Bible Prophecy is not intended to harm but to in-lighten. To In-lighten the dark recesses of misunderstanding and doubt. To bring forth the truth and dispel the lies. Part 3b will be on falling stars the spiritual and the physical.
A Star is, 1.A self-luminous celestial body consisting of a mass of gas held together by its own gravity. 2. A symbol of rank or merit. 3. The future; destiny. Falling stars are represented by three things in Scripture. 1. Metours. 2. Angelic beings. and 3. A representation of great destruction and peril, a plague that will cause the earth great distress. 1Co 15:41 There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars: for one star differeth from another star in glory.
This is the glory of the physical and the spiritual. Differences of Angels. As with the sun and the moon. The sun has its glory, for its brightness and warmth, hard to look upon because of its power, as with God. The Moon has its glory, a soft white light which is looked upon freely, a comforting glow that lights our way thru the night as with the Son of God, Jesus.
2Peter 1:19 We have also a more sure word of prophecy; where-unto ye do well that ye take heed,( It must be understood that prophecy is commanded to be understood and taught by those with the understanding.) as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts: ("a more sure word of prophecy? Not that the prophecy's of the past were not sure, but that we have a better understanding of the prophecy's today because of our working knowledge of the entire world and its unrighteousness.)
Rev 8:10-11. And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters; And the name of the star is called Worm-wood ( a representation of what this star will cause, bitterness and death.
The name by which the Greeks designated it, absinthion, means “undrinkable.?: and the third part of the waters became worm-wood (That word, worm-wood, becomes the proper emblem of bitterness); and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter(an emblem of the calamity). The death of man will be exceedingly great because of the spiritual and physical meaning of these stars.
In this Reference, Exo.15:23-24, we see Biblical proof, that these thing are probable. And when they came to Marah, they could not drink of the waters of Marah, for they were bitter: therefore the name of it was called Marah.
And the people murmured against Moses, saying, What shall we drink? Barnes states of Rev. 8:11(Great destruction and devastation are undoubtedly intended to be denoted by this - destruction that would be well represented in a land by the natural effects if a considerable part of the waters were, by their bitterness, made unfit to drink.) Rev 9:1-3; And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a “star? The word star here refers to an angelic being with whom power was given to accomplish the will of God on the Earth) fall from heaven ( His point of origin.) unto the earth ( His destination.): and to him ( The word Him denotes that the word star and him are joined together, meaning the same thing.
This angel is called a star.) was given the key of the bottomless pit. And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit. And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power.
(We could assimilate the star with death and destruction, even with the death angel.)(The sun is the religion of the Church; the moon is the government of the state; and the stars are the judges and doctors of both. Isa.13:10; Eze.32:7, Eze.32:8, etc.”Lightfoot.)
Mat 24:28-29; For wheresoever the carcase is ( The Dead.), there will the eagles be gathered together ( Scavengers, meat eaters.). Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken: ( A great calamity of the Heavens.
Gravity will no longer have hold on the celestial bodys.) (The Stars, the Sun and the Moon were not created for God but for man. The stars will fall, for their light will no longer be needed.) Gen 1:14-16; And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years: And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so. And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.
We must ask ourselves why, Mat 24:28-29, is so hard to take as literal and not spiritual? We see stars falling from the heavens on a daily bases. We see proof of their destruction all around the world and many times they leave no trace of their existence when they fall. Asterites, Asteroids, Comets, ect. Past and Future.
Man prides himself on his knowledge of science but he still misses the subtle points of truth, when he ignores the prophetic meaning of the scripture. God intends to use the stars of the heavens to shake men into repenting of their sins. But as we see in scripture, this calamity will have no effect on the hardness of mans heart. Rev 9:18 By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths
(These words designate, a command to happen, as with the two witnesses in Rev 11:3-15.) And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.These are the two olive trees, and the two candlesticks standing before the God of the earth. And if any man will hurt them, fire proceedeth out of their mouth, and devoureth their enemies: and if any man will hurt them, he must in this manner be killed.
Rev 9:20-21; And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk: Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts. Luke 17:29 But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.
Rev 14:10 The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb: It is so easy to believe that stars(Brimstone) Fell from heaven and consumed Sodom and Gomorrah, but we have a hard time believing that God will do it again, as He promised in prophecy.
[Job.1:16; Job.18:15]. Hell was rained from heaven upon them. Fire, and brimstone, and a horrible tempest, were the portion of their cup (Psa.11:6); Brimstone: The word rendered “brimstone,?(q.d. brennestone, or brinnestone, id est burning-stone), is always rendered by the LXX “sulphur,?and seems to denote a meteorous inflammable matter.
Weather these falling stars are from volxanic action, hail stones from heaven or the actual stars from the cosmose, you pick one, the matter is that it will happen. end pt. 3b.
Deu.29:23; Job.18:15; Psa.11:6; Isa.1:9, Isa.13:19; Jer.20:16, Jer.49:18, Jer.50:40; Lam.4:6; Eze.16:49, Eze.16:50; Hos.11:8; Amo.4:11; Zep.2:9; Mat.11:23, Mat.11:24; Luk.17:28, Luk.17:29; 2Pe.2:6; Jud.1:7
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