Windy said:
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Close to what I was going to say... We know that various original wording changed in translation. Going from Arameic, to Greek, to English, the wording could have changed our preception of the meaning more than once. ...But, suppose the original wording said the Sun would fall from the sky.
Not likely. I don't have the original text or papyrus in front of me, but as a former linguist, I can tell you that ONE word does not become FOUR words and different phrases during a translation. Here is the KJ Version of it:
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Matthew 24:29-31:
29 "Immediately after the distress of those days " 'the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from the sky, and the heavenly bodies will be shaken.'
It is clear that the original text was written by people who had 4 different words for sun, moon, stars, and celestial bodies. And they ascribed specific occurences to each. I'm pretty sure it was translated fairly accurately. Even at that time, people had seen 'shooting stars' and yet saw that the well known stars remained in place. They certainly knew the difference (to some extent) between the sun and the moon and the stars.
What they certainly did NOT know was that the stars were, themselves, suns in other galaxies. They may have mistook them for meteors that appeared to be "shooting stars." I'm sure they had seen (very clearly) the Perseiod Shower. But.... it comes every year, and cannot be considered a forboding of the endtimes.
The sun and the moon COULD both be blocked temporarily by something like the eruption of Vesuvius, and an earthquake might make them "foretell" the shaking of other planets (if they knew of them,) but STARS falling from the sky? It's clear what they THOUGHT would happen.... but, it is fantasy.
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It is possible (though, it may not be in our lifetimes) for a large heavenly body to pass through our solar system, close to the earth, and disrupt the sun's gravity, dragging the earth off into deep space. It would seem as though the sun was leaving (falling) from our skies. And, without the warmth of the sun, the earth would be doomed. A rogue planet, the size of Saturn could pass at twice the distance of the moon, and the gravitational pull could be enormous. There would not have to be a collision. Now, keep in mind that the Andromeda Galaxy is on a collision course with the Milky Way. They say that collisions will be extemely rare, but what about the gravity fields. How will they interact?
I LOVE talking scientific theory with you, so I will certainly get back to this. But, for tonight... I'm out of time. But, your whole premise is based on a mistranslation between "stars" and the "sun" and I've adequately explained how that is probably NOT the case.