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originally posted by: dovdov
a reply to: The angel of light
Some Evangelicals take the reference to the "saints" coming out of their graves as a sign of resurrection when in reality it is merely a statement which relates that the earthquake caused many of the sepulchers around the city to burst casting dead bodies everywhere.
This allows us to narrow down the time of Jesus' death to a very specific point in history: around 3:00 p.m on Friday, April 3, A.D. 33.
Blood moons are strong symbols of important events connected with the destiny of humanity or ending of important periods in History of the world in General, but in particular to the ones that refer to judgement of Nations.
Placing prophetic value on these blood moons grabs our attention, but the referenced events are random.
Why? Because there is only one biblical "blood moon," and it will appear in the place of a darkened sun and burned-out stars when the Lord judges this world.
Joel 2:30–31, “I will show wonders in the heavens and on the earth, blood and fire and billows of smoke. The sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord.
Blood moons are strong symbols of important events connected with the destiny of humanity or ending of important periods in History of the world in General, but in particular to the ones that refer to judgement of Nations.
Revelation 6:12, “I watched as he opened the sixth seal. There was a great earthquake. The sun turned black like sackcloth made of goat hair, the whole moon turned blood red, and the stars in the sky fell to earth, as figs drop from a fig tree when shaken by a strong wind. The heavens receded like a scroll being rolled up, and every mountain and island was removed from its place.”
Julius Africanus quoting Tallus (52 AD)
“On the whole world there pressed a most fearful darkness; and the rocks were rent by an earthquake, and many places in Judea and other districts were thrown down. This darkness Thallus, in the third book of his History, calls, as appears to me without reason, an eclipse of the sun.” (Julius Africanus, Chronography, 18:1)
Phlegon (80 -140 AD)
Quoted by Julius Africanus
“Phlegon records that, in the time of Tiberius Caesar, at full moon, there was a full eclipse of the sun from the sixth to the ninth hour.” (Africanus, Chronography, 18:1)
Phlegon quoted by Origen (an early church theologian and scholar, born in Alexandria):
“Now Phlegon, in the thirteenth or fourteenth book, I think, of his Chronicles, not only ascribed to Jesus a knowledge of future events . . . but also testified that the result corresponded to His predictions.” (Origen Against Celsus, Book 2, Chapter 14)
“And with regard to the eclipse in the time of Tiberius Caesar, in whose reign Jesus appears to have been crucified, and the great earthquakes which then took place … ” (Origen Against Celsus, Book 2, Chapter 33
originally posted by: The angel of light
a reply to: Phage
The end of the world has different meanings in Biblical language, most likely represent the ending of order of things, like eras or collapse of a civilizations.
What is clear is that we are talking about crucial moments of Judgement over entire periods of History that last centuries.
Do you remember the visions of the Prophet Daniel?
He foresaw in dreams the arrival, climax and fall of various great empires ruling the Ancient world: Babilonia, Persia, Helenic Empire, Roman Empire.
When Jesus talked about end of times in the scathological sense he was referring also as Daniel about different moments of judgement:
1) The judgement and collapse of the Jewish nation in between the 67 AD and 71 AD.
2) The decadence and fall of the Pagan ruling over Rome in the fourth Century.
3) The collapse experienced by the Western Roman Empire under the Barbarians in the VIth century.
4) The collapse of the Byzantine Empire under the Muslims in the XV century.
5) The secularization of the modernity from the French Revolution, with the Napoleonic wars that spread the Free Masonic ideology until the Communist Manifest of Karl Marx in Germany and the Bolshevik revolution in Russia.
6) The decadence and collapse of our current global economy, a slow process of historic events that began a century ago and comprises WWI, great depression, WWII, Cold war, Collapse of USSR, Great Recession, wars of Terrorism, and possibly WWIII.
Thanks
The Angel of Lightness