In Sky & Telescope, there is an announcement of the collision of an asteroid with the Earth in 2036. However, the most likely date (in my opinion) is really Friday, April 13, 2029. ...as it makes its trajectory through Cancer...the 320-meter (1,050-foot) asteroid called Apophis may be the very excuse of the mid-tribulation's nuclear war.
The impact of such a small asteroid is believed to have the comparable blast effect as a single nuke with a force of thousands of megatons, and destroy the ozone layer. Further, its dust thrown up will be 7 times greater than the climatic changes due to Krakatoa's explosion in the 1880s.
If that is the 2029 date is the case, then the Tribulation will begin in September of 2025, and the Rapture of the Church sometime prior to this at an unknown date. The "after two days" or 2,000 years "he will raise us up" then becomes literal..as neither the Jewish or Gregorian Calendar are so accurate in their meticulousness in recording every single year accurately from the Fall of the Roman Empire to the High Middle Ages.
Astronomers and global politicians of the potential impact zone are beginning to worry about an appropriate and nuclear response If this asteroid revolves in a 7 year cycle, instead of an impact in 2029 and 2036, we can also worry about a strike on 2022 or 2015 as well, and project a Tribulation Period beginning in 2018 or 2011.
Regardless, once the rapture hits, and we saints are taken out of this world, taken by the hand as those delivered from Sodom & Gomorrah, that asteroid (or one like it) will strike 1290 -1291 days after the Tribulation begins. That is, the Trib must begin in a fall month, and the Great Trib and Day of the L-RD at or about the Passover / Firstfruits holiday.
In other words...the asteroid is just another sign that the Rapture is almost certainly to occur in the next 20 years, and we are at the edge of eternity. We can either be delivered and sheltered in Yeshua, or deny Him and go over the brink to the vast abyss hundreds of miles below.
Any one else read the article? It was in AOL News and other places.
Of Deuteronomy 28:20, we read a loose paraphrasing of the Hebrew in that verse, which helps open a Last Day's insight:
"HASHEM will send upon you a bright-luminary/light which will cause you to curse vehemently; a strong luminary bringing about a discomfort of noise - confusion - of panic, and a strong scolding meant to bring about an understanding of wrong and the act of disapproval in all that you set your hand for to work-toil-and-accomplish...because of the wickedness of thy doings, whereby you have forsaken Me."
In Revelation 16:8-11's expanded and reiterating loose paraphrase, we read:
"And the 4th Angel poured out his pan upon the Sun, and power was given unto him to scorch men with fire.
And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the NAME of G-D [i.e. Yeshua / Jesus], which has power upon/which can overcome these plagues: and they repented not to give Him glory.
And the 5th Angel poured out his pan upon the Throne of the Beast; and his kingdom was full of chaotic disorder of shadiness/darkness/blindness; and they gnawed their tongues for pain.
And blasphemed the G-D of Heaven because of their pains of exertion and labor, which almost consumes their whole strength of exertion, and (because of) their multitudes of ulcers/sores so abundant that these ulcerous sores are as if drawn together, and repented not of their deeds."
In Revelation 16 and in Deuteronomy 28:22, we see that these ulcerous sores are more than just sunburns...
"HASHEM with smite you with a peeling consumption, and with fever, and with inflammation, and with an extreme burning, and with the sword, and with scorching blight and with mildew."
The scorching blight is the radioactive dust that speads upon impact and kills life over about one-third of the planet Earth. The mildew is a secondary effect of the dust, in which it rages out of control like some fierce alien thing. We've seen this type of mildew in the late 1970s destroy the outskirts of Niagara Falls, in which bio-chemical weapon agents (assumed neutralized by the Army contractors) were combined with other Hazmat Waste materials, and dumped "cost effectively" in a field. Later, when a housing development was built on top of the dump-site, the mildew raged out of control into new housing developments. Kiddie stuff of that mildew in the Tribulation Week that is yet to come.
The sword represents as a result of weaponry...the characteristics of the peeling consumption matches the case histories of those who survived closest to the blast zones of Nagasaki and Hiroshima. That is, the horror of the above events is going to be due to a nuclear launch that is made against Apophis, or an asteroid like it -- so that it becomes as this next verse from Revelation 8:11:
"And the name of the star is called WORMWOOD [in Russian: "Chernobyl"]: and the third part of the waters became Wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter [read "radioactive"]."
Hence, if men drink, the radioactivity burns their tongues and insides out.
But the real reason of this asteroid coming to Earth in the first place? Because we in America are the New Babylon, spreading our tales of blood rather than the Good News of Yeshua...condoning all types of immorality and vice. But those seeking our destruction are no more moral than we...and where our annihilation is swift, theirs will be excruciatingly painful and unenviable. Trust in Yeshua now, and you can avoid all of this (Zephaniah 2:3, Isaiah 55:6). Shalom.
I was really hoping the Rapture would come sooner than the 2020s.
