cv wrote:
Jesuits, Globalists, Rockerfellers & UN Deep State.
Wow, at one time this was tin foil hat conspiracy theory stuff.
Kinda like .... you know .... the far fetched unbelievable stuff, like Boris is big pharma NWO, or that there's Chinese troops in Canada

Dr. Tim wrote:
Several states knew that fraud had been committed, Ladybug, but they “certified” (clearly a misnomer, as it means to testify to the veracity or genuineness of something) the election results anyway. The members of the Electoral College from those states knew that fraud had been committed, but they awarded their votes to Joe Biden nevertheless. The Supreme Court knows that fraud has been committed, but they refuse to do anything about it.

I once was a store manager for a well known company. We had to allow thieves to pass all points of a possible sale before apprehending them in order to prosecute them.

ladybug wrote:
The CDC has admitted they are combining pneumonia, influenza, and covid, calling it CID, combining all those deaths and putting them under the heading of 'covid deaths'. https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/covid-data/covidview/index.html?fbclid=IwAR1Qc538XB9te5pZgNBAX1qVkM8vqPIn-tDX1s1iK2Jn_7rzShg-B99wivU&fbclid=IwAR2imjirfwyrqB05iS_6I2Zoylyw3m5aL6cXPmCwufph7X9N9nmWYva6PO8
IF you take ivermectin, you will NOT get sick - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tq8SXOBy-4w

Brian from the Deep South wrote:
Be nice if we could peacefully withdraw from the union. They can have the liberal northeastern states and Nebraska.

Deut. 1:10 The LORD your God hath multiplied you, and, behold, ye are this day as the stars of heaven for multitude.

In several places throughout Scripture God provides similitudes (Hosea 12:10) such as the above "Stars of heaven" which I came across during this search for the usage of the term star.  While I agree that the phrase depicts a large number, why is that phrase not available to be continued to be used as the same descriptive term for this same group throughout the rest of Scripture? And yes there are many different terms like in Jeremiah 24 The Good and evil figs also being a figurative term given to the same two groups. 

Jer 24:5 Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel; Like these good figs, so will I acknowledge them that are carried away captive of Judah, whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans for their good.

So if the Stars of heaven and the figs are given descriptive terms that serve as  similitudes (Hosea 12:10), which happen to be the same groups. My question would be why would we not look for those terms elsewhere?

Rev 6:13 And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind.

Stevenr wrote:
God used persecution to motivate the early Church to get off their blessed assurance and go out into all the world to preach. Maybe we should look at what WE have been lacking.
Or it could just be that the end times are here.

I think persecution came as a result of God putting His word into a language they could understand, that being Greek....and 1500 years later English.

Once the people were able to hear by the word of God(Rom 10:17) speak to them in their own language and not continue in the Modernized Hebrew which the priests spoke from but gave instruction in Greek from their traditions(The vain jangling, bewitching Paul spoke about) built of men, did the persecutions begin because the people were being lied to.

The very same thing occurred from 1526-1560 when the English language revealed the truth in the language they spoke, not the Latin readings and then English teachings of traditions of men.

I did come cross one other interesting mention in Joseph's dream about his eleven brothers bowing to him to which he called them stars.

Gen 37:9-10   And he dreamed yet another dream, and told it his brethren, and said, Behold, I have dreamed a dream more; and, behold, the sun and the moon and **the eleven stars** made obeisance to me. And he told it to his father, and to his brethren: and his father rebuked him, and said unto him, What is this dream that thou hast dreamed? Shall I and thy mother and thy brethren indeed come to bow down ourselves to thee to the earth?

The 12 brothers of Jacob are what make up the 12 tribes which in the dream Joseph spoke of as being 11 stars and he would make the 12th. There's only one other mention in Scripture on 12 stars and that is in Rev 12:1. Again just making observations on not conclusions as of yet.

Mike wrote:
Those for whom is reserved the blackness... don’t quite add up to guiding lights. They are not sources of light at all.

2 Peter 2:4 For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;

Jude 1:6 And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.

Then there's this one.

Num 24:17 I shall see him, but not now: I shall behold him, but not nigh: there shall come **a Star out of Jacob**, and a Sceptre shall rise out of Israel

Num 24:19 Out of Jacob shall come **He** that shall have dominion, and shall destroy him that remaineth of the city.

Here's one not of God.

Amos 5:26 But ye have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch and Chiun your images, **the star of your god**, which ye made to yourselves.

Frank wrote:
star

Mike wrote:
Agree with your thoughts on this, Frank. We also could ask where else in Scripture are angels presented as taking the form of bright lights in the sky?

The term "wondering stars" is a metaphoric descriptive term for the angels which kept not their first estate (verse 6)

Carl in Asheville wrote:
Luke 8:17 For nothing is hidden which will not become manifest, nor secret which shall not be known and come to light.

Its either HIS which He promised to write on hearts (Jer31:33) or the Isaiah 55 reference which describes the labor which satisfies not. Those that rely on their labor are the antithesis of being in Christ.

They would be antiChrist like those spoken of here by The apostle John.

Frank wrote:
Those that don’t take the mark and worship the antichrist will be unable to buy or sell and will be hunted down and either killed or imprisoned.