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?

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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

720. And cast them unto the earth.- That this signifies their extinction and destruction is evident from the signification of casting unto the earth, when said of the stars - which signify the knowledges of truth and good from the Word, consequently truths - as denoting to extinguish and destroy them, since truths are extinguished and destroyed when they are falsified and adulterated. Truths falsified and adulterated are greater falsities than those from any other origin; for falsities from any other origin do not thus extinguish and destroy truths, but give some place for them, in or near themselves. By falsities from other sources those especially are meant which arise from ignorance, from fallacies, and from religion with those who do not possess the Word. It must be understood that those who live in evil, and yet say that they are saved because they have faith, have scarcely any genuine truth, however many things they may know and draw forth from the sense of the letter of the Word. For the sense of the letter of the Word is such that, if not interiorly comprehended, it may be explained in different ways, and if not looked at from genuine truths, it may be believed according to the letter only, and thus be falsified, according to what was shown in the preceding article by comparison with the progression and fixedness of the sun. That such have scarcely any genuine truth, was ascertained in regard to some in the spiritual world, who in doctrine and life had confirmed faith alone, who, it was found, did not even know or acknowledge a single genuine truth; the angels made the examination and were surprised. It was therefore evident that they had extinguished and destroyed in themselves the truths of the Word; this then is signified by the dragon drawing down the third part of the stars of heaven with his tail, and casting them unto the earth - as also the he-goat did in Daniel:

The horn of the he-goat of the goats "grew even to the host of the heavens, and cast down of the host to the earth, and of the stars, and trampled them under foot; and it cast truth to the earth" (8:10, 12).

The host (exercitus) of the heavens means all the truths and goods of heaven and of the church. The stars which shall fall from heaven have a similar signification (Matthew 24:29).