Signs in the Heavens
Jonah preached to Nineveh just before June 15, 762 BC – date of a total solar eclipse
SIGNS IN THE HEAVENS ASSOCIATED WITH JUDGMENTS
Revelation 6:12–13 (ESV)
12 When he opened the sixth seal, I looked, and behold, there was a great earthquake, and the sun became black as sackcloth, the full moon became like blood, 13 and the stars of the sky fell to the earth as the fig tree sheds its winter fruit when shaken by a gale.
UNITED STATES HAS A TOTAL ECLIPSE COMING UP NEXT MONTH! IS IT A SIGN OF COMING JUDGMENT?
4 eclipses in 2024 -1 total
Devils comet late July 2023
April 11 planetary conjunction
Aug 14 mars Jupiter conjunction
3 super moons
BACKDROP – God’s Calendar
Genesis 1:14–15 (ESV)
14 And God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night. And let them be for signs and for seasons, and for days and years, 15 and let them be lights in the expanse of the heavens to give light upon the earth.” And it was so.
Our Calendar – Gregorian based on sun (1 trip around the sun)
Hebrew calendar based on moon
Gregorian imperfect – Leap Day – add one day every 4 years (except on days end in 00 – century)
THIS WEEK was a unusual week – because Feb 29
Luni-solar calendar – based on moon
New moon vs. full moon
New Moon – 1st day of Jewish calendar month
Full moon – 15th day of calendar month
Moon 400x smaller than sun, but sun 400x further away – so appear the same size
Tav means “a sign or a mark”
ROMAN NUMERALS – X = 10, V= 5, C= 100, D=500
Tav = 400
Blood moons during Jewish Feast Days
May 14, 1948 – Israel re-born as a Nation
April 13, 1949 – Passover
October 7, 1949 – Sukkoth (Feast of Tabernacles)
April 2, 1950 – Passover
September 26, 1950 – Sukkoth
Passover beginning of religious year, Sukkoth marks begins of civil year
June 5, 1967 – Six Day War
April 24, 1967 Passover
October 18, 1967 Sukkoth
April 13, 1968 Passover
October 6, 1968 Sukkoth
Shemitah – 7 year cycle; means “release”
Year of Jubilee - Year after 7 Shemitah cycle (proclaimed on Yom Kippur)
Same as blood moons in 1966-67 warning for 1973 yom kipper war (started on first day of jubilee cycle)
Year of Jubilee – 1973
October 7, 2023
First day of jubilee 1973 began him kipper war and last day of jubilee cycle began Swords of Iron War
RELEASE – land freed!
Blood Moons of 2014-2015
April 15, 2014 - Passover
October 8, 2014 – Sukkoth
April 4, 2015 – Passover
September 28, 2015 – Sukkoth
Blood moons 10 years ago
Since then many hurricanes, Covid
2014 blood moons warning for Swords of Iron war- hamas (began on last day of that shemitah cycle)
Same as blood moons in 1966-67 warning for 1973 yom kipper war (started on first day of jubilee cycle)
Year of Jubilee – 1973
First day of jubilee 1973 began him kipper war and last day of jubilee cycle began Swords of Iron War
TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE
2017 – August 21, 2017
Nearly $300 Billion in damages from Hurricanes (Harvey, Irma, Maria)
Harvey – most rainfall ever dropped by hurricane in US (9 trillion gallons) 4 days after the eclipse
Irma – strongest hurricane on record up to that time
2018 – Trump and Jared Kushner working on Trump’s mid-east peace plan, 2 state solution for Israel (finally revealed in January 2020)
COVID – 2020
SEPTEMBER 23, 2017 – Revelation 12:1-2 Sign
see message https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5xTXPnzbdM&t=82s
2023 – October 14, 2023 Annular Eclipse over US (ring of Fire)
2024 – April 8, 2024
April 8 eclipse – totality over more people than any other eclipse in Western Hemisphere in history (30+ million)
As eclipse begins in Texas (Rosita, TX) – same moment sun setting in Israel.
Nisan 1, 5784– first day of the religious calendar;
Inaugurated tabernacle
Nadab abihu die
Clean house and get ready to come out of Egypt
Eclipse takes place on the same day the 3 days of darkness take place in Exodus\\
Eclipse will cross in Little Egypt – Illinois
X SPOT – Little Egypt - Cairo, IL, Thebes, IL
College – with pyramid and god Horace?
Letter x in ancient Hebrew (paleo letter) tav- signature of God where we get leave your mark
HEBREW LETTERS
Aleph and tav – first and last letters of Hebrew (alpha omega Greek)
Aleph tav – occurs about 7000 times in bible and never translated, just glossed over (appears in Gen 1:1 – KJV never translates, but some translations do)
Numerical value
Tav = 400
Tav means “a sign or a mark”
Put a “mark” (tav) on the forehead of righteous people
Aleph – oxhead – triangle A
Tav – x (or cross)
To mark the righteous with a cross!
