The Rapture
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Jesus said that if the people had not praised God when He rode the donkey into Jerusalem the very stones would have cried out. Would you believe that? Why not the trees. If rocks can cry out
[h=1]Luke 19:40(CJB)[/h] [SUP]40 [/SUP]But he answered them, “I tell you that if they keep quiet, the stones will shout!”
So why not a mountain split or hills drip honey or trees talk? Or donkeys talk, or axe heads float or. someone walking on water or.....
[h=1]Luke 19:40(CJB)[/h] [SUP]40 [/SUP]But he answered them, “I tell you that if they keep quiet, the stones will shout!”
So why not a mountain split or hills drip honey or trees talk? Or donkeys talk, or axe heads float or. someone walking on water or.....
You know, when you Look at all the SCOFFERS, all the Wars, all the Pestilances, all the Earthquakes, all those Falling Away from Truth, all the False Prophets, all the Hate in this world, all the Jews returning Home to Israel, all the Lukewarm supposed Christians, ETC., and the LENGTH of this Thread already; I do believe this thread will still be going, when our Bridegroom calls us out to go to the Wedding of the Lamb.
Are you not able to read scripture and discern between what is symbolic and what is literal? Why do you continue to compare symbolism with what is literal.
You have to remember that those people back then did not have classifications for meteorites, asteroids, comets, planets and stars. Everything in the heavens were stars to them. Therefore, when it states that the stars fall to the earth it is most likely speaking of either asteroids or meteorites. It is a simple case of discerning the literal from the symbolic.
You have to remember that those people back then did not have classifications for meteorites, asteroids, comets, planets and stars. Everything in the heavens were stars to them. Therefore, when it states that the stars fall to the earth it is most likely speaking of either asteroids or meteorites. It is a simple case of discerning the literal from the symbolic.
If even one star or our own moon for that matter were to hit or even come near the earth, it would be destroyed. And that would put an end to the rest of the fulfillment of God's wrath and the millennial kingdom and that because there would be no earth and no inhabitants left to fulfill those things. As I said, everything to men back then was a star, whether it was a real star which is light years away, or a planet, or a meteorite or a comet. Literal stars could not fall to the earth, because that would be the end of everything. And since we still have a millennial kingdom that needs to take place, then they can't be literal stars the size of our own sun and bigger.
At the time Jesus said it, there were no lively stones...No born again people at all. So there it's sure that Jesus was talking about real honest to good goodness rock kind of stones..Imagine Jesus riding the little donkey, the people shouting hosanah and waving palm fronds and laying them on the road to carpet it for Jesus' donkey. Then the supposed bigwigs telling Jesus. "Hey! Shut these people up." and Jesus replies.."If they shut up all the stones, (making up the walls and things) will shout." Now wouldn't that just scare the stuffing out of them? LOL I almost wish the stones had shouted.
Let me put it this way, there are multiple places in Revelation that say that the stars fall to the earth. If real stars had done so the first time, there would be second time, because the earth would be gone. You really have to be able to discern scripture and use logic in interpreting these events.
I agree, literal stars aren't going to fall. If they're not literal stars then they're figurative stars. One thing that we can not change is the WORDS... STARS will fall, not meteors, not asteroids, not space junk, not alien space ships... We are only left with one option, the stars are figurative of the FIG TREE casting her untimely figs.
Maybe this would make more sense if you understood what an UNTIMELY FIG was.
Maybe this would make more sense if you understood what an UNTIMELY FIG was.
In the last book of the Narnia series, the stars fell from the heavens.. Well the way he described it, it looked like they were falling to Earth. they were falling from the sky though, as if sliding down the sky in to a trough at the bottom. From the Earth is would look like they were falling to the ground....Could it be that's the way it will be? Or could the stars be spirits falling. Like whan Lucifer fell. ...The star falling as lightning.
Luke 10:18
And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven.
Luke 10:18
And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven.
It could be fallen angels because the bible does call them stars so I don't have a problem with that. But the bible goes another step further and links the stars to the fig tree... I could be wrong but I think that means the children of Israel... not that they are falling in a bad way, but they are the FRUIT of the fig tree that Christ gathered when he came the first time.
The tree was about to be destroyed so God cast them from the tree and gathered them.
The tree was about to be destroyed so God cast them from the tree and gathered them.
No! Not figurative stars. Why don't you understand that to those people back then everything in the heavens was a star to them? As I said the "fig tree" in scripture does not always refer to Israel. Most of the time it refers to a fig tree. And I have no idea how you interpreted stars for fig tree. An untimely fig is an unripe fig and is referring to how the wind blows the fig off of the tree. You are reading into these scriptures what is not there.