It depends on the weather and where you live. Light pollution or city lights can also limit your view. It is estimated that on the average you can see 5,000 to 6,000 stars on a good night with the naked eye.

The Yale Bright Star Catalogue has 9,110 stars listed that have a magnitude of 6.5 and are visible to the naked eye. So why is all this information important?

Around four thousand years ago, God spoke to Abraham and told him to leave his country and his kinfolks and move to distant foreign land. God promised Abraham that he would make him a great nation and that his name would be great, (Genesis 12:1-4). That nation is Israel. Today Jewish scholars believe there are between 13,500,000 to 15,500,000 Jews in the world. There could be over 20,000,000 and more than 5,000,000 living in Israel alone.

God promised Abraham he would have more descendants than the stars you could see with the naked eye, (Genesis 26:4). God has fulfilled that promise many times over. God also promised that all the nations would be blessed through Abraham, (Genesis 12:3).

Mary the mother of Jesus was a descendant of Abraham. It is only by faith in Jesus that we can be at peace with God, (Acts 4:12, 10:43, and my favorite John 3:16). Look up at the stars and remember, God always keeps His promises. See you in Church next Sunday.