REVELATIONS 6
12 I looked when He opened the sixth seal, and behold,[e] there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon[f] became like blood. 13 And the stars of heaven fell to the earth, as a fig tree drops its late figs when it is shaken by a mighty wind. 14 Then the sky receded as a scroll when it is rolled up, and every mountain and island was moved out of its place.
In the same week of the unprecedented event of the Pope resigning, (see
http://endtimesevents.blogspot.com.au/2013/02/end-times-popes.html), there are two spectacular astronomical events - or events in the "heavens". Scientists have called these events as coincidences.
The first event is a large meteor falling down into Russia. About 1000 people or more have reported to have been injured and sought medical assistance. The size of the meteor is believed to be 15m but created a sonic boom and heated up the air into thick cloudy trails. More news stories are below.
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/meteor-shower-explodes-in-central-russia-and-urals-injuring-people/story-e6frf7jo-1226578976770
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/16/world/europe/meteorite-fragments-are-said-to-rain-down-on-siberia.html?_r=0
http://www.theage.com.au/technology/sci-tech/meteor-shower-over-russia-sees-meteorites-hit-earth-20130215-2ei2j.html
http://bostonglobe.com/news/science/2013/02/15/meteor-shower-russia-unrelated-large-asteroid-predicted-make-close-pass/78lSppXTMJTLMfuHo1dIBM/story.html
The second event was not publicly revealed and happened after the meteor. This event is that of a large asteroid, about the size of a football field, just missing earth. It came the closest to earth than many previous asteroids of its size. Scientists knew when it would make its closest fly-by but the media did not make this widely known - why? More news stories are below.
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/technology/sci-tech/tracked-asteroid-2012-da-14-whizzes-past-earth/story-fn5iztw3-1226579300949
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/technology/asteroid-not-linked-to-russian-meteor/story-fn5izo02-1226579282015
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/technology/2013/02/live-blog-asteroid-2012-da14-has-close-call-with-earth/
http://www.foxnews.com/science/2013/02/15/incoming-asteroid-will-miss-earth-by-17150-miles-closest-known-flyby-for/
Physically, these events are independent and have no physical cause and effect. That means the asteroid did not cause the meteor to fall down nor the meteor influenced the asteroid to fly by close to Earth. Hence scientifically it is a coincidence.
For those who know God, it should not be surprising to find that God had throughout history, moved His hand in a way to cause certain things to happen or event to show His people warning or a call to repentance.
This is the week before the celebration of Purim for the Jewish people (see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purim). Purim is to commemorate the victory of the Jews when they avoided annihilation by their enemies. They way the Jews were saved was through very numerous events happening in an unrelated sequence - hence coincidence - which together enabled Queen Esther to save her people.
This is also the week of Lent for Christians. (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lent)
"The traditional purpose of Lent is the preparation of the believer—through prayer, penance, repentance, almsgiving, and self-denial. Its institutional purpose is heightened in the annual commemoration of Holy Week, marking the death and resurrection of Jesus, which recalls the events of the the Bible when Jesus is crucified on Good Friday, which then culminates in the celebration on Easter Sunday of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ."
On the current world stage the events are:
- North Korea did a nuclear test
- The Pope resigned - the previous pope that did the same was 600 years ago.
- A meteor streak across Russia.
- An potentially lethal asteroid made a close fly-by to earth.
The Scripture's call for us as these times is to WATCH!!!
