Genesis tells us God ‘put lights in the heaven.…. for signs, seasons, days and years’ on day four of creation.
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Let’s consider the ‘signs of our times’ and ‘signals’ from heaven!
The Old Testament prophet ‘Joel’ points to three ‘signs’ confirming the season when Jesus Christ will return: God will bring Israel back into the land (occurred 14th May 1948); the whole world will hate Israel with great intensity (recent USA policy divorcing itself from Israel); God will advertise His coming with signs in the heavens.
Joel 2 reads, ‘The sun will turn dark, and the moon red as blood before I appear.’
On 28th September, 2015 the earth saw the last of ‘a tetrad’ of four blood moons.
Each blood moon appeared on a Jewish Feast Day. But to be known as ‘a tetrad’, a Jewish ‘sabbatical year’ must also fall inside the appearance of the first and fourth blood moon and there must be an eclipse of the sun. This is exactly what took place.
Astronomers tell us there will be no more ‘tetrads’ for another 500 years.
Revelation 12 reads, ‘there appeared a wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, the moon under her feet and upon her head a crown of twelve stars: she being with child cried, travailing in birth.’
The Bible says God named all the stars. So let’s consider the constellation, ‘Virgo’.
Just prior to Christ’s birth, 11th September, 2 BC there was a partial fulfilment of this wonder in heaven. Amazingly, this wonder will occur for only the second time on 23rd September, 2017.
On that day, ‘Virgo the woman’ will be bathed in the sun at her left shoulder, the moon will be at her feet and the nine stars of Leo will be joined by Mercury, Venus and Mars, crowning her head with 12 stars!
Prior to this event the King planet, Jupiter (representative of Jesus) will enter the quadrangle of the belly of Virgo on 20th November, 2016 remaining inside the womb (as seen from Jerusalem) for 41 weeks and 6 days (an acceptable gestation period for humans); exiting on 9th September, 2017.
Is God warning us with these heavenly signs that Christ’s 2nd advent is close?
A: I’ll leave you to ponder that conclusion? Perhaps making peace with God is a good idea after all?
Jim Seymour, Tenterfield Presbyterian Church.
Figure: Date of Conception, November 20, 2016
