While the events and general lawlessness testifies that we are in the final days before the Day of the LORD, the fact that the great sign in the heavens described in Revelation 12:1-2 actually will happen sometime during September 23-24, 2017, kind of nails down the fact that the time is very short.
What is going to happen on that day?
I believe we are in the final days, but so were we 2,000 years ago. Gods time is not mans time.
I just have to know, to what event are you pointing?
I don’t buy astrology even spiritualized astrology. The Bible provides no working index as to what the various star groupings are supposed to symbolize and at what times. I think the sign in heaven will be a very noticeable event but it’s meaning is cloaked right now.
An alternative thought:It does provide a symbolic history of the birth of Christ and the rise of the church and the attempts by the devil to destroy that church but she should be protected for 3.5 years as the Earth would swallow up the flood of destruction sent against her. The 3.5 years is interesting as it may point to the latter half of the tribulation period!(Rapture?). If there is something to the “star position’ astrological idea you mention...then prepare for a very rocky 3.5 years!
I think of the star of Bethlehem and it was no ordinary star...it wasn’t a star/planet cluster but something so unusual that it prompted certain magi to follow it “and it went before them and stood over the house”.
Please, not September 23...that’s my birthday.
The problem with predicting end times is that short-term dates come and go with nothing of any significance occurring. We’ve seen this several times in the past, oh, well, since FR has been around.
Something big may happen in September 2017. Or maybe not. But if not, you’re back to living in this crappy world. Oh, and explaining away why it didn’t happen in September 2017.
My thinking is if a rapture occurs, I’m ready. Or as ready as I’m gonna be. I can’t get any readier.
But my counsel is to be non-rapture ready. That is, be ready to go about doing what needs to be done in your everyday life. Yes, that means going back to your lousy job because Christ ain’t ready for you yet. But a not-rapture is a far, far more likely event on any given days.
Be rapture-ready by being saved. Be not-rapture ready by being on time for work the next day. Like I said, it’s far more likely that you’ll be here for that.