Posted on 05/24/2015 8:43:10 AM PDT by CHRISTIAN DIARIST
The UK’s Daily Mail published a news story last weekend speculating on the source of a “strange sound from the sky” that has been heard across the globe for nearly a decade.
Witnesses told the Mail that what they heard sounded very much like the blast of a trumpet. And that it was so loud it shook the ground beneath them.
In a sidebar, the Mail listed seven possible theories, from the unremarkable to the fantastical, that could account for the strange sound from the sky.
The first six included (in order) tectonic plates grinding, atmospheric pressure, trains shunting, construction work, aliens, a HAARP (High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program) weapon and aliens.
But the theory that caught this Christ follower’s attention was seventh on the list – the seven trumpets of heaven ushering in the Apocalypse, as foreseen by John of Patmos, author of the Revelation of Jesus Christ.
To non-believers, that might be a laughable proposition. But not to Christians.
Indeed, on the cusp of the new millennium, Newsweek published a cover story – “Prophecy: What the Bible Says About the End of the World” – that included a poll in which 71 percent of Evangelical Protestants (as well as 28 percent of non-Evangelical Protestants and 18 percent of Catholics) said they believed the world will end, as written in Revelation, in a battle at Armageddon between Christ and the Antichrist.
Well, this Christ follower counts himself among the 71 percent of evangelicals who believes the end-times prophecy of John of Patmos. But unlike many today who believe the end of days is imminent, I am unconvinced.
Because Christ, Himself, declared that “of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father only.”
Yet, that has not deterred false prophecies of the end of days.
That includes the so-called “Great Disappointment,” which occurred in 1844 when Christ did not return to Earth as predicted by the Baptist pastor William Miller, who had urged his followers to give away all their worldly possessions.
There was also Charles Taze Russell, founder of the Zion’s Watch Tower Tract Society (the sect known today as Jehovah’s Witnesses), who published a text in 1877 in which he predicted the rapture of the saints in 1878 and the second coming of the Lord.
Edgar Whisenant, an end-times zealot, authored the book “88 Reasons Why the Rapture Will Be in 1988,” and somehow managed to persuade Trinity Broadcasting Network to air special programming leading up to the rapture.
Then there was Harold Camping, the Christian radio show host, who predicted in 2009 that the rapture would take place May 21, 2011, and who lamented that he was “flabbergasted” that it didn’t happen.
Because there have been over the past two millennia so many who have been misled by end times predictions that have proven false, most Christ followers today think there next to zero chance that the rapture, the Apocalypse, the return of Christ will happen in their lifetimes.
And they almost certainly are right.
Yet, there remains that next to zero chance that ours is the generation that shall see the sign of the Lord’s coming, and of the end of the world.
And when that great and terrible day comes, when all the tribes of the earth mourn, when they see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory, he will send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet.
A trumpet that might very well sound like that strange sound from the sky that has been heard around the globe.
Josephus reported battle like sounds while the Romans were outside the walls of Jerusalem for sometime before the battle began...
STOP SAYING THAT!
LOL
AMEN.
I do believe that Christians are going to have to suffer for their lives in the Lord Jesus Christ and to bring more people into faith in HIM.
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I think Christians will be rescued before the tribulation,
War of the Worlds
Prepare as if you’re wrong.
You must live near Ft. Carson?
I have always, since I was a child, thought that I was living in the end times.
Maybe that is something that a lot of Christians have felt and are still feeling. I have never discussed it with anyone.
Yes thank you.
War of the Worlds. Go ahead and search for YouTubes of the sound the invading, gigantic foreign monsters make.
Then listen to the “strange sounds” from the sky.
It is almost identical, and that was only the YouTubes I listened to. I was really puzzled by this before, but that settled it for me.
Your mileage may vary.
Tootin' a trumpet for ten years is a heck of a signal.......
End of Days/World/Time is a bad translation. Aion is Age not Days/World/Time.
....Could ‘Strange Sound From the Sky’ Signal End of Days?
No. Next question?
Can the strange sounds from the socialist main stream media actually convey information that would serve the populace in a positive way? I’m fairly sure that they cannot.
I like that movie. Too bad so few have seen it.
But every few years there's a new millennialist prophesying the end of the world. And almost every time they attract believers despite the expressed words of Jesus, "But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only." Every Christian should be ready at any time for the end, but I don't believe any true Christian would seriously promote that he, or anyone else, knows the end of days.
His signs in His sky are pointing in that direction.
The signs in the sky, when focused at the time Israel was taught to observe His Feasts, tell a story of where we have been, where we are,and where we are going..
And it is an awesome study..
One that would sound ‘astrological’ and not biblical but before Satan created the counterfeit astrology, the Creator wrote the story and plan in His sky..and the wisemen were astronomers..
Not astrologers.
We are a big wobble of the earth away from changes of an ‘era’ or ‘age’ change..
And it centers on Israel and when they observe His Feasts..
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