Hi Rangers,
This is what I found about the "bright and morning star" (Re 22:16):
"The-morning star; ushering in upon his people the splendors of eternal
day."
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"and the bright and morning star"; Christ is compared to a "star", as in
#Nu 24:17 for its light, the light of nature, and of grace, and of the
new Jerusalem state being from him; and for its glory, his glory being the
glory of the only begotten of the Father, and he having a glory, as
Mediator, which his saints will ever behold, and be delighted with; and
for its influence, all the blessings of grace, life, and righteousness,
being from him; and to a "bright" star, because he is the brightness of his
Father's glory, and so splendid, shining, and illustrious, that he is
light itself, and in him is no darkness at all; and to a bright "morning"
star, which shows the night is going off and the day is coming on, and is
the phosphorus, or bringer of light; as Christ by his first coming, who
was then the dayspring from on high, put an end to the night of Jewish
darkness, and sprung the great Gospel day, so often spoken of by the
prophets, and brought life and immortality to light by the Gospel, and
showed the way to eternal life by himself; so by his second coming, to
which this character refers, he will put an end to the night of
antichristian darkness, Pagan, Papal, and Mahometan; so that there shall
be no more night, and shall make an everlasting day, and bring such light
into the holy city, that it shall need no candle, nor light of the sun or
moon. The dawn of light at the Reformation was a presage of this, #Re 2:28
called there the morning star. With great propriety and pertinence are these
titles here assumed by Christ, as "the root and offspring of David", or
David's son, when he was about to sit on the throne of his father David,
and possess his kingdom in the most visible and glorious manner; and "the
bright and morning star", when he was going to usher in such light into the
new Jerusalem, as would make all other light unnecessary. Aijeleth Shahar,
in the title of #Ps 22:1 which is a psalm that belongs to the Messiah, is,
by some Jewish writers {l}, interpreted, "the morning star", the title of
Christ here.
{l} Apud Kimchi in loc.
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Always prepared for Jesus.
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Stefan Fischer (Fani)
Pioneer-Commander, OP #78 Moetzingen/Germany
http://www.royal-ranger.com
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