1. Apocalypse 6:13 (NEG79)
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What is the falling of the stars compared to?

Apocalypse 6:13 (NEG79)

13 et les étoiles du ciel tombèrent sur la terre, comme les figues vertes d'un figuier secoué par un vent violent.

Their falling is compared to the effect a powerful wind has on a fig tree; the shaking prompts one fig after the other to fall till there are no figs left in the tree (see also Isaiah 34:4). Similarly, at the opening of the sixth seal, the constellations God placed in the sky come unstuck from their positions so that they no longer twinkle in the night sky.