(Isa. li. 21-lii. 3.)
“The virgin daughter of My people is broken with a great breach, with a very grievous blow” (Jer. xiv. 17).
The picture which sets forth her deliverance is reserved for the next chapter (or Sign), where it comes in its proper place and order. We are first shown her glorious Deliverer; for we never, in the heavens or in the Word, have a reference to the sufferings without an immediate reference to the glory.
3. CEPHEUS (The King).
Their Redeemer Coming to Rule.
Here we have the presentation of a glorious king, crowned, and enthroned in the highest heaven, with a sceptre in his hand, and his foot planted on the very Polar Star itself.
His name in the Denderah Zodiac is Pe-ku-hor, which means this one cometh to rule.
Plate 23: CEPHEUS (the Crowned King)