Red Sky at Morning
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I quite agree!! As I observe the various justifications for the previous "end is nigh" date setters, they all come up with a whole lot of reasons why they must be right.The wise men also were pagan.
Don't get me wrong... I understand why people believe this. Some of this just reeks of false prophets and deceit. While I don't think the average YouTuber has ill intent, so of this stuff is pushed by people trying to sell books and I genuinely worry that when people keep preaching then end and it never comes, it's going to hurt the faith of good people.
It doesn't help my feelings that these sort of things happen every few years.
I grew up with this!!!
The 'date' would come and go and the excitement would die down for a while. After observing this odd cyclical pattern for years growing up through the church, I developed a sarcastic knowing stance to anyone who thought we might be in the 'end times' and concluded that I would do better to ignore the whole subject and live my life according to my own plans. In the end that didn't work out so well and God found a way to remind me that He was not a small part of my story - I was a small part of his!
I was very caught up in the Blood Moons, put two and two together and made five (in exactly the way Mark Biltz urged people not to!) I felt I had figured out exactly when various things might happen. They didn't work out the way I expected, but things did happen and I learned two valuable lessons...
The first was the difference between a possibility and a certainty - I might well get hit by a bus crossing a road with my eyes closed but it by no means guaranteed on my first try. As an aside and in answer to the title of this thread, The crazy number of statistical convergences on this year make it feel like there are more busses than usual on the road, therefore an increased probability.
Regardless of whatever may or may not happen this year, the Feast of Trumpets is the next unfulfilled event on the prophetic calendar and we do well to consider it's meaning. One day it will be the 'Last Trump'.
Secondly, as I lay in bed watching the final red 'blood moon' and wondering what might happen if... The very clear thought struck me - that if I were to be 'caught up', what would happen next? I would be face to face with the person I was called to serve.
I looked at my life and I saw more 'straw and stubble' than 'silver and gold' and I desparately wanted to have more time to 'do more'. Not long after that I woke early and saw an incredible 'red sky at morning' and felt led to look up what that really meant. I would end up thinking of that moment on and off for months...
Matthew 16
"1The Pharisees also with the Sadducees came, and tempting desired him that he would shew them a sign from heaven.2He answered and said unto them, When it is evening, ye say, It will be fair weather: for the sky is red. 3And in the morning, It will be foul weather to day: for the sky is red and lowring. O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times? 4A wicked and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given unto it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas. And he left them, and departed."
I found out in the last month that history records a major eclipse appeared over Ninevah prior to Jonah preaching in the city. Jonah 3:4 records the following "Jonah began to go into the city, going a day's journey. And he called out, “Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown"...
But they repented.
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/tomhobson/2017/08/jonah-eclipse-ancient-nineveh/
America has in some senses also become a 'wicked and adulterous generation', as many other countries have. The fact that this sign, (if it turns out to be one) falls 40 days before Yom Kippur may have importance.
"Yom Kippur (Hebrew: יוֹם כִּפּוּר or יום הכיפורים), Also known as Day of Atonement, is the holiest day of the year for the Jews. Its central themes are atonement and repentance."
Time will tell whether any repentance will occur, either in America or anywhere else. We are not given insight into what would have happened to Ninevah if they had ignored Jonah's message.
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