CHRIST'S SEVENTH SIGN

CHRIST'S SIGNS ARE HERE!

WHY DID WE NOT LISTEN TO CHRIST?

A SCIENTIST’ VIEW OF CHRIST’S SIGNS

IS THERE SCIENTIFIC BASIS FOR CHRIST’S PROPHECIES?

HE TOLD US PRECISELY WHAT WAS COMING _ BUT IT WAS TOO FANTASTIC

TOO MUCH LIKE SCIENCE FICTION _ TOO FEARFUL FOR US TO BELIEVE

SO WE PASSED IT OFF AS SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM

IMAGINING OTHER MEANINGS FOR HIS GREAT SIGNS!

Christ gave us seven signs to watch for to let us know that His return is eminent _ and

…. THEY ARE HERE!! "{They are continually increasing in intensity and frequency}"

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CHRIST GAVE US MANY SIGNS AND PROPHECIES WHEN HE WAS HERE ON EARTH IN HIS FIRST ADVENT. BUT THE SEVEN SIGNS WHICH HE GAVE US TO LOOK FOR JUST BEFORE HIS RETURN, TO TAKE HIS TRUE CHURCH OFF THE EARTH IN THE BLINK OF AN EYE, ARE THE ONES THAT THIS BLOG WILL ADDRESS .. WHY? .. BECAUSE THESE ARE THE SIGNS THAT ARE LITERALLY .. "NEXT" .. ON GOD'S PROPHETIC CALENDAR!

Note to the academic world: _ I am writing this document as simply as possible. I do not want it to be beyond the abilities of the average layman to comprehend the basic theme of the subjects. That is why I have left out a lot of scientific parameters, equations, other theories, and intricate details.
Also, I know that I’m starting this post off like my earlier post “WHY DID WE NOT LISTEN TO CHRIST”, but I feel like we need to reset our minds to this opening statement. And new readers need to get it as well, and they also need to find out about my back ground [in the opening section (next/below)], in order to understand me. But I assure you that this is a new post and it is going to change dramatically, delving deeply into the science of the universe becoming all New very quickly, but at the same time, keeping things on a much simplified, and easier to visualize level. I know that this last statement sounds like an oxymoron, but just read on, I believe you will perceive what I envision, and you may even be delightfully intrigued by the time we finish. ………. Yes, I do know that there are a number of other theories on the forming and existence of the universe, but what I have given you, is what God has led me to. What you do with it is strictly between you and our Creator.

MY BACKGROUND / MY PRESENTATION OF SCRIPTURE / THINGS HARD TO BELIEVE / AND MY SCIENCE

My Background: _ I'm a retired Electro-Optics-Engineer-Scientist, and I have spent 38 years working in the fields of science and technology … in the positions of: _ Research/Development-Laboratory-Technician; _ Electrical-Research-Engineer; _ Electro-Optics-Engineer; _ Engineer-Scientist; _ and Technical Staff Member/Projects Leader; But before that I graduated from a respected engineering university {57 years ago} with high honors {Director’s Honor Roll}. Before that I worked more than four years as a successful auto mechanic. Prior to that, I graduated from automotive trade school with high honors {straight-A’s}. And before that I graduated from High School making the National Honor Society. …… But now today, I have no official Seminary/Religious schooling, only the teaching of Christ and God's Holy Word and God’s Holy Spirit. But I actually believe that it is the best way to be schooled in the Holy Scriptures, that is: _ directly from God’s Holy Spirit. …… I have though for short sessions, set under the teaching of several renown-evangelists, teachers, and preachers, as well as studying many writings of great Christian authors, but the leading of God’s Holy Spirit is the final and controlling determinant for my beliefs. This does not mean that I follow God so closely that I know everything about the Bible, only God knows everything about His Word, but He does reveal certain things to certain believers according to their gifts/ their abilities/ and their level of surrender to His will, all of which God wants for us all. Also it does not mean that I'm infallible, for the old fallen nature of man still lives in me. …… I also believe that we {all mankind} are not mentally capable of taking-in and understanding everything ………… God is going to have to expand the functioning of our minds first. …… Man was designed and created with much greater mental faculties than he is capable of using now. {He (mankind) was greatly affected (bodily, mentally, and spiritually) by his fall from innocence into sin: _ “for all have sinned and come short of the glory of God” (Rom.3:23) [sin: _ man’s disbelieving and disobeying God, thus bringing the curse upon mankind, the earth, and the entire universe, (All Creation).]}. At the end of each day of creation in Genesis, GOD said: _ “Everything is Very Good”, meaning “Perfect” {to an all knowing, all intelligent, all powerful, all perfect Creator: Very Good would have to be Perfect.}, but now everywhere we look: _ at man; the earth; and the universe; we see imperfections {absolutely nothing is perfect}. Just look around, there is sickness, disease, ageing {every living thing is growing old, even the Giant Redwood Trees}, and then comes death. Then everything man builds slowly disintegrates {molecular breakdown} and wears out with time, like our automobiles, homes, appliances, machinery, factories, bridges, skyscrapers, and even the ancient pyramids in Egypt are weathering, and all will one day crumble into the dust. And now we are seeing strange, unexplainable things in the universe: _ such as old looking stars mixed in with younger stars, then galaxies with confusing features seeming to defy astrophysics, and of course dying stars, and exploding /supernova stars, and now even Colliding Galaxies far out in space. …… Also, looking at man’s deterioration from his original design, Medical Science in studies of the most brilliant human brains, has determined that man has never used more than about 5% {at most} of his brain {we were meant and designed for greater things, but we no longer have the ability to use it all}. If we but open our eyes, we see the evidence of man’s fall ... everywhere! ……..

But, now going back to my Blog-Post work, I do ask the Lord, fervently, to lead me, and to keep me from doing harm. … I know that God sometimes has to shake us up to get our attention, so we will stop and listen to Him, but I still don’t want to harm you, or anyone. Yes, God may have to shake you up, so you will listen to Him, but He loves you and so do I. …… Yes, I do care what happens to you, even though I have not met you, and don’t know you {but God knows you, and He is the one who is urging me to write to you}. I know that you have feelings and want others to care about you, as do I, and God wants that for us all.

Bible Scripture: _ Most of my Bible quotes are paraphrased. But as with most of my renditions of scripture, they are a combination of several translations which I believe make up the true meaning of the verse/passage, as God is leading me. I have been an avid student of the Holy Bible since my spirit received eternal life from Christ, fifty years ago. It’s my prayer that God will use my posts to accomplish Only-His-Will. ……….. {My most used Bible translations are: _ KJV / NIV / AMP / YLT / HCSB / NKJV / ASV / NASB / NCV / ESV / OJB / CJB / CSB, / DARBY and at times a few others.}

Things Hard to Believe: _ I’m no doubt going to tell you some things that you will have a hard time believing, because you have never heard anything like them before, because some of them I have not heard before either _ except directly from God, but I am convinced that the Lord God has led me to them.
CONCERNING MY SCIENCE: _ You will find that my science is not in line with Mainstream Science on everything. Yes Mainstream Science has its share of problems in certain places {too many unproven/ false theories accepted, and taught as fact, such as: _ “evolution”; “geology”; archeology; [and some areas of: _ microbiology; DNA; chemistry; astronomy; astrophysics; and quantum-physics]}. But I will say this: _ many Scientist are turning away from evolution to Creation! Because evolution just won’t work, with the discoveries that have been brought to light, in modern science in the last 40 to 50 years.
(See the videos: _ “The Privileged Planet”; "Starlight, Time and the New Physics"; "Unlocking The Mystery Of Life"; "The Star of Bethlehem" (Rick Larson); and read Lee Strobel’s book “The Case For A Creator”)…… They are totally awesome, you should check them out.......
There will be a lot more science in this post, but it will be much simplified, without the unnecessary complex details that are not needed for a general understanding.
My science has to agree with God’s Word, or I reject it, then talk to Him about it, follow His leading, and look deeper into His word. Man does not know or understand ‘Everything about ANYTHING’, not any subject, or any field of science, or anything that exists in this universe, and that includes me. We only know in part. ……. Our CREATOR GOD is the only one who knows “EVERYTHING, about EVERYTHING” …… the more ‘we learn’: _ the more questions we have; _ and the more unknowns that come to the light! …… MAN DID NOT CREATE SCIENCE … OUR CREATOR GOD DID! …… Science is the means by which He designed, chose, and used to create all that exists. God has allowed man to learn much about His science, but we all are but tiny babes/ toddlers in our knowledge, understanding, and mental abilities as compared to OUR CREATOR.

FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE BELIEVERS IN CHRIST ALREADY

I want you to know up front that you will not have to worry about the Great Tribulation Judgements that are coming. …… We will not be here on earth when it starts. … We will already be in heaven with Christ. He will snatch us out of here: “like a thief in the night!” (1^st Thessalonians _ 5:2, & 4:13-18) …… My 55 years of Bible study tells me that Christ is going to remove us from this earth prior to the Great Wrath of God upon this world. A few of the passages telling me this quite plainly are: _ (Rev. 3:10 NIV), where Christ speaking to the True Church says: _ (#1) “Since you have kept my command to endure patiently, I will also keep you from the ‘Hour of Trial’ that is going to come upon ‘The Whole World’ to test those who live on the earth.” … There have been many trials/troubles on this earth since Christ spoke these words, but there has been No trial that has covered the entire earth with all of the great chaos and upheaval that the Lord described in (Mat.24:3-8; Mat.24:15-22; Mark 13:1-8; Mark 13:14-19; Luke 21:5-11; Luke 21:25-33, and also that which He revealed to the Apostle John in the Bible's last book called The Revelation in chapters 6-19. ... The trial that is yet to come upon the entire world will be seven years long and called: _ The Great Tribulation; /The Great Wrath of God; /The Time of Jacob's Troubles; /The End of The Age; and /The End of The World. ………

… But we who believe upon Christ Jesus will not be on earth to suffer this wrath: ___ (#2) “For God has NOT APPOINTED US UNTO WRATH, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ who died for us, that whether we Wake {are alive} or Sleep {or are dead}, We Should Live Together With Him”! (1^st –Thess.5:9-11) [This is the catching up of all believers 6.5 years before the Wrath of God comes {more on this 6.5-years later}.] ………… Then _ (#3) “And {we are} to wait for His Son from heaven, whom He raised from the dead, even Jesus, which/ {who} delivered us from the Wrath to Come”. … These scriptures (#1), (#2), and (#3) will be fulfilled at the Rapture of Believers, whether we are alive or dead, We Shall Live with Him Forever! {We will be with Christ Jesus forever and ever, Amen}. See (1^st-Thess.4:13-18) (1^st-Cor.15:51-53), they describe the Rapture in fantastic detail. …………… Note: _ Back to this time of Great-Tribulation, that follows the Rapture … … It will End Mans Reign and Rule of the Earth. …… CHRIST WILL THEN RULE FOREVER!

LET US BEGIN BY LOOKING AT THE GREATNESS OF OUR CREATOR'S CREATION

In order for us to be able to fully understand Christ’s signs of the … “last days” [announcing His soon return] … We need to Broaden Our Vision: _ We need to understand His immense unlimited intellect, His absolute perfect righteousness, and His awesome incontestable total power, as our Creator and God. First let us look at our home: _ our planet; and our solar system, which He created. Our Sun of course is the huge fire-ball in the center of this artist’s depiction of our planetary system home. Our planet Earth is on the right side of the drawing in the position of the third planet from the sun, along with our moon. The order of the planets is as follows: _ from the right side of the Sun (1st) is Mercury; _ (2nd) is Venus; _ (3rd) is Earth; _ (4th) is Mars; _ then the Asteroid Belt; then from the Sun's left side _ the (5th) planet is Jupiter; _ (6th) is Saturn; _ (7th) is Uranus; _ (8th) is Neptune; _ (9th) is Pluto {now classified a dwarf planet}.

There are currently five officially classified dwarf planets in our solar system. They are: Ceres, Pluto, Haumea, Makemake and Eris.

OUR SOLAR SYSTEM

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c2/Solar_sys.jpg/1280px-Solar_sys.jpg

The planet Ceres is a 300 mile diameter dwarf in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter; Haumea, Makemake, and Eris are further out than Pluto. There are also numerous other small orbiting bodies even further out than these, some of which could also be soon classified as Dwarf Planets.
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NEXT LET US EXPAND OUR VISION EVEN MORE

Looking at our Galactic Home and where we are located within it:

The vastness of our Galaxy alone, (without looking at the rest of the universe) is hard for our minds to comprehend!

OUR GALAXY IS CALLED THE MILKY-WAY-GALAXY

The Milky-Way is the galaxy that contains our Solar System.^[16]^[17]^[18]^[nb
1] Its name "milky" is derived from its appearance as a dim glowing band arching across the night sky in which the naked eye cannot distinguish individual stars. The term "Milky Way" is a translation of the Latin via lactea, from the Greek γαλαξίας κύκλος (galaxías kýklos, "milky circle").^[19]^[20]^[21] From Earth, the Milky Way appears as a band because its disk-shaped structure is viewed from within. Galileo Galilei first resolved the band of light into individual stars with his telescope in 1610. Up until the early 1920s, most astronomers thought that all of the stars in the Universe were contained inside of the Milky Way. [(*)see comment below] Following the 1920 Great Debate between the astronomers: Harlow shapley and Heber Curtis,^[22] observations by Edwin Hubble showed that the Milky Way is just one of many, many galaxies—now known to be billions.^[23]
Stars and gases at a wide range of distances from the Galactic Center orbit at approximately 220 kilometers per second [136.7 miles per second]/ {492,000 miles per hour}. The constant rotation speed contradicts the laws of Keplerian dynamics and suggests that much of the mass of the Milky Way does not emit or absorb electromagnetic radiation. This mass has been given the name "dark matter".[30] The rotational period of our galaxy is about 240 million years at the position of our Sun.[12] The Milky Way as a whole is moving at a velocity of approximately 600 km per second/ [373 miles per second]/ {1.342 million miles per hour} with respect to extragalactic frames of reference. (*** see note below: “Everything moving”)
The oldest stars in the "Milky Way" are nearly as old as the Universe itself and thus must have formed shortly after the Big Bang. (**** see note: _ "how can old/young stars, and old/young galaxies be grouped together?)

The Milky Way is a barred spiral galaxy that has a diameter usually considered to be roughly 100,000–120,000 light-years in diameter^[24] but may be 150,000–180,000 light-years.^[25] The Milky Way is estimated to contain 100–400 billion stars,^[26] although this number may be as high as one trillion.^[27] There are “probably” at least 100 billion planets in the Milky Way.^[28]^[29] The Solar System is located within the disk, about 27,000 light-years from the Galactic Center, on the inner edge of one of the spiral-shaped concentrations of Stars, as well as gas and dust, called the Orion Arm. The stars in the inner ≈10,000 light-years form a bulge in the galactic center and one or more bars radiate from the bulge. The very center is marked by an intense radio source, named Sagittarius A*, which is likely/ believed to be a supermassive black hole.

Surrounded by several smaller satellite galaxies, the Milky Way is part of the Local Group of galaxies, which forms a subcomponent of the Virgo Supercluster, which again forms a subcomponent of the Laniakea Supercluster.^[31]^[32]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milky_Way

The only changes made were insignificant additions of speed/velocity in miles/miles-per-hour, and five comments:

(*) “In other words, prior to 1920, our galaxy [the Milky Way] was thought to be the entire Universe”!

(**) "Dark Matter": _ No proof of the existence of dark matter has been found. But there has now been a new math derived by Dr. Carmelli Ph.D. Astrophysics, / Dr. John Hartnett Astrophysics, for calculating the rotational speed of a galaxies arms without inferring dark matter. ( see the web site: Creation Ministries International.com ... Also see Dr. Hartnett in his DVD presentation "Starlight, Time, and the New Physics").

(***) [When everything in the universe is moving, no speed is absolute. There is no true frame of reference. So we need to take these numbers as relative, that is, unless we accept the Bible’s reference frame! {We are not the ones moving!} We will talk more about this in detail later.] (Mr.P.)

(****) "How can old/young": _ stars and galaxies be mixed together? Also why so many questions about the ages of the various parts of the universe? We will discus this in much more detail later!

ASTRONOMER EDWIN HUBBLE: _ MENTIONED ABOVE, IS CONSIDERED BY MOST SCHOLARS TO HAVE MADE THE MOST IMPORTANT DISCOVERIES IN ASTRONOMY OF ALL TIME. ... He literally showed the world that our Galaxy is not all that exists, and that there are billions more out there in deep space. He then with his spectral studies of the cosmos found that the Universe is expanding away from our galaxy in every direction that we look.

The text with the light blue background is/will be direct quotes from the indicated sources throughout this document.

God's Word (God the Father) will be shown in purple. Christ's Word (God the Son_ God in the Flesh) will be in red.

THE MILKY-WAY GALAXY (Our Home)

top view

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galactic_coordinate_system#/media/File:236084main_MilkyWay-full-annotated.jpg

IMAGE/ credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA ….................. (Click on the URL above for more info)

If you follow the 90 degree horizontal line from the left side of the galaxy to the center where it meets with the 270 degree line you will find the word “Sun.” This is the location of our Sun and Solar System. This is not the center of the galaxy, but it is our reference point from where we see our galaxy. The center of our galaxy is in the center of the bright gold spot ~27,000 ly (light years) directly above us, located in the center of all the spiral arms. If we want to know which arm that we are located in, we need to look closely at the Sagittarius Arm as it leaves the short upper right bar of the galactic center and spirals in a counterclockwise direction to the point where it splits near the Long lower left Bar of the galactic center. The smaller lower arm becomes the Orion Spur where our Sun and Solar System are found. As you will observe the Galactic Chart’s reference point is set upon our Sun/Solar-System, because our observation point of our galaxy and indeed the entire universe is from this location.

AN EXAMPLE OF A SPIRAL GALAXY 'LIKE OURS' ON EDGE

The Needle Galaxy: This Hubble photo below {not a drawing} is a real galaxy far out in space. It is a good example of a Spiral Galaxy turned on edge, and we assume that ours would look much the same at a side view, from a long distance away.

https://sites.google.com/site/jkhcastronomy/Home/NEEDLE%20GALAXY%20-%20NGC%204565%20%28%20HUBBLE%20HERITAGE%20%29.jpg?attredirects=0

The bright bulge in the center of the disc is the huge massive Black Hole/ Dark Star that all of the billions of smaller stars in the spiral arms orbit around. Again it can be seen because of the modern day telescopes that can see the powerful emissions of Gamma, X-Ray, Infrared, and ultraviolet radiations, ets. The great fusion power produced in the Black Hole/ Dark Star is caused/started by the indescribable compression of the atoms of the tremendous mass density. [This description is greatly simplified.]

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THIS IS WHAT A BLACK HOLE IN THE CENTER OF A GALAXY LOOKS LIKE

Black Holes Pictures From NASA - Pics about space

http://cs.astronomy.com/blogs/astronomy/Misc/blog_black_hole_swirl.jpg

No light can be seen coming from this black-hole/ black-void/ black-star. It appears totally empty/ void, but it is an illusion. There is actually more mass in the void than what is in the rest of all the stars that are orbiting around it! Its great gravitational mass has all the rest of the heavenly bodies around it captured [they cannot escape]. Also notice that we cannot see any light coming through the hole from all of the other stars and galaxies behind it, because its great mass literally absorbs their light, their light cannot pass through it.

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Black Holes Pictures From NASA - Pics about space

THE BLACK EYE GALAXY

http://ncstereoman.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/100425-m64-black-eye-galaxy.jpg

A collision of two galaxies has left a merged star system with an unusual appearance as well as bizarre internal motions. Messier 64 (M64) has a spectacular dark band of absorbing dust in front of the galaxy's bright nucleus, giving rise to its nicknames of the "Black Eye" or "Evil Eye" galaxy.

Fine details of the dark band are revealed in this image of the central portion of M64 obtained with the Hubble Space Telescope. M64 is well known among amateur astronomers because of its appearance in small telescopes. It was first cataloged in the 18th century by the French astronomer Messier. Located in the northern constellation Coma Berenices, M64 resides roughly 17 million light-years from Earth.

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LET'S TAKE A LOOK AT SOME VERY FASCINATING THINGS IN OUR OWN GALAXY

THE CRAB NEBULA IS A SUPERNOVA REMNANT IN OUR OWN GALAXY

This image shows a composite view of the Crab nebula, an iconic supernova remnant in our Milky Way galaxy, as viewed by the Herschel Space Observatory and the Hubble Space Telescope. Herschel is a European Space Agency (ESA) mission with important NASA contributions, and Hubble is a NASA mission with important ESA contributions.

THE CRAB NEBULA ...................... EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY (ESA)/ NASA.GOV

https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/styles/946xvariable_height/public/pia17563-full.jpg?itok=CyvkhNYJ

A wispy and filamentary cloud of gas and dust, the Crab nebula is the remnant of a supernova explosion that was observed by Chinese astronomers in the year AD1054.

The image combines Hubble's view of the nebula at visible wavelengths, obtained using three different filters sensitive to the emission from oxygen and sulphur ions and is shown here in blue. Herschel's far-infrared image reveals the emission from dust in the nebula and is shown here in red. While studying the dust content of the Crab nebula with Herschel, a team of astronomers have detected emission lines from argon hydride, a molecular ion containing the noble gas argon. This is the first detection of a noble-gas based compound in space. The Herschel image is based on data taken with the Photo conductor Array Camera and Spectrometer (PACS) instrument at a wavelength of 70 microns; the Hubble image is based on archival data from the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2)…………………………… NASA.

Image credit: ESA/Herschel/PACS/MESS Key Program Supernova Remnant Team; NASA, ESA and Allison Loll/Jeff Hester (Arizona State University)

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GLOBULAR CLUSTER ............................................................ MESSIER 80

The Messier 80 globular cluster in the constellation Scorpius is located about 30,000 light-years from earth, and about 58,000 light-years from the center of our Galaxy. And it contains hundreds of thousands of stars.[1]

NASA, The Hubble Heritage Team, STScI, AURA
Great Images in NASA Description

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6a/A_Swarm_of_Ancient_Stars_-_GPN-2000-000930.jpg/800px-A_Swarm_of_Ancient_Stars_-_GPN-2000-000930.jpg

A globular cluster is a spherical collection of stars that orbits a tightly packed star group/ galactic core as a satellite. Globular clusters are very tightly bound by gravity, which gives them their spherical shapes and relatively high stellar densities toward their centers. The name of this category of star cluster is derived from the Latin globulus—a small sphere. A globular cluster is sometimes known more simply as a globular. Globular clusters, which are found in the halo of a galaxy, contain considerably more stars and are much older than the less dense galactic, or open clusters, which are found in the disk. Globular clusters are fairly common; there are about 150[2] to 158[3] currently known globular clusters in the Milky Way, with perhaps 10 to 20 more still undiscovered.[4] Large galaxies can have more: Andromeda, for instance, may have as many as 500.[5] Some giant elliptical galaxies, particularly those at the centers of galaxy-clusters, such as M87,[6] have as many as 13,000 globular clusters. These globular clusters orbit the galaxy at large radii of 40 kiloparsecs (approximately 131,000 light-years) or more.[7]

Globular Clusters are found in the far outer orbit {the halo} of a galaxy.

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COLORFUL STARS GALORE INSIDE GLOBULAR STAR CLUSTER OMEGA CENTAURI

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope snapped this panoramic view of a colorful assortment of 100,000 stars residing in the crowded core of a giant star cluster. The image reveals a small region inside the massive globular cluster Omega Centauri. Globular clusters are ancient swarms of stars united by their mutual gravity, these are the homesteaders of our Milky Way galaxy. The cluster lies about 16,000 light-years from Earth on the outer rim of our galaxy. The photograph showcases the camera's color versatility by revealing a variety of stars in key stages of their life cycles. The majority of the stars in the image are yellow-white, like our Sun. These are adult stars that are shining by hydrogen fusion. Toward the end of their normal lives, the stars become cooler and larger. These late-life stars are the orange dots in the image. Even later in their life cycles, the stars continue to cool down and expand in size, becoming red giants. These bright red stars swell to many times larger than our Sun's size and begin to shed their gaseous envelopes. [Yes we can see individual stars at this close distance, they are still part of our galaxy {our neighborhood}. Also remember that this is only the central area of the Star Cluster. The field of view is too small to see the entire cluster, this was done in order to reveal the density/number of the stars versus area.]

https://www.nasa.gov/images/content/384602main_ero_omega_centauri_4x3_946-710.jpg

After ejecting most of their mass and exhausting much of their hydrogen fuel, the stars appear brilliant blue. Only a thin layer of material covers their super-hot cores. These stars are trying to extend their lives by fusing helium in their cores. At this stage, they emit much of their light at ultraviolet wavelengths. When the helium runs out, the stars reach the end of their lives. Only their burned-out cores remain, and they are called white dwarfs (the faint blue dots in the image). White dwarfs are no longer generating energy through nuclear fusion and have gravitationally contracted to the size of Earth. They will continue to cool and grow dimmer until they become dark cinders. All of the stars in the image are cozy neighbors. The average distance between any two stars in the cluster's crowded core is only about a third of a light-year, roughly 13 times closer than our Sun's nearest stellar neighbor, Alpha Centauri.

