Title: What to Do about a Falling Star Problem

Topic: Second Coming

Summary: We look at stars from Genesis 1 to Revelation 22, and see how unstarlike they sometimes are. Stars in Scripture are subject to (1) darkening, and (2) falling, even to the earth. What does this mean?

Use the reference links below to follow along in the Bible as you watch.

References:
Genesis 1:14; 15:5; 37:9
Numbers 24:17
Deuteronomy 1:10; 10:22; 28:62
Job 9:7
Ecclesiastes 12:2
Isaiah 13:10
Joel 2:10; 3:15
Genesis 37:9-10
Daniel 8:10
Job 9:2-9; 15:15; 25:4-6; 38:1-7
Psalms 148:1-3
Ecclesiastes 12:1-2
Isaiah 13:9-10
Ezekiel 32:7-8
Daniel 8:3; 12:3
Joel 2:10, 31; 3:15
Matthew 2:2, 9-10; 24:29
Mark 13:25
Luke 21:25
1 Corinthians 15:41
Revelation 8:12
Matthew 24:29
Mark 13:25
Revelation 6:13; 8:10; 9:1; 12:4; 1:16, 20; 2:1; 3:1; 6:13; 8:10; 9:1; 12:1, 4; 22:16

199. Internal Meaning of Joel, Chapter 2

1-2 The Lord will come and will execute judgment (1, 15)

2 when falsity and evil from the sensual has destroyed the whole church. (3)

4-9 Falsity of evil will destroy all things of it by various insanities. (3)

10 All good and truth has been dispersed, together with the knowledges [cognitiones] of them. (3)

11 The Lord will fight with them. (7)

12-17 Exhortation to be converted to Him, to repent, and to be wise. (2)

18-19 The Lord will establish the church, to which He will give its goods and truths, (11)

20 and will remove falsities of evil, and thus hell. (11, 17)

21-25 They will have trust in the Lord, from which they will have goods and felicities, (11)

26-27 and acknowledgment from the heart. (11)

28-29 By His Divine the Lord will fill those who are of that church with all things and will vivify them. (11, 12)

30-31 Falsities of evil and evils of falsity will dissipate influx on the day of judgment, (3, 15)

32 but those who acknowledge and worship the Lord will be saved. (17)