BIBLICAL FACT ABOUT. ASTROLOGY
FROM PASTOR CHRIS OYAKHILOME PhD, Dsc, DD What is astrology? Maybe that’s where we should start. I’ll read a verse of scripture that classifies astrology along with certain other things, and that’ll begin to give you an idea and then you’ll get a good understanding. Isaiah 47:13, “Thou are wearied in the multitude of thy counsels. Let now the astrologers, the stargazers, the monthly prognosticators, stand up, and save thee from these things that shall come upon thee.”You know, the Lord had said there was going to be judgment for these people, and then He says now, “you let the astrologers save you, let the astrologers, the stargazers and the monthly prognosticators save you.” Notice, He grouped them together: the astrologers, the stargazers, the monthly prognosticators. What does this mean? The astrologers are those who study the arrangements of the celestial bodies (the various planets, the sun, the moon and all of these) and they try to understand, through obser...