Omega Centauri is among the biggest and most massive of some 200 globular clusters orbiting the Milky Way. It is one of the few globular clusters that can be seen with the unaided eye. Named by Johann Bayer in 1603 as the 24th brightest object in the constellation Centau-rus, it resembles a small cloud in the southern sky and might easily be mistaken for a comet.

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PILLARS OF CREATION/ EAGLE NEBULA

ONE OF NASA’s MOST POPULAR PHOTO’s

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubble_Space_Telescope#/media/File:Pillars_of_creation_2014_HST_WFC3-UVIS_full-res_denoised.jpg

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has revisited the famous Pillars of Creation, revealing a sharper and wider view of the structures in this visible-light image. Astronomers combined several Hubble exposures to assemble the wider view. The towering pillars are about 5-light-years tall. The dark, finger-like feature at bottom right may be a smaller version of the giant pillars. The new image was taken with Hubble's versatile and sharp-eyed Wide Field Camera 3. The pillars are bathed in the blistering ultraviolet light from a grouping of young, massive stars located off the top of the image. Streamers of gas can be seen bleeding off the pillars as the intense radiation heats and evaporates it into space. Denser regions of the pillars are shadowing material beneath them from the powerful radiation. Stars are being born deep inside the pillars, which are made of cold hydrogen gas laced with dust. The pillars are part of a small region of the Eagle Nebula, a vast star-forming region ……. 6,500 light-years from Earth. [This is well inside of our 150,000 light-year-diameter-galaxy. Actually it is quite close to Earth.]

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GOD'S WONDERS CONTINUE ON AND ON THROUGH OUT HIS UNIVERSE

I believe God must have known about Holograms way before man ever dreamed of them! Of course He did, He has always known all things from the very beginning of creation. Not one inch of the universe is hidden from Him! We cannot hide anything from Him, He sees His total creation continually. Not one star can pulse or one meteorite fall to the earth {"nor one sparrow fall to the ground" ()} with out His knowledge. Then looking at ourselves (at mankind), He sees every deed that we do, and it is recorded in His book. But what is so very scary is that He sees the "very thoughts and intents of our hearts", (Hebrews 4:12-13). It is best for us to be totally honest with Him. He cannot be fooled, but He can and desires to forgive. (1st-John 5:1)

As you change your viewing distance and angle, the picture's shape/details change.

The Cat's Eye Nebula from Hubble ..............................................................2014 November 9

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap141109.html

Image Credit: NASA, ESA, HEIC, and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)

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Explanation: To some, it may look like a cat's eye. The alluring Cat's Eye nebula, however, lies three thousand light-years from Earth across *interstellar space. A classic planetary nebula, the Cat's Eye (NGC 6543) represents a final, brief yet glorious phase in the life of a sun-like star. This nebula's dying central star may have produced the simple, outer pattern of dusty concentric shells by shrugging off outer layers in a series of regular convulsions. But the formation of the beautiful, more complex inner structures is not well understood. Seen so clearly in this digitally sharpened Hubble Space Telescope image, the truly cosmic eye is over half a light-year across. Of course, gazing into this Cat's Eye, astronomers may well be seeing the fate of our sun, destined to enter its own planetary nebula phase of evolution ... in about 5 billion years.

Note: _ (*) (1) Interstellar space is inside a galaxy [between stars]; _ (2) Intergalactic space is outside a galaxy/ between galaxies. Remember that our galaxy, the Milky Way, is like more than 120,000 light-years in diameter. It would take more that 120,000 years traveling at the Speed of Light (SOL) to cross our galaxy. (S.O.L. : _ 186,000 miles per second / 11.16 Million miles per minute / [669.6 Million miles per hour])

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NOW LET US BEGIN THE GREATEST VISION EXPANSION OF HUMAN ENDEAVOR

LET US MOVE OUT OF OUR GALAXY INTO INTERGALACTIC SPACE

THE HEAVENS DECLARE THE GLORY, POWER, AND MAJESTY OF GOD

The two galaxies appear to be dancing around each other

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The two dancing galaxies are fantastically awesome, but if you had a telescope powerful enough to look closely at all the tiny, barely distinguishable, lights in the back ground you would find that they are galaxies also. Our Hubble Space Telescope is powerful enough to look at a great number of them, and we will do just that before we are through. An individual star cannot be seen at these indescribable, unfathomable great distances.

WHY IS THE UNIVERSE SO --- GIGANTIC / SO --- HUGE? ….. Because the Bible says: "The heavens declare THE GLORY and GREATNESS OF GOD!" (Psalms 19:1) … GOD speaking through the Prophet Isaiah said: ___ “MY OWN HANDS HAVE STRETCHED OUT THE HEAVENS: AND ALL-THEIR-STARRY-HOST-HAVE-I-COMMANDED.” (Isaiah 45:12)

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THE HEAVENS ARE THE WORKS OF GOD'S HANDS

Now from Thousands-of-light-years to ...... Millions and Billions-of-light-years

ANDROMEDA GALAXY-M31

[Our next door galactic neighbor at 2.5 million light-years from earth/us]
NASA, JPL-Caltech …………………………........…… Andromeda Galaxy

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A Galaxy Evolution Explorer image of the Andromeda Galaxy. The bands of blue-white making up the galaxy's striking rings are neighborhoods that harbor hot, young, massive stars. Dark blue-grey lanes of cooler dust show up starkly against these bright rings, tracing the regions where star formation is currently taking place in dense cloudy cocoons. When observed in visible light, Andromeda’s rings look more like spiral arms. The ultraviolet view shows that these arms more closely resemble the ring-like structure previously observed in infrared wavelengths with NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope. Astronomers using Spitzer interpreted these rings as evidence that the galaxy was involved in a direct collision with its neighbor, M32, more than 200 million years ago.

The prophet Isaiah again says: _ “GOD SITS ENTHRONED ABOVE THE CIRCLE OF THE EARTH, AND ITS PEOPLE ARE LIKE GRASSHOPPERS. HE STRETCHES OUT THE HEAVENS LIKE A CANOPY, AND SPREADS THEM OUT LIKE A TENT TO DWELL IN.”… “TO WHOM WILL YOU COMPARE ME? OR WHO IS MY EQUAL? SAYS THE HOLY ONE (GOD). LIFT UP YOUR EYES AND LOOK TO THE HEAVENS: …. WHO CREATED ALL THESE? HE (GOD) WHO BRINGS OUT THE STARRY HOST BY NUMBER: AND ‘CALLS THEM EACH BY NAME’. BECAUSE OF MY GREAT POWER AND MIGHTY STRENGTH, NOT ONE IS MISSING.” (Isaiah 40:22, 25-26)

Note: _ God has said: "not one star is missing." And man says: “Matter cannot be created or destroyed,” [at least not by man] therefore exploding supernovas and all matter devoured by black-holes still exists as some form of energy, gas, and dust molecules.” And God knows exactly where the energy, gas, and dust is, how much there is, and what type that it is! ...... Those stars still exist! God created them in the beginning, and in the end of time, He is going to recreate all those things again....."For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth" (Isaiah 65:17/ Rev. 21:1,5/ 2-Peter 3:13). Oh, you say: "that's impossible." I say: You greatly underestimate our Creator! ....... It is also very interesting that 2,700 years ago Isaiah knew that the earth was round instead of flat… “the circle of the earth” {(Isa.40:22) above}! Obviously God had revealed that to him. Where do you think Columbus 522 years ago, in AD 1492, got the idea of the earth being round? He got it from the Bible [God’s Word] of course. His ship did not fall off the edge of the world as he was told that it would. He actually proved out God’s Word in this scripture.

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“THE HEAVENS ARE GOD’S WONDERS TO BEHOLD”

God speaking Himself, in the Bible’s book of Job, said: _“CAN YOU BIND THE BEAUTIFUL PLEIADES? CAN YOU LOOSE THE CORDS OF ORION? CAN YOU BRING OUT THE CONSTELLATIONS IN THEIR SEASONS OR LEAD OUT THE BEAR (constellation) WITH ITS CUBS? DO YOU KNOW THE LAWS OF THE HEAVENS? (Job 38:31-33).

Oh Yes, we are learning “some” of the “Laws of the Heavens”, but we have just barely scratched the surface, and our theories change quite often, in fact almost continually, just wait a little while and you will see. .... But as for binding the Pleiades, or loosing the cords of Orion, or bringing out the Bear and her cubs, it is without a doubt beyond mans power. But the one who created them has no problem what so ever, doing so. Also He is getting very serious (for the time grows very near) about dramatically re-arranging the universe to get our undivided attention.

Triangulum-M33 [our next nearest neighbor at 3.0 million light years] … https://www.nasa.gov/

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The Triangulum / Pinwheel Galaxy: a perennial favorite of amateur and professional astronomers alike; due to its orientation and relative proximity to us. It is the second nearest spiral galaxy to our Milky Way (after M31, the Andromeda Galaxy) and a prominent member of the "local group" of galaxies. From our Milky Way perspective, M33's stellar disk appears at moderate inclination, allowing us to see its internal structure clearly, whereas M31 is oriented nearly edge-on.
Explanation: The small, northern constellation-Triangulum harbors this magnificent face-on spiral galaxy, M33. Its popular names include the Pinwheel Galaxy or just the Triangulum Galaxy. M33 is over 50,000 light-years in diameter, third largest in the Local Group of galaxies after the Andromeda Galaxy (M31), and our own Milky Way Galaxy. About 3.0 million light years from our Milky Way Galaxy, M33 is itself thought to be a satellite of the Andromeda Galaxy. Like M31, M33's population of well-measured variable stars have helped make this nearby spiral a cosmic yardstick for establishing the distance scale of the Universe.

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“HE [God the Father] ALSO SAYS, [to God the Son] ‘IN THE BEGINNING, O LORD, YOU LAID THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE EARTH, AND THE HEAVENS ARE THE WORK OF YOUR HANDS.” (Hebrews 1:10)

GALACTIC PYROTECHNICS ON DISPLAY

Anomalous arms are seen in this composite image of NGC 4258 from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observator, NSF's Karl Jansky Very Large Array, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and Spitzer Space Telescope.

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A galaxy about 23 million light-years away is the site of impressive, ongoing, fireworks. Rather than paper, powder, and fire, this galactic light show involves a giant black hole, shock waves, and vast reservoirs of gas. This galactic fireworks display is taking place in NGC 4258 (also known as M106), a spiral galaxy like the Milky Way. This galaxy is famous, however, for something that our galaxy doesn't have -- two extra spiral arms that glow in X-ray, optical, and radio light. These features, or anomalous arms, are not aligned with the plane of the galaxy, but instead intersect with it.

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Hubble Serves Up a Holiday Snow Angel

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope presents a festive holiday greeting that’s out of this world. The bipolar star-forming region, called Sharpless 2-106, looks like a soaring, celestial snow angel. The outstretched “wings” of the nebula record the contrasting imprint of heat and motion against the backdrop of a colder medium.

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The bipolar star-forming region, called Sharpless 2-106, looks like a soaring, celestial snow angel. The outstretched “wings” of the nebula record the contrasting imprint of heat and motion against the backdrop of a colder medium. Twin lobes of super-hot gas, glowing blue in this image, stretch outward from the central star. This hot gas creates the “wings” of our angel. A ring of dust and gas orbiting the star acts like a belt, cinching the expanding nebula into an “hourglass” shape.

Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)

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ANYONE CARE FOR A GALAXY? GOD HAS AN ABUNDANT SUPPLY…

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A Cluster of Galaxies …………………………. NASA.gov

These are not individual stars in the photo ... a single star would be very much to faint to see at these great distances. … The majority of these lights are galaxies, but a few are globular clusters. With each galaxy having many stars, some as many as ~100 to ~500 Billion stars and this is just one tiny little section of the universe .. [about the size of a small pea held at arm’s length].

There are approximately-5000-galaxies in this photo above.

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THE UNIVERSE IS GOD’S GLORY

**“THE HEAVENS PROCLAIM HIS [GOD’S] RIGHTEOUSNESS, AND ALL THE PEOPLES SEE HIS GLORY.” (Psalms 97:6)

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The heart of a vast cluster of galaxies called MACSJ1720+35 is shown in this image, taken in visible and near-infrared light by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. The galaxy cluster is so massive that its gravity distorts, brightens, and magnifies light from more distant objects behind it, an effect called gravitational lensing. In the top right an exploding star nicknamed Caracalla and located behind the cluster can just be made out. ____These are not individual stars in the photo. Every tiny faint spec of light is a great group of stars: … most are galaxies. This is just one tiny section of the universe.

“HOW GREAT --- IS GOD --- OUR CREATOR”

The Old Testament prophet Nehemiah being filled with God’s Holy Spirit and speaking to God says: _ “YOU ALONE ARE THE LORD. YOU MADE THE HEAVENS, ‘EVEN THE HIGHEST HEAVENS’, AND ALL THEIR STARRY HOST, THE EARTH AND ALL THAT IS ON IT, THE SEAS AND ALL THAT IS IN THEM. ‘YOU GIVE LIFE TO EVERYTHING’, AND THE MULTITUDES OF HEAVEN WORSHIP YOU.” (Nehemiah 9:6) _ God revealed to Nehemiah that these other galaxies where out there… “The Highest Heavens!” … God has given visions to His Prophets from the beginning of time. They have seen these things for themselves.**

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HUBBLE ILLUMINATES A CLUSTER OF DIVERSE GALAXIES ……

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This image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope shows the diverse collection of galaxies in the Galaxy-Cluster Abell S0740 that is only 450 million light-years away in the direction of the constellation Centaurus. The giant elliptical ESO 325-G004 looms large at the cluster's center. The galaxy is as massive as 100 billion of our suns. Hubble resolves thousands of globular star clusters orbiting ESO 325-G004. Globular clusters are compact groups of hundreds of thousands of stars that are gravitationally bound together [they do not have a singularity/ a-black-hole/ a-dark-star as their parent/ captor]. At the galaxy cluster's distance globular-clusters appear as pinpoints of light contained within the diffuse halo. Other fuzzy elliptical galaxies dot the image. Some have evidence of a disk or ring structure that gives them a bow-tie shape when on edge. Several spiral galaxies are also present. The starlight in these spiral galaxies is mainly contained in a disk and follows along spiral arms. This image was created by combining Hubble science observations taken in January 2005 with Hubble Heritage observations taken a year later to form a 3-color composite.

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EVERYWHERE WE LOOK THERE IS ANOTHER SECTION OF SPACE LITERALLY FILLED WITH GALAXIES

This is another view, in a series of Hubble Space Telescope photo's, in the same general area of the universe. The orbital HST (Hubble Space Telescope) has just been shifted over slightly, to reveal a whole new field of view.

THE GREAT MASS OF A GALAXY CLUSTER MAGNIFIES IMAGES FAR BEYOND ITSELF

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All of the lights that you see in the photo above are galaxies, or globular star clusters, except for this tiny dot of light indicated by the arrow in the box, which is a single star going Supernova. .. .. .. .. .. The magnitude and wonder of this universe that God has created is incomprehensible. How fantastic a site, with all of the brilliant globular clusters, and countless galaxies. We again see a supernova in the right hand box where there was no star seen earlier. And of course the big bubble on the right of the photo, bending the light [because of the intense gravitational field density of the cluster] and magnifying the galaxies and globular clusters behind it. .. .. .. .. God's magnificent creation is absolutely breath taking. But supernova are not the bigest events in space, Colliding Galaxies are!

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DO GALAXIES REALLY COLLIDE? …… YES!!!

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This system consists of a pair of galaxies, dubbed IC 694 and NGC 3690, which made a close pass some 700 million years ago. As a result of this interaction, the system underwent a fierce burst of star formation. In the last fifteen years or so six supernovae have popped off in the outer reaches of the galaxy, making this system a distinguished supernova factory. Arp 299 belongs to the family of ultra-luminous infrared galaxies and is located in the constellation of Ursa Major, the Great Bear, approximately 150 million light-years away. It is the 299th galaxy in Arp's Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies. Despite its enormous amount of absorbing dust, enough violet and near-ultraviolet light leaks out for it to be number 171 in B.E. Markarian's catalog of galaxies with excess ultraviolet emission. This image is part of a large collection of 59 images of merging galaxies taken by the Hubble Space Telescope and released on the occasion of its 18th anniversary on 24th April 2008. About the object name NGC 3690, IC 694, Mrk 171, Arp 299, VV 118, KPG 288 Object description Interacting Galaxies Position (J2000) 11 28 32.10 +58 33 46.9 Constellation Ursa Major Distance 150 million light-years (50 million parsecs).

About the data description: The Hubble image was created using HST data from proposal 10592: A. Evans (University of Virginia, Charlottesville/NRAO/Stony Brook University) Instrument ACS/WFC Exposure date(s) March 18, 2002 Exposure time 38 minutes Filters F435W (B) and F8

NGC 6050/IC 1179 (Arp 272) is a remarkable Collision between two spiral galaxies, NGC 6050 and IC 1179, and is part of the Hercules Galaxy Cluster, located in the constellation of Hercules. The galaxy cluster is part of the Great Wall of clusters and superclusters, the largest known structure in the universe. The two spiral galaxies are linked by their swirling arms. Arp 272 is located some 450 million light-years away from Earth and is the number 272 in Arp's Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies.

This image is part of a large collection of 59 images of merging galaxies taken by the Hubble Space Telescope and released on the occasion of its 18th anniversary on 24th April 2008.

All this chaos in the universe is the result of man turning away from God bringing the curse upon us, that is, upon all creation: _ “mankind; … the earth; … and the entire universe”! …… Man keeps on rejecting his Creator, denying His existence, rejecting His Laws, and living in total opposition to His will! …… And the devastation is going to increase beyond our imaginations as the end approaches. Read the last book (Revelation) in Gods Bible, starting in chapter_6, through chapter_19, if you don’t believe me.

I know that it is very frightening to think about galaxies colliding, but our closes galactic neighbor is 2.5 million light years away from us, we would not live long enough to see it happen, even if it were moving towards us.

There will be many more photos of God's indescribable universe to enlighten our minds, so please stay with me, I know that you will like the pictures, and you might even come to know our Creator God. ......... You would like to be informed about what this ancient book the Bible says about the day and time in we live, wouldn't you?

NOW LET'S LOOK AT SOME THINGS THE BIBLE SAYS ABOUT THE END DAYS

THE BEGINNING SIGNS

The seventh sign is Christ’s last and final sign for His Church: _ to announce His soon return to remove us from the Earth; in preparation to bring God’s Great and Mighty Wrath upon this wicked world! I am truly sorry, but man is becoming more and more evil as every day passes {I'm not saying that everyone is growing more evil, but a great percentage is.} [watch the Daily News]. The mass of mankind is not even making a minute effort to follow God's Laws, thus man is bringing God’s anger upon himself. But the first signs that Christ gave us began nearly a hundred years ago in 1914, that is the sign of false Christ’s, and the First World War. The start of the rest of the first five signs came over the following forty years, with the dramatic increase in great famines, great pestilence [disease], and great earthquakes. The sixth sign of terrorism began {at a subdued level} shortly after Israel became a nation again in 1948. The Muslim Extremists have terrorized the Jewish nation continually since that time. And of course as it has expanded/ increased-exponentially now, today, we have seen it [terrorism] ourselves, like it was lighted up in great neon lights … [on September the eleventh_ 2001]. We saw the two airliners impact the USA's World Trade Center Towers, and watched the buildings crumbling and collapsing before our very eyes, via satellite TV, as ~3000 of our people died. This was a giant level change in terrorism for the world, and terror events continue to come, and will continue to increase in number and escalate in devastation [spreading to other nations]. But the last sign, The Seventh Sign, is just getting started! … After Christ gave the disciples the seven signs [which were actually meant for our generation], He then said: _ “When you see these things ‘Begin’ to take place, then lift up your heads and look up, for your redemption draws nigh/ [near]” (Luke 21:28).

[True believers receive three redemption's: _ first our souls, and secondly our spirits, at the time that we accept and receive Christ as our Savior and Lord; then thirdly at the coming of Christ for His Church when we get our glorified-eternal bodies {the redemption of our bodies}.]

Christ gave these seven signs to all true believers so we would know that He is coming very soon to take us off the earth, to keep us from The Great Tribulation [the time of greatest trouble the world will have ever seen]! He also gave these signs to non-believers in hopes that they would understand that His Great Wrath against all evil is building, and coming soon, and that they need so very much to turn from/ to repent from evil and wickedness [sin] in their’ hearts [repentance: _ to not want to sin any longer], and come to Him [Christ] for forgiveness before it is too late! You see, our Creator loves us, and wants to give us eternal life. I know that this life that we are living now can be very hard at times, terrible things happen, but God doesn't make them happen. Man caused it to be that way because Adam sinned/ rebelled against God his Creator, and fell out from under God’s care and protection, bringing the curse upon all of creation. And you and I, and the rest of mankind have followed suit, in that: _ “As it is written: ‘there is none righteous, no not one’” … “For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God” [glory: _ God’s righteous perfection] (Romans 3: 10, 23). If we want God’s protection and care, we have to repent and ask Him for it. You see God will not force anything upon us, we have to want it. God says: _ “you have not, because you ask not” (James 4:2). I don’t care what anyone says, or what circumstances prevail; … God the Father and God the Son [Christ Jesus] love us, and The Cross Proves It!!! ….. “For God so loved the world that He gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him should not perish, but have everlasting [eternal] life” (John 3:16). God gave Jesus to be the Sacrificial Lamb [the payment] for all of mankind’s sins; to all who would/ will receive Jesus as their Savior and Lord. This is God’s perfect and only remedy for sin. We can’t do anything to pay for eternal life/ salvation [absolutely nothing], you see we are all thoroughly corrupted [every part of our being has been affected] in our old fallen nature, therefore everything we do is contaminated by our sin, and God requires perfection. The apostle Paul wrote: _ “For by grace are you saved, through faith, and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God. Not of works, less anyone should boast” (Ephesians 2:8-9). It is strictly a matter of truly believing/ having faith in Christ’s sacrifice personally for you, because only Christ’s payment for sin is Perfectly-Holy. For the apostle John said: _ “Christ is the propitiation [the sacrificial payment] for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world” (I-John 2:2). That means and includes you … [the whole world]. Also God makes us another wonderful promise: _ “For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord [Jesus] shall be saved” (Romans 10:13). The name Jesus means ‘Savior’… Therefore if we want no longer to live in sin, and call upon Him as our Savior, we “shall be saved,” … and receive eternal life in Christ.

