Now, to the stars, galaxies, and everything out there: Man has a very little clue (yes, very little of which they boast of) about the rotation and revolution of these celestial bodies and expanses. Even the approximate distances from the Earth and their sizes are calculated with our Earth’s time as the basis, Light Years, the distance that light travels in one Earth year’s time. It would take about 37,200 earth years to travel one light-year-distance in Discovery, the space shuttle which travels at 5 mps. And the nearest star, Faint Proxima Centauri, is 4.24 light years from the Earth. There is also a binary (two stars that are visible to our naked eye as one) which is 4.37 light years away.

The glory of the stars is different from the glory of the sun and the moon. One star differs from another star in glory. – 1 Cor 15:41. The believing generation and chosen ones are said to be innumerable as the stars of the sky. – Heb 11:12.

While it is impossible to count the number of stars in the sky, it would be exactly equal to the number of sons that God would bring to glory at the culmination of His purpose. (Read more about this elsewhere in ABHOT).

God made the stars also. – Gen 1:16; He condemns their worship. The stars had a beginning; there will be an end to them too. One-third of the stars will go dark soon concurrently at the time when a third part of the sun and a third part of the moon will go dark (or the day might be shortened to sixteen hours on Earth). Then, on the last day determined by God, more stars will fall onto the earth as a fig tree casts her untimely figs. – Rev 6:13.

The angels are also called stars in the Bible. – Rev 1:20. These angels are in the right hand of God – in His control and exist as effective weapons. Each of the seven angels is addressed by the Lord – probably so that they will convey the message to the church with no ‘noise’ that would distort the message if conveyed by human agents. More so, the message is from the Lord and not their own. Also, the angels that were thrown down to the earth by the tail of the Old Serpent are also mentioned as stars. – Rev 12:4.

There is also the mention of the twelve stars as the tribes of Israel – Rev 12:1. They are indicative of the chosen generation and believing kind from among whom the promised Seed would be born.
And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt. And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars forever and ever. – Dan 12:2, 3. This is the day of the return of the Lord or the day of the rapture. Soul-winners would shine as the stars forever and ever.
However, the stars and constellations were also worshipped as gods by the depraved mankind. The Israelites picked up this practice from the Egyptians – Jer 8:2 (Sumerian and Egyptian civilizations were originally Thamizh. So were the Mayan, Inca, Aztec, and Indus). They carried this Star (of David) of their god Remphan, Rephan or Arappan or Arumugan (six-faced) originally worshipped by the Thamizhar, all along their journey to Canaan (Note the Indus valley site named Harappa). This six-faced star is also held sacred by other leading religions of the world – Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, etc.

The Israelites also carried with them from Egypt the Ammonite tabernacle (temple) of Moloch (also Malak (in Malayalam) meaning ‘angel’ – referring to the devil, the idol resembling today’s Baphomet, the GAOTU). Molech worship involved ‘passing through the fire’ (‘Thee midhitthal’ in Thamizh) – a practice that the Israelites embraced from the Ammonites (Amman – goddess), a pagan people and part of the Thamizhar community. They were abominable to God as they worshipped idols and offered gory child sacrifices; it is still practiced widely in India and elsewhere at temples built for ‘Amman’, an erosion of the name ‘Ammon’. A long stretch of burning charcoal (called the kundam) is set in the vicinity of the temple. People, especially the young and children are made to walk through the ‘kundam’ barefoot accompanied by noise and drumbeating. Many are badly hurt but still do it to appease their deity and as an act of purification from sin. Pathetic!