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#91 What to Do about a Falling Star Problem

By Jonathan S. Rose

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

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Revelation 1:16

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16 And he had in his right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth went a sharp twoedged sword: and his countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength.

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Apocalypse Explained #74

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74. And his face was as the sun shineth in his power. That this signifies His Divine love, from which are all things of heaven, is evident from the signification of face, when said of the Lord, as being Divine love, from which is all good, thus also all things of heaven (Arcana Coelestia 5585, 9306, 9546, 9888; and that the Lord as to the Divine Human is called in the Word the face of Jehovah, see n. 10579; that the {w219} from Divine love appears from heaven as a Sun shining that from Him, as the Sun, all things of heaven exist subsist, may be seen in the work, Heaven and Hell 116-125; and from the subjects treated of in that work which follow).

  
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Translation by Isaiah Tansley. Many thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.