People familiar with American military custom know that a star has long been used as a symbol to represent a loved one. During World War I it became common practice for any family who had a family member in service to display a service flag that featured a blue star. Multiple members in service called for multiple blue stars.
Furthermore, if the family member was killed in action, the flag’s blue star was replaced by a gold star. Over time, two types of service flags came to be used. One type had a white background, a red border, and a blue star. The other type had a white background, a blue border, and a gold star.
In 1918, the Women’s Committee of National Defenses made a recommendation to President Woodrow Wilson that any mother who had lost a child in service should wear an armband that featured a gold star. Wilson officially approved the recommendation, and this created the idea of a “Gold Star Mother.” Ten years later, in 1928, the national organization called American Gold Star Mothers Inc. was created, an organization that still exists today.
During World War II star flags (either the blue-star version or the gold-star one) were prominently displayed in windows throughout America, and everyone knew what the flags meant. Unfortunately, however, that meaning was substantially lost during the Vietnam War because the unpopularity of that war caused many families to forego displaying service flags. Thus, the practice faded out of the public eye until it began making a bit of a comeback during America’s wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Despite the comeback, though, the majority of American people today still don’t know the history and meaning behind service flags placed in windows.
Some 2,000 years ago God placed a star in the sky. Why did He do that? He did it so that the star could point the wise men to Jesus Christ. But if we use a little sanctified imagination can’t we also take that star to be God the Father’s way of showing the world that He now had a son in active military service? Jesus had left heaven and come down to the earth to go to war against Satan. One battle would require Jesus to face off against Satan in the Judean wilderness as Satan would tempt Him. Another battle would require Him to face off against Satan’s demons in every case of demon possession He would encounter. And then there were the theological and political battles that would require Him to face off against the Jewish scribes, Pharisees, and Sadducees who would compel the Romans to render the verdict of crucifixion.
It is because of Christ’s crucifixion that we are right to say the war between Jesus and Satan cost Jesus His life. In terms of our illustration, God the Father’s blue star became a gold one. Thankfully, though, that wasn’t the end of the story as in an ultimate display of the fact that in actuality Jesus had won the war, He arose from the dead. Then, a little over a month later, He ascended back to heaven and took His seat at the right hand of God the Father. That is where He currently resides this Christmas season. You see, God the Father’s Son has returned home from the war. He has been reclaimed from death. And He now offers salvation to one and all who will believe in Him as Savior.
The Disciple's Road 
what would you say, if I were to tell you that, back in 2019 when I was 26, my dad Robert Vincent McLaughlin, at 76, passed away. Since then I have slowly come to terms with the fact that I have received sign after sign from God, directing me through attack, after attack from satan, the attacks, all originating from the church itself, and government. When my dad passed, I was left, alone to clean out the house, and him always telling me that there’s things I don’t know, made it a point to read through EVERYTHING in the house, which was a lot, one thing that stood out though, was a letter from Gold Star Accounting, informing my dad of their move, out of the United States, to Victoria, British Columbia. That was the ONLY paperwork I found in regards to that company, it was hand written to my father specifically. Im starting to get the feeling, that is God’s way of telling me that He wants me to move out of the U.S. to avoid the destruction coming to her, the mother of harlots, or whatever she’s called in revelation, and as soon as I do leave, is when the shaking, and rumblings will begin, at the end of which, The Sutter Buttes, the smallest mountain range in the world, will be the peak of a new mountain range consisting of the coastal, and inland mountains on either side of the Sacramento valley… Last shall be first, first shall be last….
I would honestly say that I don’t know what to say to your comment. You’ll get no argument from me that the United States is in trouble, but as for the rest of it, well, all I would say is that you really, really, really need to make sure that God is the one who is giving you your “feeling.” I posted a blog today entitled “What Satan Did to Eve: Deception.” He really is the great deceiver. Don’t let him deceive you.
I came across this blog and have to agree with you, Pastor Russell, about the surety of God’s direction.
I myself don’t put much confidence in signs because if I look hard enough, I can find them everywhere to say almost anything.
Also, there is nowhere in the world to hide from the evil that is getting worse. Australia and New Zealand, as well as many other countries are persecuting Christians, monetarily as well as freedom to worship. Many prophecy teachers agree, but that is just my two cents worth. God bless all of us.