[Nowhere Man]

I’m interested in seeing how bright this comet gets. Still many civilizations believed comets were a bad omen. Well, they were right in some cases, in 1066, when Halley’s Comet came around, the battle of Hastings occurred and Harold Goodwinson lost to William the Conqueror. In 1910 on another trip, a few years later, World War I.

[Yosemitest]

Of the people I know who pay attention to comets, asteroids, and space phenomena, most of them are really interested in this Comet ISON .
But earlier in 2013, is also Comet PANSTARRS.
I don't know much about physics and calculus, but I do know it doesn't take much to change the orbit of small body, and the gravitational pull of an unidentified body might bring into play Revelation 8:6-13.
Because sooner or later it's going to happern.
Remember "in the winter, ... on the sabbath day", and again remember this:

" And there fell upon men a great hail out of heaven,
every stone about the weight of a talent:
and men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail;
for the plague thereof was exceeding great. "

Let's take a look at what that might weigh in pounds.

about the weight of a talent
Ὡς ταλαντιαία [Hōs talantiaia] , as a talent. “A measure of weight varying in size from about 58 to 80 lb. (26 to 36 kg.).”³

Just as there are long and short tons of differing weights, so there are various talents. That with which the Jews weighed silver was about 120 pounds Troy, or 96 pounds avoirdupois. That for weighing other materials was about 135 pounds. The Babylonian talent was even heavier while the Greek talent was about 86 pounds. The lightest of all was the Attic talent which weighted 57.7 pounds. In biblical usage, it would be the silver talent of 96 pounds that would almost certainly be designated. However, even if we take the smaller Attic talent, we have a weight that is considerable.⁴ These are no ordinary hailstones, but the supernatural work of God. “A point of similarity between Joshua Jos. 10:11 and Revelation Rev. 16:21+ is found in the fact that both passages describe the hailstones as large in size. . . . Clearly Joshua Jos. 10:11 describes a supernatural event.”⁵

True to form, the preterist interpreters attempt to find fulfillment of this obviously supernatural drama in the relatively puny machinations of Rome’s siege of Jerusalem (remember that for many preterists, “Babylon” = “Jerusalem”). They make much ado about a passage in Josephus which mentions the weight and color of the stones thrown by the Roman “engines” [catapults] in the siege of Jerusalem:

The engines, that all the legions had ready prepared for them, were admirably contrived; but still more extraordinary ones belonged to the tenth legion: those that threw darts and those that threw stones, were more forcible and larger than the rest, by which they not only repelled the excursions of the Jews, but drove those away that were upon the walls also. (270) Now, the stones that were cast were of the weight of a talent, and were carried two furlongs and farther. The blow they gave was no way to be sustained, not only by those that stood first in the way, but by those that were beyond them for a great space. (271) As for the Jews, they at first watched the coming of the stone, for it was of a white color, and could therefore not only be perceived by the great noise it made, but could be seen also before it came by its brightness. [emphasis added]⁶ Notice the priority inversion typical of preterist interpretation.⁷ They attach great importance to small details which happen to match the text (e.g., the stones were white, they weighed a talent), but then ignore the many details from the wider context which completely preclude their conclusion. In the A.D. 70 destruction of Jerusalem:

1. Jerusalem was destroyed, not Babylon.
2. The Euphrates was not dried up.
3. No kings from the east participated.
4. No significant gathering of troops occurred at Megiddo.
5. No cataclysmic earthquake took place.
6. The cities of the nations remained standing.

How puzzling that major inconsistencies like these don’t seem to impede the dedicated preterist who is committed to finding fulfillment in the “newspapers” of the past.