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To: metmom; BipolarBob

A lot more than two. There’s also this:

Revelation 6:12-15 (NKJV)
I looked when He opened the sixth seal, and behold, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became like blood. And the stars of heaven fell to the earth, as a fig tree drops its late figs when it is shaken by a mighty wind. Then the sky receded as a scroll when it is rolled up, and every mountain and island was moved out of its place. And the kings of the earth, the great men, the rich men, the commanders, the mighty men, every slave and every free man, hid themselves in the caves and in the rocks of the mountains.

There’s.a reference to this event in at least 7 passages in the Bible, I believe. (See Isaiah 2, Joel 2, Matthew 24, Mark 13, Luke 21, and Acts 2.) I also think it is describing a singular event in which a solar and lunar eclipse occur simultaneously. That has never happened. The closest they can ever come together is a little over 2 weeks because the moon must ordinarily be between the earth and Sun for a solar eclipse, and on the opposite side for a lunar eclipse. But in this case I think it is describing an event where some other unknown body comes between the earth and Sun while a lunar eclipse is happening. When Christ was crucified, there was an unusually long solar eclipse that could not happen as the result of the moon blocking the sun in an ordinary solar eclipse. Perhaps the same object is responsible.

The passage also mentions a major earthquake. Earthquakes are more common when the moon is closest to earth, such as during a new moon. However, a larger object coming close to the earth could have a similar effect, depending on its size and distance.


63 posted on 01/03/2022 10:05:00 PM PST by unlearner (Be ready for war.)
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To: unlearner

Interesting.

I never thought of that.


68 posted on 01/03/2022 11:52:09 PM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…)
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