Was jesus lying?

He is not lying because he states it more than once. Lying is saying something one minute and then opposing it the next. He is coming back. And for all we know it could be literal or a metaphor. Stars falling from the sky, sounds like shooting stars or something along those lines, take it into a different perspective. However, Jesus is capable of doing anything, he is above all, great and powerful. If he wanted to make the stars fall from the sky, he could....Show more

Well, since Christians understand that God created all things, and that Jesus was the one through whom things were created, it is obvious that both would know that if a star, a sun, fell down on earth, nothing would be left.

The sign of Christ that is promised is supposed to be a sun-like object, perhaps a dwarf sun type object with the appearance of wings of a dove. This object may be accompanied by its own swarm of moon-lets, asteroids or meteors, in whatever case. When this object nears earth, the Bible predicts that the gravitational forces will nearly tear the earth apart. The same gravitational forces will as predicted cause some of the orbiting matter of that dwarf star to crash down on earth. In that sense, since these have been orbiting the star in stable orbits for thousands of years and only get disturbed at the approach to the earth, the word 'star' that Jesus used may have been the only one that fit without a large explanation such as I am giving here.

Of course, a second thought is, what did the ancient people 2000 years ago call asteroids and meteors! Even today, we call this a >shooting star<. Refer to this link to see that is what we say today: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shooting%20star.

As such, since we do use the term shooting star, Jesus most likely was referring to a fairly large number of these that are associated with his sign in the sky, the sun-like object promised to come right after the great tribulation. Many of these shooting stars may impact the earth, and they may well be rather large. The earth is going to be laid waste, we are told, with most of humanity killed....Show more

Just as His heavenly Father never lies, Jesus would not lie. A bit of research on the subject reveals this.......

Darkening of the Heavens. The darkening of the heavens or of the stellar bodies is often used to represent the removal of prosperous, favorable conditions, and their being replaced by foreboding, gloomy prospects and conditions, like a time when dark clouds blot out all light day and night. (Compare Isa 50:2, 3, 10.)

This use of the physical heavens in connection with the mental outlook of humans is somewhat similar to the old Arabic expression, “His heaven has fallen to the earth,” meaning that one’s superiority or prosperity is greatly diminished.

At times, of course, in expressing divine wrath, God has employed celestial phenomena, some of which have literally darkened the heavens.—Ex 10:21-23; Jos 10:12-14; Lu 23:44, 45.

Upon Judah such a day of darkness came in fulfillment of Jehovah’s judgment through his prophet Joel, and it reached its culmination in Judah’s desolation by Babylon. (Joe 2:1, 2, 10, 30, 31; compare Jer 4:23, 28.) Any hope of help from a heavenly source seemed to have dried up, and as foretold at Deuteronomy 28:65-67, they came into “dread night and day,” with no relief or hope by sunlit morning or by moonlit evening. Yet, by the same prophet, Joel, Jehovah warned enemies of Judah that they would experience the same situation when he executed judgment upon them. (Joe 3:12-16) Ezekiel and Isaiah used this same figurative picture in foretelling God’s judgment on Egypt and on Babylon respectively.—Eze 32:7, 8, 12; Isa 13:1, 10, 11.

The apostle Peter quoted Joel’s prophecy on the day of Pentecost when urging a crowd of listeners to “get saved from this crooked generation.” (Ac 2:1, 16-21, 40) The unheeding ones of that generation saw a time of grave darkness when the Romans besieged and eventually ravaged Jerusalem less than 40 years later. Prior to Pentecost, however, Jesus had made a similar prophecy and showed it would have a fulfillment at the time of his presence.—Mt 24:29-31; Lu 21:25-27; compare Re 6:12-17.

Only the future will tell what exactly is literal and what is figurative about that prophecy, but we do know that all of the prophecies given by Almighty God and his Son have always come true.

To learn more about what the Bible REALLY Teaches please visit.......
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So, why do we have "fallign stars" and/or "shooting stars"?

Jesus was speaking in parables, using common daily terms to described uncommon Godly acts..

What Jesus was describing was a METEOR SHOWER, which LOOKS LIKE "stars falling to earth".

So, did you ever pass that Fourth Grade English exam on "Reading with Meaning"?...Show more

Was jesus lying?
if you read round the verse you have taken out of context you will understand what was being said -

Matthew 24:24-31 KJV
(24) For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.
(25) Behold, I have told you before.
(26) Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not.
(27) For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
(28) For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together.
(29) Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:
(30) And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
(31) And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.

No Jesus was NOT lying, he never did....Show more