Today a line from the west coast to the east coast will experience a total solar eclipse. This is the first time this has happened since 1918. Many are wondering if this is a sign of the last days. I think it probably is. Let me explain.
2 Timothy 3 tells us that in the “last days…people will be lovers of self…” That’s why I say this eclipse likely reveals we are in the last days, at least here in America. This eclipse has revealed how infatuated we are with ourselves. There has been a massive spike in Google searches and articles about end times hysteria. Some have written that this total eclipse is a sign of God’s judgment and that the end is near. There is just a little problem with that. Eclipses happen all the time in other places. Consider this from NASA:
“During the 5,000-year period from -1999 to +3000 (2000 BCE to 3000 CE), Earth will experience 11,898 eclipses of the Sun. The statistical distribution of eclipse types for this interval is as follows: 4,200 partial eclipses, 3,956 annular eclipses, 3,173 total eclipses and 569 hybrid eclipses. That means that, every 1000 years you have 840 partial eclipses, 791 annular eclipses, 635 total eclipses and 114 hybrid eclipses. That works out to 2-3 eclipses of all kinds each year, and about 2 total solar eclipses every 3 years.”
So why are people freaking out about this one? Because it directly impacts us. This is a serious problem with the way we read the Bible. Certainly every culture will read the Scriptures through their own lens. That’s inevitable. But the ethnocentrism with which we read the Bible is going to really mess things up for us. You cannot read a book that is fundamentally not about you and rightly understand it if you have a worldview which believes everything is about you.
So this solar eclipse probably doesn’t mean much. Unless you want to say all the other eclipses in other nations, in all the other ages of history, are a sign of a coming apocalypse.
But I’m going to keep this short…I have to prepare for the zombie apocalypse.
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You obviously did very little research on the signs and wonders issue.
oh, and don’t even worry yourself about the 21-23 of September 2017 eclipse
in Israel will cause a period of 3 hour darkness (around noon) of course, its
nothing…it happens all the time as you say……and that it is the 50th year of Jubilee, and
the Feast of Trumpets/Rosh Hashanah, its all just mere coincidence, and oh
never mind that the UN has had themes for their Int’l Day of Peace since
1981, and the only time they have used the words “peace and safety”…is
this coming Sept 21, 2017….which 1 Thes 5:3 just happens to mention…
And forget that the constellation Virgo will have ALL in alignment on that
same date frame….is referenced in Revelation 12 as a wonder in heaven,
with the great red dragon coming out of nowhere to block the sun for those
three hours…it again .is just nothing….yawn.