The prophet Jeremiah wrote; "Do not be dismayed by the signs you see in the heavens, for the heathens are dismayed by them" (Jeremiah 10:2).Libra is the sign in the heavens that appears as scales. In fact the Hebrew name for this sign literally translates the Scales or weighing. This sign symbolizes the amount deficient balanced by the redemption price which covers, hence the atonement.
The Psalmist foresaw the extreme cost to ransom or redeem a soul, he wrote, "No man can redeem the life of another or give to God a ransom for him - the ransom for a life is costly, no payment is ever enought" (Psalm 49:7-8).
But the Psalmist saw the answer, the one capible of balancing the scales and redeeming a soul. He wrote, "But God will redeem my life from the grave; he will surely take me to himself" (Psalm 49:15). Jesus being the infinite God-man tipped the scales with his death as a payment for my huge debt which no one else could do. The theme of Libra is redemptions price balancing out the debt of my sin. The Arabic name for Libra is Al Zubena, which means to purchase or redemption.
The alpha star of this constellation, Zuben al Genubi means, the purchase or the price which is deficient. This star points to my debt which was owed. The beta star or second brightest star of this constellation located in the opposite scale is Zuben al Chemali which name means the price which covers. The price which covers balances out the price which is deficient.
This is the miracle of Salvation that men are "justified freely by His grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus. God presented Him as a sacrifice of atonement, through faith in His blood" (Romans 3:24-25). God ransomed us through the blood of His only begotten Son and He did it for love. "For God so loved you, that He gave (as a ransom) His only begotten Son that whosoever should believe, should not perish but have everlasting life" (John 3:16).
The price would not be cheap or easy and this is foretold in the third brightest star of this constellation. The star Zuben Akrabi which means the price of the conflict. Peter confirms this when you wrote, ""For you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of life handed down to you from your forefathers, but with the precious blood of Christ" (1 Peter 1:18-19).
This sign in the heaven Libra, the Scales, points to the price which covered balancing out the price which was in debt. While this last star points out that there was a price to this conflict. Next, time we will examine exactly how this price was to be paid. The heavens describe the passion of the Christ in detail and all of this was laid out in the heavens from the beginning of time. So "do not be dismayed by the heavens as the heathen are."
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