The Pleiades

According to accepted secular astronomy the Pleiades are the "seven sisters". The "seven sisters" are reckoned to be "an open star cluster containing middle aged, hot B-type stars located in the constellation of Taurus. It is among the nearest star clusters to Earth, and is the cluster most obvious to the naked eye in the night sky. (source Wikipedia).

What are we to make of this? The Bible says that the Pleiades (Job 38:31) are the The seven stars (RV, margin), and as noted above, secular science/astronomy based on heliocentricism, use this term to describe an entirely different group of celestial bodies. They impose the view that the Pleiades are altogether a different group of heavenly bodies to what the Bible teaches them to be.

There are seven stars orbiting above the Earth, however, according to Wikipedia and accepted secular astronomy there are eight planets, including 'planet' Earth! (which is not a planet). Left to Scripture alone, we know the Earth is stationary, that is it doesn't move (geocentric). But, are the seven planets, as we have hitherto understood them to be, actually planets at all? What exactly is a planet? It is said in the margin of 2 Kings 23:5 (the only mention of "planets" in the entire Bible) that the planets are indeed the twelve signs, that is what most know to be the zodiac, of which the monthly prognosticators give forth their predictions! It would seem that confusion prevails if the Christian tries to understand biblical cosmology through secular astronomical wisdom, it cannot be done. The Pleiades, then as the Bible speaks, would have us know that what the secular astronomers consider to be the eight (seven) planets are in reality seven stars that orbit above the earth under the roof of the firmament. As for the other stars, that is the Comets, meteors, and asteroids, I believe that, these also, come under the category of stars. Smaller and less frequently sighted stars, such as Halley's 'comet' for example, come into view every seventy or so years; such is their elongated orbit.

So the celestial bodies given the names of Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, are according to God's word, stars that are in constant motion, perhaps there may be a case for categorizing them under the heading of wandering stars, Jude 1:13? But, I understand they have a fixed orbit. The other stars known as comets, meteors, and asteroids, would certainly come under this heading because they have a more 'random' celestial path.

Man ever tries to reverse God's order and change what is written in His word, but a day is fast approaching when a greater than king Ahusuerus is coming, when what is written in the King's name, and sealed with the King's ring, may no man reverse. Esther 8:8.