The outstretched hand of the Lamb of God and the great coal of fire that is in His hands, portends a coming age of great struggle on earth. Thanks to Hubble there is a growing gallery of profound images emerging from space and this image is right up there with the best of them.
Actually one of the most amazing discoveries of late is a dark chasm in space, spanning billions of light years, which contains nothing - no stars, no gas, no matter, nothing. It is a dark void.
All of the signs currently visible and yet to become visible, predict a coming world crisis followed by the return of the King.
Genesis confirms that God created the sun and the moon "for SIGNS and for seasons"
The Bible even talks of the moon being "turned to blood" as a sign that we are nearing the very end of the age. (Joel 2:31, Rev 6:12). The moon has always been used a reference marker for the Jews (also Muslims). The Jewish calendar is calibrated to the moon as are their festivals. Prophetically the march of the ages is also calibrated to the moon, as Daniel described in his propehecy of seventy weeks.
Significantly, there have already been BLOOD-RED and SACK-CLOTH MOONS (caused by lunar eclipses) over Jerusalem in 1996 and 1997, falling precisely on major feast-days of the Jewish calendar. The first of them came on the evening of 3 April 1996, which was the beginning of the Feast of Passover. The second came on the evening of 26-27 September 1996, which was 'Erev Hag HaSuccoth' (the Eve of the Feast of Tabernacles). And there were also two such eclipses in 1997, falling precisely on the feast-day of 'Purim' (23 March 1997 - a 90% eclipse). Another occured in the middle of the 'Days of Teshuva (Repentance)' on 16 September 1997.
The next string of eclipses will occur between 2014 and 2015, when four blood moons will be seen around the Passover and the feast of Tabernacles. Blood moons, by the way, result from a full eclipse and the residue of light that highlights the peripehery of an eclispe.
God is no longer whispering about a coming apocalypse - He is shouting it out aloud. The plastic trumpet played at the FIFA world Cup, called the Vuvuzela, proved to be profoundly noisy, unhealthy and irritating, but a greater chorus of trumpets is sounding out over the earth. Great upheavels have already started. Pakistan and China are facing huge floods, the far east is in the grip of a major heatwave, Russia and California are experiencing massive fires that have devastated forests and living areas, the massive eruption of an Icelandic Volcano, the largest ever earthquake occured in Chile earlier this year, the worst earthquake disaster of all time occured just before that in Haiti ... and so on.
We are also in the eye of an economic storm - and by that I mean we are in the quiet lull that happens at the heart of a great storm, beyond which lies a further, potentially more devastating tempest. Yesterday the Chinese government even stress-tested its banks against the scenario of a 60% drop in house prices - a scenario that will only happen in the wake of massive unemployment. Europe has reached 10% unemployment and the world bank now believes we are heading into a phase of deflation, but it will be driven by declining economies and falling disposable incomes.
Believers, hear me, you are facing tough times. Do not bury your heads and deny it. We have the advantage of prophetic warnings and God will look after His own, but to survive we will have to change our lifestyles to achieve far higher levels of coexistence and mutuality. Islands will be blown away, ovewhelmed by the coming tide, but, like the ark of Noah, the church as a collective will prevail - not even the gates of hell will change that fact. Already, as I speak, the world economy is stumbling and unemployment is rising.
(c) Peter Eleazar @ www.4u2live.net
Image Source: Hubble, Nebula NGC2392
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