(Vanity) Hybrid Eclipse 2005, next 2023

Terry Dashner…………………..Faith Fellowship Church PO Box 1586 Broken Arrow, OK 74013

Not long ago, I told you that I was “looking to the heavens” for guidance. No I’m not an astrologist, and I do not set the course of my life by the zodiac; however, I do read Matthew 24: 29, often.

It says, “Immediately after the tribulation of those days, the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken.” That’s interesting, is it not?

Unless you live on Mars, you know that tomorrow April 8, 2005, Pope John Paul II will be laid to rest. He, no doubt, was a powerful statesman, pontiff, and godly man while he lived. His legacy will live throughout the history of man. I bless his memory and look forward to his successor leading the Roman Catholic Church further into the twenty-first millennium. I believe God is doing a wonderful work through the Roman Catholic Church.

Moreover, there is another significant thing happening tomorrow. Says Fred Espenak, NASA’s GSFC, “On Friday, 2005 April 08, a hybrid eclipse of the Sun will be visible from within a narrow corridor which traverses the far Southern Hemisphere. The path of the Moon’s shadow begins southeast of New Zealand and stretches across the Pacific Ocean to Panama, Colombia and Venezuela…”

Fred Espenak’s web page records these words, “A hybrid eclipse is a unique type of central eclipse where parts of the path are annular while other parts are total. This duality comes about when the vertex of the Moon’s umbral shadow pierces Earth’s surface at some points, but falls short of the planet along other portions of the eclipse path. The curvature of Earth’s surface brings some geographic locations along the path into the umbral while other positions are more distant and enter the antumbral rather than umbral shadow. In most cases (like in 2005), the hybrid eclipse begins annular, changes to total for the central portion of the path, and then converts back to annular towards the end of the path. However, some hybrid eclipses may be annular only at the beginning (e.g. – 2013 Nov 03) and at the end (e.g. – 2386 Apr 29) of the path.”

I might add more significance about the hybrid eclipse. According to a news report, “This is the 51st eclipse of Saros series 129. The series began with 20 partial eclipses, the first of which was on 3 Oct. 1103. The most recent hybrid eclipse was on 29 May 1987, and the next occurs on 20 Apr. in 2023” (Earthview web August 2004).

Now why am I telling you about hybrid eclipses? Because it’s the sign of the times. I believe that Matthew 24 advises us regarding the last days, just before the King of Kings appears in all His Glory. Jesus, Himself, said that the heavens would speak about his imminent return. I believe that the eclipse that will occur tomorrow, while Pope John Paul II is interned, is simply the heavens sounding off once again, warning of the soon coming return of the Lord Jesus Christ. I believe the hybrid eclipse is also a harbinger to Pope John Paul’s successor. The warning is this: Get the people of God ready. Jesus is about to split the Eastern sky and no one should be left behind! Glory.

Nevertheless in the mean time, I’ll keep looking up for I believe that my “redemption draweth nigh.”

Christ could come today. Yeppers. He could.

And pigs could fly. But don't bet the family jewels on pork belly prices rising because pigs will fly.

From what I remember from Old and New Testaments, it is not given to man either to know or to predict the actions of God.

Somehow, I seem to remember that we were commanded to obey a simple set of commandments. Always. Not just when "End Times" are expected.

Sigh! Looks like I still have to keep on struggling to keep the Commandment. No rest for the weary.

Pope John Paul II was born on May 18, 1920... checking the list of solar eclipses in the 20th Century we find: Solar Eclipses: 1911 - 1920

	Date	Eclipse Type	Saros	Eclipse¹ Magnitude	Central² Duration	Geographic Region of Eclipse Visibility³


Link To:	Global Visibility Map		Saros Series		Central Path Coordinates


	1911 Apr 28	Total	127	1.056	04m57s	e Australia, N.Z., w N America [Total: central Pacific]
	1911 Oct 22	Annular	132	0.965	03m47s	Asia, Indies, Australia [Annular: Russia, China, Philippines, Indonesia, New Guinea]
	1912 Apr 17	Hybrid	137	1.000	00m02s	e America's, nw Africa, Europe, Middle East [Hybrid: Guyana, Suriname, w Europe, Russia]
	1912 Oct 10	Total	142	1.023	01m55s	S America, C America, Antarctica, s Africa [Total: Colombia, Brazil, Ecuador, s Atlantic]
	1913 Apr 06	Partial	147	0.423	-	Northwest U.S., Western Canada, Russia
	1913 Aug 31	Partial	114	0.150	-	Northeast Canada, Greenland
	1913 Sep 30	Partial	152	0.824	-	Antarctica, Madgascar, se Africa
	1914 Feb 25	Annular	119	0.925	05m35s	Antarctica, New Zealand [Annular: Antarctica]
	1914 Aug 21	Total	124	1.033	02m14s	n Africa, Europe, w Asia, ne N America [Total: Canada, Greenland, Norway, Sweden, Russia, Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Pakistan, India]
	1915 Feb 14	Annular	129	0.979	02m04s	Indies, Australia, Antarctica [Annular: Australia, Indonesia, New Guinea]
	1915 Aug 10	Annular	134	0.985	01m33s	Northeast Asia, central Pacific, New Guinea [Annular: central Pacific]
	1916 Feb 03	Total	139	1.028	02m36s	N America, n S America, nw Africa [Total: Colombia, Venezuela, central Atlantic]
	1916 Jul 30	Annular	144	0.945	06m24s	Indies, Australia, N.Z., Antarctica [Annular: Australia, Tasmania]
	1916 Dec 24	Partial	111	0.011	-	Antarctica
	1917 Jan 23	Partial	149	0.725	-	ne Africa, Middle East, w Asia, e Europe
	1917 Jun 19	Partial	116	0.473	-	n N America, n Asia, n Europe
	1917 Jul 19	Partial	154	0.086	-	Antarctica
	1917 Dec 14	Annular	121	0.979	01m17s	Antarctica, se S America, w Australia [Annular: Antarctica]
	1918 Jun 08	Total	126	1.029	02m23s	ne Asia, N America, n Europe, C America [Total: central Pacific, U.S.]
	1918 Dec 03	Annular	131	0.938	07m06s	S America, Antarctica, w Africa, C America [Annular: Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Nambia, Angola]
	1919 May 29	Total	136	1.072	06m51s	S America, C America, Africa [Total: Chile, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, central Africa]
	1919 Nov 22	Annular	141	0.920	11m37s	America's, w Africa, w Europe [Annular: U.S., Cuba, Haiti, Guinea, Senegal, Mauritania, Gambia, Mali]
	1920 May 18	Partial	146	0.973	-	Australia, Antarctica, s Indian Ocean
	1920 Nov 10	Partial	151	0.742	-	ne N America, nw Africa, w Europe

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