A BRIEF SUMMERY OF THE FIRST SIX SIGNS

Christ gave us seven signs in (Luke 21: 8-11 [KJV, NIV, Amp]) that we would see just before His return for His Church. (Sign #1) _ Christ Jesus said: … “Many will come in my name and claim to be Christ.” In ancient times there were numerous men who thought they were great and glorious, claiming to be God. But in the year 1889 a man was born by the name of Adolf Hitler: _ who in his early years as a young man began to claim to be sent by God [in other words the messiah] comparing himself to Jesus Christ the Lord; proclaiming that his word was the Word of God; that he had a Divine Destiny; and that his empire would rule the world for a thousand years. And as he begin to gain political power in Germany, he stated that his empire [the third Reich] would divide time like Christ did and would last 1,000 years. … The Bible calls Christ the living “Word of God” and that “Christ will rule the world for a thousand years.” You see Hitler was claiming to be Christ, the son of God. And since that time there have been numbers of others that have boasted much the same. Also there are many men today around the world, in various church organizations that portray themselves as holy, righteous, and even-Divine! But they are sinners just like the rest of us … only Jesus Christ (God’s Son) is completely Holy; … (Sign #2) _ Jesus then said: _ “There will be Wars and Revolutions” … “And Nation Will Rise Against Nation, and Kingdom Against Kingdom.” There is something that we need to understand about Christ {He is God in the Flesh}. He is Not into idle-talk, mundane-chatter, or meaningless-statements. …. Every word He spoke was meaning something very unusual and very great, because He was and is God The Son! [The Lord combined this statement with all these countries and kingdoms together, in a single sentence, indicating a very great and horrendous war.] No war throughout man’s history met the requirements of Christ’s great statement … until the year 1914, when World-War-One came into existence, becoming the WORLD’S-FIRST-SUPER-WAR. {No war in history had ever been called a World-War before.} Twenty-eight nations were in the greatest battle the world had ever seen {at that time}, but it really was not over in 1918, the problems and unrest kept festering until twenty years later, when it broke out again into World-War-Two, with 58 nations fighting. Also this great unrest in the Middle-East today, I believe is building up to the greatest war of all time, [which will involve all nations (Zachariah 12:1-3)], becoming the greatest and … Final-World-War, spoken of in the Bible, and called … ARMAGEDDON! ; … (Sign #3) _Christ then said: _ “There will be GREAT AND MIGHTY EARTHQUAKES IN PLACE AFTER PLACE” … The seismograph has existed for about 140 years. The earth was stable for about the first 70 years at an average of 2.3 quakes per decade of time, {which reached 6.0 or more, on the Richter-Scale}… Then suddenly in the 1950’s there were 9 quakes, in the 1960’s there were 13, in the 1970’s there were 51, in the 1980’s there were 86, in the 1990’s there were 376, in the decade of 2000 to 2010 there were 1,603 quakes reaching 6.0 or more [this data was taken from the U.S. Geological Survey.gov ]. ….. Maybe I should give you a moment to digest all that … {1,603 quakes as compared to 2.3 quakes??}. …………………….; (Sign #4) _ Jesus also said: _ “and there will be GREAT FAMINES in many places” ... There are famines in Africa, Asia, India, and South America at present; but in the early 1980’s there were unbelievable famines with the death tolls reaching into the millions; and as world population continues to grow, [World Population doubled in the past 40 years, and the curve indicates that it will double again in the next 20 years {half the time}.] There is no doubt that more famines will come.…; (Sign #5) _ The Lord again said: _ “and there will be GREAT PESTILENCE in various places.” We have seen large scale Sickness, Disease, Viruses, Influenza, and Food Contamination outbreaks one after the other spread over very large areas of the world {Then there is the death sentence … AIDS and EBOLA}. And again with world population growth and with so many people traveling the world over, spreading all these things at jet airliner speed, it’s going to get much worse. …; (Sign #6) _ Then Jesus said something that you and I have seen ourselves, in vivid living color on our TV screens: _ “AND THERE WILL BE GREAT SIGHTS OF TERROR” …. [On 9-11-01, when the airliners plowed into the twin towers, of the World Trade Center, in New York City and the two skyscrapers came crumbling down. … I felt the blood run from my face, as I stood there, watching the news with cold chills running down my back, and my very first thought was “GREAT SIGHTS OF TERROR”, and now all the other Terrorist Attacks around the world, and they keep coming.] …; (Luke 21: 8-11 [KJV, NIV, Amp])

[Now let us look at sign #7 ……………… “THE SEVENTH SIGN”] ……………

And now:

CHRIST'S SEVENTH AND FINAL SIGN

Nearly 2000-years have gone by since Christ made His statement, and we had not seen an event of the seventh sign, the “Great Signs In The Heavens”: _ not until the year 1993, when the giant 3.1 mile diameter Comet-S/L9 was spotted on its blistering path towards our Solar Systems planet Jupiter.
Note: _ There are other Bible signs that are very important, such as Blood Moons, that relate to other things concerning God's prophecies and His chosen nation Israel. Christ gave us many other prophecies while He was here, but these Seven Signs are answers to His disciples three questions in Matthew 24:3 (see next paragraph). The Blood Moon Signs interlace with the Seven Signs in complex ways. If you want to study them, I recommend: _ John Hagee's video ... "The Four Blood Moons"; Scott's Blog Site ... "Prophecy Update"; and Rick Larson's Blog Site ... "The Star of Bethlehem".

THE WORLD IS NOW SEEING THE EARLY WARNING SIGNS

THEY ARE TELLING US THAT GOD’S WRATH IS SOON TO COME!

The Lord gave man many prophecies/signs throughout His first advent on earth, but these are the seven that He gave us when He was asked specifically about: … (#1)“the Temple's destruction [in 70 AD], (#2)and the signs of His coming back (to remove His true believers from the earth), (#3) and the end of the age” (His coming back to establish His Kingdom on earth) (Mat.24:3). These are the signs that are to tell us that … “He is even at the door!”
…… Just as highway signs warn us of danger ahead, like: dangerous intersection ½ mile ahead; or steep grade 1500 feet ahead; or sharp loop-back/ switch-back curve one-mile ahead; likewise God’s signs are warning us of great danger just ahead. The signs are not the danger/ not the wrath, but they are pictures or warning images of what is ………… to come.

All the signs will continue to increase in power and terror as the end approaches. ….. If you get left behind when Christ, in the blink of an eye, snatches all born-again [true] believers from this earth, you will have to endure the entire seven years of the Wrath of Almighty God! … We all need to prepare to meet God, our Creator, for the time grows very short. … Again: _ [“It is even at the door”]. … Yes, I know the world can’t see that it’s coming, and they say: _ “Where is the promise of His coming? For all things continue as they were from the beginning of the world unto this time. [But they willingly refuse to believe in the world-wide-flood when God brought His wrath the first time.”] (2^nd –Peter 3:3-4). ……… I solemnly promise you… He is going to bring His wrath again, .... and very soon!

CHRIST’S SEVENTH SIGN / (SIGN - # 7): _ Then lastly, knowing that this sign would be the greatest of all, Christ spoke directly and to the point….these incomprehensible words: _ “And there will be ‘GREAT SIGNS’ IN THE HEAVENS” (Luke 21:11); Christ continued in verse 25 expounding on the culmination of the signs in the heavens that will increase in power and devastation, as the end approaches. The Lord then said: _ “And there shall be signs in THE SUN, and in THE MOON, and in THE STARS.”… It is quite clear that Christ is speaking of the heavens of cosmic space. Also in (Isaiah 13:9-10, 13) _ …the prophet Isaiah expands on these signs of the last days making his statement using the word: _ .......... “Constellations” …; meaning the great star formations in the heavens that man has studied since ancient times.
This last sign, the signs from comic space, began only 21 years ago in 1993, when the 3.1 mile diameter giant comet, Shoemaker/Levy-9, was spotted by Gene and Carolyn Shoemaker and David Levy. They then proceeded to track, projecting its path into our solar system, and determined that it would indeed impact our solar system’s largest planet … Jupiter. … Man had never seen a collision of large heavenly bodies before! The entire scholarly world was in a frenzy of excitement and virtually every telescope on Earth was trained on Comet S/L-9. The Shoemakers and Levy, as well as the entire astronomical world watched this huge comet for 18 months as it drew ever closer, entered into our solar system, and then bombarded our largest planet Jupiter with a terrifying display of power, energy, and destruction … which left them in speechlessness … for a time. Tremendous amounts of data were taken in the numerous months of observation, more than any rogue heavenly body before. The amount of energy they calculated, that the impacts would produce, was almost more than they could believe, they thought "maybe our math has left out some parameter?" But it literally left the scientific world in a state of shock after the impacts! Their calculations actually fell short! Scientists asked each other: _ “What if it had impacted earth?” “Would there have been anything left of our planet?” …… Keep watching the sky, there is much more to come! ......

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The Great Signs in the Heavens continued:

NOW LETS LOOK AT THINGS/ EVENTS IN OUR OWN-SOLAR-SYSTEM [including on our planet Earth]

But now today, nearly 2000-years/ 20-centuries have gone by, since Christ told us these things were coming, and there had not been an event of the seventh sign, the “Great Signs In The Heavens”..... that is: _ not until the year 1994, when the giant 3.1 mile diameter Comet-S/L9, impacted/collided with our largest planet Jupiter. [The 3.1 mile diameter was the initial size before the tremendous gravity of Jupiter broke it up.]

THE COMET S/L-9 AND THE IMPACTS ON JUPITER

The following photo from NASA of the Comet S/L-9 broken up, and separated, is quite spectacular being all spread out in a vivid row of heavenly lights. Yes it was actually pleasant to view the light show, that is until the impacts began ...... and it was realized the awesome power that was produced/ expended.

A string of pearls in space:

This is Comet Shoemaker/ Levy 9 after being broken up by the great gravitational forces of Jupiter:

Photos from ……………………………………….....……………… NASA.gov./ Wikipedia.org

Comet Shoemaker/ Levy 9 ……………………………………… en-route to impact with Jupiter

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THE PLANET JUPITER

Jupiter is our solar system’s largest and most massive planet. Jupiter is eleven times larger in diameter than Earth, making its diameter _ 88,000 miles. It is 318 times more massive, and it is also 1,321 times greater in volume than our planet Earth. The large round dark spot/ ring at the upper right hand edge of Jupiter, on the photo below, is essentially the same size as our Earth [as well as the one on the very lower edge in the shadows]. Five of the 22 mountain sized chunks of S/L-9 left these scars on the planet Jupiter [They were impacting at time intervals as Jupiter rotated, making a line of impact spots]: ______ it took six days for all twenty-two pieces to impact, because of their being spread so far apart during their long journey.

Comet S/L-9 Impacts Jupiter ……………………………………. First impact on July 16th ,1994

Photos/ Information from: ..…………………………………… NASA.gov./ Wikipedia.org

The Planet Jupiter ………………………………The scars left by Comet Shoemaker/ Levy 9

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The Shoemakers and David Levy, as well as the entire astronomical world watched this huge comet with awe …as it drew ever closer to Jupiter, then the horrendous impacts began with a fierceness of which man had never dreamed. Man had never seen such a collision of large heavenly bodies before! Great reams of data were taken of the event. The energy that they calculated, observed, and measured, that the impacts would, and did, produce, was mind boggling, almost beyond belief. The academic and scientific world was in shock and disbelief after the impacts. Shortly afterwards, scientists from around the world gathered with NASA to address the event. The first question for NASA was: _ “Is it possible that this type of event could occur with Earth?” …………. The entire assembly was in total disbelief and confusion when NASA’s answer was: __ “Yes! … And It is not a matter of could it happen? It is a matter of when?” And of course, after a long, long pause, the next question that they asked was: _ “What if the giant comet had impacted earth?” …….. “Would man have survived”? …… This was a very good question. ……… They were answered with: __ “most likely a moderate percentage of humanity would have … but man’s world would likely never then be the same again”. ……. WHAT A WAKE-UP-CALL ….. We had never before seen anything, to compare to this event, and had not even imagined, nor suspected, the enormous destructive impact power generated by such a thing. We watched each of the 22-mountain-size-pieces of the comet bombard Jupiter, as disintegrating level impact plumes [gigantic fire balls] shot 2000 miles off the planet’s surface, out into space. Then super large impact spots, [nearly as large as earth] slowly formed on the surface of Jupiter. The energy produced was totally …… unbelievable, making our nuclear weapons look absolutely insignificant. We will talk shortly about how much power was released. This event was world shaking, the entire scientific and academic world had a huge paradigm shift. They then started to realize that a large number of the craters on earth and in our solar system are not volcanic, but impact craters.

In a National Geographic TV Documentary, called “Asteroids | Deadly Impact”, filmed in 1994 at the Hubble-Space-Telescope-Headquarters, right after all the scientists at the headquarters watched the comet impacts, these words were found written on a computer display, in huge letters: …..

…… “WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE” ___ “NO-LONGER-A-JOKE” ……

{This was in reference to an old, very cool, way ahead of its time, 1951 movie by the name …………………………………………“When Worlds Collide”…}.

The National Geographic TV Documentary, “Asteroids _ Deadly Impact”, can be found on the internet at www.Netflix.com/ Asteroids | Deadly Impact; The Shoemakers and Levy are on the TV Documentary.

… Keep watching the sky, there is much more to come! .. All 7 of the signs are in progress now, and are increasing in strength and number.

EVIDENCE THAT IMPACTS DO OCCUR ON EARTH

[SMALL CRATERS FIRST] [Yes Meteor Crater in Arizona is on the "small crater List"]

In 1909 Daniel Moreau Barringer, a mining engineer, proclaimed the well-known Arizona Crater to be an Impact Site, but was ridiculed for his belief. It was not until 1960 that later research by the highly respected NASA Geologist Eugene Merle Shoemaker, confirmed Barringer’s hypothesis [that the Arizona Crater was indeed formed by a meteorite impact] (Yes, this is the same man who discovered the Shoemaker/Levy-9 Comet). Shoemaker’s previous work in the US Nuclear Research Program, where he saw shocked quartz formed from nuclear-explosion-tests, made him the ideal researcher for determining True Meteorite Impact Site Verification. The key discovery was the presence in the crater of the minerals coesite and stishovite, rare forms of silica found only where quartz-bearing rocks have been severely shocked by an instantaneous-over-pressure. It cannot be created by volcanic action; the only known mechanism of creating it is through an impact event (or artificially through a nuclear explosion). Shoemaker's discovery is considered the first definitive proof of an extraterrestrial impact on the Earth's surface. Since then, numerous impact craters have been identified around the world, though Meteor Crater remains one of the most visually impressive owing to its moderate size [the entire crater can be seen from ground level], young age, low level of erosion, and lack of vegetative cover. Numerous other craters can only be seen/ identified from an aircraft or from space, and or by the use of sophisticated equipment, as we will see later.

LET’S TAKE A LOOK AT SOME IMPACT CRATERS ON OUR PLANET

METEOR CRATER ARIZONA ………………………………….……. [/ or: _ Barringer Cater]

View from the Crater Rim

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/66/Meteor_Crater_Panorama_near_Winslow,_Arizona,_2012_07_11.jpg

View from ground level:

Pictures from: NASA.gov/ Wikipedia.org/ U.S. Geological Survey.gov

Meteor Crater is 590 feet deep, and 4,857 feet across. Yes… it is quite an impressive hole in the ground.

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METEOR CRATER ARIZONA Aerial Photo

Below: _ another view of Arizona’s Meteor Crater from the air ……..

https://www.legendsofamerica.com/photos-arizona/MeteorCrater-wiki.jpg
Wikipedia.org/ United States Geological Survey.gov

Barringer Crater/ Arizona Meteor Crater …………. 1.48 kilometers/ [0.92 miles] in diameter

If you will notice the black top road coming in from the bottom of the photo as it leads up to the visitors Center [the long white buildings, with the black top parking lots] you should get a feel for the size of the crater.

Gene Shoemaker brought astronauts from the NASA Space Center here to Barringer Crater to train them in an environment similar to the moon. Also he showed them how to recognize various geological deformations, as well as what to look for in the rocks of the moons impact craters.

Shocked quartz is a form of quartz that has a microscopic structure that is different from normal quartz. Under intense pressure (but limited temperature), the crystalline structure of quartz will be deformed along planes inside the crystal. These planes, which show up as lines under a microscope, are called planar deformation features or (PDFs), or shock lamellae.

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Wikipedia Commons Shocked quartz

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Shatter cones are rare geological features that are only known to form in the bedrock beneath meteorite impact craters or underground nuclear explosions. They are evidence that the rock has been subjected to a shock with pressures in the range of 2-30 GPa.[1][2][3] /{221 million lbs. /sq-in to 9,975 million lbs. /sq-in of pressure}. We are talking unimaginable pressures!

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ec/Wells_Creek_shatter_cones_1.JPG

{IOP: instantaneous-overpressure}. The Space Shuttle is like a feather compared to these pressures: _ though it weighs 6-million pounds. (IOP: is an instantaneous Pico-Sec. force. ... It is like a knock-out punch for a boxer. Or like the impact of our fastest fighter jet going into a steep dive straight into the ground at 3,000 mph, and multiplied by a million times.)

Wikipedia Commons Shatter Cones

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WHY DON’T WE SEE MORE CRATERS ON EARTH?

One reason we don’t see more impact craters on our planet is because of our dense atmosphere burning-up all of the smaller meteors in the air, but the bigger ones can, and do make it through to the earth. Another reason is our dynamic weather ecosystem which washes and erodes the smaller, and older craters away in a number of years [several hundred years]. Then a third reason is seismic/earthquake activity through time destroying the craters. A fourth thing is that most of the earth’s surface is covered with deep ocean water, making the craters there, very hard or impossible to find. A fifth reason is that most of the large craters cannot be visually discerned from the ground, but only from very high altitude, or from space, and you have to be looking for them. But in spite of all that, I believe that there are probably more craters on Earth that have now been found than what you and I might think.

LET'S LOOK AT SOME OF THE SMALL CRATERS AROUND THE EARTH THAT HAVE BEEN FOUND

Meter Crater Arizona being the first confirmed, and previously viewed, we now need to observe a few more:

HENBURY METEORITES CONSERVATION RESERVE ……………………………………..……… Northern Territory Australia

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Henbury Meteorites Conservation Reserve is a protected area in the Northern Territory of Australia. The reserve is located 145 kilometres south west of Alice Springs and contains over a dozen craters, which were formed when a fragmented meteorite hit the Earth’s surface. Henbury is one of five meteorite impact sites in Australia with remaining meteorite fragments and one of the world's best preserved examples of a small crater field.^[1] At Henbury there are 13 to 14 craters ranging from 7 meters [23 feet], to 180 meters [590 feet] in diameter, and up to 15 meters [49.2 feet] in depth that were formed when the meteor broke up before impact.

Description: Henbury Meteorites Conservation Reserve, 145 kilometres south west of Alice Springs, contains twelve craters, which were formed when a meteor hit the earth’s surface 4,700 years ago. The Henbury Meteor, weighing several tonnes and accelerating to over 40,000 kilometres [24,850 miles] per hour, disintegrated before impact, and the fragments formed the twelve craters.

Source: Flickr Author: W & S Roddom

"Henbury Meteorite Crater" by W & S Roddom - Flickr. Licensed under CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Henbury_Meteorite_Crater.jpg#mediaviewer/File:Henbury_Meteorite_Crater.jpg

"Henbury Crater" by Michael Bemmerl - Own work. Licensed under CC BY 3.0 de via Wikimedia Commons -

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Wolfe Creek Impact Crater …………………....................………………. Western, Australia

Wolfe Creek Meteorite Crater National Park.^[3]
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The Wolfe Creek Crater in Australia was formed by a meteorite. It is estimated that its mass was about 50,000 tons and left a crater of about 875 meters/ (2,870 feet)/ [0.54 mile] in diameter. The crater floor is 60 meters/ (200 feet) below the rim, which rises 25 meters/ (82 feet) above the surrounding flat desert land. Small numbers of iron meteorites have been found in the vicinity of the crater. The crater was discovered during an aerial survey in 1947, but was thought to be volcanic. The Aboriginal people have known of the crater since ancient times, for they have stories about a bright fiery star falling from the sky making a great explosion, and leaving this hole in the earth … at a time long, long, ago.

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Tenoumer Crater .................................................... Western Sahara Desert, Mauritania

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Nearly a perfect circle, the Tenoumer Crater is 1.9 kilometers/ (1.2 miles) wide, and sports a rim 100 meters (330 feet) high. The crater is located in the Western Sahara Desert, Mauritania. Modern geologists long debated what caused this crater, some of them favoring a volcano. But closer examination of the structure revealed that the crater’s hardened “lava” was actually rock that had melted from a meteorite impact. The crater has been nearly filled by blowing sand.

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LONAR CRATER LAKE …...........……………………… MAHARASHTRA

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The Lonar Crater in Maharashtra, was formed by a meteorite impact with the earth’s surface. The saltwater lake itself has a mean diameter of 1.2 kilometers (3,900 feet/ more than 7-tens of a mile) and is about 137 meters/ (449 feet) below the crater rim. With the lake being 0.739 miles, the crater width is just over 1.0 mile in diameter. That’s like ~0.1 mile larger than Arizona’s Meteor Crater. The green vegetation is large trees, and the crater rim looks considerably higher than the surrounding land level, by more than the 449 feet differential between the lake surface and the crater rim ridge.

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ROTER KAMM CRATER ……………………………………… NAMIB DESERT, NAMIBIA

Landsat image of the Roter Kamm crater; screen capture from NASA World Wind

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Roter_Kamm_crater.jpg

Located in the Namib Desert, Namibia, the Roter Kamm Crater is about 2.5 km/ (1.6 miles) in diameter and is 130 meters/ (400 feet) deep. It was created by a meteorite the size of a large vehicle. The crater is clearly visible, but its floor is covered by sand deposits at least 100 meters (>300 feet) thick. Combined with the orange-red color of the Namib Desert the crater gives the impression of a Martian surface rather than that of our own planet.

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TSWAING CRATER ………………………………....................…........ SOUTH AFRICA

The Tswaing Crater was created by a chondrite or stony meteorite, some 30 to 50 meters in diameter. In the center of the crater is a small lake which is filled by a spring and rainwater. Stone tools from the stone-age show that the crater was regularly visited by people in order to hunt and collect salt. European settlers named the region Zoutpan (Salt Pan) while the local Tswana tribes call the region Tswaing which means “Place of Salt”

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Tswaing is an impact crater in South Africa that is accompanied by a museum. It is situated 40 km to the north-west of Pretoria. This astrobleme is 1.13 km / 3706 feet in diameter and 100 m / 328 feet deep ^[1] and the age is estimated to be 220,000 ± 52,000 years (Pleistocene).^[2] The impactor is believed to have been a chondrite or stony meteorite some 30 to 50 m in diameter that was vaporized during the impact event.^[2]^[3] Morokweng crater, another crater of chondrite origin, lies north-west of Vryburg.

At first glance, I thought the vegetation in the photo was small bushes, but after seeing the crater's dimensions, I have concluded that they are full grown trees. Notice the tree trunks of the ones on the lower right hand side of the photo. The crater size is considerably larger than I first thought, and the crater rim on the far side has quite an elevation. They estimated the meteorite was 30-50 meters in diameter which would make the crater essentially the same size as the Arizona Meteor Crater.

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Let’s make a list of small Confirmed Impact craters of North and South American: _ [A high percentage of the impact sites are not visible because of being buried deep beneath the surface of the earth, and others from erosion, but the list will include all the known sites. Several of the sites have been found by oil companies in their core drilling search for oil.] All of the craters on the Confirmed List have been tested by geological scientists and verified.

