Sure.
I know we all see in part, and that includes me.
Ditto.
I'm glad I don't know it all. Makes learning so much more fun!! lol
I spend a good deal of my prayer time asking the Lord to show me where I misunderstand His word and Him.
You humble me.
It'd be the height of hypocrisy for me not to listen and weigh it against the scripture and the witness of Spirit.
So let's see if the Bible allows for stars and how they behave to be interpreted metaphorically.
The celestial lights of creation have long been associated with the powers that reign and govern states and nations. The sun, moon and stars being darkened became a poetic/apocalyptic metaphor for God's judgement upon a nation with O.T. prophets. We have a similar figure of speech today. We say: "It's lights out for that guy!" if we mean he will take a beating for what he has done.
Eccles 12:1-2KJV describes days of strength and blessing. the stars mentioned here, along with the sun and the moon are not to be taken literally. They are symbols of the good times.
Jesus is described as the bright and morning star. Rev. 22:16KJV.
When Isaiah pronounced judgement upon Babylon he used language like this: Isaiah 13:10KJV.
When he described the fall of Idumea he said; Is 34:4KJV
Regarding the judgement of Egypt, Ezekiel says; Ezek 32:7-8KJV.
Acts 2:20KJV forms part of Peter's speech where he declares the phenomenon of Pentecost was a direct fulfillment of Joel's prophecy. Joel 2:31KJV
These are all figures of speech; metaphors. And they involve celestial bodies; particularly stars.
The first of such metaphors regarding the sun, moon and stars appears in Genesis. Joseph dreams a dream where his father represented the sun, his mother the moon, and his eleven brothers the stars. He dreamed that they would bow down to him. Gen 37:9-10KJV.
But when some come to Matt 24:29KJV, for example, all of this is forgotten, even by those who say they allow scripture to interpret scripture and, somehow, metaphor is off limits. It cannot be Israel and their bright lights that are being darkened and falling from grace even though there is so much Biblical precedence for it. In addition, the Greek word for fall and fail is most often the same word πίπτω. The same word is used in Luke 16:17KJV as it is in this Matthew verse.
Or Rev. 6:13KJV which is almost never interpreted in light of Heb. 12:26-27KJV and Matt 24:29KJV.
We have leave, from God's word, when we encounter the word "star", to apply either a physical or a metaphorical interpretation depending on the context. I would argue that, when we encounter the expression "sun, moon, and stars", that we do not have leave to use anything other than the symbolic one; characteristic of established apocalyptic language.