Posted on 09/12/2015 10:06:37 PM PDT by Perseverando
The final day of the Shemitah year, Elul 29 on the Hebrew calendar, began at sundown Saturday and Rosh Hashanah, also called the Feast of Trumpets, starts Sunday at sundown.
Among those who have been studying and teaching on the seven-year Shemitah cycle, the expectations have varied wildly. The Hebrew word “Shemitah” can be interpreted as “release” or “collapse,” which has led to predictions of stock market collapses and economic doom, wars, natural disasters and the period of time Jesus referred to as the “beginning of sorrows.”
Jonathan Cahn, who lifted the Shemitah out of Old Testament obscurity (it is found in Leviticus 25:1-7 and Deuteronomy 15:1-3) with his New York Times-bestseller “The Mystery of the Shemitah,” said judgment, in the form of a “great shaking” is coming to America and the world. The last two Shemitah years, 2000-01 and 2007-08, brought record stock market collapses, similar to the collapses in the Shemitah years of 1973, 1980 and 1987.
He told WND that he noticed two signs in the final days of the current Shemitah – one involving the collapse of a structure in Saudi Arabia on Sept. 11 and the other a rainbow in New York City.
“Very strange. In the last days of the Shemitah, two striking signs. A storm causes destruction on Islam’s central mosque in Mecca (on Sept. 11). At the same time a rainbow appears (Sept. 10) over the tower at Ground Zero,” he said. “Many immediately took this as a good sign. Yet, it was not long ago that America desecrated the sign of the rainbow by using a vessel of God to celebrate the Supreme Court’s striking down the biblical definition of marriage.”
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Interesting.
To take an ordinary rainbow as a sign of anything other than raindrops and a beam of sunlight is too dumb for words.
“Yet, it was not long ago that America desecrated the sign of the rainbow by using a vessel of God to celebrate the Supreme Court’s striking down the biblical definition of marriage.”
The left desecrates everything it touches.
What about unicorns ?
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Hmm. It is obviously the scientific understanding of a rainbow yes, but, do you mean to say that God cannot use part of the natural weather/atmospheric tendency as symbolism? Life goes on for thousands of years as we know it, and God is mostly silent, but it’s foretold that He won’t be silent forever and many of us Christians are feeling the nearing of that era.
Genesis 9:13
Rainbow Sept. 10 over Ground Zero. (Photo courtesy Ben Sturner @LeverageAgency/Twitter)
Lightning strikes the crane just before it collapses on the Grand Mosque in Mecca, Saudi Arabia.
You're probably right. Maybe the rainbow and the lightning should have been switched. It would have probably been a little more effective for you, and it just wouldn't have seemed so dumb. Huh?
I looked and I have yet to find the word “Shemitah” anywhere in Scriptures. And if it’s not in the Word of God, I am not required to believe it.
Rainbows are not “over” anything. It is an illusion based on geometry of the observer, the light source (sun), and the rain droplets.
“What about unicorns ?”
You forgot a dash of Pixie dust.
Of course God can do anything He wants. But I’m sure He can do better than an ordinary, garden-variety, happens-thousands-of-times-every-day somewhere standard rainbow.
Bleh. Shemitards.
Have you tried Leviticus 25:1-7 and Deuteronomy 15:1-3 for an explanation? (And no I didn’t see Shemitah spelled out there either.)
Of course “rapture” is not in the Bible either, so obviously you’re not required to believe in it, right?
Well, the lightning and crane collapse right over a huge false-religion crowd certainly catches one’s attention.
I didn't think that any discerning Christian believed in that malarky.
Rainbows are the symbol of a promise from Hod....be happy we have them to see. If it rained continuously for 40 days and 40 nights you wouldn’t be seeing them...just ask Noah when you see him.
If god wants to show us a sign he should have made the crane crash the kabba stone
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