From the Bible. Who is the brite and morning star?

Question

testing your bible skills

My bad BRIGHT and morning star. Look in Revelation 22:16 I _____ have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the church. I am the root and the offspring of David,and the bright and morning star.

Answer 1

I am the Root and Offspring of David, and the bright Morning Star (Revelation 22:16, NIV).

Jesus, of course,

Answer 2

"Morning star" is used of more than one individual, NONE OF WHOM ARE PLANETS. The phrase denotes a planet, which planet it is changes depending on their relative locations. Clearly, the use is FIGURATIVE, so the fact that DIFFERENT people are called this is of no significance and does not imply ANY relationship between those persons.

Here are the 4 passages where the phrase is found:

Isaiah 14:12 How you have fallen from heaven,
morning star, son of the dawn!
You have been cast down to the earth,
you who once laid low the nations!

2Peter 1:19 We also have the prophetic message as something completely reliable, and you will do well to pay attention to it, as to a light shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts.

Revelation 2:26 To those who are victorious and do my will to the end, I will give authority over the nations— 27 they ‘will rule them with an iron scepter and will dash them to pieces like pottery’ —just as I have received authority from my Father. 28 I will also give them the morning star.

Revelation 22:16 “I, Jesus, have sent my angel to give you this testimony for the churches. I am the Root and the Offspring of David, and the bright Morning Star.”

The most prominent individual so called is certainly Jesus. 2Peter 1:19 probably refers to Jesus. Revelation 2:27 is an undefined use, where the "morning star" will be a gift to over-comers, though this COULD certainly be a symbolic reference to Jesus as well, and in Revelation 22:16, the person called "morning star" is identified for us as Jesus.

This leaves the ONLY Old Testament use of the phrase, found in Isaiah. Isaiah 14:12 is in reference to a different person. The person is INTRODUCED with this earlier in the chapter: 14:3 "On the day the LORD gives you relief from your suffering and turmoil and from the harsh labor forced on you, 4 you will take up this taunt against the KING OF BABYLON: How the oppressor has come to an end! How his fury has ended!""

The LITERAL reference is to a king in Isaiah's time. There is also is a likely reference to Satan on some figurative level (This finds its basis in Jesus' statement on the return of the 72 (after the "limited commission") recorded in Luke 10:18 “I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven.")

MANY people attack modern translations that PROPERLY TRANSLATE the phrase on the supposed basis that since Jesus is called explicitly "morning star," in Revelation 22, no one else can be called that in scripture.

SIMPLY PUT, FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE IS NOT EXCLUSIVE. The use of figurative language a particular way in one passage in no way prevents the same figurative language from being used in a different way elsewhere.

Here is an example of the same figurative language describing different people in different contexts:

Matthew 5:14 “YOU ARE THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD. A city on a hill cannot be hidden.

John 8:12 When Jesus spoke again to the people, he said, “I AM THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”

OK, you who claim "morning star" CANNOT refer to anyone but Jesus:

Is Jesus the "light of the world," OR are the people he was teaching in the "Sermon on the Mount" the "light of the world?" It "HAS" to be one or the other, "you can't have it both ways."

Well, OBVIOUSLY, BOTH ARE TRUE.

By the same token, BOTH Satan (or the king of Babylon if you prefer) and Jesus ARE FIGURATIVELY called "morning star." This doesn't mean they are the same or are related in any way.

Answer 3

Jesus is the Bright and morning Star. He's also the Lily of the Valley, the Great I Am, the Great Physician, the Mighty Counselor, the Lamb of God. He's my All in All.

Answer 4

Jesus Christ!!! Good question.

“And I will give him the morning star.” (Revelation 2:28) Jesus himself later explains what this “star” is, saying: “I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright morning star.” (Revelation 22:16) Yes, it is Jesus who fulfills the prophecy that Jehovah forced from the unwilling lips of Balaam: “A star will certainly step forth out of Jacob, and a scepter will indeed rise out of Israel.” (Numbers 24:17) How will Jesus give “the morning star” to those who conquer? Evidently, by giving himself to them, by taking them into the closest, most intimate relationship with him.

Answer 5

brite means fermented wheat, so I will guess you mean bright.

"Bright and morning star" is not found in the Bible. It is, however, a line from a poem written about Jesus. This poem was written by Charles Fry and is included in many hymnals under the title, "The Lily of the Valley"

Answer 6

Lucifer of course. You people who all said Jesus, please learn the basics of your own religion before trying to answer questions.

"Lucifer is a Latin word meaning "light-bearer" (from lux, lucis, "light", and ferre, "to bear, bring"), a Roman astrological term for the "Morning Star", the planet Venus. The word Lucifer was the direct translation of the Septuagint Greek heosphoros, ("dawn-bearer"); (cf. Greek phosphoros, "light-bearer") and the Hebrew Helel, ("Bright one") used by Jerome in the Vulgate, having mythologically the same meaning as Prometheus who brought fire to humanity."

Answer 7

Phosphoros, Lucifer, Light Bearer, Venus, Morning star.

Answer 8

It's Lucifer, the bright morning star, before his fall from heaven.

By the way, who are the fools rating correct answers down?

Answer 9

Lucifer and Jesus. Since Lucifer is also a son of God, that makes them brothers.

Answer 10

who's the guy with the beard and the magic fingers!

Jesus? you're damn right...

Who's the guy that just cant get enough of his father..

shut your mouth, im talking about Jesus!