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As I have continued to study both the Bible and the news, I am becoming more and more convinced that though the most profound and catastrophic events will come to pass on Earth only after the seven year tribulation begins. Yet I believe the precursors of most of them already well under way, involving the political, economic, religious, and natural realms. In short, they are now evident everywhere but still ignored by the secular world and even by most of organized religion, the latter no doubt a topic of lengthy discussion in itself. Last year, I presented an article called "Signs from Above," which focused on the possible things we can expect to see in the heavens as the end of this age approaches (www.raptureready.com...). Terry James and I have kept in touch concerning a wide variety of prophecy-related topics over the years and he suggested it might be helpful to revisit this subject at this time. I agree! Jesus himself has told us that immediately before his Second Coming that there would be profound signs in the moon, sun, stars, including an inexplicable darkness in the skies (Matthew 24:29). There are mention of similar darknesses in the Old Testament (Exodus 10:21-23 - localized darkness in Egypt prior to the Exodus; Isaiah 13:10 and Joel 3:15 - the darkness also referred to by Jesus preceding his coming). Particularly notable as well is that which occurred for at least three hours on the day that the Lord was crucified (Luke 32:44-45). So let's take a look skyward once more and see if we can make some educated guesses as to what we might expect to see very soon, but bearing always in mind that God might very well intervene in ways to produce these signs that we cannot even begin to comprehend. THE SUN - A REVIEW AND STATUS REPORT Virtually all the stars in the night sky ranging from small red dwarves up through blue super giants are nuclear furnaces converting hydrogen into helium and releasing incredible amounts of energy in the process. While the biggest may consume their fuel in a matter of a few million years, the smallest dole it out in a Scrooge-like manner allowing them to last many tens of billions of years. Now there is the unresolved argument concerning the age of our Earth and universe among sincere and faithful Christians and plenty of arguments on both sides in which we have a 6000 year old creation or one of 13.7 billion years in age, with the Earth and its Solar System being around 4.6 billion years old. Even so, how long this took really is moot since there is no specific upper limit in Scripture as to how long everything could last, but we will look at this topic next. Based on current science, our sun has some 5 billion more years to go before undergoing drastic changes, but once again, we cannot preclude actively stepping in and changing this whole estimate. In fact, the Bible suggests strongly that he will because it speaks of these signs in the heavens occurring while human beings are still on this planet. The odds are prohibitively against us lasting long enough for our sun to make Earth uninhabitable, something which will likely occur not in 5 billion years but a mere 100 million as its energy output rises with age slowly turning the world into a scorched waterless desert.
Originally posted by hawaii50th
Originally posted by WilliamRikeronaSegway
yeah don't downsize that quote or anything.
Don't worry I won't.
Originally posted by hawaii50th
Originally posted by TechVampyre
Originally posted by hawaii50th
Originally posted by WilliamRikeronaSegway
yeah don't downsize that quote or anything.
Don't worry I won't.
Don't worry most of us won't bother to read it anyway.. But yeah I don't deny that the planet is dying..Everything dies..It's part of the cycle called life.
I wasn't expecting to see you back, thanks
Originally posted by TechVampyre
Originally posted by hawaii50th
Originally posted by WilliamRikeronaSegway
yeah don't downsize that quote or anything.
Don't worry I won't.
Don't worry most of us won't bother to read it anyway.. But yeah I don't deny that the planet is dying..Everything dies..It's part of the cycle called life.
Originally posted by TechVampyre
Originally posted by hawaii50th
Originally posted by WilliamRikeronaSegway
yeah don't downsize that quote or anything.
Don't worry I won't.
Don't worry most of us won't bother to read it anyway.. But yeah I don't deny that the planet is dying..Everything dies..It's part of the cycle called life.
Originally posted by mbartelsm
Originally posted by TechVampyre
Originally posted by hawaii50th
Originally posted by WilliamRikeronaSegway
yeah don't downsize that quote or anything.
Don't worry I won't.
Don't worry most of us won't bother to read it anyway.. But yeah I don't deny that the planet is dying..Everything dies..It's part of the cycle called life.
Sorry, I was not aware that the world is alive, huh, odd.
Anyways, I agree with the part of it ending soon
Originally posted by bogomil
reply to post by hawaii50th
It's one thing, that you use ATS as an outlet for your need of preaching.
It's another, that you appear to consider your readers imbeciles. The 'gap-of-knowledge' argument is NOT valid, it's not convincing, these days it's even a little pathetic.
If you don't believe me, I can re-introduce the flying spaghetti monster and let him/her/it run on parallel 'reasoning'-lines to your alleged 'god'.