CONFIRMED SMALL IMPACT CRATERS OF NORTH/SOUTH AMERICA … [Less than 20 km diameter]

SMALL CONFIRMED IMPACT CRATERS OF CANADA:

CRATERS NAME	LOCATION	DIAMETER (km)	DIAMETER (mile)
Holleford	Ontario	2.35 km	1.46 mi
West Hawk	Manitoba	2.44	1.52
Viewfield	Saskatchewan	2.5	1.55
Pingualuit	Quebec	3.44	2.14
Brent	Ontario	3.8	2.36
Corossol	Quebec	4.0	2.48
Gow	Saskatchewan	4.0	2.48
Île Rouleau	Quebec	4.0	2.48
Maple Creek	Saskatchewan	6.0	3.73
Pilot	NW Territories	6.0	3.73
Wanapitei	Ontario	7.5	4.66
Bow City	Alberta	8.0	4.97
Couture	Quebec	8.0	4.97
Elbow	Saskatchewan	8.0	4.97
La Moinerie	Quebec	8.0	4.97
Eagle Butte	Alberta	10.0	6.21
Nicholson	NW Territories	12.5	7.77
Deep Bay	Saskatchewan	13.0	8.08

SMALL CONFIRMED IMPACT CRATERS of the UNITED STATES:

Name	Location	Diameter (km)	Diameter (miles)	Coordinates
Haviland	Kansas	0.015 km	0.009 mi
Odessa	Texas	0.168	0.1044
Barringer/Meteor	Arizona	1.48	0.92
Newporte	North Dakota	3.2	1.988
Flynn Creek	Tennessee	3.8	2.36
Glasford	Illinois	4.0	2.48
Middlesboro	Kentucky	6.0	3.73
Decaturville	Missouri	6.0	3.73

Rock Elm	Wisconsin	6.0	3.73
Crooked Creek	Missouri	7.0	4.35
Cloud Creek	Wyoming	7.0	4.35
Wetumpka	Alabama	7.6	4.72	^[2]^[3]
Des Plaines	Illinois	8.0	4.97
Serpent Mound	Ohio	8.0	4.97
Glover Bluff	Wisconsin	8.0	4.97
Calvin	Michigan	8.5	5.28
Red Wing	North Dakota	9.0	5.59
Santa Fe	New Mexico	6-13	3.7x8.1
Upheaval Dome	Utah	10.0	6.21
Avak	Alaska	12.0	7.45
Wells Creek	Tennessee	12.0	7.45
Marquez	Texas	12.7	7.89
Kentland	Indiana	13.0	8.08
Sierra Madera	Texas	13.0	8.08
Ames	Oklahoma	16.0	9.94

SMALL CONFIRMED IMPACT CRATERS of SOUTH AMERICA:

Name	Location	Diameter (km)	Diameter (miles)	Coordinates
Campo del Cielo	Argentina	0.05 km	0.013 mi
Monturaqui	Chile	0.46 km	0.286
Riachão Ring	Brazil	4.5 km	2.8
Rio Cuarto (largest of 10)	Argentina	4.5 km	2.8
Vista Alegre	Brazil	9.5 km	5.90
Serra da Cangalha	Brazil	12.0 km	7.45
Vargeão Dome	Brazil	12.0 km	7.45

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Let us now look at some more of these craters
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PINGUALUIT CRATER below: is for all practical purposes, a perfectly round impact crater located in the Ungava Peninsula of Quebec, Canada. It is 3.44 km/ (2.14 miles) in diameter. The crater rim rises 160 meters/ (520 foot) above the surrounding tundra, and its basin is 400 meters/ (1,300 feet) below the rim. Its depth alone indicates an Impact. This crater is an idealistic, pristine, perfect impact crater when viewed in the realm of physics.

PINGUALUIT IMPACT CRATER ……………............….……..… QUEBEC, CANAD Wikipedia.org

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5b/Pingualuit_aerial_2007.jpg

THE PINGUALUIT CRATER LAKE

Pingualuit Crater Lake: The resulting rain water lake is 267 meters/ (876 feet) deep. This crater is showing no elastic rebound at the surface, this is due to the make up of the earth's crust at the impact site. It will vary from one site to another owing to the material and rigidity of the earths crust. The annular lake nearly filling the impact crater, is one of the deepest, clearest, and purest lakes in North America.

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A Beautiful City Nestled in a Lush Green Valley

MIDDLESBORO IMPACT CRATER ……........................…………… KENTUCKY, USA

Photo from the Crater’s Rim .................................. Wikipedia.org [A neat place to live]

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b1/Middlesboro,_Kentucky;_viewed_from_the_Pinnacle_Overlook_in_April,_2013..jpg

The entire valley before us is actually a meteorite impact basin that has been turned into a city without the foreknowledge of the source of the beautiful relatively flat valley. The city of Middlesboro Kentucky was established within the crater’s basin in the year 1886, more than 100 years before it was ever suspected to be an impact crater. The crater is 6.0 km/ [3.7 miles] in diameter. See Middlesboro Crater Wikipedia.org for much more information, and the crater’s part in the formation of the Cumberland Gap [on the far side of the crater], that was so important to the early settlement of Kentucky and the Ohio Valley. This crater is still not near large enough to make the Large 20-km List.

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Impact Crater Lake Wanapitei …………..………………………… Ontario, Canada

Lake Wanapitei: as seen from the air looking south-east.

Aerial Photo ………………………………………………..... Wikipedia.org

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0e/Wanapitei_Lake.jpg
Wanapitei Crater is ~16.5 km/ (10.3 miles) in length

The lake occupies a meteorite crater in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. It is located near the large Sudbury meteorite crater but is not related to it. [I personally believe it is likely to have been a portion of the large Sudbury Meteorite broken off during atmospheric entry, seeing that it is right inline with the larger crater.] We will look at the Large Sudbury Crater later.

Cater Name

Wanapitei

Location

Sudbury, Ontario

Coordinates

Coordinates:

Lake type

impact crater lake

Primary inflows

Wanapitei River

Primary outflows

Wanapitei River

Basin countries

Canada

Max. length

16.5 km/ (10.3 mi)

Max. width

14 km/ (8.7 mi)

Surface elevation

267 m (876 ft)

Settlements

Skead

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SMALL CONFIRMED IMPACT CRATERS ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WORLD

Let’s visually look at more of these small CONFIRMED Impact Craters around the world:

MADNA or TALEMZANE (Arabic: مادنة / تالمزان‎) is an impact crater in Algeria, 40 km south-east of Hassi Delaa (a small city).^[1]

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/07/Talemzane.jpg
Landsat image of the Talemzane crater; screen capture from NASA World Wind

TALEMZANE CRATER: was explored for the first time in 1928, studied in 1950 and 1988 by reshars from university of Oran (Algeria) and Nice (France). It has now been confirmed an impact crater 1.75 km/ [1.09 miles] in diameter and the age is estimated to be less than three million years and is probably Pliocene.

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OUARKZIZ CRATER …………………………………………………………….. ALGERIA

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ee/Ouarkziz_crater.jpg

Ouarkziz (Arabic: أوركزيز‎) is a meteorite impact crater in Algeria. It is 3.5 kilometers / [2.17 miles] in diameter and the age is estimated to be less than 70 million years (Cretaceous or younger). The crater is exposed at the surface.^[1]

The Ouarkziz Impact Crater is located in northwestern Algeria, close to the border with Morocco. The crater was formed by a meteor impact less than 70 million years ago, during the late Cretaceous Period of the Mesozoic Era. ___ Originally called Tindouf, the 3.5-kilometer wide crater has been heavily eroded since its formation; however, its circular morphology is highlighted by exposures of older sedimentary rock layers that form roughly northwest to southeast-trending ridgelines. From the vantage point of an astronaut on the International Space Station, the impact crater is clearly visible with a magnifying camera lens.

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FOELSCHE IMPACT CRATER ………………………… NORTHERN TERRITORY, AUSTRALIA

Foelsche is a partially buried impact structure of a meteorite impact site. It is located about 85 km southeast of Borroloola and named after the nearby Foelsche River. Although little of it is exposed at the surface, the circular form of the feature is obvious on the aerial magnetic scan below. This in turn led to its discovery, along with finding an abundance of shocked quartz grains. The Impact Crater is 6.0 km / [3.7 miles] diameter.

Photo by: NASA Landsat Image/ World Wind Satellite …………… Foelsche Impact Site

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GOAT PADDOCK CRATER …………………………………………………. Western Australia

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Goat Paddock is a 5 km-diameter [3.1 miles] near-circular bowl-shaped depression in a range of gently dipping Proterozoic sandstone in the Kimberley Region of northern Western Australia, 106 km west-southwest of Halls Creek. It is interpreted as an ancient meteorite impact crater, the evidence including breccia containing melted rocks, silica glass, shatter cones and shocked quartz.^[1]^[2]^[3] Drilling shows that the crater is filled with about 200 meters of ancient lake sediments containing Early Eocene pollen, this age thus giving a minimum estimate for the age of the crater itself.^[1] The crater is not perfectly circular, but slightly elongated in a north–south direction, suggesting that the projectile struck at low angle from either the north or south.

I believe that the lake sediments are actually sediments from Noah’s Genesis Flood. You do know that Darwin’s fantasy is only a theory, don’t you?

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BOSUMTWI CRATER LAKE ............................................................ AFRICA

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The Bosumtwi crater is 10.5 km/ (6.5 mile) in diameter, and 750 meters/ 2,460 feet deep. The Lake Bosumtwi itself (also spelled Bosomtwe), situated within this ancient meteorite impact crater, is approximately 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) across and the only natural lake in Ghana.[1] It is situated about 30 km south-east of Kumasi and is a popular recreational area. There are about 30 villages near this crater lake, with a combined population of about 70,000 people.

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SPIDER CRATER …………………………………………………………… North Western Australia

Spider is an impact structure, the deeply eroded remnant of a former impact crater, situated in the Kimberley Region of northern Western Australia, 18 km east of the Mount Barnett Roadhouse on the Gibb River Road.^[1]

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Due to very rugged terrain the site is effectively inaccessible. The name is derived from the visually striking spider-like radiating ridges of quartzite prominently visible from the air or on satellite images. The unusual geological structure has been a puzzle since the 1950s, but it was not until shatter cones were discovered in the center in the late 1970s that it was realized that it was an eroded impact structure.^[2] The central area bearing shatter cones is interpreted as the relic of a central uplift with the outer limits of disturbance confined to a sub-circular area about 11 x 13 km / [6.8 x 8.1 mile] in diameter.

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AOROUNGA CRATER: is an eroded meteorite impact crater in Chad, AFRICA. The exposed remnant of the crater is 12.6 km/ [7.8 mile] in diameter and its age is estimated to be less than 345 million years (Carboniferous or younger).^[1]

The crater is accompanied by two nearby circular features revealed by Space Shuttle SIR-C radar. These may be related impact craters, and if correct, Aorounga may be part of a crater chain.

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NASA Expedition 20 crew Image Science & Analysis Laboratory, NASA Johnson Space Center - NASA Earth Observatory

The concentric ring structure of the Aorounga crater—renamed Aorounga South in the multiple-crater interpretation of SIR data—is clearly visible in this detailed astronaut photograph. The central highland, or peak, of the crater is surrounded by a small sand-filled trough; this in turn is surrounded by a larger circular trough. Linear rock ridges alternating with light orange sand deposits cross the image from upper left to lower right; these are called yardangs by geomorphologists. Yardangs form by wind erosion of exposed rock layers in a unidirectional wind field. The wind blows from the north-east at Aorounga, and sand dunes formed between the yardangs are actively migrating to the south-west.

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GLIKSON CRATER …………………………………………………… WESTERN AUSTRALIA

"Glikson Western Australia" by NASA - screen capture from NASA World Wind. Licensed under Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons -
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Photo by: NASA Landsat Image/ World Wind Satellite

Glikson crater is an impact structure the eroded remnant of a former impact crater, situated in the Little Sandy Desert of central Western Australia.^[1] A possible impact structure was first reported in 1997, and named after Australian geologist A. Y. Glikson, attention to the site being drawn by the presence of a prominent 14 km diameter / [8.7 miles] ring-shaped aeromagnetic anomaly.

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NASA LANDSAT ............................. WORLD-WIND EARTH OBSERVATION SATELLITE

GWENI-FADA METEORITE CRATER _CHAD, AFRICA _ 14 km/ [8.7 miles] DIAMETER

OBLIQUE IMAGE

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Wikipedia Commons …....................................................................................…NASA.gov

Location: ……………………………………………………………………..……..Chad, Africa^[1]

The raised center structure/central uplift was caused by the elastic rebound of the earth’s molten rock, from the meteorite’s impact, as the projectile came to a stop deep within the earth. Oblique Landsat image of Gweni-Fada crater draped over digital elevation model (x2 vertical exaggeration); screen capture from NASA World Wind.

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LUIZI IMPACT CRATER ............................................................ Democratic Republic of Congo

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Luizi is a meteorite crater that lies on the Kundelungu Plateau of the Katanga province, in an underexplored region of southeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. The crater, ~17 kilometer/ 10.56 mile in diameter, is visible from satellite imagery, and has recently been confirmed as being caused by a large impact event. This complex meteorite impact crater is the first one to be recognized in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and even in the whole Central Africa. ^[1]

This meteorite obviously plowed into another geological formation, a mountain range, of which a portion of the range was flattened by such great impact forces. Talk about meteorite impact power... ... driving mountains into the ground!

NASA Earth Observatory image by Jesse Allen and Robert Simmon, using Advanced Land Imager data from the NASA EO-1 team - Earth Observatory: Luizi Crater, Democratic Republic of the Congo

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OASIS IS A METEORITE CRATER IN LIBYA …………..………. North Central Africa

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The crater is exposed at the surface, and has been significantly eroded by high winds and sandstorms. The prominent topographic ring is only the first depression ring outside the central uplift. If you will notice there is a partial second ring [a large portion of which is eroded away] indicating the second depression ring, followed by the third ring [also very much eroded], which is the crater rim, and is estimated to have been 18 km/ [11.2 miles] in diameter.

This one still did not make the large crater list, but it’s getting close. The craters we have just looked at are only a few of what’s out there. We will look at a lot more before we’re through.

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NOW LET’S LOOK AT THE ENTIRETY OF THE TWO PASSAGES OF SCRIPTURE

Again, __ after Christ gave the disciples the first six-signs He then started speaking of things that must have seemed like total fantasy to them. [For them to imagine that The Universe {as well as the earth} would be in chaos and disarray was likely more than they could mentally process. In fact man has trouble believing it today. But believe Christ, He’s never been wrong. … Bible scholar, Professor, and Chancellor of Dallas Theological Seminary for many years, John F. Walvoord in his book "Every Prophecy of the Bible" has shown proof of more than 500 literal fulfillment's of Bible Prophecy! And now Christ’s prophecies, of the New Testament, are literally coming to pass as we speak! The Lord Jesus Christ [God in the flesh] then spoke these terrifying, bone chilling, unfathomable, words: _ “And great signs shall there be from the heavens” … “And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and UPON THE EARTH DISTRESS OF NATIONS, WITH PERPLEXITY; THE SEA AND THE WAVES ROARING; MEN’S HEARTS FAILING THEM FOR FEAR, AND FOR LOOKING AFTER THOSE THINGS WHICH ARE COMING ON THE EARTH: _ FOR THE POWERS OF HEAVEN SHALL BE SHAKEN” (Luke 21: 11, 25-26). ............. The first time I read this passage of scripture, I had to stop and regain my composure. My knowing that Jesus is “God The Son”, “God In The Flesh”, “GOD my Creator”, made His statement really grab hold of me, and it still moves me even now, as I write it down. I knew at that moment that there were things coming upon this world that no one could truly comprehend or be prepared for. …. You do not want to be left behind! …We all need to keep in mind that all of these judgments of the Great Tribulation are Global. They will encompass the entire earth. In Rev.3:10 this is quite clear, in what Christ tells the true Church: _ “Since you have kept my command to endure patiently, I will also keep you from ‘the hour of trial’ [the Great Tribulation] that is going to come upon the whole world to test those who live on the earth.” …… There is no doubt that the Lord is speaking globally! [“The Whole World”] … Also this verse tells us that the true Church is going to be taken off the earth before the Great Tribulation begins! There are people who will try to tell you that there have been trials ever since man has existed. … And yes, that is true to a point, but there has not been a trial since Christ spoke these words 2000 years ago, that has totally encompassed every inch of this planet as the Lord has described. The mountains and islands are still with us, we have not seen any total worldwide global earthquakes yet, virtually all of our cities are still standing/ intact (Rev. 16: 20-21), the sun, moon, and stars are still in place (Luke 21:25-26), nor has our planet yet been totally bombarded with huge meteorites (Rev. 6: 13). The seven-year Hour of Trial is yet to come! But the signs are telling us that the time is very near! It may be a few years yet, but don't bet your life and soul on it.

I don't know and I know that no one else knows the exact day or time of Christ's coming, for in Matthew 24:36 Jesus speaking of His return said: _ "No one knows the day or the hour, no not the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but my Father only." But the Apostle Paul in II-Thessalonians _ 5:1-5 says: _ "Now brothers, about the times and seasons we do not need to write to you, for you know very well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night. While people are saying peace and safety, sudden destruction will come upon them, like labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape. But, you brothers, are not in darkness so that this day should overtake you like a thief." You see, we can know the times and seasons, as we see the signs that scripture has told us about, which would come just before Christ's Return! I do not know the exact day or hour, no one knows. But I do know the signs and the season of His Return, and it is very soon!

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MORE DISASTROUS THINGS LURKING IN THE DARKNESS OF SPACE

NASA has now setup a Space Watch System, to keep watch for NEO’s {Near Earth Objects}. This was done because of the wake-up-call that the world got in _1994 when the huge comet, that we just mentioned, bombarded our planet Jupiter. Scientists determined from retracing its apparent orbit, that it made a very close approach to Jupiter in 1992, and was broken up, by Jupiter’s tremendous gravity into a string of 22 pieces, visible through most telescopes. The largest-one of the 22 pieces was ~2.0 km/ [ 1.2 miles ] in diameter, and expended “600 times” more energy in its impact with Jupiter than the world’s total nuclear arsenal! [All ignited simultaneously]. (See: _ www.Wikipedia.comet shoemaker levy-9.org) The resulting crater was more than 75 km/ [46 miles] in diameter. Then astronomers were amazed as they watched the Splatter-Range / [that is: ejecta-blanket / secondary-impact-perimeter] from the impact, spread out by more than _ 12,000 km/ [ 7,400 miles ] in diameter _ {This splatter-range was 6,167 times the meteorite’s diameter, and very nearly the diameter of our earth (8,000 miles).} This means that trillions-of-tons ...... of huge molten, burning rocks were flying out of the Jupiter crater to a diameter of 7,400 miles. .……….. What would it have done to earth, if it had impacted us? It would have virtually wiped out half of our planet!

NASA is telling us that there are over 200 of these NEO meteors/ comets/ asteroids of dangerous or even of disastrous size, which have been identified so far, that cross earths’ orbit [There are thousands more they have spotted, but the 200 are the ones that are of real concern {at the moment}, for they are quite large and come near to the earth.]. These objects are the ones that might have a close approach {or even the possibly of colliding with earth} sometime in the future. Just last year, on the National News and NASA’s web-site, it was reported that an asteroid had just passed by us, it came very close to earth before it was discovered, because it had almost no visible image, but our new infrared scanning satellite spotted it in one of its scans as it was getting quite close. It was coal black in color, absorbing almost all visible light, but it had an infrared image from absorbing heat from the sun, which was then detected. This infrared satellite is in the process of scanning everything in and around our solar system. But this will take several years. Even though this IR scanning satellite, the radar dishes, all the other satellites, and telescopes are watching the heavens, you can see that even then they miss some of the asteroids. Just a few weeks ago when the meteorite exploded over Russia, a second one came zipping by from the opposite direction making a very near miss to earth. NASA missed spotting the second one, until they were both right on top of us. NASA can spot the larger heavenly bodies, with their greater image signatures more readily, than the smaller ones [those less than 100 meters, but some of these could take out a large city].

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ASTEROID ZIPS BY ORION-NEBULA …………............ www.nasa.gov/ asteroid

This image shows the Potentially Hazardous near-Earth object 1998 KN3 as it zips past a cloud of dense gas and dust, [nearly in-line-with] the Orion nebula. NEOWISE, the asteroid-hunting portion of the Near Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or NEOWISE Mission, snapped infrared pictures of the asteroid, as seen below, the yellow-green dot at the upper left of the photo is the asteroid.

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Because asteroids are warmed by the sun to roughly room temperature, they glow brightly at the infrared wavelengths used by WISE. Astronomers use infrared light from asteroids to measure their sizes, and when combined with visible-light observations, they can also measure the reflectivity of their surfaces. The WISE infrared data reveal that this asteroid is about 3,696 feet / (1.1 kilometers/ [0.7 mile]) in diameter [Remember Arizona's Crater was made by an asteroid of only about 150 feet in diameter]. Also this asteroid 1998 KN3 reflects only about …. 7.0 percent of the visible light that falls on its surface, which means it is very dark, it is traveling at thousands of miles per hour, and extremely hard to spot. [93% of the sun light striking it, is absorbed by its super black-body].
Asteroid 1998 KN3 also could have a potential of producing as much as one-half-million-megatons of energy: it could blast out a crater of as much as 17 miles in diameter; eject deadly/ disastrous burning rocks for several hundred miles in all directions; and would definitely be "potentially hazardous" [as stated by NASA] to any city, or a substantial section of a state or province.]

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RECORD-SETTING CLOSE APPROACH www.nasa.gov/ asteroid

Jan. 28, 2013: Talk about a CLOSE SHAVE. On Feb. 15^th an asteroid about half the size of a football field [~150 feet in diameter] will fly past Earth only 17,200 miles above our planet's surface. There's no danger of a collision, but the space rock, designated 2012 DA14, has NASA's attention.

"This is a record-setting close approach," says Don Yeomans of NASA's Near Earth Object Program at JPL. "Since regular sky surveys began in the 1990s, we've never seen an object this big get so close to Earth." . . .. . .. JPL: _ Jet Propulsion Labs [in California]

The green Geosynchronous Ring is the place where we orbit our satellites for continuous communications, for such things as TV, radio, and numerous commercial business communications. This was quite close as NASA stated.

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Earth's neighborhood is littered with thousands of these objects: some smaller than beach balls, and some as large as mountainous rocks many kilometers/ [miles] wide. Many of these objects hail from the asteroid belt. NASA's Near-Earth Object Program helps find and keep track of them, especially the ones that come close to our planet.

Asteroids ................................................ ww.nasa.gov/ asteroid

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ANOTHER CLOSE ENCOUNTER

Also A few months ago, another asteroid the size of an aircraft-carrier [about 1,100 foot {335 m / 0.2 mile} in length] came zooming between us and our moon, traveling at a tremendous speed [many times faster than a rifle bullet], it was very frightening to see the video on the news, and just how fast it flew by us. This makes me think again of “Meteor Crater” in Arizona which is nearly a mile in diameter, with a splatter destruction range of about a 12 mile radius/ a 24 mile diameter, it was formed by a nickel-iron meteorite of only ~46 meters in diameter/ [~150 foot], or about one-seventh the size of an aircraft-carrier. But that would make the Arizona meteorite about 22 times less in volume and mass than a meteorite the size of an aircraft-carrier. Every time a sphere’s size {diameter} halves/ doubles, its volume/ mass decreases/ increases by 8 times {assuming uniformity of mass}]. The Arizona asteroid weighed in at an estimated 300,000 tons {more than 30 tons has been recovered in the splatter-range _ the mass of the meteorite is buried miles below the surface {see Purdue University's-Web-Sight: ... www.Earth Impact Effects Program.com }, yet it formed a crater 1,481 meters, / [4,857 foot/ 0.92miles] across, by 180 meters, / [590 foot] deep. A large massive nickel-iron meteorite the size of an aircraft-carrier could wipe out an entire metropolitan-area like: _ Chicago; or Dallas/Fort-Worth; or Los Angeles; or New York City; or Mexico City; or Paris France; Rome Italy; London England; Moscow Russia; Beijing China; or any other populated area, with all their suburbs. The only thing that has to happen along the orbit of one of these close earth orbit crossing, large rouge/ wildcard heavenly bodies is that, somewhere along their path they get an unusual tug of gravity from another mass that changes their orbit slightly more inclined toward earth. The further away from earth, in their orbital path that this tug takes place, the less of a tug it will take to pull its orbit just a minute-portion of a degree, to align it with us!

There are some asteroids among those logged by NASA that are huge, like several miles in diameter. These are the ones that could cause world shaking disasters! The earth has indeed been impacted by large meteorites in the past. A total of more than 184 craters of significant size, have been identified as meteorite impacts [so far], but these are the ones that are on land or in very shallow water where they are relatively easy to find. When considering that 75% of the earth is covered by oceans and seas, of which the majority of their waters are of great depth, making craters very much harder to locate and collect test samples for verification [Meteorite craters are identified by the presence of Molecular-Stressed-Rock: Shocked Quartz, Coesite, Stishovite, and Shatter Cones; caused by tremendous pressures during impact, which are not found at volcanic craters]. Logic tells us that the number of impact craters in the waters of the earth would likely be 75% more than what we have found on land. Therefore with the land covering ¼, and the oceans/seas covering ¾, of the earth’s surface area, we can rightly deduct that there are likely three times more craters in the waters of the earth, which could be as many as 525 craters of significant size. When added to the 184 from the land, the total would be around 700 meteorite impact craters. Scientists have determined: _ of the 184, land and shallow water craters, that… “57” are in the large category. These are craters which are equal to, and or greater than, _ 20 km/, that is [12.4 miles] in diameter.

