Morning Stars The concept of the Morning Star is found in a number of books of the Bible and elsewhere in ancient cosmology. From the book of Revelation, the concept of the Dawn or Morning Star from proinos or orthrinos (also relating to the dawn and as an epithet of Venus) is applied specifically at Revelation 22:16 to Jesus Christ. The Morning Star is obviously a rank of rulership over the nations of the planet as at Revelation 2:26-28. Christ promises those of the Thyatiran Church who overcome that he will give them the Morning Star. They will be given power over the nations, and they will rule with a rod of iron as Christ himself received power from his Father. Peter also referred to this aspect of Christ at 2Peter 1:16-19, where the Morning Star (RSV) or Day Star (Moffatt) rises in the hearts of the elect. The concept of the Morning Star has created some confusion as, being a rank, it is applied to the spiritual and effective ruler of the planet. The rank has thus been held by Satan, as the Morning Star, or god of this planet, until the coming Messianic age. Satan is referred to at Isaiah 14:12-15 (RSV) thus: How you are fallen from heaven, O Day Star; Son of Dawn! How you are cut to the ground, You who laid the nations low! You said in your heart, ‘I will ascend to heaven; Above the stars of God I will set my throne on high; I will sit on the mount of assembly in the far north; I will ascend above the heights of the clouds, I will make myself like the Most High!’ But you are brought down to sheol, to the depths of the pit. The word for dawn here is schachar as early light or morning and is translated as such by NKJV, etc. The NKJV translates the light bearer, (the Day Star above) as the Lucifer or light bearer. This section portrays the rebellion in the heavens and is referred to by Christ in this context at Luke 10:18 where he says: I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven. From Revelation, the rebellion involved one third of the host of heaven, here mentioned as stars. From Revelation 12:7-9 we see: And war broke out in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon: and the dragon and his angels fought, but they did not prevail, nor was a place found for them in heaven any longer. So the great dragon was cast out, that serpent of old, called the Devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was cast to the earth and his angels were cast out with him. It should be noted that the term Satan is derived from the Hebrew verb to accuse (the radical STN), hence accuser of the brethren. The concept of the morning star being held in the mouth of the dragon is found in the Sanskrit. Huxley notes that the dragon was known, in its early undifferentiated state of both being and non-being, as Tad Ekam or That One. The sun is thus the dragon child and subsequently the dragon slayer. Symbolised as the Garuda, it was the intermediary with the heavens (ibid., p66). Prior to this war and the fall from heaven, Satan was allowed access to the throne of God. The book of Job shows that the Bene Elohim, or the Sons of God, presented themselves before the Eternal and that Satan came with them (Job 1:6). From verse 7, we see that at that time he also had freedom or dominion over the earth, as he had at the time of Christ and, from Revelation, still does until the return of the Messiah, as the new Morning Star, or planetary ruler. There were however, more than two entities who carried this epithet. From Job 38:4, we know that at the creation of the planet the Morning Stars were gathered and sang together, and all the Sons of God shouted for joy. Now this situation has two very serious implications by logical extension. Firstly: being the rank of a planetary ruler and from Isaiah 14, at that stage being allocated to Satan, it is obvious that there were other Morning Stars, entailing the existence of other planetary systems and the inclusion with, but distinction from the Sons of God, equally implies that the extended systems were of degree and rank. Secondly: this assertion carries with it, the implication that the extension of the spirit of God was relative. We have seen the distinction of Eloah as the singular God or God the Father and the extended God or Elohim, which were a plurality as a Council of Gods. These appear to equate to the Morning Stars. The Bene Elohim or Sons of God are subordinate. We may now raise some questions about the assertions of Monism from the very beginning, with that of Parmenides, where there can not be more nor less of the one and it is, as James would have it, of next to next nothingness. Clearly the concept here embraced is of a multiplicity of spiritual entities, with trans-material capacity in union by extension of the spirit as the Elohim. From the example of Christ, here it is a union with the Eloah as a unified body, and for whom the intermediary Elohim speaks. The Elohim have a metaphysical, or spiritual, union and communication which to date has been improperly understood. It is from this union that God is One. Temporarily God is not all in all. This situation occurred because of the rebellion and will be corrected with the advent of the new Morning Star, The Messiah.
Posted on: Sat, 20 Sep 2014 11:40:00 +0000