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Next moom 2017 sept11/5/2023 ![]() John makes good use of the blackened sun in his Revelation, knowing well that the image conjured terror in his readers. The current hurricane season is an obvious example of this, as is the recent solar eclipse. The fear from the skies comes from the awareness of our essential fragility as we face nature's awesome powers. If the gods aren't happy, we will pay for it especially - if you are a Christian - the sinners. If the skies act crazy, the gods can't be happy. Indeed, in cultures across the globe we find eclipses, comets, and meteor showers being associated with evil portents. Since for believers the skies are often the realm of the gods, the jump from seeing something strange up there to attributing it to some sort of divine message is not a huge one. The skies do display unusual alignments and phenomena that have been observed for millennia. In my book The Prophet and the Astronomer: Apocalyptic Science and the End of the World, I explored why apocalyptic ideas often depend on some celestial event and how such ideas have percolated from religion to science. The key question here is what makes people believe in such literal readings in 2017? I watched the documentary in a state of awe. Come the end, they will clash in decisive ways. In his world, there are two coexisting parallel realities, a natural and a supernatural one. He is convinced that God will send the sign, and it need not be consistent with science. 23 something will happen to the sun, signifying the dragon of the prophecy, although not necessarily Planet X. Rood looks like a benevolent rabbi, a biblical patriarch. One of them in particular, Michael Rood, has returned to Israel to watch the end unfold. Israel's existence, a chronology of dates from its foundation to wars, everything, they say, points to the veracity of the old prophecies. They argue that it all revolves around Israel and the mounting tensions in the region - and that this is it. But isn't it always the case that there will be turmoil somewhere in the world - and this turmoil may be interpreted as a sign from a biblical prophesy? Hasn't this happened over and over, prophecy of the end after prophecy being debunked by the boring continuity of life as we know it?īelievers disagree. 23 when the world remains where it is? Surely, as Shermer mentions, Trump may do something, or North Korea. Watching the documentary, what I find most striking is the strength of the literalists' conviction. ![]() Given that Earth has been orbiting the sun for 4.5 billion years, its orbit is pretty stable so far. Any such planet, given its elongated orbit and large mass, would have caused major instabilities in the solar system, including ejecting the Earth from its place around the sun. Together, they explain the scientific arguments against such fears, including the fact that there is no Planet X. And so are Ed Krupp, director of the Griffith Observatory, and Konstantin Batygin, an assistant professor of astronomy at Caltech. Michael Shermer, author and editor of Skeptic magazine is there, too, to make sense of the nonsense. (A preview of the film can be watched here.)įortunately, the documentary doesn't only present this version of the story. 23 is it - the day the end comes as prophesied in Revelation. ![]() ![]() To make a long story short, many biblical literalists affirm with utmost conviction in the documentary that Sept. The red dragon is associated by some literalists with Planet X, a planet (wrongly) conjectured to orbit the sun about 90 times more distant than Earth, which, the literalists say, comes every so often to create havoc. ET/PT, the "son" leaving the birth canal is Jupiter leaving Virgo. According to the biblical literalists interviewed in The Sign, airing Sept.
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