[MtnClimber]

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[MtnClimber]

[Tom Tetroxide]

It's caused by the Taurid Meteor Stream that the Earth goes through twice a year.

[spankalib]

Rev 6:13
And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind.

Frederick Douglass: “My Bondage and My Freedom” 1855, pg. 145

One of the most meaningful accounts of the stars falling from heaven came from Frederick Douglass, who at the time was a 15-year-old slave in Talbot County, Maryland. Here was his reaction:

“I witnessed this gorgeous spectacle, and was awestruck. The air seemed filled with bright descending messengers from the sky. It was about daybreak when I saw this sublime scene. I was not without the suggestion, at that moment, that it might be the harbinger of the coming of the Son of Man; and in my then state of mind I was prepared to hail Him as my friend and deliverer. I had read that the ‘stars shall fall from heaven,’ and they were now falling. I was suffering very much in my mind. . . . I was looking away to heaven for the rest denied me on earth.”

Later Douglass would obtain his freedom and become one of the greatest abolitionists and orators in American history. It is believed that he was acquainted with James and Ellen White when they lived in Rochester, New York, in the late 1840s. His oldest child, Rosetta Douglass-Sprague (1839-1906), became a Seventh-day Adventist. Douglass’ account of 1833 is compelling not because of what he was, but because of what he was not. He was not free, not white, and not rich, not an adult, nor was he affiliated with any Christian denomination.

[chajin]

It’s a shame no one thought of getting a video

[Larry Lucido]

Comet Tempel-Tuttle

That’s where the expression Ta ta Tuttle comes from.

[MS.BEHAVIN]

’ . . I was looking away to heaven for the rest denied me on earth.”
That phrase moved me to tears.
I can only imagine how that life must have been for him!

Thank you for posting this MTNClimber,
I’m so happy to be on your PING list
it really makes my day!

[maddog55]

Definitely not the Webb or Hubble telescope!!!

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=R-TGmc4CZUU&pp=ygUVc3RhcnMgZmVsbCBvbiBhbGFiYW1h

🙂

[ArtDodger]

And then, up popped the Triffids!

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks MtnClimber.

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