Your limited capacity with the English language is hindering your understanding of Scripture. These are similes; the number of believers is being compared to the number of stars or grains of sand. The believers themselves are not compared with stars.
The stars do not represent anything here.
At least when a person literalizes the signified language of parable. That limit?
They represent the many believers as resprentittive glories Children of light as many as grains of sand. Innumerable . Don't hide in under a Bussell Basket let it shine.
Nowhere in Scripture is it stated that the number 12 represents the authority of God as a whole. Any such representations are therefore not doctrinal but rather speculative.
What does 12 represent ?Have you compared the unseen spiritual understanding to the same . . or faith the unseen, to faith. . it is used 164 times. I can get you started.
What do the stars represent in the crown of the bride of Christ. Revelation 12?? You said not persons at first.
12 tribes out of 13 used to represent gates , Apostles 12 out of 13 as foundation walls . A remnant of all the apostles 27 listed.
Genesis 17:20 And as for Ishmael, I have heard thee: Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly;
twelve princes shall he beget, and I will make him a great nation.
Not thirteen
12.
Exodus 39:14And the stones were according to the names of the children of Israel,
twelve, according to
their names, like the engravings of a signet, every one with his name, according to the
twelve tribes.
Leviticus 24:5And thou shalt take fine flour, and bake
twelve cakes thereof: two tenth deals shall be in one cake.
Numbers 1:44These are those that were numbered, which Moses and Aaron numbered, and the princes of Israel, being
twelve men: each one was for the house of his fathers.
Numbers 7:3And they brought their offering before the Lord, six covered wagons, and
twelve oxen; a wagon for two of the princes, and for each one an ox: and they brought them before the tabernacle.Not thirteen
12.
Numbers 7:84This was the dedication of the altar, in the day when it was anointed, by the princes of Israel:
twelve chargers of silver,
twelve silver bowls,
twelve spoons of gold:
Not thirteen
12.
Numbers 7:86The
golden spoons were
twelve, full of incense, weighing ten shekels apiece, after the shekel of the sanctuary: all the gold of the spoons was an hundred and twenty shekels.
Numbers 7:87All the oxen for the burnt offering were
twelve bullocks, the rams
twelve, the lambs of the first year
twelve, with their meat offering: and the kids of the goats for sin offering
twelve.
Numbers 17:2Speak unto the children of Israel, and take of every one of them a rod according to the house of their fathers, of all their princes according to the house of their fathers
twelve rods: write thou every man's name upon his rod.
Numbers 17:6And Moses spake unto the children of Israel, and every one of their princes gave him a rod apiece, for each prince one, according to their fathers' houses, even
twelve rods: and the rod of Aaron was among their rods.
Numbers 29:17And on the second day ye shall offer
twelve young bullocks, two rams, fourteen lambs of the first year without spot:
Numbers 31:5 So there were delivered out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand of every tribe,
twelve thousand armed for war.
Numbers 33:9And they removed from Marah, and came unto Elim: and in Elim were
twelve fountains of water, and threescore and ten palm trees; and they pitched there.
Not thirteen
12.