Jane Taylor the 19th century English nursery rhyme writer who penned the immortal words "Twinkle, twinkle little star how I wonder what you are", was indeed asking a most profound question! A question most serious theologians have given scant regard to. But could it be otherwise, if they have been deceived by the Copernican heliocentric theory? For they thought our sun to be a star (some 900,000 times bigger than our earth!) and if this be true, as they sincerely believed/believe; then if the sun be a star as our great men of science teach, (which it isn't, if we would only believe God's written word!) then it follows that all the stars visible in the night sky are great fiery balls of fire, light years apart!, with variations of size and brightness as depicted in 1 Corinthians 15.41-42. Of the "celestial bodies" there is the "glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon." Indeed, we can observe this for ourselves! It is said there is "another glory of the stars: for one star differeth from another star in glory." Again we can observe that some stars are brighter than others, though not to the same degree as between the sun and moon. The apostle says regarding the comparison of the celestial bodies with the terrestrial, "So also is the resurrection of the dead." Those who are Christ's at His Coming "shall shine as the brightness of the firmament...as the stars for ever and ever." Daniel 12.3. Or as the incarnate Lord said "Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father." Matthew 13.43. The Lord said of the resurrected saints, "For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven." Matthew 22.30.
Trying to connect the dots as it were, there does seem to be an inextricable relationship between mankind, angels, and the stars. And I am trying to find out exactly what the truth is without leaving the confines of God's word. For in the resurrection, the risen saints "will be as the angels in heaven", yet superior, for we will be judging them (not the elect angels-why would they need judgment?) There is an invisible domain in the angelic realm as it were; they can see us, for our Lord tells us regarding "these little ones" (were not we all, once such?) "in heaven their angels do always behold the face of my Father" Matthew 18.10. but we cannot see them (stars apart)! I believe that Satan is currently acting alone, that all the fallen angels are currently incarcerated; 2 Peter 2.4, Jude 1.6. In a soon coming Day, however there will be an outburst of demonic activity when this infernal "legion" will be released upon the earth: read the whole of Revelation 9, where the "bottomless pit" is "opened"! and "four angels which are bound" are "loosed"! This chapter is perhaps the least understood in the whole Bible! reading it almost send "shivers down one's spine!" It opens thus; "And the fifth angel sounded and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth." A star is obviously not 900,000 (or thereabouts!) times bigger than our earth!
Hebrews 1.14 informs us that angels are "ministering spirits, sent forth to do service for the sake of them that shall inherit salvation"; that is for all those names that are in God's "book of life"*. The hosts of these invisible agents must therefore be currently active in ways that we cannot perceive, doing God's will in upholding all things, but especially for the benefit of the heirs of salvation. Psalms 34.7 & 91.11 shed much light on this; "The angel of the LORD encampeth round about them that fear Him, and delivereth them. For He shall give His angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways." The unfallen angels are therefore watching over the heirs of salvation, they are called the "watchers" Daniel 4.13, 17 & 23. All without exception, would agree that they are watching from above, for they are the unfallen angels who are the "ministering spirits", but exactly where are they watching from? This I believe is the grand question we should ask ourselves; are they the observable stars in the night sky, or at least, were some of the stars their "habitation" from which they "left"; Jude 1.6? (those that we can now barely see?).
* It is interesting that the expression "book of life" is found eight times in the KJV 1611 Bible, and that only in the New Testament; eight being the number of resurrection. Who but those who will "inherit salvation" be in that book?
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