophetess whom we see being raised up when the villages ceased having the elders.
Jdg 5:7 “ Villages /perazun פרזון ceased, it ceased in Yisra’ěl, until I, Deḇorah, arose – a mother in Yisra’ěl arose.
Villages have the root word paraz/פרז which means Leader. Hence many translations replace villages with Leaders ceased. Remember it was the time of judges and the open lands were given to the Levites along with cities. The open lands were outside the cities.
Num 35:2 "Command the children of Yisra’ěl that they shall give the Lěwites cities to dwell in from the inheritance of their possession. Also give the Lěwites open land around the cities.
Num 35:3 “And they shall have the cities to dwell in, and their open land for their cattle, and for their herds, and for all their livestock.
Num 35:4 “And the open land of the cities which you give the Lěwites are from the wall of the city outward a thousand cubits all around.
Deborah was living at a time when the kohen ceased or became apostate and there was no order, hence, Yahuah raised her as a mother/am. Twice in Judges 5:7 the word qam /קם is used which means arose.
This is how the verse reads
Jdg 5:7 The inhabitants of the villages ceased, they ceased in Yasharal, until that I Deborah was drawn out /shal של and arose/קם, that I arose/קם a mother/אם in Yasharal.
She was drawn out and arose, arose as the mother in Yasharal. Whenever anything in scripture is mentioned twice in repetition, it’s of utmost importance.
Eg: Verily Verily, He who has ears let him hear, alas alas, Babylon is fallen is fallen etc
The repetition has a piercing from a physical into the spiritual.
Jdg 4:4 And Deborah, a wife /Ishah אשה prophetess, the wife /ishah אשה of Lapidoth, she judged Yasharal at that time.
Again here twice she is mentioned as wife of Lapidoth. Why? Lapidoth means torches.
Ashah/ishah translated as wife has the fire /ash אש. She carried the flame of the husband Yahuah into the path to lead Yasharal to victory over their enemies.
Her name Deborah which has the Dabar male reflected through her as the way maker or path finder when all male Levites fell into apostasy. This reminds me of Revelation 12 where Yahuchanan saw the woman Yerushalayim clothed with the sun, moon under her feet and the crown of 12 stars on her head. Shaul calls the Yerushalayim from above the mother /am אם of us all.
Isa 62:1 For Tsiyon’s sake I am not silent, and for Yerushalayim’s sake I do not rest, until her righteousness goes forth as brightness, and her deliverance as a lamp that burns.
Isa 62:2 And the nations shall see your righteousness, and all sovereigns your esteem. And you shall be called by a new name, which the mouth of יהוה designates.
Isa 62:3 And you shall be a crown of comeliness in the hand of יהוה, and a royal/malukah 𐤌𐤋𐤅𐤊𐤄 H4410 head-dress/tsanuph H6797 in the hand of your Elohim.
Isa 62:4 No longer are you called “Forsaken,” and no longer is your land called “Deserted.” But you shall be called “Ḥephtsiḇah,” and your land “Married,” for יהוה shall delight in you, and your land be married.
The word malukah 𐤌𐤋𐤅𐤊𐤄 translated as royal is the root word in the word malakay
Rev 1:20 “The secret of the seven stars which you saw in My right hand, and the seven golden lampstands: The seven stars are messengers/malakay of the seven assemblies, and the seven lampstands which you saw are seven assemblies.
The 7 messengers represented by 7 stars in the right hand of Yahusha are part of the royal kingdom in whom He delights. The blue, purple, scarlet in the robe, head dress, curtains, tent etc were all royal colors showing the bride of Mashiyach worshiping Him are part of the royal kingdom and His royal law.
Exo 28:31 “And you shall make the robe of the shoulder garment all of blue.
Exo 28:32 “And the opening for his head shall be in the middle of it, a woven binding all around its opening, like the opening in a scaled armour, so that it does not tear.
