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“Stars” usually represent angels.
The 1/3 in this case are those that chose to follow Satan in his rebellion.
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I was just exploring the imagery from a poetic/metaphorical point of view Many prophetic images, especially apocalyptic ones, are multivalent.
On primary meaning, you got it.
This was my initial belief as well and much of what I've read tends to agree.
My truth is "I don't know", so I'm open to other possibilities, too.
The protests of the Protestant against the sins of Rome, that somehow justifies our combat and put us on this rocky path to our times' sliced and diced Christianity, has made the interpretation I offered a recurring thought of late.
But, again, I don't know. I truly don't and that should be obvious.
Scripture, especially Revelation/Apocalypse material, often seems to have meaning within metaphor within meaning, seemingly to confuse the proud, the distracted, the sleeping and the dead.
Honestly? It looks like humanity in our times has been smote about the head and shoulders with a Romans 11:8 stick and we've never recovered.
Theses days there are so many different translations of the Bible, along with the many different branches of the Protestant branch off of the Catholic branch off of the...wait a minute, I lost count of the branches...anyway, what I was trying to say is that it's confusing and that often more than one meaning of meaning seems to fit.
Also, as society and technology advances and our perception of what is just beyond what we currently know also advances, our minds continually open to things and to an understanding that were unknown 50 years ago and undreamed of 100, 200 or more years ago.
When thinking about how rapidly the world changed after WWII, consider how some "break though" event or new technology or whatever that's just up ahead of us might open our awareness in ways that simply cannot be conceived of here in this now on our story's timeline, and that then we'll "see" meaning and have understanding redefined in ways our fathers and grandfathers could not have imagined.
Perhaps one (or more) of the prophecies still left to be fulfilled will be the event that razes our mistakes while raising our understanding.
In the meantime, I don't like my ignorance, but I am stuck where I am looking for clues until His Holy Spirit lights my way and He sends Wisdom to help me "see".