Stars: Angry, Falling, Casting Themselves Down

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  There may be more than one occasion when the light of the sun and the moon shall be withheld from men, and when it will seem as though the very stars in the firmament are being hurled from their places. What is here recited could mean that the light of the sun is blotted out by smoke and weather conditions, which would also make the moon appear ‘‘as blood.’’ This falling of the stars ‘‘unto the earth’’ could be meteoric showers, as distinguished from the stars, on another occasion, appearing to fall because the earth itself reels to and fro. Perhaps the passage has reference to both types of falling stars. The latter-day revelation that seems to parallel John’s words has come to us in this language: ‘‘Not many days hence and the earth shall tremble and reel to and fro as a drunken man; and the sun shall hide his face, and shall refuse to give light; and the moon shall be bathed in blood; and the stars shall become exceedingly angry, and shall cast themselves down as a fig that falleth from off a fig-tree.’” (D&C 88:87.)

  Elder Bruce R. McConkie

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  • Stars: Angry, Falling, Casting Themselves Down

  21 Oct 2026