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The story of the Declarations in the Heavenly began when Almighty God spoke to
three Kings, to begin following the brilliant Star of David in the Heavens. One
King came from a western territory; One King came from a southern territory;
One King came from a northern territory and they came together at God’s
appointed location as the Star of David was moving easterly toward Bethlehem

and God’s City Jerusalem.

Almighty God chose these three Kings to Bless the birth of the Son of God with
their special gifts as the King of the Jews and the King of Mankind. Because these
three Kings fulfilled their God given assignments God blessed them and their
Kingdoms all the days of their lives. These God given assignments were written in
the Declarations in the Heavenly Star.

The Jewish nation is composed of twelve ancient tribes. Jewish prophecy states
that a particular tribe will bring forth the Messiah: the tribe of Judah. The symbol
of Judah’s tribe is the lion. You can see these connections in an ancient prediction
of Messiah’s coming found in the first book of the Bible, the Book of Genesis,
Chapter 49:9,10; Judah is a lion’s whelp: from the prey, my Son, thou art gone up:
He stooped down, He couched as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall rouse Him
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up? The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between His
feet, until Shiloh come; and unto Him shall the gathering of the people be.

This association of Messiah with the tribe of Judah and with the lion is a
productive clue., The Lion. Ancient stargazers, particularly if they were interested
in things Jewish, may well have concluded they were seeing signs of a Jewish king.
But there is more.
The last book of the New Testament is, in part, a prophetic clue. But a portion of
the Book of Revelation provides clear and compelling guidance for our overall
evaluation. The apostle John wrote the book as an old man while in exile on the
island of Patmos. Perhaps the condition of this exile or a lack of companionship
left him time for star gazing to ponder the beauty of the night time heavenly sky.
Whatever the reason, Revelation is full of star imagery.

In Revelation, Chapter 12:1 – 6, John describes a life and death drama played out
in the sky: the birth of a king. And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a
woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a
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crown of twelve stars: And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and
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pained to be delivered. And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and
behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns
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upon his heads. And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did
cast them to the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready
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to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born. And she brought