I don't know that it is widely understood but the fact is that our rulers and for that matter any persons whom we elevate as icons of human society are pictured in the Bible as occupying a symbolic heaven which denotes their elevated position in relation to men by the esteem of men.
We are seeing the stars fall from heaven and it may get even worse.
Literalism would have us believe that the literal stars are what is spoken of in such prophecies but that is really quite ridiculous. Shooting stars are not really stars and besides that it would not take many to wipe out life on earth so meteorites and the like are unlikely candidates. The smallest actual star is many times larger than the earth and there is no way it could fall to earth.
Clearly the men we reverence are those stars.
The moon turning to blood or turning dark is a regular natural occurrence played upon in prophecy to denote the loss of God's blessings on our harvests (and even wars destruction of our harvest land), the seasons for which are determined by the cycle of the moon. Harvests used to be determined by the Lunar Calendar, based upon the cycles of the moon. But the moon is also used to represent men who are enlightened of God (as the moon by the sun) and we find ourselves in a time when those enlightened ones seem to have gone dark. We can no longer find them.
The sun is used to represent sometimes God's scorching the earth as punishment for sin and at other times the sun is used to denote the light of knowledge received of God which in that case the darkening of the sun means men become locked in confusion as operating in the darkness with no real wisdom.
The end of this world is but a sneeze away my friend.
Agree.
First the earth was CLEANSED, and destroyed the UNCLEAN inhabitants.
Gen 6
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13] And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me;
for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold,
I will destroy them with the earth.
Soon the earth shall be PURIFIED, and shall destroy the UNCLEAN inhabitants.
2 Pet 3
[7] But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word
are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
2 Pet 3
[10] But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and
the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
elements -
earth -
works -
burned up quickly, (one day event). 2 Pet 3:8
Natural men can not survive, without the elements, earth, works. Thus when those things are burned up, so too shall man on the earth, be affected by death, when God exacts His wrath upon the world.
Praise God, in his grace and mercy that He has excepted the faithful from His Wrath.
1 Thes 5
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9]
For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,
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3] For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then
sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and
they shall not escape.
God Bless,
SBC