E | Taurus. The Prophecy of the coming Judge of all the earth.
F | Gemini. The Redeemer's reign. (Grace and Glory).
F | Cancer. The Redeemer's possession (safe from all conflict).
E | Leo. The fulfilment of the promised Triumph.
Hence in Capricornus we must look for the prophecy of this Coming Sacrifice. As a matter of fact it did actually point out the time when the Sun of Righteousness should arise, and “the Light of the World” appear. For when this Promised Seed was born the Sun was actually in this sign of Capricornus! “The fulness of time was come,” and “God sent forth His Son TO REDEEM them that were under the Law” (Gal. iv. 4). The Sun was really amongst those very stars—Al Gedi, the kid, and Deneb Al Gedi, the sacrifice cometh—when this willing Sacrifice said, “Lo I come to do Thy will, O God.” The nights were at their darkest and [pg 079] their longest when Jesus was born. The days began immediately to lengthen when He, “the true light,” had come into the world.[48]
Astronomers confess that the perverted legends of the Greeks give but “a lame account” of this sign, “and it offers no illustration of its ancient origin.”
Its ancient origin reveals a prophetic knowledge, which only He possessed who knew that in “the fulness of time” He would send forth His Son.
We now come to the three constellations which give us three pictures setting forth the death of this Sacrifice and of His living again.