Who knows when it can really be? I'm just showing that the likelihood of a world apocalypse is a real and present danger. G-D could always send us a different asteroid before anyone identified the danger, blow the trumpet, and use Apophis or even another set of asteroids (latter blown to bits?) as part of the meteors weighing an average of 70 - 100 lbs at Armageddon.
In any case, via death or the Rapture beforehand...we won't be here. But with such as Apophis, we can know that now Israel is back in the Land...it will definitely be within a generation from now, in my opinion. We can't know the day, hour or year...but don't look now - those buds are bursting forth and the Tree of Israel is getting its green leaves again. Shalom.
It is interesting to see that the asteroid could possibly miss and cycle back. I think of Jonah's cry and Ninevah's people repenting. I also think of Noah and the 120 years of Ark building. I think of the Chinese's recent launch of the satellite destroying missile and how it could be fitted with a nuclear warhead. I think of the Lord's longsuffering towards us also. I appreciate your posts. Good read and Shalom aleichem.
What I do not understand is why the reference to the Sun if this might likely be an asteroid doing the damage. Do asteroids come from suns? I know they are said to be leftover debris from the formation of the solar system, but I wonder if they can be hurtled fresh from a burning sun such as ours.
The Revelation 8:10-11 reference to the star can be a satellite with a nuclear reactor that went into meltdown, or an ICBM that didn't explode and went into meltdown istead (perhaps).
http://www.atomicarchive.com/Photos/LANL/image56.shtml
On July 9, 1962 The U.S. exploded a 1.4 megaton nuke over Johnson Island...the effective range was 9,000 miles (i.e., Argentina) of EMP interference for up to one year. The explosion was not a perfect circular pulse, but probably an oblong after the pattern of the photograph above...to which Hawaii was on the narrow of the oblong, some 750 miles away.
http://www.atomicarchive.com/Effects/effects21.shtml
The depletion of ozone in the atmosphere is not only related to volcanic activity, but it is also the reason why testing of nuclear devices was moved underground. The blame was made on aerosols, but they simply were a red herring. The depletion of ozone by upper atmosphere nuclear detonation (via the nuclear war in the Mid-Trib, launched by a Russian led Nato, Iran, and others against us) allows a quick ultra-violet burning. But the specifics is that the star makes the fresh waters bitter...and in the Russian, the wormwood is labeled as Chernobyl. Therefore, that star is not dealing with an origin from the sun...it is a failed nuke that poisons 1/3 of the Earth.
It could even be an Iranian supernuke helped by Russia...which is why we need to flatten Iran now, and vigilantly protect America if we want Peace for at least one more generation and in our lifetime. Hosea says, After 2 days (2,000 years) will He revive us, in the 3rd day He will revive [resurrect] us up, and we shall live in His sight (Hosea 6:2). Hence, if literal, we have until as late as 2030 before prophecy is REQUIRED to kick in, and IT ALL (as far as the world is concerened) hits the fan. Shalom.
I just noticed this on the AOL website news!!! Not even my newshound son has shared this with me. I found your website after doing a search on Wormwood and asteroid. What a great blessing this thread is. I am going to have my son read it when he gets home.
One thing that Word says, is that "this generation will not pass away". From what I know, it could also mean "race". So, that means that the Jewish race won't disappear, as satan has so tried to do, but, that it shall remain until everything happens.
My mom saw Israel become a nation and she knew that prophesy had been fulfilled. It lit her heart!!! We studied as much as we could on prophecy, so that we could understand things. She has since passed on to be with Jesus. I am sure that she knows more than I do, here on earth.
Some people say that when you look at prophecy, events are not one right after the other. One event can be spoken of that happens soon, and then one is spoken of that doesn't take place until much later. There is a lot of disagreement on this one scripture. But, Israel became a nation in 1948. 70 years is a generation, right? So, that could mean that by 2018....hey, isn't there a report about Apophis hitting in 2019? Hum....well, however G-d causes it to all come about, we are going to be seeing this come about. So, this is 2007, and that means 11 years...makes you want to go out on the street corner and start shouting at people about it all...and they'll just walk by, thinking you are crazy. That's one thing that gets me; how people can continue in their way of life, ignoring the signs. And, the signs are there!!!
Trumpets 1 to 2 revelation describe the arrival of "2003 QQ247" an asteroid that can hit earth as early as 2014. The asteroid will break on the atmosphere causing the fire hail with blood (re-entry) that will rain in the sky burning and causing damage where the pieces land. The rest of the asteroid will land in the ocean somewhere causing the death of a third of things in and on the ocean where it lands. This asteroid is supposed to be one tenth from the one that hit the earth and killed the dinosaurs so it won't cause major major damage but will cause enough to kill one third of things.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3200019.stm
Trumpet 3, Wormwood is most likely Apophos which could hit earth as early as 2021. This asteroid could cause the events described by this verse with the bottomless pit like in appearence (massive crater) and the smoke like that of a furness (atomic eruption like volcano smoke and ash) that will cover the sun, moon. This one is a bad one.