Twins - Part 4
WHO CONCEIVED BY TWO?
By Walter Giddings
March 21, 2021
Greetings kindred and fellow sheep. We are on a first name basis here. My name is walter. This lesson comprises Scriptures that have puzzled me for a long time. We return to where we ended in Twins Lesson 3: Romans 9.
Romans 9:9-10
9 For this is the word of promise, At this time will I come, and Sarah shall have a son.
10 And not only this; butwhen Rebecca also had conceived by one, even by our father Isaac;
When we read these verses at the end of Lesson 3, we asked a question. Shall we review briefly how we came to ask it?
In Twins Lesson 1 we noticed a divine supplement from the Holy Spirit in Acts 28. The Alexandrian ship that carried Luke and Paul and company off the island of Malta and on toward Rome had a sign or figurehead that represented the twins of heaven, Castor and Pollux, These are two stars found in the Constellation Gemini, the tenth sign or house in the Zodiac. Historically Castor and Pollux were two small “g” gods in the Pantheon of Roman mythology venerated by sailors as the patron saints who swept the seas of pirates. That explains the worldly reason why the ship would bear the sign. It did not explain why the Holy Spirit would call our attention to it for nineteen hundred years!
We saw that Christians view the circle of the Heavens, the Zodiac, from Virgo the Virgin to Leo the Lion of Judah. The Bible is God’s handiwork. The second witness to the Bible are the stars in God’s handiwork, His heaven. God arranged and named the stars in His heaven. In Twins Lesson 2 we learned that the Bible story in the heavens had endured trespass. Greek and then Roman mythology were the intruders, bringing a clever counterfeit in place of, or instead of the older and original composition. This causes confusion even today. A credible scholar of the Antiquities, E. W. Bullinger, taught us the greatest confusion occurs in connection with the 10th sign of the Zodiac, Gemini the Twins. The chief cause of the confusion with Gemini, the Twins, hints at a profound secret or mystery. Paul in his first letter to the Corinthians calls it “the hidden wisdom” which God ordained and kept until after Calvary. Raymond Capt and E. W. Bullinger in their books The Glory of the Stars and The Witness of the Stars both show their readers that Gemini illustrates in the ancient names of the stars the twin nature of Christ on Earth, Very God of Very God, and Very man of Very man. And Paul says that The Devil and his angels, “the princes of this world” did not know this Secret. Shall we review that?

Et tu, Brute?” from Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare. Just seconds before the assassination of the Roman emperor and being stabbed to death, Caesar sees one of the young Senators with knife in hand and exclaims “you also?” Imagine the last words out of your mouth is the surprising question to someone you thought was a loyal friend, but instead your executioner. To live by the sword is to die by the sword has become a common refrain for pacifism, but Jesus' admonition to Peter lobbing off the ear of the high priest's SWAT team member was not anti-sword; it was protecting Peter from being arrested himself, even though Peter was just trying to protect his Master. After Jesus was betrayed by Judas, the cops moved in to make the arrest. In hindsight, Peter should have aimed his sword at Judas, but this was a perfect moment of predestination as Jesus told him, “Am I not to drink the cup that the Father has given me?" John 18:11. The metaphor of a cup often signifies a measure of divine affliction, possibly derived from the custom of some nations putting someone to death with a cup of poison. Jesus had come to die as a sacrifice for sin and betrayal was a necessary ingredient to teach us many lessons which we'll explore today.

