Thursday 21 September 2017

Thoughts on the September 23, 2017 Astronomical Event

If someone told you they'd just seen a drama. If they described the setting, characters, plot, rising actions, conflict and resolution - with all the thrilling detail...

And while they're telling you, try to imagine the play as they describe it to you. Would your mind see the stage, the characters and costumes, and would you feel the mood as the action spiralled and the conflict climaxed, then resolved - or would your mind just imagine that what they were describing to you was really just an astronomical conjunction that they'd seen - like the conjunction that's supposed to be barely visible on September 23rd.

I really don't think Revelation 12 reads like John was describing seeing a mere astronomical arrangement - it sounds more like he was describing having seen high drama, played-out in front of his very eyes!

But even if what John was describing having seen was merely some astronomical arrangement, it wouldn't follow that the sign he was seeing was intended to predict a repeat of the same astronomical arrangement in future. Rather, it would be more likely that the astronomical sign John saw was intended to signify certain truths, events and outcomes - and that's what was likely being predicted by it - not a repeat of the sign of events to come, but real events and outcomes.

The prediction wasn't of a sign - rather, the sign was a prediction - of actual events - not a prediction of a future repeat of a sign of events.

And towards the end of the chapter John even goes a certain way towards almost interpreting some of the symbols for us - which you would have to largely ignore in order to make the chapter about a mere astronomical event.

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