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At this time of year, Christians everywhere love to think on the Star. We remember that wicked Balaam could not but bless the Israel of God, saying, "There shall come a Star out of Jacob, and a Scepter shall rise out of Israel" (Num. 24:17). Accordingly, God announced the birth of the Christ to the
Have you ever found yourself on a clear, moonless night gazing upward at the stars? The stars can be so very impressive. One moment they will look like so many precious gems scattered carelessly against the background of a black velvet sky. Or again they will remind one of the many lights of a dista
We looked at the stars each night, and we four siblings competed to spot the most satellites in the sky. Satellites look like moving stars. We knew the names of several stars or groups of stars, just by watching them so many nights before falling asleep.
Often we see shepherds portrayed with the luminous star, but we have no record that they were aware of such an unusual heavenly body: rather, they had direct information from the heavenly throng of angels. Through the ages men have suggested various explanations for this Star of Bethlehem. Was th
Falling stars as we often see them are meteors, small bodies flying through space and drawn into our atmosphere. As they come into contact with our atmosphere they are lit up. It mentions different constellations: Pleiades (the seven stars, “the seven sisters”, even though only six are visible to th
Stars are twinkling away the last few precious hours of the day and again passing my window are gentle snowflakes, filling the footprints of today and giving to us a freshly unmarked and unscarred tomorrow. Christmas
Other systems of stars as large as the Milky Way but at tremendously greater distances look like tiny patches of light, even in the most powerful telescopes. Compared with the distances between them, the sizes of the stars themselves are a mere nothing. However, even the stars are overwhelmingly hug
The wicked stargaze (Is. 47:13). Rejecting the Creator, they scour the galaxies for the origin of the universe. Superstitious, they use the course of the stars to chart their fortunes. Ignorant of the Lord of glory, they scan TV, stage, university, and arenas for stars radiating the lust of flesh an
This idea of different degrees of glory is illustrated for us every night in the stars of heaven. The Scriptures take the truth that “one star differeth from another star in glory” (I Cor. 15:41), and apply it to the resurrection from the dead. Believers will shine as the stars. Some stars will be b
Scripture points out that star as a unique occurrence: miraculous in its appearance and effect. Not Jupiter or Saturn nor yet Halley ’s Comet but HIS star, created in the beginning and predestined from eternity and now called forth to serve its particular purpose and follow its specifies course as H