Since 1994, when the
entire world
witnessed the planet
Jupiter ravaged by
an impact with the
comet Shoemaker-Levy
9, we worry that it
could happen to us.
Every few years
there is a new
report of a threat
of collision with an
asteroid. NASA
call these NEO's;
short for 'near
earth objects'.
The 'Near Earth
Orbit Program'
tracks over 200 of
these and ranks them
on a 'sentry risk
table'. The
'Palermo' scale
rates them on
expected cumulative
and maximum hazard
while the 'Torino'
scale gives the
potential between 0
and 10 for them to
impact the earth in
the next 100 years.
You will be happy to
know that the values
for the listed
asteroids are all
zero for now.
Asteroid 2012DA14
will pass about
35,800 kilometers
away on February 15,
2013. As a
disclaimer, only a
small percentage of
earth crossing
objects have been
found and a new one
can show up at any
time.
Indeed, the Bible
contains several
accounts of stones
or fire falling from
the sky. Every
one knows the story
of Sodom and
Gomorrah, though
that fire and
brimstone may have
had volcanic
origins. But
look at Joshua 10:
11-14: God
destroyed the
Amorites with stones
from heaven and
subsequently makes
the sun appear
stationary in the
sky for a whole day.
The two events
obviously joined by
an astronomical
event that most
likely tilted the
earth on it's axis.
Like Alaska in
summer, it left the
midnight sun up long
enough for Joshua to
win his battle.
Ahab and Jezabel's
Baal priests and
King Ahaziah's
soldiers had the
unhappy experiance
of watching Elija
call God's fire down
from heaven.
In the very
beginning of
scripture, Genesis
1:2, the New
American Standard
Bible describes the
earth as being
'waste and
emptiness'. It
is a picture of what
the earth would look
like after a major
impact such as the
one reported to have
happened off the
Yucatan Peninsula
around 65 million
years ago.
National Geographic
has an excellent dvd
documenting the
catastrophe called
"24 Hours After
Asteroid Impact:".
An asteroid larger
than Mount Everest
traveling at 40,000
mph hit the earth
leaving the
Chicxulub
(prounounced:
chick-shee-loob)
crater, some 190
miles across.
It came in at a 30
degree angle,
plowing deeply into
the earth's mantel,
instantly vaporizing
billions of gallons
of sea water and
blasting 100,000
cubic miles of earth
into everything from
dust and gas to
chunks the size of
buildings.
Super hot gases
nearly the
temperature of the
sun and a supersonic
blast wave killed
every living thing
for several hundred
miles. As the
sea rushed back into
the crater, it rose
up again into a
tidal wave several
thousand feet high
that deluged costal
area. The
debris that went
into low earth orbit
began raining down
as millions of new
meteors that
consequently started
fires around the
globe and
super-heated the
atmosphere to 1500
degrees.
Sulphur dioxide from
the molten earth
acidified fresh and
sea water making it
toxic to fish and
animals. As
the dust, smoke and
ash from the
exploding meteor and
burning vegetation
filled the
atmosphere, much of
the sun's light was
obscured and brought
the planet into a
new ice age.
If all the combined
nuclear weapons
possessed by the
Soviet Union and the
United States were
detonated
simultaneously, the
explosive power
would still be
10,000 times smaller
than the Chicxulub
event.
Does the story of a
mountain falling out
of the sky into the
ocean sound
familiar? It
should. The
prophet John was not
known as a man of
science, or was
there any historical
evidence that he
might have witnessed
a meteor impact
during his life
time. He
penned these words
by the Holy Spirit
of a future
cataclysm from his
exile on Patmos some
90 years after the
death and
resurrection fo
Jesus Christ:
Revelation 8: 6-12
"And the
seven angels who had
the seven trumpets
prepared themselves
to sound them.
And the first
sounded, and there
came hail and fire,
mixed with blood,
and they were thrown
down to the earth
and a third of the
trees were burned
up, and all the
green grass was
burned up. And
the second angel
sounded, and the sea
became blood; and a
third of the
creatures, which
were in the sea
died; and a third of
the ships were
destroyed. And
the third angel
sounded, and a great
star fell from
heaven, burning like
a torch, and it fell
on a third of the
rivers and on the
springs of waters;
and the name of the
star is Wormwood;
and a third of the
waters became
wormwood; and many
men died from the
waters, because they
were made bitter.
And the fourth angel
sounded, and a third
of the sun and third
of the moon and a
third of the stars
were smitten, so
that a third of them
might be darkened
and the day might
not shine for a
third of it, and the
night in the same
way."
The angels blow the
trumpets, and a
series of events
take place ushering
in the final seven
year tribulation
period. The
first four are so
strikingly similar
in description to
the Chicxulub impact
it is unmistakable.
But this time it is
going to strike a
planet full of
humans instead of
dinosaurs.
We need to realize
that God's methods
of judgement do not
change. In
Luke 17: 26-30,
Jesus himself
answers the question
about when the
Kingdom of God would
come. He said
'as in the day
of Noah,
people were
going about their
business as usual
until Noah entered
the ark and the
flood washed them
away. As
in the day of Lot,
they also went
about their daily
lives with no
thought of impending
doom. As Lot
walked out of the
city, the fire came
down and destroyed
them all.' He
will once again use
fire and flood to
judge the
unbelieving world in
a swift and decisive
blow that catches
them off guard on
the day he removes
his people from the
wrath.
Levitical law called
for 'stoning' as the
method of capital
punishment. It
is poetic justice
that God would cast
a great stone from
heaven to begin
judgment.
The seventh trumpet
sounds in Revelation
11: 15-19,
"The kingdom the
world has become the
kingdom of our Lord
and of His
Christ...and the
nations were
enraged, and Thy
wrath came, and the
time came for the
dead to be judged,
and the time to give
their reward to Thy
bond-servants the
prophets and to the
saints and to those
who fear Thy name,
the small and the
great, and to
destroy those who
destroy the earth."
It is logical to
follow that the
rapture of the
church has taken
place at the same
time as the great
meteor impact
judgement has fallen
on the earth.
Why? Because
God told us in His
word His children
would be spared from
His wrath to come.
It would, by the
nature of the global
devastaion, hide any
chance of an
accountability of
missing bodies and
allow survivors left
behind to believe a
'great lie' that
something other than
God caused the
churches to vanish.
The ensuing economic
and political chaos
as surviving groups
compete for
remaining resources
opens the door for
the ani-christ to
establish control.
The 'History
Channel' has been
airing a new program
called 'doomsday
preppers'. It
is documenting
measures some people
are attempting to
stay alive during
which ever global
threat they percieve
will eventually come
about. The
very best
preparation you can
make is to accept
the payment for your
sins that God
furnished thorough
His Son Jesus
Christ. Turn
away from the sins
He convicts you of
and live for Him.
That way, you will
not fear any future
that comes.
Your future will be
with Him!