Exo 28:33 “And on its hem you shall make pomegranates of blue and purple and scarlet material, all around its hem, and bells of gold between them all around:
Exo 28:34 a golden bell and a pomegranate, a golden bell and a pomegranate, on the hem of the robe all around.
Exo 28:35 “And it shall be upon Aharon to attend in, and its sound shall be heard when he goes into the set-apart place before יהוה and when he comes out, so that he does not die.
Exo 28:36 “And you shall make a plate of clean gold and engrave on it, like the engraving of a signet: SET-APARTNESS TO יהוה.
Exo 28:37 “And you shall put it on a blue cord, and it shall be on the turban – it is to be on the front of the turban.
Exo 28:38 “And it shall be on the forehead of Aharon, and Aharon shall bear the guilt of the set-apart gifts which the children of Yisra’ěl set apart in all their set-apart gifts. And it shall always be on his forehead, for acceptance for them before יהוה
While the color of the turban is not mentioned, Torah mentions of a clean gold plate with engraving 'Set-Apartness to Yahuah' was put on the turban tied with a blue cord. The blue was everywhere in Torah which was a part of the royal color which we saw (in sapphire).
Herod and the chief priests and scribes missed understanding the sign of the seven stars brought together as one bright blue star, a miraculous cluster gathering as Yahuah had told Ayob only He could do it , which was understood by the Magi.
Mat 2:1 And יהושע having been born in Běyth Leḥem of Yehuḏah in the days of Herodes the sovereign, see, Magi from the east came to Yerushalayim,
Mat 2:2 saying, “Where is He who has been born Sovereign of the Yehuḏim? For we saw His star in the East and have come to do reverence to Him.”
Mat 2:3 And Herodes the sovereign, having heard, was troubled, and all Yerushalayim with him.
Mat 2:4 And having gathered all the chief priests and scribes of the people together, he asked them where the Messiah was to be born.
Mat 2:5 And they said to him, “In Běyth Leḥem of Yehuḏah, for thus it has been written by the prophet,
Mat 2:6 ‘But you, Běyth Leḥem, in the land of Yehuḏah, you are by no means least among the rulers of Yehuḏah, for out of you shall come a Ruler who shall shepherd My people Yisra’ěl.’ ”
How did the Magi understand?
After Yahusha was born in Bethlehem in Yahudah, during the time of King Herod, Magi from the east came to Yerushalayim and asked, “Where is the one who has been born king of the Yahudites?
Mat 2:2 saying, “Where is He who has been born Sovereign of the Yehuḏim? For we saw His star in the East and have come to do reverence to Him.”
The star that rose in the east was unknown to Herod and all the Sanhedrin but the Magi were aware
Mat 2:7 Then Herodes, having called the Magi secretly, learned exactly from them what time the star appeared.
The Magi shouldn't be mixed with the astrologers, they were the wise men who were ordained by Babylon, Moab, Egypt, Edom etc who were rulers in their lands and were ones who guided their rulers in establishing the rule in their lands in wisdom. Balaam was a Magi who was hired by Moab to curse Yasharal but he turned out blessing Yasharal. This is what he prophesied about Mashiyach
Num 24:15 And he took up his proverb and said, “The saying of Bil‛am, son of Be‛or, and the saying of the man whose eyes are opened,
Num 24:16 the saying of him who hears the words of Ěl, and knows the knowledge of the Most High, who sees the vision of the Almighty, who falls down, with eyes opened wide:
Num 24:17 “I see Him, but not now; I observe Him, but not near. A Star shall come out of Ya‛aqoḇ, and a Sceptre shall rise out of Yisra’ěl, and shall smite the corners of Mo’aḇ, and shall destroy all the sons of Shěth.
Num 24:18 “And Eḏom shall be a possession; and Sě‛ir shall be a possession – enemies – and Yisra’ěl is doing mightily.
Num 24:19 “And out of Ya‛aqoḇ One shall rule and destroy the remnant from Ar.”
