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 We  have already met the symbolism of a star in Jesus' messages to the seven congregations, in which the seven stars symbolize the elders in the congregations. (Revelation 1:20)  Anointed "stars," along with all others of the anointed, inhabit heavenly places in a spiritual sense from the time that they are sealed with the holy spirit as a token of their heavenly inheritance.  (Ephesians  2:6, 7) However, the apostle Paul warned that from such starlike ones would come apostates, sectarians, who would mislead the flock.  (Acts 20:29, 30)  Such unfaithfulness would result in a great apostasy, and these fallen  elder would come to make up a composite man of lawlessness that would elevate himself  to a godlike position among mankind.(2 Thessalonians 2:3, 4) Paul's warnings were fulfilled when the clergy of Christendom appeared on the world scene is well represented by the symbol of "a great burning star burning as a lamp." 

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