Amazing Facts
January 6th
The Signs of the Times.
In this second-to-last seal of the seven seen by John, the vision turns literal. It’s a prophecy that has already been fulfilled, and there is reason to believe something like it could take place again before Christ returns.
On the morning of November 1, 1755, an 8.4-magnitude earthquake struck Lisbon, the capital of Portugal. A massive disaster that triggered a tsunami and fire, this famous quake was responsible for the deaths of some 60,000 people. The scientific study of this unusual earthquake led to the birth of modern seismology.
A quarter of a century later, in the late morning of May 19, 1780, there fell an out-of-the-ordinary darkness over the entire New England sky, so pitch black that people had to light candles to see. The darkness continued until the next day, and at night the full moon appeared red.
Lastly, on November 13, 1833, a little more than half a century later, an annual meteor storm known as the Great Leonids showered east and central North America. That year though, the storm was noticeably profuse, producing a phenomenon of tens of thousands of shooting stars. The sky was so aglow that people, in a panic, thought their houses were on fire.
Scripture prophesied these events centuries before they happened—multiple times. (See Isaiah 13:10; Joel 2:10, 30, 31; Matthew 24:29.)
Note the accuracy of the detail in Revelation’s account: New England’s “Dark Day” was like “sackcloth,” a bag woven from thick, black cloth and hair, a suitable description of the inky “blackness” (Isaiah 50:3) that no man could see through. The moon was the color of “blood,” and the stars like unripe figs ripped from their tree “by a mighty wind,” as in a cosmic storm.
All three depictions invoke a time of great turmoil, catastrophe, and death—sackcloth, used in mourning (Esther 4:1; Jonah 3:6; Luke 10:13); blood; windstorm—apt portents of the time of trouble that is to come upon the world in the last days before Christ’s coming.
Christ Almighty, as the signs of the times unfold around us, prepare my heart and mind for Your soon coming.
For Further Study: Joel 3:15; Mark 13:24, 25; Revelation 16:1
KEY BIBLE TEXTS
And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood; Revelation 6:12
January 6th
The Signs of the Times.
In this second-to-last seal of the seven seen by John, the vision turns literal. It’s a prophecy that has already been fulfilled, and there is reason to believe something like it could take place again before Christ returns.
On the morning of November 1, 1755, an 8.4-magnitude earthquake struck Lisbon, the capital of Portugal. A massive disaster that triggered a tsunami and fire, this famous quake was responsible for the deaths of some 60,000 people. The scientific study of this unusual earthquake led to the birth of modern seismology.
A quarter of a century later, in the late morning of May 19, 1780, there fell an out-of-the-ordinary darkness over the entire New England sky, so pitch black that people had to light candles to see. The darkness continued until the next day, and at night the full moon appeared red.
Lastly, on November 13, 1833, a little more than half a century later, an annual meteor storm known as the Great Leonids showered east and central North America. That year though, the storm was noticeably profuse, producing a phenomenon of tens of thousands of shooting stars. The sky was so aglow that people, in a panic, thought their houses were on fire.
Scripture prophesied these events centuries before they happened—multiple times. (See Isaiah 13:10; Joel 2:10, 30, 31; Matthew 24:29.)
Note the accuracy of the detail in Revelation’s account: New England’s “Dark Day” was like “sackcloth,” a bag woven from thick, black cloth and hair, a suitable description of the inky “blackness” (Isaiah 50:3) that no man could see through. The moon was the color of “blood,” and the stars like unripe figs ripped from their tree “by a mighty wind,” as in a cosmic storm.
All three depictions invoke a time of great turmoil, catastrophe, and death—sackcloth, used in mourning (Esther 4:1; Jonah 3:6; Luke 10:13); blood; windstorm—apt portents of the time of trouble that is to come upon the world in the last days before Christ’s coming.
Christ Almighty, as the signs of the times unfold around us, prepare my heart and mind for Your soon coming.
For Further Study: Joel 3:15; Mark 13:24, 25; Revelation 16:1
KEY BIBLE TEXTS
And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood; Revelation 6:12
Amazing Facts
January 6th
The Signs of the Times.
In this second-to-last seal of the seven seen by John, the vision turns literal. It’s a prophecy that has already been fulfilled, and there is reason to believe something like it could take place again before Christ returns.
On the morning of November 1, 1755, an 8.4-magnitude earthquake struck Lisbon, the capital of Portugal. A massive disaster that triggered a tsunami and fire, this famous quake was responsible for the deaths of some 60,000 people. The scientific study of this unusual earthquake led to the birth of modern seismology.
A quarter of a century later, in the late morning of May 19, 1780, there fell an out-of-the-ordinary darkness over the entire New England sky, so pitch black that people had to light candles to see. The darkness continued until the next day, and at night the full moon appeared red.
Lastly, on November 13, 1833, a little more than half a century later, an annual meteor storm known as the Great Leonids showered east and central North America. That year though, the storm was noticeably profuse, producing a phenomenon of tens of thousands of shooting stars. The sky was so aglow that people, in a panic, thought their houses were on fire.
Scripture prophesied these events centuries before they happened—multiple times. (See Isaiah 13:10; Joel 2:10, 30, 31; Matthew 24:29.)
Note the accuracy of the detail in Revelation’s account: New England’s “Dark Day” was like “sackcloth,” a bag woven from thick, black cloth and hair, a suitable description of the inky “blackness” (Isaiah 50:3) that no man could see through. The moon was the color of “blood,” and the stars like unripe figs ripped from their tree “by a mighty wind,” as in a cosmic storm.
All three depictions invoke a time of great turmoil, catastrophe, and death—sackcloth, used in mourning (Esther 4:1; Jonah 3:6; Luke 10:13); blood; windstorm—apt portents of the time of trouble that is to come upon the world in the last days before Christ’s coming.
Christ Almighty, as the signs of the times unfold around us, prepare my heart and mind for Your soon coming.
For Further Study: Joel 3:15; Mark 13:24, 25; Revelation 16:1
KEY BIBLE TEXTS
And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood; Revelation 6:12
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