CAN A ZODIAC SIGN PREDICT MY FUTURE?
Sakkie Parsons
Translated from the Afrikaans Version: Kan ‘n sterreteken my toekoms voorspel?
Translator: Lynda Botha
Someone asked my opinion on what I think about the articles in magazines, regarding the star signs which predict your future and whether I believed in these star signs.
I would like to share with you my reply to this person.
But firstly, as I said on previous occasions, that if I want certainty about something, I study the Word of God to determine what our Lord tells me there, and then I allow His Spirit to guide me to understand it correctly.
So, let's see how our Father feels about this matter.
DEU 4:19 “And when you look up into the sky and see the sun, moon, and stars – all the forces of heaven – don’t be seduced into worshiping them. The Lord your God gave them to all the peoples of the earth.”
Have you contemplated on how hopelessly ridiculous, absolutely preposterous someone or something have to be, when even our gracious loving Father creates a mockery out of these kinds of people?
Isaiah 47:7-14
7 “..You did not reflect on your actions or think about their consequences.”
8 “Listen to this, you pleasure-loving kingdom, living at ease and feeling secure. You say, “I am the only One, and there is no other. I will never be a widow or lose my children.”
9 “Well, both these things will come upon you in a moment: widowhood and the loss of your children. Yes, these calamities will come upon you, despite all your witchcraft and magic.”
10 “You felt secure in your wickedness. “No one sees me” you said. But your “wisdom” and “knowledge” have led you astray, and you said, “I am the only One, and there is no other.”
11 “So disaster will overtake you, and you won’t be able to charm it away. Calamity will fall upon you, and you won’t be able to buy your way out. A catastrophe will strike you suddenly, one for which you are not prepared.”
12 “Now use your magical charms! Use the spells you have worked at all these years! Maybe they will do you some good. Maybe they can make someone afraid of you.”
13 “All the advice you receive has made you tired. Where are all your astrologers, those stargazers who make predictions each month? Let them stand up and save you from what the future holds.”
14 “But they are like straw burning in a fire; they cannot save themselves from the flame. You will get no help from them at all; their hearth is no place to sit for warmth.”
God surely knows how utterly useless it is to believe in this garbage. When I speak of garbage, then I am not referring to the stars, but rather the ridiculous belief that by looking at stars you can predict a person's future.
I would rather do what the Creator of those stars and the universe tells me to do and always trust in Him.
The Creator of all the stars is saying to you and me:
Isaiah 45:9-12
9 “What sorrow awaits those who argue with their Creator. Does a clay pot argue with its maker? Does the clay dispute with the one who shapes it, saying, “Stop, you’re doing it wrong!” Does the pot exclaim, “How clumsy can you be?”
10 “How terrible it would be if a new-born baby said to its father, “Why was I born?” or if it said to its mother, “Why did you make me this way?”
11 “This is what the Lord says – the Holy One of Israel and your Creator: “Do you question what I do for My children? Do you give Me orders about the work of My hands?”
12 “I am the One who made the earth and created people to live on it. With My hands I stretched out the heavens. All the stars are at My command.”
I also know that our Lord will not share me with any other god or power.
EXO 20:4 “You must not make for yourself an idol of any kind or an image of anything in the heavens or on the earth or in the sea.”
EXO 20:5 “You must not bow down to them or worship them, for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God who will not tolerate your affection for any other gods. I lay the sins of the parents upon their children; the entire family is affected – even children in the third and fourth generations of those who reject Me.”
Also remember, that there cannot be a middle ground.
MAT 7:13 “You can enter God’s Kingdom only through the narrow gate. The highway to hell is broad, and its gate is wide for the many who choose that way.”
MAT 7:14 “But the gateway to life is very narrow and the road is difficult, and only a few ever find it.”
If there is someone somewhere who might think that they can still believe in this garbage as well as be a true child of God, that person better think again because Jesus says:
MAT 6:24-26”
24 “No one can serve two masters. For you will hate one and love the other; you will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and be enslaved to money.”
25 “That is why I tell you not to worry about everyday life – whether you have enough food and drink, or enough clothes to wear. Isn’t life more than food and your body more than clothing?”
26 “Look at the birds. They don’t plant or harvest or store food in barns, for your heavenly Father feeds them. And aren’t you far more valuable to Him than they are?”
When Jesus said:
MAT 6:24: “No one can serve two masters …”
Then it actually means nobody. Then there is no one who remains, who can do this.
Then not you, me or anyone else are an exception to the rule.
There is only ONE whom I can and are allowed to trust concerning my life and the future:
It is only God, that is Jesus, God who became Flesh.
JOH 1:1-3
1 “In the beginning the Word already existed. The Word was with God, and the Word was God.”
2 “He existed in the beginning with God.”
3 “God created everything through Him, and nothing was created except through Him.”
JOH 1:14 “So the Word became human and made His home among us. He was full of unfailing love and faithfulness. And we have seen His glory, the glory of the Father’s one and only Son.”
Any – and I reiterate – any other path that are taken concerning these matters, makes me a servant of satan and an enemy of God.
MAT 12:30 “Anyone who isn’t with Me opposes Me, and anyone who isn’t working with Me is actually working against Me.”
I'm not a bull /Taurus or a lobster/Cancer or whatsoever.
I am a Christian, in other words, a child of God and only that, because I can and would not serve two masters.
I am not part of a constellation.
I have only one sign, the cross of my Jesus Christ.
I am not under any star sign.
I am under the loving mercy of God.
EPH 1:5-9
5 “God decided in advance to adopt us into His own family by bringing us to Himself through Jesus Christ. This is what He wanted to do, and it gave Him great pleasure.”
6 “So we praise God for the glorious grace He has poured out on us who belong to His dear Son.”
7 “He is so rich in kindness and grace that He purchased our freedom with the blood of His Son and forgave our sins.”
8 “He has showered His kindness on us, along with all wisdom and understanding.”
9 “God has now revealed to us His mysterious will regarding Christ – which is to fulfil His own good plan.”
Personally, I look at these things and I say with wonderful peace in my heart, what my hero Paul said:
1 COR 2:2 “For I decided that while I was with you, I would forget everything except Jesus Christ, the One who was crucified.”
Greetings,
Sakkie