Genesis 1 English Standard Version

1 In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

When we begin to put a puzzle together we look for straight edges and four corners. Placing those together tells us the borders of the puzzle. Everything needs to fit inside those limits.

When man first crawled out of a cave at night and looked up at the stars, I have no idea what he was thinking. I have my own thoughts and concerns. They were not his thoughts and my imagination is all I have to reason out what his environment might have been like.

My imagination says he had larger concerns than what those stars were and what they meant. Food, water, and survival would have been my major concerns. That is what I would do if I was in his shoes.

Archiologist’s digs provide us with evidence of past lives and they piece together some of the artifacts of life back then. What they don’t discover is what those people were thinking. For they  have to rely on crude pictures or even writings in unknown languages. All that would have come much later. Even so, they would fill in much of the gaps with their own conclusions. They would document their findings and publish them so that we would not have to do the work ourselves.

While evidence suggests early humans first recorded zodiac constellations in the prehistoric past, the Western concept of the zodiac originated in ancient Mesopotamia and was refined by the Greeks and Romans. Other cultures, such as the Mayans and Chinese, also developed their own zodiacs. Source provided by Google search. 

Yes, I googled it. How lazy of me. This is where we are today. The assumption is made that prehistoric man left evidence of the Zodiac. Let us begin with that very statement. Hello, it was prehistoric, there was no history to discover. The very meaning of history is His Story.

When we start putting together this puzzle of what God has done and why we discover that God spoke to man directly and gave Moses the words He chose to communicate with us. It is His Story.

What are the borders? Where do all the pieces fit jointly together?

Lucky us. We can google it. So let us ask Google, the results are from simplythehisotry.org.

“God’s Story: From Creation to Eternity is an 80-minute overview of the Bible. This audio and visual metanarrative provides a panoramic view of God’s plan to rescue fallen humankind. God’s Story lays a powerful foundation for understanding the reason for and need of a Savior.”

Micah 5:2 But you, O Bethlehem Ephrathah, who are too little to be among the clans of Judah, from you shall come forth for me one who is to be ruler in Israel, whose coming forth is from of old, from ancient days.

Whenever we try to put pieces of a puzzle together we should be looking at the overall picture and look at what is missing. This piece of the puzzle was available to the Pharisees and Scribes to identify the coming Messiah. Some were looking for that missing piece of the puzzle.

Matthew 2:16 Then Herod, when he saw that he had been tricked by the wise men, became furious, and he sent and killed all the male children in Bethlehem and in all that region who were two years old or under, according to the time that he had ascertained from the wise men.

The Pharisees and Scribes were well aware of Herod’s effort to kill his replacement. How were they to know that Jesus was born in Bethlehem? He never told them.

John 7:41-43 English Standard Version

41 Others said, “This is the Christ.” But some said, “Is the Christ to come from Galilee? 42 Has not the Scripture said that the Christ comes from the offspring of David, and comes from Bethlehem, the village where David was?” 43 So there was a division among the people over him.

Jesus declared many things that upset the Pharisees and Scribes but never corrected their misunderstanding about His origins. He never corrected this error in thinking. We know the missing pieces of the puzzle because the gospels that wrote of His history came long after His death and resurrection. The Pharisees and Scribes did not find this missing piece of the puzzle.

Isaiah 11:10 In that day the root of Jesse, who shall stand as a signal for the peoples—of him shall the nations inquire, and his resting place shall be glorious.

Jesus is that root of Jesse but never made that connection clear to the Pharisees and Scribes.

Romans 15:12 And again Isaiah says, “The root of Jesse will come, even he who arises to rule the Gentiles; in him will the Gentiles hope.”

Again we have this piece of the puzzle that came to us long after Jesus ascended the throne.

I am not sure if the Pharisees and Scribes would have believed Jesus even if He had provided them with the missing pieces of the puzzle. I am just grateful He provided the pieces to us so that we can have a complete picture of our Lord. Now we can start working the puzzle.