[Meteor Crater in Arizona, below: _ did “not” make the large list .. Its 4,857 foot diameter [ 9 tens of a mile] crater is much too small!] …

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This large category list is starting out at 13.5 times larger in diameter than the Arizona Meteor Crater! Did this get your attention? It sure did mine… I had no idea there were craters of that size on our planet. ……… [But as bad as that sounds: the real danger lies in wait! ... We will address the real danger later in the section called: _ THE HORRENDOUS WILD CARD.]

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ROCKS IN OUR OWN NEIGHBORHOOD

There are some asteroids among those logged by NASA that are huge, like several miles in diameter. These are the ones that could cause world shaking disasters! Let’s look at a few in the photo below.

Asteroids Visited by Spacecraft…………………………….............. Nasa.gov

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The asteroid in the upper left corner of the composite photo above: _ is named 243-Ida, and is 58.8 X 25.4 X 18.6 km/, which is [ 36.5 X 15.7 X 11.5 miles] in length, height, and depth _ respectively. The asteroids are shown according to their relative sizes. We don’t ever want to be hit by one the size of {243-Ida}! In fact all of these in the photo are measured in kilometers, with the very smallest one named 25143 Itokawa, being 0.5 km/ (0.31 miles/ [1,637 feet ] in length)… [ Itokawa is the tiny, faint, almost invisible dot under the left-end-tip of the super large 21-Lutetia]. You would not even want this small tiny one to impact your city or town.

The sizes of the asteroids are printed in kilometers: _ to convert to miles multiply km by (0.621212); The largest one _ 21-Lutetia is: (81.8 miles long, by 62.6 miles tall, by 47.1 miles thick) ...... a real whopper.

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THE UNIVERSE IS GOD’S GLORY

“THE HEAVENS PROCLAIM HIS [GOD’S] RIGHTEOUSNESS, AND ALL THE PEOPLES SEE HIS GLORY.” (Psalms 97:6)

COSMIC LENS MACS J1720+35 HELPS HUBBLE TO FIND A DISTANT SUPERNOVA:

The heart of a vast cluster of galaxies called MACSJ1720+35 is shown in this image, taken in visible and near-infrared light by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. The galaxy cluster is so massive that its gravity distorts, brightens, and magnifies light from more distant objects behind it, an effect called gravitational lensing. In the top right an exploding star nicknamed Caracalla and located behind the cluster can just be made out. These are not individual stars in the photo. Every tiny faint spec of light is a great group of stars: … most are galaxies. This is just one tiny section of the universe.

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An enlarged view of the supernova, nicknamed Caracalla, is shown in the furthest right of the two inset images, taken in July 2012. An arrow marks the location of the supernova, which resides near the bright core of the host galaxy. The supernova is seen as it appeared 7.7 billion years ago. The image was taken in near-infrared light with Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3. The inset image on the left, taken in March 2012, shows the same region before the supernova blast. Astronomers combined observations taken in visible and near-infrared light with Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys and Wide Field Camera 3 to make the image. The supernova is a member of a special class of exploding star called Type Ia, prized by astronomers because it provides a consistent level of peak brightness that makes it reliable for making distance estimates.

There are approximately-5000-galaxies in this photo.

“HOW GREAT --- IS GOD --- OUR CREATOR”

The Old Testament prophet Nehemiah being filled with God’s Holy Spirit and speaking to God says: _ “YOU ALONE ARE THE LORD. YOU MADE THE HEAVENS, EVEN THE ‘HIGHEST HEAVENS’, AND ALL THEIR STARRY HOST, THE EARTH AND ALL THAT IS ON IT, THE SEAS AND ALL THAT IS IN THEM. ‘YOU GIVE LIFE TO EVERYTHING’, AND THE MULTITUDES OF HEAVEN WORSHIP YOU.” (Nehemiah 9:6) _ God revealed to Nehemiah that these other galaxies where out there… “The Highest Heavens!” … God has given visions to His Prophets from the beginning of time. They have seen these things for themselves.

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HUGE / GIGANTIC IMPACT CRATERS ON OUR PLANET

Now let’s continue with the impact craters that man has found and identified upon planet Earth that meet the Large Category. There are numerous craters in Australia, Europe, Russia, Asia, Africa, India, China, Antarctica, South America, Mexico, Greenland, Canada, and the USA. Let us look first at the large meteorites that have impacted close to home, and have formed craters of 20 km / [that is 12.4 miles] or more in diameter. [There are hundreds-more smaller than 20 km.] But those measuring 20 km and over: _ number “21” in quantity… [21-confirmed] Are you surprised at the size and number? … I was…I had no idea there were meteorite craters of the size and number that we are about to look at: ___So buckle up your safety belts, fold up your lap trays, tie down anything that’s loose, and hang on tight, there’s rough weather ahead!

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SCIENTIST ARE NOW TELLING US THAT ALL LARGE METEORITE IMPACTS WILL CAUSE:
GREAT IMPACT EXPLOSIONS/ GREAT THERMAL RADIATION/ GREAT MASS EJECTION/ GREAT AIR BLASTS/ GREAT EARTH PENETRATION/ AND GREAT EARTHQUAKES

I am not making these things up. I have gotten these things from very respected scientific sources such as: _ Purdue University | Earth Impact Effects Program.com; _ National Aeronautics and Space Administration {NASA.gov]; _ Earth Impact Database; Planetary and Space Science Centre {www.passc.net}; United States Geological Survey.gov; _ www.Wikipedia.Comet Shoemaker-Levy9.org.

Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula Crater gets more attention, and has generated more data, than any of the others even though it is not the largest; so for convenience we’ll use it also as our example. The Yucatan meteorite was approximately 10 km/ [~6.2 miles] in diameter! The impact energy of these rocks which are very massive and are traveling at many thousands of miles per hour is unbelievable. The initial energy release from a 10 km/ [6.2-mile] diameter asteroid, would be in the form of a gigantic explosion ejecting trillions of tons [~2,260 cubic-miles] of burning rock to distances of thousands of miles, and shoot a tremendous fire ball 250 miles in diameter up into the sky and out into space, emitting great thermal radiation, thousands of times the heat density, we receive from the sun. The impact would leave a crater of ~185 km/ [112 miles] across. Everything within the first 300-mile-radius would be disintegrated. But, If you were 600 km [370 miles] from the impact site and not under ground: _ [Your clothing would ignite; your body would be charred to the bone; paper, wood, trees, and all foliage would burst into flames]. Also at 600 km [370 miles] from the impact site, an air blast of 1,770 miles per hour would reach you in about 12.5 minutes, and blow down virtually everything that was standing, including bricked-steel-framed structures, and don’t bother looking for your cars they will be many miles away and totally dis-functional/ unusable [just a ball of crushed and rolled up metal]. Back at the impact site, with the meteorite penetration into the earth reaching 35 km/ [22 miles] deep (no wonder they can’t find these large meteorites), the earth’s tectonic plates will be severally disturbed, producing the greatest earthquakes man will have ever seen. It will cause great earthquakes more powerful than any ever recorded, [like a 12.4 magnitude on the Richter-scale, for a 10-km-meteorite impact _ producing a quake {1000 times} the power of our present 9.4 magnitude-earthquake record]. But if you are fortunate enough to be under ground at 600 km away, you will only see a quake of …. 10.3_magnitude, still much greater than any ever recorded, but you might survive it, if your basement or storm-cellar doesn’t collapse. We need to understand that the Earth’s crust [the surface of the earth we live on] is only a few miles deep, it floats on a molten core of liquefied/ fluidic magma. And just like waves are formed on a pond of water when we toss a large rock into it, waves can be formed in the earth’s magma when a huge impact takes place. I believe this horrendous disturbance of the tectonic plates, from a large impact, will set off oscillations of the crust/ tectonic plates and molten magma beneath: _ that will propagate through the entire-tectonic-system; producing TOTAL WORLD SEISMIC DISRUPTION!!/ … [Global World Earthquakes] ……

A GALAXY-CLUSTER CONTAINS THE GREATEST MASS THAT MAN HAS FOUND TO DATE IN THE UNIVERSE

The heart of a vast cluster of galaxies called RxJ1532.9+3021 is shown in this image below, taken in visible, and near-infrared light, by the ESA / NASA Hubble Space Telescope, and NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory

“THE HEAVENS ARE THE WORKS OF HIS HANDS”

"HE [God the Father] ALSO SAYS, [to God the Son] ‘IN THE BEGINNING, O LORD, YOU LAID THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE EARTH, AND THE HEAVENS ARE THE WORK OF YOUR HANDS.” (Hebrews 1:10)

GALAXY CLUSTER-RXJ1532.9+3021 … CONTAINS THE MOST-MASSIVE BLACK-HOLE KNOWN TO MAN

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Astronomers have revealed the most powerful black hole known to man

The black hole is located in the center of a galaxy cluster named XJ1532.9+3021

Supersonic jets from the black hole have created large, expanding cavities in the hot gas

Energy from the cavities keeps the hot gas from cooling and forming trillions of new stars

Astronomers have used NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and a suite of other telescopes to reveal one of the most powerful black holes known. The black hole has created enormous structures in the hot gas surrounding it and prevented trillions of stars from forming. The black hole is in a galaxy cluster located about 3.9 billion light years from Earth. The image here is a composite of X-ray data from Chandra revealing hot gas in the cluster in purple and optical data from the Hubble Space Telescope showing galaxies in yellow. The cluster is very bright in X-rays implying that it is extremely massive, with a mass about a quadrillion {a thousand trillion} times that of the/ our sun. At the center of the cluster is a large elliptical galaxy containing the Supermassive-Black-Hole / Black-Star.

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AN EXPLODING STAR IS CAPTURED BY NASA

A Supernova is seen the following month where nothing was visible previously. A single star could not be seen at this great distance, it was too faint until it exploded. Also, it still would not have been visible without the great massive magnifying effect of this galaxy cluster in the center of the photo. This is because of the tremendous gravitational field density of the cluster bending the light rays like a gigantic magnifying lens/glass.

http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/screen/heic1409d.jpg

http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1409d/

The Hubble Space Telescope has been a fantastic Astronomical leap forward for man. It has proven to be a gigantic step for mans knowledge of the Universe. I have always been one of NASA's biggest fans, along with all of the brilliant men and women in the space program, as well as all those in the supporting companies of NASA. I salute them all! In fact my company/ my research and development area was, in years past, involved in designing several components for NASA: _ which provided communications from earth to space, also for the moon landings, and then later, communications components for the Space Shuttle. It was my dream, from a very young age, that I might some day work for NASA in a greater role, but it never worked out.

You see, when I was a teenager: _ I was designing, building, and testing liquid fuel rocket engines on my own, making quite a lot of noise; blowing lots of sand, gravel, and rocket engine parts every where. Then my high school sweetheart (and wife of 56 years-now) came along and probably saved my life from such dangerous endeavors. And I thank God for that. I believe God saved my life for His work that He's doing through me right now in this blog... I have always been totally fascinated with space/ "The Universe", but I could always see God's hand in it all, and now... more than ever.

“THE HEAVENS PRAISE THY WONDERS O’LORD” (Psalms 89:5)

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EVERYWHERE WE LOOK THERE IS ANOTHER SECTION OF SPACE LITERALLY FILLED WITH GALAXIES

This is another view, in a series of Hubble Space Telescope photo's, in the same general area of the universe. The orbital HST (Hubble Space Telescope) has just been shifted over slightly, to reveal a whole new field of view.

THE GREAT MASS OF A GALAXY CLUSTER MAGNIFIES IMAGES FAR BEYOND ITSELF

From the Hubble Space Telescope ............................................ static/archives/heic1409 ..... series

https://www.spacetelescope.org/news/heic1409/c

http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1409c

All of the lights that you see in the photo above are galaxies, or globular star clusters, except for this tiny dot of light indicated by the arrow in the box, which is a single star going Supernova. ............ The magnitude and wonder of this universe that God has created is incomprehensible. How fantastic a site, with all of the brilliant globular clusters, and countless galaxies. We again see a supernova in the right hand box where there was no star seen earlier. And of course the big bubble on the right bending the light, like an optical lens, [because of the intense gravitational field density of the cluster] and magnifying the galaxies and globular clusters behind it. .......... God's magnificent creation is absolutely breathtaking.

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SCIENTIST ARE NOW TELLING US THAT ALL LARGE METEORITE IMPACTS WILL CAUSE :

GREAT IMPACT EXPLOSIONS / GREAT THERMAL RADIATION / GREAT MASS EJECTIONS / GREAT AIR BLASTS / AND GREAT EARTHQUAKES

I am not making these things up. I have gotten these things from very respected scientific sources such as: _ Purdue University's | (*) www.Earth Impact Effects Program.com; _ National Aeronautics and Space Administration {NASA.gov]; _ Earth Impact Database; Planetary and Space Science Center {www.passc.net}; United States Geological Survey.gov; _ and (*) www.Wikipedia.org/Comet Shoemaker-Levy9 [ (*) check these two out first ]

Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula Crater gets more attention than any of the others even though it is not the largest; so we’ll use it as our example because of the wealth of information available. The Yucatan meteorite was approximately 10km/ [~6 miles] in diameter! The impact energy of these rocks which are very massive and are traveling at many thousands of miles per hour is unbelievable. The initial energy release from a 10 km/ [6-mile] diameter asteroid, would be in the form of a gigantic explosion ejecting trillions of tons [~2,260 cubic miles] of burning rock to distances of thousands of miles, and shoot a tremendous fire ball 250 miles in diameter up into the sky and out into space, emitting thermal radiation thousands of times the heat density we receive from the sun. The impact would leave a crater of ~112 miles across. Everything within the first 250 miles-out, would be disintegrated. But, If you were 600 km/ [370 miles] from the impact site and not under ground: _ [Your clothing would ignite; your body would be charred to the bone; paper, wood, trees, and all foliage would burst into flames]. Also again at 600 km/ [370 miles] from the impact site, an air blast of 1,770 miles per hour would reach you in about 12.5 minutes, and blow down virtually everything that was still standing, including bricked-steel-framed-structures, and don’t bother looking for your cars they will be many miles away and totally dis-functional/ unusable [just a ball of crushed and rolled up metal]. Back at the impact site, with the meteorite penetration into the earth reaching ~35 km/ [22 miles] deep, the tectonic plates would be severally disturbed, producing the greatest earthquakes man will have ever seen. It will cause great earthquakes more powerful than any ever recorded, [like a 12.4 magnitude on the Richter-scale, for a 10-km-meteorite impact _ producing a 1000 times the power of our present 9.4-earthquake record]. But if you are fortunate enough to be under ground at 600 km away, you will only see a quake of …. ~10.3_magnitude, still much greater than any ever recorded, but you might survive it, if your basement or storm-cellar does not collapse. We need to understand that the Earth’s crust [The surface of the earth we live on is only a few miles deep (50 miles at most)], it floats on a molten core of liquid/ fluidic magma. And just like waves are formed on a pond of water when we toss a large rock into it, waves can be formed in the earth’s magma when a huge impact takes place. I believe this horrendous disturbance of the tectonic plates, from a large impact, will set off oscillations of the crust/ tectonic plates and molten magma beneath: _ that will propagate through the entire-tectonic-system; producing …. TOTAL WORLD SEISMIC DISRUPTION!! / .............. [Global World Earthquakes].

IT IS VERY-VERY STRANGE

Is this not strange? … That the old ancient book, the Bible has told us that: _ worldwide meteorite bombardments [some large as great mountains]; and signs in the sun, moon, and stars and Global Earthquakes will occur in the last days! [our sun’s solar storms are continually increasing, and I expect signs in the moon and stars to begin soon.]; ...... The United States Geological Survey states that prior to the decade of 1950 to 1960 there were only "2" quakes reaching 6.0 or more per decade, worldwide. Since that time large quakes have made very large jumps every decade, in their numbers. In the past decade there were 1,603 quakes reaching 6.0 or higher [www.USGS.gov], and they are building up to every island and mountain on this planet vanishing. "And there were voices, and thunders, and lightnings; and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake, and so great. And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell: and great Babylon {Babylon: the great ancient evil city where false religions were first born, that Sadam Husain has now rebuilt on the original foundations, and will become the capital of the world under the Antichrist} came in remembrance before God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of His wrath. AND EVERY ISLAND FLED AWAY, AND THE MOUNTAINS WERE NOT FOUND. And there fell upon men a great hail out of heaven, every stone about the weight of a talent [nearly 100 lbs.]: and men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail; for the plague thereof was exceedingly great." (Rev.16:18-21); The quakes will be followed by horrendous tsunamis [seas and oceans roaring]; and then worldwide storms/ hurricanes from one end of the earth to the other (Jer. 25:30-34); {Today we are seeing storms increasing in intensity, and multiple storms starting to join together making super storms}. These things that we are seeing today are just a precursor to the great devastation that is coming. Christ has told us, through the apostle John in visions of the Great Tribulation, [in the Bible's final book called ... Revelation] that in the Last Days these things would come to pass: _____ (1) Worldwide-Great-Meteorite-Bombardments; (2) Unimaginable-Global-Worldwide-Earthquakes; (3) Worldwide-Horrendous-Tsunamis; (4) Worldwide-Storms/-Hurricanes [As the oceans heat up, from all of the tectonic-convulsions producing ocean volcanoes, great volumes of heated-moisture-evaporation will occur filling the atmosphere, and generating these great massive storms.]; (5) Uncontrollable rampant Disease; (6) Horrendous Sights of Terror; and (7) Great Unfathomable Events In The-Heavens-Of-The-Universe. [These events will be almost more than a human mind can absorb, it will seem as living a nightmare.] (Luke 21:7-11, 25-33 / Matt.24:4-35 / Mark 13:5-8, 25-31 / Joel 2:30-31 / Isaiah 13:9-13 / Jeremiah 25:30-34 / Rev.8:5 / Rev.11:19 / Rev.16:18) (KJV / NIV / YLT /AMP / HCSB)…………… Maybe we should give ourselves some time to contemplate and seriously consider this? If you don't believe me get a Bible and look up the texts.

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and Now...

LARGE/ GIGANTIC/ MONSTROUS IMPACT CRATERS

ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WORLD

Now let us list the large impact craters on the continents of Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, and Antarctica:

__ Crater (#1) is offshore of New Zealand [in shallow ocean water], and called Mahuika crater making the list at 20 km/ [12.4 miles] in diameter. _ Crater (#2) is in Australia, Northern-Territory, and called Amelia Creek Crater, making the list at 20 km/ [12.4 miles] in diameter. _ Crater (#3) is in Siberia, Russia, and called Logancha Crater, measuring in at 20 km/ [12.4 miles] in diameter. _ Crater (#4) is in Poltava Oblast, Ukraine, and called Obolon Crater, measuring in at 20 km/ [12.4 miles] in diameter. Crater (#5) is in France, Europe, and called Rochechouart Crater, measuring 21 km/ [13.0 miles] in diameter. _ Crater (#6) is in Australia, Northern-Territory, and called Gosses Bluff Crater, making the list at 22 km/ [13.7 miles] in diameter. _ Crater (#7) is in Finland, Europe, and called Lappajarvi Crater, measuring in at 23 km/ [14.3 miles] in diameter. Crater (#8) is in Bavaria, Germany, and called Nordlinger Ries Crater, measuring in at 24 km/ [14.9 miles] in diameter [The city of Ries has been built inside the crater, with a huge cathedral in the center, constructed from the meteorite rock debris {its building material identity discovered/ verified by the Shoemakers}]. Crater (#9) is in Kirovohrad Oblast, Ukraine, and called Boltysh Crater, measuring in at 24 km/ [14.9 miles] in diameter. Crater (#10) is in Australia, Northern Territory, and called Strangways Crater, measuring in at 25 km/ [15.5 miles] in diameter. Crater (#11) is in Russia, South Federal District, and called Kamensk Crater, measuring in at 25 km/ [15.5 miles] in diameter. Crater (#12) is in Western Finland, and called Keurusselka Crater, measuring in at 10-30 km/ [6.21 miles x 18.6 miles] in diameter and length. Crater (#13) is in Western Australia, and called Shoemaker Crater [named for Gene and Carolyn Shoemaker who first spotted the huge comet-S/L9, and also first proposed that many craters on earth are impact sites], measuring in at 30 km/ [18.6 miles] in diameter. Crater (#14) is in the Indian Ocean, and called Burckle Crater, measuring in at 30 km/ [18.6 miles] in diameter. Crater (#15) is in Libya, North Africa, and called Kebira Crater, measuring in at 31 km/ [19.3 miles] in diameter. Crater (#16) is in Portugal, and called Guarda Crater, measuring in at 35 km/ [21.7 miles] in diameter. Crater (#17) is in Norway, Barents Sea, and called Mjolnir Crater, measuring in at 40 km/ [24.8 miles] in diameter. Crater (#18) is in Spain, and called Azuara Crater, measuring in at 35 km by 40 km/ [21.7 miles x 24.8 miles] in diameter and length. Crater (#19) is in Spain, and called Rubielos de la C’erida Crater, measuring in at 40km by 80 km / [24.8 x 49.7 miles] in diameter and length. Crater (#20) is in Pamir Mountains, Tajikistan, and called Karakul Crater, measuring in at 52 km/ [32.3 miles] in diameter. Crater (#21) is in Dalarna, Sweden, and called Siljan Ring Crater, measuring in at 52 km/ [32.3 miles] in diameter. Crater (#22) is in Queensland, Australia, and called Tookoonooka Crater, measuring in at 55 km by 66 km/ [34.2 miles x 41.0 miles] in diameter and length. Crater (#23) is in Lake Tai, China, and called Tai Crater, measuring in at 68.5 km/ [42.6 miles] in diameter. Crater (#24) is in Western Australia, and called Yarrabubba Crater, measuring in at 30 km by 70 km/ [18.6 miles x 43.5 miles] in diameter and length. Crater (#25) is in Kalahari Desert, South Africa, and called Morokweng Crater, measuring in at 70 km/ [43.5 miles] in diameter. Crater (#26) is in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia, and called Puchezh-Katunki Crater, measuring in at 80 km/ [49.7 miles] in diameter. Crater (#27) is in South Australia, and called Acraman Crater, measuring in at 85 km by 90 km/ [52.8 miles x 55.9 miles] in diameter and length. Crater (#28) is in Siberia, Russia, and called Popigai Crater, measuring in at 100 km/ [ 62.1 miles] in diameter. Crater (#29) is in Nenetsia, Russia and called Kara Crater, measuring in at 120 km/ [74.5 miles] in diameter. Crater (#30) is offshore of Scotland, United Kingdom, and called Ullapool Crater, measuring in at 150 km/ [93.2 miles] in diameter. Crater (#31) is in Western Australia, and called Woodleigh Crater, measuring in at 60 km by 160 km/ [37.3 miles x 99.4 miles] in diameter and length. Crater (#32) is offshore of Western Australia, and called Bedout Crater, measuring in at 250 km/ [155.3 miles] in diameter. Crater (#33) is in Free State, South Africa, and called Vredefort Crater, measuring in at 300 km/ [186.4 miles] in diameter. Crater (#34*) is in Antarctica, and called Wilkes Land Crater, measuring in at 480 km by 500 km/ [298.2 miles x 310.6 miles] in diameter and length. Crater (#35*) is in Northern Territory, Australia, and called Australian Massive Impact Structure, the inter-ring measuring in at 600 km / [372.7 miles] in diameter, and the outer-ring measuring 2000 km / [1246 miles] in diameter. [#34* and #35* have not yet been verified as yet].

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NOW LET'S TAKE A VISUAL LOOK AT SOME OF THESE CRATERS

GOSSE's BLUFF CRATER

It is the eroded remnant of an impact crater.^[1]^[2]^[3] . It is located in the southern Northern Territory, near the center of Australia, about 175 km (109 mi) west of Alice Springs and about 212 km (132 mi) to the northeast of Uluru (Ayers Rock). The original crater rim has been estimated at about 22 km/ [14 mile] in diameter, but this has been eroded away.