The YashaYahu prophecy:
The Star of Bethlehem could be any star for a mind who wouldn't be guided to understand scriptures. In YashaYahu Yahuah says to whom would you liken me that I would be his equal? He then says to lift up your eyes on high and see who created these (referring to the constellations) & the scripture goes on to say 'The One who leads forth their host by number, He calls them all by name' & yet not all the names are revealed to us expect for a few which are names revealed by Him as we read (Ash, Kesyil, Kimah etc). Ayob says 'He seals up the stars' which book of Revelation says 'The mystery of the seven stars in His hand' all point to the reasons why He revealed the names of the constellations in scripture in which He has held a mystery which the Magi understood, while the leaders in Yaahudah didn't understand.
Isa 40:25 To whom then shall you liken Me that I would be his equal? says the Holy One.
Isa 40:26 Lift up your eyes on high and see who has created these,
the One who leads forth their host by number, He calls them all by name;
because of the greatness of His might and the strength of His power, not one is missing
Job 9:7 who commands the sun, and it does not rise; and He seals up the stars,
Job 9:8 stretching out the heavens by Himself, and treading upon the waves of the sea;
Job 9:9 who made Ash, Kesil, and Kimah, and the rooms of the south;
The ones He revealed to us He ordained. Speaking of Mashiyach, Shaul ties the Psalms 8 prophecy to Mashiyach
Psa 8:3 For I see Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, The moon and the stars, which You have made firm/kun 𐤊𐤅𐤍 H3559.
Psa 8:4 What is man that You remember him? And the son of man that You visit him?
Heb 2:5 For it is not to messengers that He has subjected the world to come, concerning which we speak.
Heb 2:6 But somewhere one has witnessed, saying, “What is man that You remember him, or the son of man that You look after him?
The seven stars in the right hand of Mashiyach are the outcasts of Yasharal joined in His Royal kingdom as One Yasharal, as the Psalmists ties them up to the appointment, the number of stars to which he gives names to. The heavens proclaim the esteem of Aluahym. He is the One who gave a sign in the heavens of the One who is His equal (Isa 40:25) by the one who He called by name (His name).
Psa 147:1 Praise Yah! For it is good to sing praises to our Elohim. For it is pleasant – praise is fitting.
Psa 147:2 יהוה builds up Yerushalayim, He gathers the outcasts of Yisra’ěl –
Psa 147:3 He heals the broken-hearted And binds up their wounds.
Psa 147:4 He appoints the number of the stars, He gives names to all of them.
Psa 147:5 Great is our Master and mighty in power, There is no limit to His understanding.
Psa 19:1 The heavens are proclaiming the esteem of Ěl; And the expanse is declaring the work of His hand.
Amos 5:8 specifically points out as the Psalmist says about Yahuah as the Good shepherd and because of Him, he will not fear even though he walks through the shadow of death. And Amos ties this to Kiymah and Kesyil. The wisdom of Yahuah which binds the seven stars together (Kiymah) and separates the fool from his seat of foolishness (Kesyil).
Psa 23:4 When I walk through the valley of the shadow of death/tsalmaveth, I fear no evil. For You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.
Amo 5:8 He who made Kimah and Kesil, and who turns the shadow of death/tsalmaveth into morning and darkened day into night, who is calling for the waters of the sea and pours them out on the face of the earth – יהוה is His Name –
How else would the Magi understand the star of Bethlehem if they didn't understand the scripture Job 38:31 when they saw the 7 blues stars brought together as One? There is no out of scripture evidence of any star associated with the coming of Mashiyach. The only inference made is within scripture as 'Star of Yaaqob'. Moreover, why would Yahusha call Himself as the 'Bright and Morning star' & promises to give the morning star to those who believe in Him? He alone turns the shadow of death into morning. The sign Yahuah gave of His equal i.e. the Kiymah.
Rev 22:16 “I, יהושע, have sent My messenger to witness to you these matters in the assemblies. I am the Root and the Offspring of Dawiḏ, the Bright and Morning Star.
Rev 2:28 “And I shall give him the morning star.
Rev 2:29 “He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies.” ’
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