What is to happen on September 23, 2017? [Makes no prediction!]
Channel: Galen Currah
Date: 2017-06-15

********** THE 3 BCE DATE APPEARS TO BE INACCURATE. PLEASE READ 2 BCE **********

What is to happen on September 23, 2017?
The Celestial Signs of Revelation 12
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“A great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars. She was pregnant and was crying out in birth pains… And another sign appeared in heaven: behold, a great red dragon, with seven heads and ten horns, and on his heads seven diadems. His tail swept down a third of the stars of heaven and cast them to the earth.” Revelation 12:1-4 ESV

Assuming that the signs in heaven refer to the ancient zodiac, the woman is the constellation Virgo (the virgin), and the twelve stars, which include planets, can be named. The sun passes across her mid-section while the moon passes beneath her feet. The dragon refers to an ancient constellation, which is today divided into Scorpio and Libra.

Since these “signs” are situated in the middle of the Book of Revelation, and relate to its following context, it would be easy to suppose that the signs have yet to appear.

A number of videos have appeared about these signs, which, some say, will be fulfilled on September 23, 2017, announcing certain end-time events. Should we heed their warnings?

Some have imagined that the configuration of planets and stars described in the sign only occur only once in 7000 years.

However, biblical scholars, including Ernest L. Martin and Michael S. Heiser, besides many astronomers, prefer another interpretation.

These interpreters point out that all the details of the first sign described in Revelation 12 have already occurred. This precise celestial configuration happened on September 11, 3 BCE, during a twenty-minute interval, at the birth of Jesus Christ at Bethlehem.

After Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, wise men from the east came to Jerusalem, saying, “Where is he who has been born king of the Jews? For we saw his star when it rose and have come to worship him.” Matthew 2:1-2 ESV 

September 11, 3 BCE was also the first of Tishri, the feasts of Rosh Hashanah and of Trumpets, the inauguration date of new kings of Israel. 

Thus, the Book of Revelation recalls the sign of the birth of Jesus Christ, which it relates to a sign of end-times conflict between the Messiah of Israel and Satan who seeks to destroy the nation.

Therefore, if the second sign of Revelation 12 is to be fulfilled in some way on September 23, 2017, then we must wait and see, for the first sign was certainly fulfilled on September 11, 3 BCE.

“The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims his handiwork.” Psalm 19:1-6 ESV