Gosse’s Bluff Crater photographed _________ from the ISS (International Space Station)

Wikipedia Commons …………………………….......………………… NASA.gov

The 5 km/ (3.1 mi) diameter, 180 m/ (590 ft) high crater-like feature, now exposed in the center of the photo, is interpreted as the eroded relic of the crater's central uplift. It is my belief that the curvature of the mountain range on the left and the arc in the terrain on the right indicate the crater’s outer rim diameter. All craters are not perfectly round. This one is oblong and somewhat twisted. These deformations can be caused by an unusual angle of entry for the meteorite, or an abnormal shape of the meteorite, or the non-uniform density of the target/ impact area, or possibly by glacier movement in the past, or even by seismic shifting of the earth’s plates under the crater at some time after the impact.

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Nordlinger Ries Crater …………………………………………..……… Bavaria, Germany

Wikimedia Commons …………………………..…………………..……. Author: Bernd Haynold

The city of Ries lies in the valley basin of the 24 km/ [15 mile] diameter impact crater. Numerous buildings can be seen across the valley. The photo was taken from the top of the crater rim. The opposite rim can be seen in the far distance spanning the entire width of the photo. The present floor of the depression is about 100 to 150 m/ (330 to 490 ft) below the eroded remains of the rim. It was originally assumed that the Ries was of volcanic origin. But in 1960 Eugene Shoemaker and a colleague (Carolyn Shoemaker/ his wife) showed that the depression was caused by meteorite impact.^[3] The key evidence was the presence of coesite (shocked quartz), which, in unmetamorphosed rocks, can only be formed by the shock pressures associated with meteorite impact, or from a nuclear explosion. The coesite was found in the building stone (suevite) of the Nördlingen town church, (Saint Georg’s Church) constructed from locally derived meteorite stone.^[4] The Church building is more than 600 years old. The town of Nordlinger Ries was established around the year AD_898, and celebrated its 1100^th anniversary in 1998 (more than a millennium old). [The Shoemakers in the video mentioned earlier, are shown discovering the type/origin of the stones of the Church, as being meteorite].

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Strangways Impact Crater ……………………........……………… Northern Territory, Australia

False color Landsat image of Strangways crater (center circular feature) .......... screen capture from NASA World Wind

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Strangways_crater.jpg#/media/File:Strangways_crater.jpg

Strangways is a large impact structure, the eroded remnant of a former impact crater, situated in the Northern Territory, Australia.^[1] It was named after the nearby Strangways River. The location is remote and difficult to access. The circular topographic feature that marks the site was originally thought to be volcanic. Then in 1971 it was first proposed to possibly be of impact origin. But after the discovery of evidence diagnostic of impact, including shatter cones and shocked quartz, it is now confirmed.^[2] The circular topographic feature is about 16 km/ (9.9 mi) in diameter, but the Outer Rim Diameter is 25 km/ (16 miles) and lies within Mesoproterozoic sedimentary layer.

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Shoemaker Impact Crater ……………………………………………… Western Australia

Crater Diameter ……………………………………………………………….. 30 km/ [19 miles]

Shoemaker Crater (formerly known as Teague Ring) is an impact structure (or astrobleme), the deeply eroded remnant of a former impact crater, situated in arid central Western Australia, about 100 km (62 mi) north-northeast of Wiluna.^[1] It is named in honour of planetary geologist Eugene Shoemaker.^[2] The prominent ring-like topographic feature, easily seen in satellite images, lies on the boundary between the Palaeoproterozoic Earaheedy Basin and the Archaean Yilgarn Craton. The area contains a number of seasonal salt lakes, the largest being Lake Teague. The first suggestion that the ring-like topographic feature may be an impact structure was published in 1974.^[3] Subsequent research revealed definitive evidence for this hypothesis, including the presence of shatter cones and shocked quartz.^[4]^[5]^[6] The feature has a central circular region of uplifted Archaean Granite (Teague Granite) about 12 km (7.5 mi) in diameter, surrounded by a downwarped ring (ring syncline) of sedimentary rocks with an outer limit of disturbance at about 30 km/ (19 mi) diameter, which is a minimum estimate of the size of the original crater.

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KaraKul Impact Structure …………………………………………………… Tajikistan

KaraKul Lake/ Impact Structure, Pamir Mountains, Tajikistan …

http://landsat.usgs.gov/gallery/detail/385/ ..................................................Wikimedia Commons …… NASA.gov

The KaraKul Impact Crater diameter is 52 km/ [32 miles]. The country of Tajikistan borders the country of Afghanistan to the North. The crater is slightly off center to the left of the photo center. The lighter brown color surrounding the lakes is the crater basin. The circle of snow caped mountain peaks encircling the lakes defines the crater rim.

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SILJAN IMPACT CRATER …………………………………………. DALARNA, SWEDEN

Wikimedia Commons …………………………………………...........................................……… NASA World Wind

Created with NASA WorldWind by User: Vesta using Landsat 7 (Visible Color) satellite image

Several lakes trace the remnants of the Siljan impact crater in Dalarna, central Sweden that was formed by a meteorite impact. The crater’s diameter of 55 km/ [34 miles] is one of the 18 largest confirmed impact craters on Earth and the largest in Europe. The effects of the impact can clearly be seen in the bedrock. [That is in the yellow-green ring, and in the geometric ring radius formed by the lakes in the area.]

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Acraman impact crater ………………………………………………………. South Australia

NASA Landsat ………………………………………………………… World Wind Image

Wikimedia Commons ………………………………………………The Free Encyclopedia

The Acraman Crater is highly eroded and difficult to visualize. The dark blue fingers coming in from the right side of the photo are ocean waters. The crater’s center is a vague central uplift, very close to the center of the photo. Notice the large curved salt deposit slightly to the upper left of the center. This indicates the first depression and first uplift ring of the crater. Looking out even further to the upper left, several smaller salt deposits on mountain sides are arcing from a radius off the center of the crater, indicating the crater’s left outer rim. Looking to the lower right at the same distance from the crater’s center, an eroded reverse arcing mountain ridge reveals the opposite side of the crater's outer rim. The crater has been verified by geological testing. The Crater’s Diameter is 85 x 90 km/ [53 x 56 miles].

BELOW IS ANOTHER VIEW OF ACRAMAN CRATER REVEALING ITS LAKE
Lake Acraman (impact crater) in South Australia ................................................ Landsat Image

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e3/Acraman.jpg

NASA - Screen capture from NASA World Wind

Description	Lake Acraman (impact crater) in South Australia, Landsat image.
Date	26-Oct-07 (date image captured)
Source	Screen capture from NASA World Wind
Author	NASA

Acraman crater is a deeply eroded impact crater in the Gawler Ranges of South Australia.^[1] Its location is marked by Lake Acraman, a circular ephemeral playa lake about 20 km/ 12.4 miles in diameter. This 20 km diameter is only for the lake, the crater diameter is much larger at ~90 km/ ~55.9 miles across. .. If you will go back to the previous photo you can see the tiny 12.4 mile lake [as compared to the crater area], and that it is very near the center of the area that we determined for the crater. It is a very small dark/black spot near the center of the photo.

The discovery of the crater and independent discovery of its ejecta were first reported in the journal Science in 1986.^[2]^[3] The evidence for impact includes the presence of shatter cones and shocked quartz in shattered bedrock on islands within Lake Acraman.

The crater is deeply eroded and its original size must be inferred by indirect means. Some authors estimate an original diameter of up to 85–90 km,^[4] while other suggest a smaller size, perhaps only 35–40 km, closer to that of the depression in which Lake Acraman is centred.^[5] The larger size estimate would imply an energy release of 5.2 × 10⁶ megatons of TNT.^[4]
^{That impact power is the equivalent of: _ 5.2 Million Megatons of TNT.}
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Puchezh-Katunki crater ……………………………………………… Russia

Wikimedia commons …………………………………. Lansat 7 image NASA.gov

The Puchezh-Katunki crater is 80 km/ [50 miles] in diameter, and is located about 275 miles east of Moscow, Russia. The center of the crater is at the center of the photo near the right hand side of the man-made reservoir [the dam is the flat/straight area at the bottom/south end of the lake]. The crater rim can be visualized by the terrain's partial arcing radius on both sides of the crater’s center, taking up approximately 75% of the width of the photo. We seldom see an entire crater because of erosion over time.

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POPIGAI CRATER ………………………………………..…………….. SIBERIA, RUSSIA

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/53/Popigai_crater_russia.jpg

NASA Landsat …………………………………………………………… World Wind Image

Wikipedia commons ..……………………….…………………………………….. NASA.gov

The Popigai Crater is 100 km/ [62.1 miles] in diameter, and is located north of the Arctic Circle, in central Siberia near the Laptev Sea. The center of the crater is in the center of the photo and the darkest brown circular area reveals the meteorite’s impact basin. The crater rim extends out nearly to the photo’s edges. The cracks running through the crater are from seismic activity over the passage of time. The cracks also channel ice pack run off, becoming rivers in warmer months.

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VREDEFORT IMPACT CRATER ……………………… FREE STATE, SOUTH AFRICA

THE LARGEST ‘VERIFIED’ IMPACT CRATER ON EARTH

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/31/Vredefort_Dome_STS51I-33-56AA.jpg

(NASA) Photo ID: STS51I-33-56AA ……………………… Taken from Shuttle Mission STS-51

VREDEFORT CRATER is the LARGEST VERIFIED impact crater on Earth, more than 300 km/ [186 miles] across when it was formed.^[1]^[2] What remains of it is located in the present-day Free State Province of South Africa and named after the town of Vredefort, which is situated near the crater’s center. Although the crater’s right hand side has long since eroded away, the remaining geological structures at its center are known as the Vredefort Dome or Vredefort impact structure. In 2005, the Vredefort Dome was added to the list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites for its geologic interest. There are also two other towns located within the crater. Remember the reason we see so many partial craters is because of seismic activity and weathering over much time. Also the craters we have been studying are tested and confirmed geologically.

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THE-LARGEST-UNCONFIRMED-IMPACT-CRATER on the Earth

It is my belief that most of the unconfirmed craters will be verified as true impact craters, and if that is the case for the 600 km Australian Massive Impact Structure, it is twice as large as Vredefort Crater, and will become the Largest Impact Crater on Earth.

AUSTRALIAN MASSIVE IMPACT STRUCTURE

This image is in the public domain because it is a screenshot from NASA’s globe software World Wind Satellite https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia_(continent)#/media/File:Australia_New_Guinea_continent.jpg

If we look closely at the center of the whole of Australia, we can make out the curvature of the huge topographical features of the crater that extends from the center bottom edge of the continent (actually into the ocean edge) all the way upward to a distance of 2000 km/ [1242 miles] (about ¾ of the continent’s width _ this outer ring has not been verified as yet, therefore we will stick with the center-inter-ring of 600 km/ 373 mi width, at this time). The center uplift can be visualized by the slightly darkened brown circle of the topographical features in the very center of the continent.

This last super large 600 km/ [373 mile] wide crater was most likely caused by a meteorite of somewhere around 20-miles in diameter. The energy expended from this 20-mile diameter meteorite’s impact would have been roughly, in the 7,500-million-megaton-range. That is 750,000 times the worlds’ nuclear arsenal. I don’t know about you, but that makes me tremble. [The 10,000 mega-ton (nuclear arsenal) vs. 7.5 billion-megaton impact] And the destructive splatter perimeter of the 20-mile asteroid impact, outside the 373 mile crater rim, would have been in a radius of ~40,000 miles… With the earth’s circumference being 25,000 miles-around, the splatter perimeter would have encircled the earth 1.6 times in all directions. Yes, it would have overlapped the impact-sight, and gone more than half way around the earth again. The entire earth would have been hit by impact splatter, and more than half the earth would have been hit again, by secondary splatter. We should by this time begin to realize that our nuclear weapons are but mere fireworks in this universe of heavenly bodies in motion!

Our Earth’s Crater List is growing as we speak, as new ones are being found, and others are being verified. Several more have been added since I made these lists.

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THE UNIVERSE IS GOD’S GLORY

“THE HEAVENS PROCLAIM HIS [GOD’S] RIGHTEOUSNESS, AND ALL THE PEOPLES SEE HIS GLORY.” (Psalm 97:6)

COSMIC LENS: _ MACS J1720+35 HELPS HUBBLE TO FIND A DISTANT SUPERNOVA

The heart of a vast cluster of galaxies called MACSJ1720+35 is shown in this image, taken in visible and near-infrared light by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. The galaxy cluster is so massive that its gravity distorts, brightens, and magnifies light from more distant objects behind it, an effect called gravitational lensing. In the top right an exploding star nicknamed Caracalla and located behind the cluster can just be made out. ____These are not individual stars in the photo. Every tiny faint spec of light is a great group of stars: … most are galaxies. This is just one tiny section of the universe.

There are approximately-5000-galaxies in this photo above.

“HOW GREAT --- IS GOD --- OUR CREATOR”

The Old Testament prophet Nehemiah being filled with God’s Holy Spirit and speaking to God says: _ “YOU ALONE ARE THE LORD. YOU MADE THE HEAVENS, ‘EVEN THE HIGHEST HEAVENS’, AND ALL THEIR STARRY HOST, THE EARTH AND ALL THAT IS ON IT, THE SEAS AND ALL THAT IS IN THEM. ‘YOU GIVE LIFE TO EVERYTHING’, AND THE MULTITUDES OF HEAVEN WORSHIP YOU.” (Nehemiah 9:6) _ God revealed to Nehemiah that these other galaxies where out there… “The Highest Heavens!” … God has given visions to His Prophets from the beginning of time. They have seen these things for themselves.

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Question:_ WHY WOULD AN ALL KNOWING/ ALL INTELLIGENT/ ALL SEEING/ ALL POWERFUL/ AND IN HIS TOTAL PERSONA ‘A-PERFECT-CREATOR-GOD’:

CREATE AN IMPERFECT UNIVERSE FILLED WITH CHAOS?

HE WOULDN'T and HE DIDN’T . . But you say: _ “look at all the rogue asteroids, comets, and apparently broken up planets in our solar system’s asteroid belt, and now we are seeing galaxies colliding, and on earth there is all kinds of disease, pain, suffering, evil, and tremendously bad things in our world, that’s not perfect.” And I say: _ "yes ... you are right", "it is not even close to being perfect." In Genesis chapter one of the Bible: _ where God created the heavens, even the highest heavens, and the earth and all that is in them; He repeated at the end of each day of creation; that “everything was Very Good.” You see it was all very good in the eyes of a Perfect Creator … that is … “it was perfect” … “exactly as an _ All Powerful-All Perfect-All intelligent Creator would make things." .. . it is now imperfect! … ..Why? …….Because God’s crowning creation, _ His man, disbelieved and disobeyed Him. It sorely grieved God’s heart. Adam brought the curse [growing old (cellular deterioration) and dying] not only upon mankind and his world [the earth], but upon the Entire Universe!! The Bible says that: _ “The earth and the heavens now grow old like a .. .. garment.” God the Father speaks to God the Son: _ "In the beginning you laid the foundations of the earth, and the heavens are the work of your hands. They will all wear out like a garment. Like clothing you will change them and they will be discarded. But you remain the same, and your years will never end." (Psalms 102:25-27/ Isaiah 51:6/ Hebrews 1:10-11)

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Now let’s talk about the real problem with our solar system!

THE GREAT HORRENDOUS WILDCARD

Impacts of large meteorites with earth have indeed happened in the past, and it is not a question of: _ “will it happen again?” … it is a question of “WHEN---will it happen again?” [this was NASA's answer] You see, our solar system is a very dynamic thing. I’m not speaking of the movements of the planets. They are quite stable maintaining their orbital timing like a gigantic, very precision clock. But our solar system has a Wildcard that is very unpredictable. … There is an Asteroid Belt in our solar system, filled with billions of asteroids orbiting our sun between the planets Mars and Jupiter. Some of the asteroids are more than 250 miles in diameter! All of these chunks of rock in the belt are traveling at thousands of miles per hour. They are randomly tumbling around within the belt, but at times there are collisions, knocking some of the asteroids out of the belt. They then become rouge objects traveling in elongated orbits around the sun, which can sometimes cross through Earth’s orbit. Earth then becomes a possible target for them. It is my belief that our asteroid belt has been in a relatively quiescent state for several thousand years, but before that, I believe it was in a condition of disarray [with numerous-collisions] for a period of time, which at that time caused the major quantity of the impact craters, that we see on our moon, the earth, and the other planets with their moons, in our solar system. They are all literally covered with impact craters. Neil Armstrong had a considerable problem [almost ran out of fuel] finding a smooth enough spot, on our moon, to set the moon lander down, because of so many impact craters. Let’s take a look at an aerial view of our Asteroid Belt, so we can get a better idea of the magnitude of the danger.

OUR ASTEROID BELT

This diagram below, shows a bird’s-eye-view of our asteroid belt, which lies between the orbital paths of Mars and Jupiter. The Sun of course is the yellow ball in the center, but the relative size of the sun and planets is not indicated. The Earth’s orbital path is depicted as the blue ring of the third planet from the Sun. NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, [which is en-route to the asteroid belt now] will see hundreds of thousands of asteroids with diameters larger than 3 kilometers/ (1.9 miles)…. Only the larger asteroids are depicted here, there are literally billions of smaller ones, not shown. (NASA.gov)

InnerSolarSystem-en.png ……………………………………………. Credits: _Wikipedia / NASA

[Size differences are not indicated in the depiction of the sun and planets]

I don’t know about you, but this depiction of our solar system and its’ asteroid belt with all of the rouge asteroids whizzing around at thousands of miles per hour, is extremely disturbing/ frightening to me!

The asteroid belt is like A HORRENDOUS MUNITIONS WAREHOUSE, filled with Billions of Asteroid Bombs, with many exceeding an impact energy potential of more than a Billion Megatons. And a few of the really huge ones could produce more than a Trillion Megatons of impact energy [these are the ones we could call … “Planet Killers”]. Thankfully at the present our Asteroid Belt is reasonably stable……………

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BUT THERE IS A VERY BIG PROBLEM IN THE BELT

It is not just that the asteroid belt exists, but that a tremendous force is influencing the entire belt in a periodic sequence of time. The problem is the tremendous pull of Jupiter, as it orbits just barely outside the outer edge of the asteroid belt. Jupiter’s great gravity pulls on the asteroids as they approach and swing past Jupiter. Jupiter literally grabs/ pulls/ jerks them further away from the sun. It is a tremendous shock to the population of the belt, changing the asteroids orbital distance from the sun until they get past Jupiter. Then they drop back and oscillate back and forth across their normal orbital path several times as they return to their state of equilibrium. This is quite a disturbing bump in the road across the entire width of the belt, and has the potential to cause devastating collisions if some of them bump each other in the process. Jupiter is literally making waves in the belt, like the wake of a Nuclear Powered Aircraft Carrier under full power passing a tugboat/ possibly more like passing a johnboat. …..

What we need to be concerned with: _ is the possibility of Jupiter’s waves causing our asteroid belt to lose its calm, quasi-steady-state condition to the point where a large population of the belt loses its coherence, going into a chaotic-state; and numerous groups of asteroids start to collide. This could cause massive collisions to build-up through the belt! Once the collisions start, they could begin an avalanche-effect, causing extremely violent: SUPER-COLLISIONS; … ejecting horrendous volumes of asteroids out into our solar system; turning it into a gigantic mine field. This could set earth up for unfathomable: _ asteroid swarms/ downpours [like cloud bursts] of great innumerable quantities of gigantic asteroids! ………….… I believe it is just a matter of time! … Remember Christ showed John: _ “The stars will fall from the heavens, like overripe figs from a fig tree, when shaken by a great/ mighty wind”. (Rev.6:13)

I have a suggestion: _ maybe we should start a project called …. Asteroid-Belt-Watch _to watch for possible collision events in the belt that could occur in the future. But even if we had all the missiles in the world set up as sentinel’s ready to blast asteroids out of our space, we could not stop tens to hundreds of thousands of asteroids that could possibly be ejected out of the Asteroid Belt. … But the better suggestion: _ we could give our lives to Christ, and He will take us off the earth before these things get really bad (Rev 3:10).

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THERE IS ANOTHER FRIGHTENING BELT AT THE FAR EDGES OF OUR SOLAR SYSTEM

It is called The Kuiper Belt and has the possibility of producing comets like the Shoemaker/Levy-9 Comet, and also much larger ones. This is another large Munitions Arsenal [but not as large as the asteroid belt] filled with great destructive bombs. These are comets that come from this belt because of the extreme cold at this greater distance from the Sun. All liquids/gases such as water, ammonia, and methane, ect. condense/freeze at these temperatures approaching absolute zero. Comets are believed to be made up of rock, soil, dust, and ice. The larger ones can be quite destructive as we saw with Comet S/L-9 and its collisions with our planet Jupiter. In the diagram below only the large outer planets are shown. The inter planets are shown on the previous diagram with the asteroid belt. The numbers on the drawing/chart are Astronomical Units (AU), see note (*) below.

THE KUIPER BELT

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuiper_belt

The heavy gray circle around the sun is in near alignment with (J) Jupiter. It represents the Asteroid Belt with billions of asteroids [which we just looked at on the previous chart]. The blue and light orange dots in the far outer ring past Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune are the comets of the Kuiper belt.

WilyD at English Wikipedia

Objects of the Kuiper belt (blue). Plot displays the known positions of objects in the outer Solar System within 60 astronomical units (AU) from the Sun. Epoch as of January 1, 2015. Sun Jupiter Trojans (6,178) {These numbers only include the larger, easy to count bodies.} Giant planets: Jupiter · Saturn · Uranus · Neptune Centaurs (44,000) Kuiper belt (>1,000) Scattered disc

Neptune trojans

(9) Orbital elements were converted to positions using MERCURY (Chambers 1999).

* (AU) Astronomical Units = 93 million miles [distance from the Sun to Earth] {example: _ 20 AU = 20x93M-mile = 1.86 Billion miles}

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LOOK AT ALL THE OTHER HEAVENLY BODIES IN OUR SOLAR SYSTEM

There are numerous, large ancient impact craters on the earth, all around the world, but not anywhere like the degree that we see craters throughout the rest of our solar system. If you don’t believe me, just look at our moon, it is literally covered with thousands of asteroid impact craters. How could: _ the moon be impacted so many times, and our earth with its 6-times greater gravity, not be impacted, in like manor? [Or maybe it has been?] Some scientists are now starting to believe that meteorite/ large heavenly body impacts are the greatest geological force facing our planet, even greater than volcanic force effects. All the planets and moons in our solar system, of which we can see their surfaces, are absolutely covered with impact craters. This literally screams of a time, in the distant past, that our asteroid belt was in a condition of disarray and chaos.

OUR MOON [near side]

OUR MOON [far side]

Note the almost complete lack of dark maria. There is no doubt that our moon has been horrendously bombarded by meteorites/ asteroids!

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THE FOUR LARGEST MOONS OF JUPITER

Jupiter's moons do not appear to have been impacted as much as our moon. I believe it is due to Jupiter's gravitational ratio to it's moons being so much greater than the Earth's to our moon. In other words, Jupiter has a much stronger gravitational pull [like a more powerful magnet] on incoming meteorites diverting their flight path away from the moons, and to itself. Therefore only the meteorites, that their flight path aligns near perfectly with the moons', impact them. But nevertheless there are still lots of craters.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_Galilean_satellites_(the_four_largest_moons_of_Jupiter).tif

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THE MOONS OF SATURN

Look closely you will see lots more craters/ all the other planets moons are covered with craters also.

There is no doubt that our Solar System has been through a time of tremendous meteorite activity and I believe that its coming again ... according to that old ancient book called the Bible!

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4b/Moons_of_Saturn_2007.jpg/1024px-Moons_of_Saturn_2007.jpg

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Continuing John’s visions…

The Lord then showed John: _____

____ “The fourth angel sounded his trumpet, and a third of the sun was struck, a third of the moon, and a third of the stars, so that a third of them turned dark. A third of the day was without light, and also a third of the night” (Rev.8:12) [NIV]. … Scripture doesn’t give insight into how this will occur, but here are my thoughts: … It could be caused by a tremendous amount of asteroid debris going into a polar-orbit around the earth. [An orbit circling over the North-Pole, then the South-Pole, and back over the North-Pole, etc. is a polar orbit.] With all of this increased collision activity in the Asteroid Belt, it is likely that a huge amount of small-asteroid-debris would be ejected along with the larger asteroids. The debris would likely come from, a super massive collision within our solar system’s asteroid belt, being expelled out of the belt toward earth. If the debris were captured by the earth, forming a polar orbital ring of four thousand miles width, around the earth {like the planet Saturn’s rings}, with the earth turning, at its ~1000 miles per hour rotation speed, beneath the debris belt, the belt would block out light from the sun, moon, and stars for a third of the day and a third of the night.

