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Originally Posted by ainulinale
Revelation is written in the apocalyptic genre which means the entire book is most likely very symbolic. Perhaps stars are representative of angels.
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Having slept on it.. I finally figured out the meaning of the falling stars.. Eureka!
They symbolize.. false prophets.
I'm always happy when I can crack a puzzling saying.. :-)
Sorry.. I was exhausted last night.. so failed to notice the connection between.. the passage I pasted.. and the stars falling..
Which is this..
"So down the great dragon was hurled, the original serpent, the one called Devil and Satan, who is misleading the entire inhabited earth; he was hurled down to the earth, and his angels were hurled down with him."
Then it continues..
“..and its tail drags a third of the stars of heaven, and it hurled them down to the earth. And the dragon kept standing before the woman who was about to give birth, that, when she did give birth, it might devour her child.” - Revelation 12:1 - 4
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Ok.. so.. angels are used to symbolize the prophets in general.. but the angels that were hurled down to earth were the false prophets who were deceiving the people.. so.. it would seem.. the stars do represent angels.. which.. in turn.. symbolize.. prophets.
Both.. those prophets who were respected.. and who were guiding the people wisely.. and those prophets (or leaders).. who by giving false teachings.. were leading the people astray.. these are the stars in the sky.. that guide us.. just as the "star" guided the wise men.
Anyway.. Isaiah explains this idea in Revelation.. concerning the destruction of the beast.. much more clearly.. than I can.
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“The aged and highly respected one is the head, and the prophet giving false instruction is the tail. And those who are leading this people on prove to be the ones causing them to wander; and those of them who are being led on, the ones who are being confused.” - Isaiah 9:15
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Which is still true.. down to this day..
False leaders are still causing us to be confused..
And we can detect this.. so it is science..:-)
Men like.. Gordon and George.. for example.
Yet.. doesn’t the scripture say:
“Neither be called 'leaders,' for your Leader is one, the Christ. But the greatest one among you must be your minister. Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.” - Matthew 23:10
Which is the reason such “stars”.. (or false prophets),, need to be “trodden down”.
They promise us a material heaven..
While they.. themselves.. are creating hell on earth.
Jesus came to set us free from such slavery.. (slavery to their ideas).
And taught us to be slaves to love and righteousness instead.
Revelation is concerned with.. sedition.. and blasphemy..
Which is a dangerous game.. therefore.. it had to be encoded in symbolism.
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