And then there was Lucifer, planning his overthrow of God and declaring that he would sit upon God's throne, in the place of God ".... I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north." Isa.14:13.
The end times prophet, Ezekiel, delivered the prophetic words of God ... "For thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will bring ... a king of kings, from the north, with horses, and with chariots, and with horsemen, and companies, and much people." Ezek.26:7. That prophecy continues ....
"Therefore, son of man, prophesy and say ... Thus saith the Lord GOD; In that day when my people of Israel dwelleth safely ... And thou shalt come from thy place out of the north parts, thou, and many people with thee, all of them riding upon horses, a great company, and a mighty army ...." Ezek.38:14-15.
I think it is significant that the "north" in these verses signifies the northern sky as seen from Earth. In my opinion, toward the North Star. I mean by that, that in the rest of the universe, there is no north, south east or west but all directions are up from where ever you might be out there in space (day sky and night sky, opposite directions but are both up). As far as we humans know, there is only one place in the universe which is down, and that is from the face of the Earth, under your feet. From any place you might be standing on earth, down is toward the center of the earth. From the center, all directions are up. If standing on the North pole there are only two directions, up and down, North and South. North is above your head only, following the pole. The rest of the sky is just up, everything beneath you is down/South and to the sides of you is all South ... at the North pole. There is no east or west at the precise point of the North pole...True North. True North and magnetic North are not the same, of course. Magnetic North, at which the compass needle points, is somewhere near the Northern Canada border, and is moving somewhat year to year. Compass needles do not point at true North, the North pole, but at the earths magnetic field which is actually south of the North pole. If I confuse you, Google it. RB
That first verse above, in Job, is really amazing. We see God stretching the "north" over an empty space and hanging Earth, spinning on its south to north axis pole, in empty space, and hanging on nothing, like a gyroscope spinning on a thread... without the thread. In the second verse, Lucifer wants to sit on God's throne, overlooking the pre-Adam & Eve angelic host or "congregation" of heaven, in "the sides of the north". In the third and fourth references, the "king of kings" is coming to Earth with his armies on horses from his "place in the north". RB
Now, what does all that have to do with this article on the north star getting brighter and brighter? .... I don't know. It must mean something but I have no idea what that might be, but it is interesting. RB
The mystery of the North Star: Astronomers baffled to find Polaris is getting BRIGHTER
- Team found that Polaris is 2.5 times brighter today than in 137CE
- Experts say find is 'entirely unexpected'
By MARK PRIGG in Daily Mail Online/ Science & Tech.
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THE NORTH STAR
Polaris, also known as the North Star, Northern Star or Pole Star, is the brightest star in the constellation Ursa Minor.
Historically it has been used to guide travellers, and is very close to the north celestial pole, making it the current northern pole star.
Recent papers calculate the distance to Polaris at about 434 light-years, although some suggest it may be 30% closer which.
Astronomers have discovered that Polaris, the north star, is getting brighter.
They say the star has suddenly reversed two decades of dimming.
It is expanding at more than 100 times the rate they expected - and nobody is sure why.
A team led by Scott Engle of Villanova University in Pennsylvania recalibrated historic measurements of Polaris by Ptolemy in 137 C.E., the Persian astronomer Al-Sufi in 964 C.E., and others.
They investigated the fluctuations of the star over the course of several years, combing through historical records and utilising the Hubble Space Telescope.
The team found that Polaris is 2.5 times brighter today than in Ptolemy's time, which they say is a remarkable rate of change.
'If they are real, these changes are 100 times larger than predicted by current theories of stellar evolution,' says Villanova astronomer Edward Guinan.
The team's data also hint that the star's cyclic 4-day variation in brightness, although still weak, is once again growing more robust--but no one knows what's driving these flutterings or how long they will last.
Engle and his team began to research the star around the beginning of 2000, when they found that the dropping brightness was on the rise again.
'It was unexpected to find,' Engle told SPACE.com.'It started increasing rather rapidly.'
'Polaris is arguably the best-known star in the Northern Hemisphere, since it lies within a degree of the North Celestial Pole,' the researchers wrote.
'For much of human history, Polaris was highly regarded for its unchanging nature.
'However, we now know that Polaris is a Cepheid variable, undergoing ultra-low-amplitude pulsations.
'Thirty years ago, a paper in the Astrophysical Journal by A. Arellano Ferro announced that the amplitude of these pulsations was diminishing.
'This behavior was confirmed, and it was believed that soon enough Polaris would no longer be a Cepheid variable.
'We started photometrically monitoring Polaris in 1999 and discovered that the amplitude of pulsations had reached a minimum and was now, in fact, growing again.
'It was while gathering historic photometry for the amplitude study that we noticed the published magnitudes of Polaris were systematically fainter, the further back in time the data went.
'This is an entirely unexpected behavior for a Cepheid variable, and one that we wanted to investigate further.
Engle presented the results of his research in a poster session at the American Astronomical Society meeting in Washington.
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