Another important consideration, Ruru, is (4) don’t lose the gospel in all the fascinating detail.
All these signs, if valid, are ABOUT something. They will in fact be pointing to the Creator and Savior. We could prove some esoteric astronomical truth and forget it’s about the One whose gospel saves the world (or the part of the world that’s willing to be saved).
Oh, tell me about it!
I’m long since of the opinion that one reason, among many, for reliance on the Scriptures alone is that these may be mutually inspected by anyone whereas experiences CANNOT be.
I can tell someone about something in the Scriptures and they can then go to them themselves to see if I spoke accurately.
I cannot do this with experiences, like visions. If I’ve had a vision and I tell someone about it it’s like cool story, bro and nothing more.
In a way a sign fulfilled in the heavens that we can now inspect with the new technologies LINING THEM UP with Scripture are the same. They can be inspected by anyone.
But that goes away with we start speculating about signs not yet happening in the sky overhead.
It isn’t that these are useless, such certainly seem to have got the wise men on their trip, but that those who may know enough to see what’s happening right as it’s happening are not a majority and their conclusions, even if good, are not things most people are going to be aware of.
So it’s ever back to the Scriptures, to the Gospel, because signs may be interesting but they don’t really tell you why things happen the way they do or give you hope in a specific outcome long promised.