A Crowned Ring
And it came to pass in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first day of the month, that Moses spake unto the children of Israel, according unto all that the LORD had given him in commandment unto them;
4 After he had slain Sihon the king of the Amorites, which dwelt in Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, which dwelt at Astaroth in Edrei:
Deuteronomy 1:3-4
Times they sure are a-changing and hopefully you are too along with them. Else it should come as no surprise when it finally leaves you behind. Just think that if time was no more, you could stand still forever without anyone to mind. I mean, really, it isn't like anyone would know, would they? We're back with Moses again on his journey of leading the people out of Egypt. These people had wandered far through the desert. Surely by this time they were getting awfully close to their promised land, weren't they? Now, I'm not exactly sure where the Amorites dwelt nor where Heshbon is today. I do, however, know somewhat of Astaroth which is where the seat of their god dwelled. Funny thing is he must not have been a very powerful god though to withstand Moses with Jehovah behind him. These people sure did love to worship the stars back in their day, much as some of us do today. Perhaps that then was the reason they were destroyed. You know, when you worship what you don't understand you tend to unleash forces that will later destroy you. Things such as this hate being tamed by any man nor yet at anyone's beck and call. The stars and the angels behind them were never intended to be servants of any mere man. If you didn't know that just yet, maybe it's time that you did.
Upon the four and twentieth day of the eleventh month, which is the month Sebat, in the second year of Darius, came the word of the LORD unto Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet, saying,
8 I saw by night, and behold a man riding upon a red horse, and he stood among the myrtle trees that were in the bottom; and behind him were there red horses, speckled, and white.
Zechariah 1:7-8
Oh joy, speaking of those figures we don't understand, here comes one now. The setting is Babylon, several hundred years later. We're with Judah in their seventy-year servitude here as seen in the text. Only this time, the prophet's not Daniel, but rather Zechariah. Now, Zechariah comes from a long line of men who were prophets before him and their fathers before that. Sure, that's not how all prophets are caught, but that's how they are taught to do as they ought. Like his fathers before him, he's seeing things and quite possibly hearing them too. It doesn't make him crazy though or even half mad. In reality, he's probably saner than he's ever been in his whole life to write them all down. The vision he's looking at is of a man bearing horses, a traditional gift for a bride. That was how Isaac got Rebekkah so long ago when he arrived as a stranger bearing an ass. Don't laugh now, the ass is just a fancy way of saying your donkey, okay. These were a price for the bride, a way to buy her back from her father. Once she and the father with her had agreed, all that was left was for the date to be set and then go away. Look too at the rulers, how they have changed. There was once King Nebuchadnezzar that we saw at the first. Then came his son who didn't last long. Finally, King Darius of the Medes and Persians was next, known for his taking the throne.
Sebat (11th) / August, Leo, crown or ring