October 31, 2013

Eyes to See

A gigantic front-end loader, not known for speed, was in a commercial parking lot waiting for traffic to clear before turning onto the highway. Immediately behind him was a brand new Cadillac with a munched in hood. I know it’s not funny, but I had to laugh. The driver of the car couldn’t possible have had any speed, other than rolling up to the stop sign before she too could enter traffic. So, how on earth could she not see the rear end of the piece of yellow equipment she was sticking her car under? The front-end loader was obviously unscathed and the equipment driver just stood there shaking his head. “The prudent see danger and take refuge, but the simple keep going and suffer for it.” (Proverbs 27:12 NIV)

2 comments:

Steve Corey said...

Gail;

-----I love God for his truth. Everywhere you turn there is evidence of Him and of what He is currently doing, to boot. It evidences His love for us - He makes Himself known as any upright suitor does to the woman he seeks. Oh, my! I love Him back!
-----Like He made light for our eyes to see things around us and compression and rarefaction for our ears to hear, He makes patterns in history and events for our minds to reason. The history recorded in the Bible reads like a thousand acts of a well written play telling an important message about clinging to its lead actor. The rest of recorded history reads like a massive audience verifying the realities of the play’s message by its reactions.
-----If that is not incredible enough, the movements and positions of the sun, moon, planets, and constellations during climatic acts of the play mark scenes with meaning. I have not yet purchased the astronomic software I need to check this guy’s work, but there is the most amazing study into the movements and positions of the heavenly bodies around the times of Jesus’ conception, birth, and death. Like markers, they highlight these events perfectly, according to Fred Larson at bethlehemstar.net.
-----But I have checked the four consecutive blood moons (total lunar eclipses) occurring one on Passover, then Tabernacles, then Passover, then Tabernacles of two consecutive years (tetrad moons, they‘re called.) Since there has been Passover, this has happened at least eleven times. None of the occurrences before 1493 mark events of obvious historic meaning to Israel. But after 1492, the year the Jews were expelled from Spain and Columbus discovered the Americas, every occurrence has marked events extraordinarily significant to Israel. In 1493-4 it marked the aforementioned events. The next time it happened was 1949-50, the first years following Israel’s won nationhood. The next was 1967-8, the year of and the year following Israel’s won control of Jerusalem. Now, it will happen again 2014-5.
-----What is about to occur? Combine the Bible and history. Space forbids setting forth the reasoning (I will do so upon any request,) but the tribulation requires Israel being a nation and having The Temple in Jerusalem. 1492 was the conception of Israel’s key ally, America (which I also believe is the last physical expression of “…he who restrains [the man and the mystery of lawlessness]…” to be removed before the revealing of the man of perdition. (II Thes 2:3-7) Then Israel becomes a nation. Then it wins Jerusalem. Today Israel lacks control of the Temple Mount. Does 2014-5 mark that as a continuation of this pattern?
-----Jesus said there would be signs in the sun, moon, and stars portending His second coming. We can not as clearly see God’s meant import of these as the woman could see the massive front-end loader. But I know one import of them being crystal clear - watch ever more closely and speak of it ever more often, for the incredible time is ever more near. I’ve submitted a PS extending this interesting pattern to a point that rocked me when I found it.

Love you all,
Steve Corey

Steve Corey said...

PS

-----Have you heard of Apophis? It is an asteroid due to flyby Earth April 13, 2029. I got a kick out of that being a Friday, too. My kick doubled at the fact Apophis returns to closely encounter earth seven years later. What? Seven years? I’ve been teasing folks about the coming Tribulation ever since! But I’ve kept for it half a sense of sobriety
-----At the second trumpet “…something like a great mountain, burning with fire, was thrown into the sea…” and at the third trumpet “…a great star fell from heaven, blazing like a torch, and it fell on a third of the rivers…” (Rev 8:8&10). It is possible that Apophis could tote undiscovered companions, maybe two or three or four years behind it. KA-ABSOLUTELY-FREAKING-WHAMMO!!! Those things hit hard! Geologists calculated that the Chicxuliub asteroid strike sent shock waves around the world so powerful they would drive your legs right through your pelvis into your stomach! Ooouuuie, ouchy! These two events are perfect descriptions of asteroid impacts.
-----Oh, Lord, let there be a rapture, please, please, please.
-----And the Lord must at least have a great sense of humor. The next time Apophis passes earth in 2036 is also April 13. Also, Friday. Oh, good grief! Coincidences! But do they sometimes portend? I nearly fell out of my chair when researching all of the tetrad moons. The very next blood moon tetrad after 2014-5 occurs 2032-3. Note that the second blood moon of these occurs three-and-a-half years after Apophis’ first flyby, and dido to its next. Oh, my!
-----If Israel wins control of the Temple Mount shortly, I would definitely finger 2029-36 as the Tribulation years, but for the fact that the first and second blood moons of the four are exactly one lunar month after Passover and Tabernacles, not on them. But the third and fourth blood moons perfectly mark Passover and Tabernacles of their year. Then is when it struck me, April 13 is a Passover date. Both times Apophis flies by earth are on Passover! Kind of a fun twist of the term, huh?
-----So, I visited the “Apophis page” on NASA’s website. First thing I noted was that its astronomic catalogue number was 99942. Now, I get a kick out of numbers, too. Three is the number for God; we all know. But nine being the number for the summation of man’s works judged is less known. Uh-hmm. Then, what’s this “42”? I remembered seeing 42 listed in a 1913 book on Biblical numbers. So I go there. So it says 42 is the number associated with the anti-Christ. OK, folks. No more thinking about it!