Jesus then showed John: _ “The fifth angel sounded his trumpet, and I saw A STAR that had fallen from the sky to the earth. The star was given the key to the shaft of the Abyss, and it opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace. The sun and the sky were darkened by the smoke of the pit, and out of the smoke locusts came down upon the earth, and were given power like that of scorpions of the earth” (Rev.9:1-6, 9-10).

Here we have another star/ meteorite which is apparently very dense, with lots of mass for its size, and also traveling at an extreme velocity, because it penetrates the earth to a very great depth [“to the Abyss”] opening a very deep subterranean chamber. It is my belief that the smoke encircles the entire earth affecting everyone… {Remember Rev.3:10_ “The trial to come upon The Whole World”}. It would start to drop the world’s atmospheric temperature very quickly, and most likely cause severe breathing problems for every living thing. Plant life would soon be affected from the lack of photosynthesis, and it would likely further contaminate water sources. But as bad as all those things sound, the worst is yet to come. In verses 3-6 the scripture says: “And out of the smoke locusts came down upon the earth, [I believe these insects were blown out of the abyss up into the upper atmosphere with the smoke/ debris, and scattered by the wind over the whole earth before coming down.] and were given power like that of scorpions of the earth. They were told not to harm the grass of the earth, or any plant or tree, but only those people who did not have the seal of God on their foreheads.” [Those “sealed of God” are those who become Christians during the Tribulation (see Rev.7:9, 14).] “They [the locusts] 'were not' given the power to kill them [men], but to only torture them for five months. And the agony they suffered was like that of the sting of a scorpion when it strikes a man. During those days men will seek death, but will not find it; they will long to die, but death will elude them.” (Rev.9:4-6). You say that sounds like science fiction, but who are we to say what might be miles beneath the earth? Every time scientists go very deep into the ocean, they see creatures that they have never seen before. These insects {locusts} were spewed out of the Abyss with the smoke, apparently in great quantity to cover the whole earth. The passage also tells that “their sting is in their tail like a scorpion and it lasts five months.” And “they also have wings that make a horrific thundering noise like many horses and chariots going into battle.” [para.] (Rev.9: 9-10). This reminds me of quail hunting when you walk into a covey of quail without knowing they are around. If your heart is weak you might not survive the instantaneous beating noise of their wings as the covey of 20 to 30 birds take flight. These insects in Revelation must be very large compared to the insects that we are familiar with today, being able to sound like many horses and chariots at full charging speed. But again, as bad as all those things sound, the worst is yet to come. So do not dismiss this impact that has opened the Abyss, ..... not yet!

What-On-Earth comes up out of the Abyss next? …

What-On-Earth comes up out of the Abyss next? … “The beast which you saw, once was, now is not, and will come up out of the Abyss and go to his destruction. The inhabitants of the earth, whose names are not written in the Book of Life, from the creation of the world, will be astonished when they see the beast, because he once was, and now is not, and yet will come” (Rev.17:8). The beast, the Antichrist, the most evil, Satan-controlled, Satan possessed, man who has ever walked the earth will come up out of the Abyss to subdue and conquer the entire world! When we look closely at what John was saying at the beginning, and ending of the verse, we may stagger and miss a step or two, because it requires a tremendous broadening of our understanding. John stated by the leading of God’s Holy Spirit: _ “because he (the Beast/ the Antichrist) once was, and now is not, and yet will come.” We have to understand that John is speaking of the man called the beast [the Antichrist] as having lived at some time before John’s day. For John said: _ “he once was” _ But at John’s time, he was not: _ “and now is not”. __ I believe John is saying that this man lived at a period in time, prior to my [John’s] life time, whether you believe me or not: _

“yet he will .. Come…. UP……………… OUT OF THE ABYSS”. (Daniel 8:21-25)

Now, let us take a closer look at the character of the Antichrist.

THE EIGHTH KING / PROFILE OF THE BEAST

There is a man who will come upon the world stage soon, as a great man of peace and intelligence {after the Church is removed from the earth}. He will bring 10 world leaders together under his leadership covering the whole world. He will be getting the world stage setup to have a one world government. He will stop wars, and be in the process of bringing harmony and prosperity to the world. At this time there will have been Seven World Kingdoms upon the earth: _ the Egyptian, the Assyrian, the Babylonian, the Media-Persian, the Grecian, the Roman, and the Revised Roman, Empires. [Daniel was only shown the last four kingdoms, because the first two had already come and gone at his time (Revelation speaks of all seven kingdoms)]. The Roman Empire will be revived and brought back to life becoming the seventh world kingdom [this is in progress even now in the growing European Union] (Rev.17:11). But the seventh king who sets up the basic structure of the seventh kingdom, will receive a deadly wound by an assassin and die. But immediately at this time 'the spirit' of another man that God calls the Beast, which we just started to look at in the previous section, will come up out of the Abyss. [The Beast is the name given to the man that God also calls the Antichrist, as is the name Dragon given to Satan, both of their names are used in several places in the scriptures.] Then the evil-spirit of the beast out of the Abyss will come upon the world scene by entering the seventh ruler’s just-dead-body, possessing it, and bringing it back to life. I know that you have heard of demon possession before, and it is talked about numerous times in the Bible. Missionaries coming back from third world countries say they have seen demon possession with their own eyes. I believe the beast will take over the dead body of the Seventh World Ruler almost immediately, before biological cellular decay can began. He will become the EIGHTH KING, controlling the seventh kingdom (Rev.17:11) (Dan.7:24-25). What I have just told you is found in Revelation chapter 17 starting in verse 9: _ “This calls for a mind with wisdom. The seven heads are seven hills {hills: a symbol for powers/ kingdoms} on which the woman sits {woman/ the great spiritual prostitute: the false church}. They are also seven kings, five have fallen, one is, the other has not yet come; but when he does come, he {the seventh king} must remain for a little while. The beast who once was, and now is not, is an eighth king. He belongs to the seven {kingdoms} and is going to his destruction.” (Rev.17:9-11)

But this eighth king will be the most evil man ever to walk upon the face of the earth, not caring about anyone but himself and world power. He will be the greatest actor of all time. He will come to power by playing the part of the most caring person, and the greatest-peace-maker the world has ever seen, at that time. I believe he will probably: _ organize the feeding of millions of those who are hungry, and set up medical teams to treat those who are sick, diseased, lame, and injured; _ also that he will create jobs for the unemployed and set up schools for the uneducated; _ and that he will be brilliant, being fluent in many/ if not all Languages {Satan knows all languages}, and have a speaking ability that will mesmerize the masses, and will appear to have the answers to the whole world’s problems. He will then finish and complete the job that the seventh ruler started, bringing total world peace [for a short time]. The World will be overjoyed with him because: _ of his recovery from death; his great knowledge; his great speaking ability; his tremendous cunning, and resourcefulness in bringing world prosperity and ending all war [even between Israel and the Arab Nations]. The world will entreat him to be their king, he will accept the position, and before he’s through he will become the ruler of the entire world (Rev. 13:7-8). But the beast will be someone from before John the apostle’s time, coming up out of the Abyss before the start of the Tribulation. The timing of his coming will be between the Rapture of the Lord’s Church from the earth, and the start of the Tribulation. He will need time to build his reputation and political power base, in order to be able to broker the world’s greatest peace agreement: _ the one-week [ “7-years” / “a-week-of-years” ] peace covenant between the Arab nations and Israel [which will restart Daniel’s prophecy clock, and start The Great Tribulation] (Daniel 9:27). The Beast/ the Antichrist will be the most evil, vile, wicked, corrupt, man who will have ever lived. He will have no: love, compassion, mercy, or concern for anyone but himself; … [Not even for women and children]. But when he has brought all the nations in under his control, He will then show his true self, declaring himself to be God and demanding all peoples to bow down and worship him and his father Satan ------ “or die”! (2-Thes.2:4) (Rev.13:15). And many, many there will be … that will die by his command. But they that refuse to bow down and worship the beast, and are killed, will instantly go to be with the Lord (Rev. 6:9-11). No one will be able to refuse the Antichrist unless they have received Christ Jesus as their Lord and Savior. “Ask and you shall receive.”

“The beast was given a mouth to utter proud words and blasphemies and to exercise his total authority for forty-two months [3.5 years] the last half of the Tribulation. He opened his mouth to blaspheme God, and to slander his name and his dwelling place and those who live in heaven. He was given power to make war against the saints [those who receive Christ in the Tribulation] and to conquer them [He can kill the tribulation believers, but he cannot kill their souls or spirits]. He was given authority over every tribe, people, language and nation. All inhabitants of the earth will worship the beast [all non-believers] --- all whose names have not been written in the book of life belonging to the Lamb [Christ] that was slain from the creation [Christ’s sacrifice planned from the creation] of the world” (Rev. 13: 5-8). Then in verses 14-15 John states: _ “He [the False Prophet second in command to the Antichrist] ordered them [Antichrist’s followers] to set up an image in honor of the beast: who was wounded by the sword [killed] and yet lived. He was given power to give breath to the image of the first beast, so that it could speak and cause all who refused to worship the image to be killed” (Rev.13:14-15). Also there is a passage in the book of _ 2nd Thessalonians where the apostle Paul also speaks of the beast and his image : _ “He will oppose and will exalt himself above all that is called God or is worshiped, so that he sets himself up in God’s temple, proclaiming himself to be God” (2nd Thess. 2:4). This most evil man who will have ever lived, will be the son of Satan, Satan’s counterfeit for Christ, thus the name, the Antichrist. He is the exact opposite of the Lord Jesus Christ. He will be totally unholy, unrighteous, completely evil, and totally filled with wickedness and corruption. He will not care about anyone [NO ONE] but himself. He will be responsible for the murder of many millions of people to attain total world power. The Beast [the Antichrist] will give his support to The False Church / The One World Church / The Great Prostitute, [spiritual prostitution] during the first half of the Tribulation, so she can draw the great masses together under her/his power. This One World Church will not have anything to do with Christ, she will only preach harmony and peace [I know this doesn’t sound bad, but when Christ our Creator is left out, there will be no true harmony or peace {it will only seem like peace, it will only be temporary}]. The One World Church will only want to bring everyone under her power. She will love the riches, the jewels, the gold, the pomp, and the power. In the book of Revelation, it has this to say about her: _ “I saw that the woman [the great prostitute] was drunk with the blood of the saints, the blood of those who bore testimony to Jesus” (Rev. 17:6). The One-World-False-Church will hunt down every true-Christian that she can find on earth and murder them all. But don’t worry about them; the spirits of all true believers’ are taken to heaven instantly when they die; and they will receive their eternal bodies at the end of this Great Tribulation Period. [The innumerable souls beneath the altar are believers who will be martyred/ murdered during the Tribulation.] (Rev.7:9-14), and (Rev.6:9-11).

THE VERY INTERESTING THING

The thing that is so interesting to me is that 2000 years ago: _ before the Polish scientist Nicolaus Copernicus [AD 1473 – AD 1543] determined that the earth and other planets orbit around the sun; _ before the German scientist Johannes Kepler [AD 1571 – AD 1630] developed the orbital math for heavenly bodies; _ before the Italian scientist Galileo Galilei [AD 1564 – AD 1642] designed the astronomical telescope giving a giant leap to astronomy; _ before the English scientist Sir Isaac Newton [AD 1642 – AD 1727] produced his laws of motion and gravity; _ before all of that came to pass: … Jesus of Nazareth revealed to the apostle John "that there would be numerous meteorite impacts upon the earth, and signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars/ in the constellations, and in the whole of the cosmos, just before and during the Great Tribulation which is coming upon the whole earth!" {paraphrased} In fact modern day scientists would not believe these kinds of events could happen in our universe, not until the year 1994, when they saw with their own eyes that they can, and do occur!

How could this uneducated man, two-millennium ago, by the name … Jesus, understand astrophysics, astronomy and cosmic events? You are wrong. Christ knows more about science than the totality of all men’s mental capacities, throughout all of history combined. God’s word says: _ “The FOOL has said in his heart, ‘there is no God’” (Psalms 14: 1). Christ could understand science because He is the Creator of it! He could because He was, and is, the Messiah, the Christ, and God the Son, the Designer and Creator of this universe in which we live! He conceived, designed, and caused all science, all energy, and all matter, and all life to be, to exist, and to function by His-Laws-of-Science, and by His Precise Will!

In the Bible, in the gospel of John, the apostle by the leading of God’s Holy Spirit penned these words: _ “In the beginning was the Word, the Word was with God, and the Word was God. All things were CREATED BY HIM, and there was nothing created that He did not make. He was in the very beginning with God.” … “He was in the world and THE WORLD WAS MADE BY HIM, and the world knew Him not.” … “The Word became flesh and made His dwelling among us. We have seen His glory, the glory of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.” (John 1:1-3, 1:10, 1:14). The Bible calls Christ: _ “The Living Word of God”. He told the disciples that: _ “The words I speak are not my own, but are from my Heavenly Father.”… He also told them that “if you have seen me, you have seen the Father”… “I and the Father are One”! (John 14:9-10)

In the Bible’s book of Colossians, the apostle Paul wrote: _ “He [Christ] is the image of the invisible God, the first born over all creation. For by Him [Christ] all things were created: things in the heavens and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things were created by and for Him. He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together [consist / exist]. And He is the head of the body, the Church; He is the beginning and the firstborn [His resurrection] from among the dead, so that in everything He might have the supremacy [the preeminence]. For God [the Father] was pleased to have all His fullness dwell in Him [Christ], and through Him to reconcile to Himself all things, whether things on earth or things in the heavens, by making peace [for us] through his blood, shed on the cross.” (Col.1:15-20)

Then in the book of Hebrews the scripture says: _ “But about the Son, __ [God the Father speaking] says: _ ‘Your throne, O God [God the Son], will last forever and ever, and righteousness will be the scepter of your kingdom. You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness; therefore God [the Son], your God [the Father], has set you above your companions by anointing you with the oil of joy’ [God’s Holy Spirit]. [God the Father also says], ‘In the beginning, O Lord, you laid the foundations of the earth, and the heavens are the work of your hands. They will perish, but you remain; they will all wear out like a garment. You will roll them up like a robe; like a garment they will be changed. But you remain the same, and your years will never end’.” (Heb. 1: 8-12)

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SOON GOD WILL SAY: .. "IT IS TIME"

As these 7-Signs continue to build in intensity there will be a point where God the Father will say to Jesus, (God the Son): _ “That is enough warning to this wicked world my Son… It Is Time!” … Then Christ will come for His Church! This first return of Christ will be in the clouds, coming in the blink of an eye, to take all true Christians off the earth [we will be translated from the earth to meet Him in the clouds] (1-Thessalonians 4:13-17, _ 1-Cor.15:51-53). The world will not see Him at this time, only believers will, He will come as a “thief in the night” (1-Thes.5:2), in and gone in a flash. The world will not know what has happened … Millions of people will have vanished instantly from the earth, and the world will have to deal with the resulting chaos of all the unmanned: _ machinery, assembly line positions, power grid controls, aircraft, ships, trains, buses, trucks, automobiles, cranes, bulldozers, and road building equipment; with all of these unmanned things/ vehicles crashing into everything around them, I am afraid that it will be a world in considerable chaos. And there will likely be vanishing: _ surgeons, nurses, anesthesiologists, and medical equipment operators during crucial surgeries. Then possible large scale critical situations: _ like unmanned runaway nuclear power plants not getting shut down in time and exploding, spreading nuclear radiation for hundreds of miles; or like airliners during take-off, losing the pilots, crashing, exploding, and burning, in large metropolitan areas with full loads of fuel; _ or maybe other airliners coming in to land, but the pilots disappear and the planes crash into the air terminals filled with hundreds of people; _ or airliners between destinations losing their pilots and crashing into the smaller cities between airports, with most of their passengers; _ and possibly run-a-way trains without their engineers coming into large city stations and derailing at super-fast speeds [some of the super-trains in Europe can exceed 200 miles per hour];_ then maybe bulldozers working in large congested cities and their operators vanish and the dozers plow into skyscrapers/ buildings/ bridges/ high-5-overpasses/ towers/ cranes/ ect., and these things collapse onto other buildings/ streets/ sidewalks/ cars/ buses, with many people being crushed; _ Or maybe a large double-trailer 18-wheeler, loaded super heavily, running 70-80 mph under a 12 lane freeway overpass, and the driver instantly disappears, the truck then plows into the main support columns, collapsing all 12 lanes with 70-90 mph vehicles from the freeway tumbling and flying everywhere. And then with many hundreds of thousands of unmanned automobiles around the entire world, on the streets, highways, toll-ways, and freeways, the vehicle pile-ups will no doubt be horrendous. I am sure we could come up with many more possible critical situations, but you get the idea that a lot of chaos from unmanned vehicles and equipment around the world will likely be devastating. …But believers will be safe in heaven with the Lord. This event will no doubt seem horrendous to most people, and take several years to recover from it, but it is just a little taste of what is coming a few short years (~6.5 yrs.) later: _ the beginning of The-Signs-Of-The-End-Of-The-Age … called … THE GREAT TRIBULATION.

In Matthew chapter 24, Christ was speaking of this time of great horrendous trouble [The Great Tribulation], and said: _ “For then there will be great distress, unequaled from the beginning of the world to this time, and never to be equaled again. If those days are not cut short, no one would survive, but for the elect’s sake, those days will be shortened.” (Mat.24:21-22)

At the time of the rapture of Christ’s Church from the earth, there will not be one born again believer left on the earth. The elect here {in Mat. 24} are those who have been left behind at the rapture: _ but who will hear the Gospel of Christ during the Tribulation; their eyes and hearts will be opened to God’s truth; they will give their lives to Christ; and receive eternal life in Him. [Note: Jesus in John 3:3-7 told Nicodemus: _ “I tell you the truth; no one can see the Kingdom of God unless he [or she] is Born Again.”…… “I tell you truly, You Must Be Born Again!”… [When we truly believe upon Christ our life changes, we are never the same again, our desire for wickedness begins to die, our concern for others increases, our desire to please God begins growing, we are a new person in Jesus; we are God’s child, His son or daughter, forever and ever!] “If anyone be in Christ Jesus: they are a new creature; old things are passed a way, behold all things are become new.” (2nd -Corinthians 5:17) This does not mean that we are perfect, we will still have to fight this old nature, we still live in this fallen body of flesh, and we won’t be perfect until the Rapture, when Christ will give us our new eternal, perfect, sinless, bodies.

But almost immediately after the rapture, in Rev.7:4, there will be 144,000 young Jewish men give their lives to Jesus of Nazareth, who was born in Bethlehem two-thousand years ago, who is the Christ, the Messiah, The Son of The Living God. [But very quickly afterwards, the 144,000 will begin preaching Jesus.] I believe these young men are now today, in the nations all over the world, to where the Jews have been scattered [fulfilled prophecy in 70 AD (Luke 21:24)]. I believe they are intently studying our New Testament Bible, with the purpose of refuting it. But when the rapture comes, their eyes will be opened, when they see millions of people disappear in the blink of an eye (1st Cor.15:51-53 / 1st Thes.4:13-17). They will know that they have just seen the rapture of Christians from the earth, as described in the New Testament, and conclude that only God could do this thing. They will then say: _ “Therefore this New Testament must be God’s Word also, and the Christian’s Jesus must be God’s Messiah, The Christ, The-Son-Of-God!” They will then fall on their faces before God, asking Him to forgive them in Jesus Holy Name [Jesus means Savior]… And praise God, He will. These young men will be on fire for Christ, preaching His Gospel all over the world. It is my belief that they will be mostly responsible for leading the Innumerable Great Multitude, of the Great-Tribulation, to Christ. John then wrote: _ “After this I looked and there before me was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language, standing before the throne and in front of the Lamb (Christ the Lamb of God). They were wearing white robes and were holding palm branches in their hands. … Then one of the elders asked me, ‘These in white robes – who are they and where did they come from?’ … I answered, Sir, You know. And he said, ‘these are they who have come out of the Great Tribulation; they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb’.” (Rev. 7:9, 13-14)

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THE GREAT COMET IMPACTS ON JUPITER EVEN SHOOK THE RELIGIOUS WORLD

The first of the seven signs began around a hundred years ago, and the start of the rest of the first six signs came over the following forty years. But there had not been solid evidence that collisions, of large heavenly bodies, occur, [the seventh sign] not until the year 1994. … [Scientists previously had believed that craters on earth were volcanic.] Man seemed to have the mindset: _ “that those things (gigantic impacts and great cosmic events) just did not happen”. They would not even consider it or discus it. But there are a whole lot of religious leaders now, who are being forced to change their views on the Lord’s great prophecies, because we now have proof that those kinds of events can, and have, and do happen. I know this subject of world chaos is extremely scary. I would not want to talk about it, or even think about it myself, if I were not a Christian… But sticking our heads in the sand will not stop what is coming. We need to face it and give our lives to Christ, trusting that He will do what He has said, and remove us from the earth before the wrath begins. Nevertheless, this comet impact with Jupiter even shocked the religious world: _ they no longer have to wonder, and spiritualize, [use their fantastic imaginations to try to explain] the prophecies of Christ. Where He through visions, showed the apostle John in Revelation: ____ “And the stars in the sky fell to earth, as late [over ripe] figs drop from a fig tree when shaken by a strong/ mighty wind. The sky receded like a scroll, rolling up, and every mountain and island was removed from its place” (Rev. 6:13-14). [Back in ancient times all meteors were called falling stars]. Another thing that we should realize is that if this prophecy of the stars falling from the sky, as Christ has said, then the other six of His prophecies are also most certainly meant to be taken literal!! [The figs, and large meteorites, will literally rain down like pounding rain from a total cloud burst]. I would not call this a meteor-shower; it will be a Global-Meteor-Storm; nothing like we have ever seen. [Again, all of the Tribulation events will be happening all around the world, in every nation.] These large meteorites would have to be coming down in huge groups, so thick, so many, and so close together to make the sky roll back from the impact areas as described. Everything within the group-impact areas would be totally destroyed, but there would also be tremendous damage in areas many hundreds of miles around the impact sites. This will be caused by the horrendous explosions/ air-blast, and the huge ejected burning rocks from the impact splatter. Then the tremendous return winds of the atmosphere slamming back together, to fill the vacuum in the impact area. This would produce hurricane level winds coming back in from hundreds of miles in all directions causing: destruction/ thunder/ and concussion like nothing we have ever felt or heard to date! … Then the statement at the end of this verse: _ “Every… mountain and island being moved from their places” _ will be caused by simultaneous earthquakes started by the great meteorite impacts. This will be … the First Global Earthquake of Revelation. [A Global Quake is one which you and I have never seen. It is one which violently shakes every tectonic plate of this entire planet simultaneously!] We have though, now in our time, seen an island moved out of its place [a minor precursor of what is to come]. … The 9.0 quake in the ocean just off Japan on 3-11-11 moved the island’s present location by nearly 10-feet! {Verified by GPS}.

[There Are Five Global Quakes in Revelation: (Rev.6:12 / 8:5 / 11:13 / 11:19 / 16:18-20)]. Then in Rev. 16:18-20, the fifth and final global quake occurs. The scripture says that “every city shall fall … and every mountain and island cannot be found.” They will vanish. Every mountain and island will draw back below the surface of the earth and the sea, where they were before the great upheaval of the earth’s tectonic plates at Noah’s global flood 5000 years ago!

[…Note: _ Noah’s flood caused all of the major geological features of this planet. The scientists that believe in evolution are very foolish to not thoroughly research the effects of a Total-Global-Flood where the entire earth’s tectonic system was broken up (Gen.7:11). It thoroughly explains the earth’s geological condition! Read the books: The Genesis Flood by Professors: Morris and Whitcomb, and The Young Earth by Dr. John Morris.]

To see the world’s reaction to this first global quake and meteor storm of Revelation, read the three-following verses from that first passage, Rev.6:15-17!