NEW MADRID FAULT LINE –
1811-1812 2000 earthquakes that could be felt as far away as Washington, DC.
Mississippi River ran backwards for a few hours
After Alaska – strongest earthquakes in the US in New Madrid, MO – 7.9
PLANET ALIGNMENT NEXT MONTH
Yes, the planets are always in the same plane (solar system is flat like a pancake BUT All the planets gather in one quadrant only 7 times in the current millennium)
(in spite of what Neil de Grasse Tyson says)
February 28, 2025: a full evening alignment of Saturn, Mercury, Neptune, Venus, Uranus, Jupiter, and Mars. This is the next time 7 planets will be visible in the sky at once!
https://m.nakedeyeplanets.com/north-american-eclipse-2024.htm (on planetary alignment on April 8, 2024)
NEXT MONTH’S ECLIPSE – NINEVEH!
Will pass over 7 Nineveh’s (SLIDE)
Indiana, Missouri, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia
(last total solar eclipse passed over bunch of Salem’s)
SO IS IT A WARNING?
Don’t know, not a prophet
Nation – we have departed from God
Calling darkness light and light darkness
Gender confusion
Wrestling with abortion
WHAT COULD THE JUDGMENT LOOK LIKE?
War?
Russia
China
North Korea
Iran
SUN ACTIVITY -
Sun has 11 year cycle – 2025 the peak of that cycle – lots of sun spots, solar flares
CME – coronal mass ejection (sun burps)
Carrington Event (1859) – Northern lights seen in the tropics, telegraph (SLIDE)
Where is US in prophecy?
1. Hands tied? (unable/unwilling to intervene)
2. Daughter of Babylon?
Isaiah 47:1, 3-5 (ESV)
1 Come down and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon; sit on the ground without a throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans! For you shall no more be called tender and delicate… 3 Your nakedness shall be uncovered, and your disgrace shall be seen. I will take vengeance, and I will spare no one. 4 Our Redeemer—the Lord of hosts is his name— is the Holy One of Israel. 5 Sit in silence, and go into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans; for you shall no more be called the mistress of kingdoms.
Isaiah 47:9-11 (ESV)
9 These two things shall come to you in a moment, in one day; the loss of children and widowhood shall come upon you in full measure, in spite of your many sorceries and the great power of your enchantments. 10 You felt secure in your wickedness; you said, “No one sees me”; your wisdom and your knowledge led you astray, and you said in your heart, “I am, and there is no one besides me.” 11 But evil shall come upon you, which you will not know how to charm away; disaster shall fall upon you, for which you will not be able to atone; and ruin shall come upon you suddenly, of which you know nothing.
Revelation 18:1–3 (ESV)
1 After this I saw another angel coming down from heaven, having great authority, and the earth was made bright with his glory. 2 And he called out with a mighty voice, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great! She has become a dwelling place for demons, a haunt for every unclean spirit, a haunt for every unclean bird, a haunt for every unclean and detestable beast. 3For all nations have drunk the wine of the passion of her sexual immorality, and the kings of the earth have committed immorality with her, and the merchants of the earth have grown rich from the power of her luxurious living.”
Revelation 18:4-8 (ESV)
4 Then I heard another voice from heaven saying, “Come out of her, my people, lest you take part in her sins, lest you share in her plagues; 5 for her sins are heaped high as heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities. 6 Pay her back as she herself has paid back others, and repay her double for her deeds; mix a double portion for her in the cup she mixed. 7As she glorified herself and lived in luxury, so give her a like measure of torment and mourning, since in her heart she says, ‘I sit as a queen, I am no widow, and mourning I shall never see.’ 8 For this reason her plagues will come in a single day, death and mourning and famine, and she will be burned up with fire; for mighty is the Lord God who has judged her.”
Proverbs 22:3 AND 27:12 (ESV)
3 The prudent sees danger and hides himself, but the simple go on and suffer for it.
CLOSE
Luke 21:25–28 (CSB)
25 “Then there will be signs in the sun, moon, and stars; and there will be anguish on the earth among nations bewildered by the roaring of the sea and the waves. 26 People will faint from fear and expectation of the things that are coming on the world, because the powers of the heavens will be shaken. 27 Then they will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. 28 But when these things begin to take place, stand up and lift your heads, because your redemption is near.”
Revelation 19:6–10 (NKJV)
6 And I heard, as it were, the voice of a great multitude, as the sound of many waters and as the sound of mighty thunderings, saying, “Alleluia! For the Lord God Omnipotent reigns! 7 Let us be glad and rejoice and give Him glory, for the marriage of the Lamb has come, and His wife has made herself ready.” 8 And to her it was granted to be arrayed in fine linen, clean and bright, for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints.
APPLICATION:
Are you making yourself spiritually ready for the Lord’s return?
Are you preparing for what may be a bumpy ride?
Physical preparation – food, shelter, finances
Spiritual preparation – satisfied in Jesus alone, identity in Christ, not taken captive by the spiritual forces of this world