“Then the kings of the earth, the princes, the generals, the rich, the mighty, and every slave and every free man hid in caves and among the rocks of the mountains. They called to the mountains and the rocks, ‘Fall on us and hide us from the face of Him who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb!’ ‘For the great day of their wrath has come, and who can stand?’” {We need to understand that John received these visions from Christ, and then afterwards writes down what he saw as in the past tense, but they are events yet future. Also God the Father sets on the throne, and Christ is the Lamb of God}.

Then Christ shows John in Revelation: _____“The second angel sounded his trumpet and [John saw] something like a Huge Mountain, all ablaze, [that] was thrown into the sea. A third of the sea turned to blood, a third of the living creatures in the sea died, and a third of the ships were destroyed.” (Rev.8:8-9)

This “great burning mountain” cast into the sea is another meteorite, which they all catch fire from the friction of plowing through the earth’s atmosphere at such great speeds, but this one is exceedingly large {most great mountains are several miles in diameter}. Most meteors travel from 25 to 150, thousand miles per hour! That is 9 to 55 times the speed of man’s fastest rifle bullet. Then looking at the probable mass of billions of tons, and using Einstein’s formula E = M(C-squared) : ___ the (E) or "energy" produced by the incredible (M) or "mass", times the tremendous (C-sq) or "velocity-squared" is nearly unbelievable. But comet Shoemaker/ Levy-9’s blazing 37 miles per second/, [133,000 miles per hour]………… impacts proved the calculations to be real.

[Scientists having now studied the probable effects of an impact of a very large meteorite: _ plowing into the ocean at thousands of miles per hour, now believe that it would indeed cause unbelievable tsunamis {tidal waves} that would propagate out in all directions. The waves would likely be many hundreds of feet high, and travel at several hundred miles per hour, for thousands of miles, destroying everything in their path. {Such as ships / boats, and shoreline: .. villages, cities, hotels, skyscrapers, businesses, resorts, shipping ports, oil-refineries, oil-well-platforms, etc.}]……

Then the Lord showed John this vision: _ “The third angel sounded his trumpet, and a great star blazing like a torch, fell from the sky on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water __ the name of the star is Wormwood. A third of the waters turned bitter, and many people died from the waters that had become bitter” (Rev. 8:10-11). [Back in ancient times all meteors were called falling stars].

Note: _ Also, meteors sometimes explode in the upper atmosphere due to heated, expanding, vaporizing/ ignitable, gasses and minerals in them. {Ignited by the tremendous friction and heating in the atmosphere, caused by their great speed.} And the minerals could sometimes be poisonous, which in turn, falling to earth into the: _ streams, rivers, lakes, snow-packs, clouds, and then rain [the world’s water sources], could bring this event to pass… In fact we saw a meteor just a few years ago, on Feb. 15th 2013, all over the news, exploding over the city of Chelyabinsk in Siberia, Russia. It was estimated to be around 7000 tons mass, and produced roughly 600 kilo-tons of energy [30 times our old nuclear fission bombs]. Luckily it was still several miles above the ground, but many buildings were damaged, some loosing roofs, some loosing walls, some loosing bricks, some loosing doors, and virtually all loosing windows. More than a thousand people were injured by all of the flying glass, doors, and debris from the explosion. Most of the meteor disintegrated in the air, virtually shutting down its forward velocity, but a portion of the core continued, falling into a frozen lake and disappeared leaving about a 15 foot round hole in the lake ice. These things do happen and perhaps more often than we think?

But Jesus doesn't want us to be afraid, this is why He started (in; Mat.24:3,6-7; Luke 21:9-11) with this first statement after the disciples asked: “What will be the Signs of Your Return?” {Question #2} Jesus answered: “You will hear of wars and rumors of wars; see that you are not terrified or troubled, for these things must take place first, but the end will not come yet/ not immediately.” He was getting ready to tell them about the frightening, things that would come just before His Return. But, He was telling them/us that the time of Great Tribulation that is going to come upon the whole world, is Not Yet (Rev.3:10) (1^stThess. 5:9-10).

Jesus continuing in (Luke 21:8-11) (Mat.24:1-8), with all six Signs: _ “You will hear of wars and rumors of wars; see that you are not terrified, for these things must take place first, but the end is Not Yet.” “For Nation shall rise against Nation, and Kingdom against Kingdom.” {first World War_1914-1918}. Also, “There will be Mighty and Violent Earthquakes in place after place.”{Chile 1960 largest ever, Alaska 1964, Indonesia 2004, Japan 2011, Soviet Union 1952, Colombia 1906, Chile 2010, China 1950 (7-largest-quakes 8.8 to 9.6 on the Richter scale)} “and there will be Famines in various places,” {several millions died in famines in the 1980's}. “And there will be 'GREAT PESTILENCE' {plagues: malignant and contagious; infectious, epidemic diseases; which are deadly and devastating.}”(AMP) {etc. Swine Flu/ West-Nile-Virus/ Bird-Flu/ AIDS/ EBOLA/ SARS/ CORONAVIRUS today}; “and there will be Great Sights of Terror; {TERRORIST ATTACKS (09-11-01), etc.} “and then Great Signs In The {Cosmic} Heavens.” (see Luke 21:25-26 cosmic heavens). {The Great Comet SL-9 Impacts with our planet Jupiter in 1994, NASA is now seeing many Asteroids [Near Earth Objects] crossing earth's orbit. Rev.6:13-14). The Signs started just over a 100 years ago, but they are increasing dramatically in number and frequency, it is indeed the last days. We need to get our lives right with God through Jesus our Savior, for Jesus said: “No one comes to God the Father but by Me”(John 14:6).

Right after Jesus gave the apostles the Seven Signs, He said: _ (in Luke 21:28, 32) “Now when these things Begin to take place, look up, and lift up your heads, for your redemption draws near.” “Assuredly, I tell you the truth: _ this generation certainly will not pass away until all these things have come to pass.” [NKJV]

The word {Begin}takes us back to the first sign in verse 10: to the first World War {1914 to 1918}.

In the Amplified Version _ Christ said: _ (in Luke 21:28, 32) “Now when these things begin to occur, look up and lift up your heads, because your redemption (deliverance) is drawing near.” “Truly I tell you, this [entire] generation (those living at that definite period of time) will not all perish [will not die] and pass away until all has taken place.” [AMPv] [Greek, Aramaic, and Hebrew scholars doing in-depth studies of the translations compiled the Amplified Version. The need/ reason for this type of translation: is that the English language is not complex/ in-depth enough to convey a true word for word translation, it really requires numerous English words at times to reveal the complete meaning of a single Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek word.] This passage in Luke 21:28, 32 is not speaking of what we today call “a generation”, but of the whole lifetime of the entire generation.

Only one person in the world, from the time of World War One, has to be alive at Christ’s return {to start His Kingdom} to fulfill this prophecy. The last person of that generation will not die, till all is fulfilled! Time is growing very short though, therefore we all need to make peace with our Creator, God the Father, through Christ Jesus, quickly while there is still time. You really do not want to be left behind and have to go through the Horrific Tribulation Judgments. It will be worse than the total world’s horror and disaster movies combined …….. but-It-will-be-real!

How much longer can one of them live? ………. Why is this important? …..Because Christ spoke of it!!!

My son told me, that he saw a woman on the news who was 114 years old. You see there are still people alive from that time period, and some will still be alive, {a few} years from now. A person who was born in 1918, and is still alive, is now 95 years old here in 2013. About 30 years ago, I saw in the news a woman who was 121 years old. No one knows how long that last person, of the 1918 generation, will live. I’m just trying to reveal the fact that the time is growing short. Also I have found a club on the internet called: _ www.100 years old.com , which of course, one has to be 100 years of age or more to join. Membership is automatic at age 100 by the Club, as they search the world population census. The site states that the worldwide club has over … 340,000 members and growing, [wow! _ I was surprised again]. Medical Science attributes the longevity of its members to good diets and the increase in improved medical care. The number of members in the USA is more than 75,000.

You see, when I was a teenager: _ I was designing, building, and testing liquid fuel rocket engines on my own, making quite a lot of noise; blowing lots of sand, gravel, and rocket engine parts every where. Then my high school sweetheart (and wife of 58 years-now) came along and probably saved my life from such dangerous endeavors. And I thank God for that. I believe God saved my life for His work that He's doing through me right now in this blog... I have always been totally fascinated with space/ "The Universe", but I could always see God's hand in it all, and now... more than ever.

THE WHIRLPOOL GALAXY (Spiral Galaxy M51, NGC 5194)

This is a classic spiral galaxy, with it's small companion galaxy, located in the Canes Venatici constellation:

Licensed under Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons

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With the recent SN 2005cs derived estimate of 23 Mly [million light years] distance, and an angular diameter of roughly 11.2′, it can be inferred that M51's bright circular disk has a radius of about 43,000 light-years. Its mass is estimated to be 160 billion solar masses.

The black hole, in the center of the Whirlpool Galaxy is theorized to be surrounded by a ring of dust, and is thought to exist at the heart of the spiral. The dust ring stands almost perpendicular to the relatively flat spiral nebula. A secondary ring crosses the primary ring on a different axis, a phenomenon that is contrary to expectations. A pair of ionization cones extend from the axis of the main dust ring.[16] [speculation]

THE MYSTERIOUS BLACK HOLE IN THE CENTER OF THE WHIRLPOOL GALAXY

The dust rings crossing on different axis is thought to produce the "X" figure in the black hole

It looks more like "A CROSS" than an "X" to me, and you know I believe I can see a man hanging on it! Maybe God is trying to tell us something.

"M51 whirlpool galaxy black hole" by Stephen Conatser - http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/newsdesk/archive/releases/1992/17/image/a. Licensed under Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:M51_whirlpool_galaxy_black_hole.jpg#mediaviewer/File:M51_whirlpool_galaxy_black_hole.jpg

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“THE HEAVENS ARE GOD’S WONDERS TO BEHOLD”

God Himself speaking, in the Bible’s book of Job, said: _“CAN YOU BIND THE BEAUTIFUL PLEIADES? CAN YOU LOOSEN THE 'CORDS OF ORION'? CAN YOU BRING OUT THE CONSTELLATIONS IN THEIR SEASONS OR LEAD OUT THE BEAR (constellation) WITH ITS CUBS? DO YOU KNOW THE LAWS OF THE HEAVENS? (Job 38:31-33). Oh Yes, we are learning “some” of the “Laws of the Heavens”, but we have just barely scratched the surface, and our theories change quite often, in fact almost continually, just wait a little while and you will see.

“I WILL SHOW WONDERS IN THE HEAVENS ABOVE: _ AND ON THE EARTH; BLOOD AND FIRE AND BILLOWS OF SMOKE. THE SUN WILL BE TURNED TO DARKNESS AND THE MOON TO BLOOD BEFORE THE COMING OF … THE GREAT AND DREADFUL DAY OF THE LORD!” (Joel 2:30-31)

M42: INSIDE THE ORION NEBULA [Photo Below] …………............………… www.nasa.gov

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap140408.html Image Credit: R. Villaverde Hubble Legacy Archive, NASA

Image Credit: R. Villaverde Hubble Legacy Archive, NASA

Also there are Four Blood Moons coming in very close succession, consummating in the spring of 2015, according to NASA. This is another one of the signs of the nearing of the Coming of The Lord.

Explanation: The Great Nebula in Orion, an immense, nearby star birth region [as theory has it], is probably the most famous of all astronomical nebulas. Here, glowing gas surrounds hot young stars at the edge of an immense interstellar molecular cloud only 1500 light-years away. In the above deep image composite in assigned colors taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, we see wisps and sheets of dust and gas [“cords of Orion”] which are particularly evident. The Great Nebula in Orion can be found with the unaided eye near the easily identifiable belt of three stars in the popular constellation Orion. In addition to housing a bright open cluster of stars known as the Trapezium, the Orion Nebula contains many stellar nurseries. These nurseries contain much hydrogen gas, hot young stars, proplyds, and stellar jets spewing material at high speeds. Also the Orion Nebula spans about 40 light years and is located in the same spiral arm of our Galaxy as our Earth and Sun.

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HUBBLE’S EXTREME DEEP FIELD CAMERA

Captured this deepest field of galaxies known to man .. on October 4th ,2012

Every tiny, faint, minute, spec of light is another galaxy/globular-cluster… a lone star cannot be seen at these tremendous distances. I’m completely overwhelmed at this photo. I cannot express the awesomeness of what I see of God’s greatness. It virtually takes my breath how crowed the universe is at the very outer edges of what man can see.

Like photographers assembling a portfolio of best shots, astronomers have assembled a new, improved portrait of mankind's deepest-ever view of the universe.

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Image Credit: NASA, ESA, G. Illingworth, D. Magee, and P. Oesch (UCSC), R. Bouwens(Leiden Obs.), and the XDF Team

Called the eXtreme Deep Field, or XDF, the photo was assembled by combining 10 years of NASA Hubble Space Telescope photographs taken of a patch of sky at the center of the original Hubble Ultra Deep Field. The XDF is a small fraction of the angular diameter of the full moon.The Hubble Ultra Deep Field is an image of a small area of space in the constellation Fornax, created using Hubble Space Telescope data from 2003 and 2004. By collecting faint light over many hours of observation, it revealed thousands of galaxies, both nearby and very distant, making it the deepest image of the universe ever taken at that time. The new full-color XDF image is even more sensitive, and contains about 5500 galaxies even within its smaller field of view. The faintest galaxies are one ten-billionth the brightness of what the human eye can see.

Explanation: What did the first galaxies look like? To help answer this question, the Hubble Space Telescope has just finished taking the eXtreme Deep Field (XDF), the deepest image of the universe ever taken in visible light. Pictured above, the XDF shows a sampling of some of the oldest galaxies ever seen, galaxies that formed just after the dark ages (the period before God said: “Let there be light”), 13.7 billion light years ago, when the universe was only a few percent of its present size. The Hubble’s-ACS camera and the infrared channel of the WFPC3 camera took the image. Combining efforts spread over 10 years, the XDF is more sensitive, in some colors, than the original Hubble Deep Field (HDF) , the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (HUDF) completed in 2004, and the HUDF Infrared completed in 2009. Astronomers the world over will likely study the XDF for years to come to better understand how stars and galaxies formed in the early universe.

HOW GREAT IS GOD OUR CREATOR

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GOD GAVE THE COMMAND AND THE UNIVERSE CAME TO BE

For the Scientific Community: _ I know that I am not using all quantum parameters involved {I have simplified the math greatly}, I want everyone to be able to get a reasonable understanding in a short time, of what the subject is expressing, rather than loading them down in great reams of math.

HOW CAN THE UNIVERSE BE BILLIONS OF LIGHT-YEARS OLD AND EARTH ONLY 6000 YEARS OLD?

The world’s most famous formula derived by Albert Einstein is: _ Energy = Mass x C² {greatly simplified}, where “C²” represents “velocity squared”, so ….……. E = M(C)² . Let’s do a simple break down of the term velocity: _ it has two basic factors, one is distance (D), and the other is time (T); it is like our speedometers on our automobiles [MPH] or miles per hour, that is miles-covered divided by elapsed-time. Therefore we can say that: _ speed/{velocity} = distance divided by time, so then {C = D/T}, so then Professor Einstein’s formula becomes: ………… E = M(D/T)² . Now we can manipulate Professor Einstein’s equation to solve for Time. … T = D/(E/M)^-2 . … But we don’t need to do the math, we just need to answer these three questions : ………

Question #1: _ how much energy in an explosion would be required to send the entire universe out at such an expansion velocity and distance? …..Answer: _ more Energy _ than is calculable [an infinite amount/ ∞]. Question #2: _ How much Mass is in the Total Universe? Answer: _ we cannot calculate it [it’s an Infinite amount]. Question #3: _ How much velocity would we have by multiplying the speed of light times itself? {etc. (C)² }? Answer: _ the number would be: _ [an Infinite amount]. To express it in plain English: _ when all of the parameters in an equation are infinite, the answer is also Infinite. Therefore Time concerned with the outer reaches of the rest of the universe is: ……. “TIME = INFINITY.” …….And that is for all practical purposes what we see: _ 16 Billion light years {latest estimate} out to the outer edges of the universe. The clocks in the rest of the universe are running horrendously faster than the clocks here in our galaxy and here on earth, because our field densities have virtually not changed as compared to the rest of the universe.

This is why, when we look out into the universe towards its outer galaxies, we see the galactic-universe at Billions of Light Years Distance (virtually at infinity ∞). ……. You see time is a variable. I know that is a shock to most of us [I know because it was a shock to me, the first time that I heard it], because we have always thought of time as being a constant. Albert Einstein told us that time was indeed a variable, and he was correct. Scientist have now run tests with two of our most accurate atomic clocks, set precisely together within a few pico-seconds in time, in a science laboratory near sea level. Both clocks were sealed in environmental chambers before being set up. One clock was left in the Lab undisturbed, while the other was taken to a high mountain top, after a measured amount of time, it was then brought back down to the Lab. Both clocks were retested. The one that had gone to the mountain top was now a number of micro seconds fast. As scientist expected, time ran faster for the clock at the higher altitude, because of having been further away from the center mass of the earth. You see, the less mass/gravitational field densities, the faster time runs. NASA has to take this time difference into account every time they send a space vehicle into space, where these field densities are less than here on earth, because they need to know where the space vehicle is going to be at a precise time. This was critical in orbital space rendezvous, particularly in the greater distances involved in the Moon Missions, and of course in our long distance space probes. The Bible also indicates that our galaxy and our earth {and mankind} has been setting still in space at virtually … "0-Velocity" … since creation, but we know that the rest of the universe has been zooming away at tremendous speeds. The rest of the galaxies in the universe have been moving away from us and spreading away from each other at millions of miles per hour, reducing their gravitational and mass field densities horrendously, causing their time clocks to run many times faster than ours, thus becoming Billions of years in comparison to our 6000 years.

Note: The bible tells us that there are four heavens: _ (#1)_the atmosphere around the earth; (#2)_the heavens of our galaxy; (#3)_the “highest heavens” of the rest of the universe; (#4)_the Heaven of God’s abode/His Home. Therefore when He says Heavens, (as being plural) He means more than one, as in these cases they mean (#2/#3), the multiple heavens of the universe.

“IN THE BEGINNING GOD CREATED THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH”… BY HIS WORD (GENESIS 1:1)

“BY THE ‘WORD OF THE LORD’ WERE THE HEAVENS MADE; AND ALL THE HOST OF THEM BY THE ‘BREATH’ OF HIS MOUTH.” (Psalms 33:6)

“THROUGH FAITH WE UNDERSTAND THAT THE WORLDS WERE FRAMED BY ‘THE WORD OF GOD’, SO THAT THINGS WHICH ARE SEEN WERE NOT MADE OF THINGS ‘WHICH DO APPEAR’.” (Hebrews 11:3)

This last verse also tells us that God created the universe from nothing!! And this explains of course, where all the matter came from in the first place!!

I believe that the Bible indicates that in the early stages of God’s creation that the universe was so compact that its mass/gravitational field densities were exceedingly great, insomuch that light could not escape the mass of the whole of the universe. The Bible says that after God created the universe, there was no light. This is the same Physics as the theory with a “Black Hole.” [With mass being near infinity in a black hole, light velocity goes to zero, and cannot escape the great mass density of a dark star. “Therefore there is no light.”] Likewise everything was dark in the beginning-created-universe because the field densities were so great. Nothing could be seen with the natural eye. ["We do not know how large the universe was at creation, but we do know that God said in Genesis chapter-one that everything was dark."]

At that point, God did something tremendously marvelous. Then later He tells His prophets what He did at that time: _ “I (GOD) have made the earth, and created man upon it: _ ‘I (GOD) even my hands’, have Stretched out the Heavens; and all their starry host have I commanded.” (Isaiah 45:12) _ “It is I (GOD) that Stretches out the Heavens as a curtain, and Spreads them out as a tent to dwell in” (Isaiah 40:22). Then the prophet Jeremiah speaks for God thru God’s Holy Spirit: _ “He (God) has made the earth by his Power, He has established the world by His wisdom, and has Stretched out the Heavens by His discretion” (Jeremiah 10:12); _ “Ah Lord God! Behold, thou has made the ‘Heavens and the Earth’ by thy ‘Great-Power and Stretched-out-Arm’, and there is nothing too hard for thee” (Jeremiah 32:17).

At that point I believe God cupped His great hands around our galaxy (putting us effectively into a Time Bubble/ Time Capsule by leaving us in the center of the universe) and then with the backs of His ‘Great-Powerful' hands: _ “He Spread Out the rest of the Heavens” as He roared (like He will in the Tribulation: Jer. 25:30) and shouted... “Let-There-Be-Light.” I believe this was done at the speed of light, which I know sounds impossible like total fantasy, requiring a horrendous, inexpressible, incalculable, unfathomable, level of energy by our Almighty Creator, but do not under estimate Him who created all that exists. You can call it the “Big Bang” if you want, but I call it the “Big Fling.” This very quickly reduced the mass and gravitational field densities of the universe, as the masses of the universe moved further from ground zero (our galaxy) and spread further and further apart with respect to each other, at such great speed. Field densities of the universe were dropping exponentially. In the first second of time the universe spread by ~186,000 miles in all directions, making a growing sphere which had increased by 372,000 miles, with our galaxy in the center of the sphere. As our galaxy stood still in the center of the universe all the rest of the mass of the entire universe was speeding away in every direction. By the first minute the sphere had spread by ~22.3 Million miles. After one hour, the sphere had spread by ~1.34 Billion miles in diameter, and then suddenly [when the mass and gravitational field densities of the universe decreased to the point where light could escape]..“There was…INDEED … GREAT … LIGHT”.] (Genesis 1:3 and Isaiah 40:22/ Isaiah 45:12). And then by the end of the first day: _ the sphere’s diameter had spread by ~32.1 Billion miles. This happened on the first day, but Adam was not created until the six day which meant that the rest of the universe was already expanded by 192.6 Billion miles by the time man came on the scene, the time differential must have already been quite significant. And of course today, we see that the universe is still expanding, [but it has slowed dramatically with time, (from 669.6 million miles per hour) to just a few {~50} million miles per hour now]. This is why as we look out into Galactic Space, all other galaxies are red shifted, showing that they are moving away from us in every direction. This is because our galaxy is in the center of the universe. We are still right where our Creator-God put us in the beginning, in the first place, for we are the Crowning Glory of His creation, made in His Image. We are very important to Him, He wants us to be his children and give us eternal life. We should listen to Him. He has given us His Instruction Manual, the Holy Bible, for that purpose. ….. I advocate starting with the Gospel of John (Saint John). It is the clearest of the books for seeing God’s Love and desire of His heart for you and me .. (mankind).

It would truly be wise to listen to what Christ our Creator has said, for time grows very short. You do not need to be in a Church, or a Cathedral, or a Synagogue, or a Temple or any special place. You do not need a priest, or a monk, or a minister, or a preacher, or any kind of holy man, you only need to talk to Jesus Christ, God’s Son, our Savior. And it does not matter where you are, or whether you shout to the top of your lungs, or silently in you heart, Christ will hear. He hears the very thoughts and intents of our hearts. Also He is omnipresent, that is He is present everywhere in His universe. Just go to Christ with your heart, ask Him to forgive you, believe that He died on the cross for you [for indeed He did], and give your life to Him. He will take care of all the rest. “For whosoever shall call upon ‘the Name’ of the Lord [Jesus means savior], shall be saved [eternal life].” (Romans 10:13)

May God bless the reading of His Word, and may He bless you with eternal life.

He wants to .. you know.

Watch for more Signs in the Heavens……. They are coming!

CHRIST'S SIGNS ARE HERE

Black Widow Nebula

Sunday, September 22, 2013

CHRIST'S SEVENTH SIGN

The Great Signs in the Heavens continued:

A Beautiful City Nestled in a Lush Green Valley

MIDDLESBORO IMPACT CRATER ……........................…………… KENTUCKY, USA

Black Widow Nebula

Sunday, September 22, 2013

CHRIST'S SEVENTH SIGN

The Great Signs in the Heavens continued:

A Beautiful City Nestled in a Lush Green Valley MIDDLESBORO IMPACT CRATER ……........................…………… KENTUCKY, USA

A Beautiful City Nestled in a Lush Green Valley

MIDDLESBORO IMPACT CRATER ……........................…………… KENTUCKY, USA