Before the Trumps
According to Revelation 8, there will be several impact/terra events that will immediately change the world as we know it. I have been instructed to tell a little bit about the first these things. This… isn’t my happy topic. I don’t want to write about the Trump judgments… because I don’t plan to be here for them. But the Lord told me things, and told me to write them, and it means going into Revelation 8, and if that’s what He wants me to do, that’s what I’m going to do. ((deep breath))
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But TECHNICALLY, the first event is BEFORE the Wrath, so I’m trying to comfort myself with that. Yes, He asked me to write this. But this isn’t TECHNICALLY delving into the Trumps or the Wrath. Yet. So I’m still okay.
Today we get to talk about the first of the impact events in Revelation 8. There are four, by my accounting. But the question is… could they be explained scientifically, in a realistic scenario? Because I believe that Ha’Shem works with what He created when He brings something to pass. And why wouldn’t He? Isn’t that what He created things for?
Before we get started, I have to back us up a little. In 2008, during the solar minimum, it was discovered by NASA that there was a hole open up in the magnetosphere – ten times bigger than anything they’d ever foreseen opening… that’s four times the size of our planet. I wrote about it twice – most recently here, in case you want more information and the links to NASA’s articles (or you can Google them). So basically what we saw was this:
“This solar cycle continues to rank among the weakest on record,” comments Ron Turner of Analytic Services, Inc. who serves as a Senior Science Advisor to NASA’s Innovative Advanced Concepts program. To illustrate the point, he plotted the smoothed sunspot number of Cycle 24 vs. the previous 23 cycles since 1755. “In the historical record, there are only a few Solar Maxima weaker than this one.”
As a result, many researchers have started calling the ongoing peak a “Mini-Max”.
Pesnell believes that “Solar Cycle 24, such as it is, will probably start fading by 2015.” Ironically, that is when some of the bigger flares and magnetic storms could occur. Biesecker has analyzed historical records of solar activity and he finds that most large events such as strong flares and significant geomagnetic storms typically occur in the declining phase of solar cycles—even weak ones.
Indeed, this “Mini-Max” has already unleashed one of the strongest storms in recorded history. On July 23, 2012, a plasma cloud or “CME” rocketed away from the sun as fast as 3000 km/s, more than four times faster than a typical eruption. The storm tore through Earth orbit, but fortunately Earth wasn’t there. Instead it hit NASA’s STEREO-A spacecraft, which recorded the event for analysis. Researchers now believe the eruption was as significant as the iconic Carrington Event of 1859—a solar storm that set telegraph offices on fire and sparked Northern Lights as far south as Hawaii. If the 2012 “superstorm” had hit Earth, the damage to power grids and satellites would have been significant.
And I saw the seven angels which stood before God; and to them were given seven trumpets. And another angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer; and there was given unto him much incense, that he should offer it with the prayers of all saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne. And the smoke of the incense, which came with the prayers of the saints, ascended up before God out of the angel’s hand. And the angel took the censer, and filled it with fire of the altar, and cast it into the earth: and there were voices, and thunderings, and lightnings, and an earthquake. And the seven angels which had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound. Revelation 8: 2-6
Could this be a solar event? Absolutely. And CMEs (ejections hurled from the sun to the earth) DO cause earthquakes, radio interference (‘voices’ and ‘thunderings’) and magnetic ‘storms’ – what we call the ‘Northern Lights’ – which qualifies as ‘lightnings’. Never looked at those verses THAT way before, have you? Well, now’s as good a time as any to start. Because it looks very much as though the ‘golden altar’ is a reference to the sun, and that this angel has a ‘golden censer’ – or CME – with ‘much incense’ – great intensity – and will be bringing about a solar impact unlike anything we’ve seen since 1859… or (considering this is the end times) maybe EVER. Remember, already we have Northern Lights down to Arizona… that’s halfway as far as they were in the Carrington event of 1859. And that’s a mini-max. If something like this comes our way with the hole in a not-so-mini-max scenario…?
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So what we’re seeing FIRST in Rev 8 is a solar event.
And it looks very much like a CME.
uPDaTe: I wrote this a week and a half ago… BEFORE sunspot AR2192 existed. Today? We have a hole bigger than Jupiter in the surface of the sun that has come ’round to face us. It’s naked-eye visible (I had friends tell me they saw it during the eclipse last night – we had cloud coverage and I didn’t get to see anything, frustratingly). And as we have rotated around to be facing it, the closer we’ve gotten to that point, the more it has become active. I posted at the end of yesterday’s blog that “NOAA forecasters estimate a 95% chance of M-class flares and a 55% chance of X-flares during the next 24 hours”. I find that pretty relevant to this post.
Also, I should add that there have been other interesting posts yesterday/today. The first was about the IDF (Israeli army) being attacked by the Muslim Brotherhood of Arabs in Egypt at their Sinai border. I thought, “Wow. Syria attacking to the north. Hamas/Gaza attacking to the West. West Bank/Hamas attacking to the East… and now Egypt’s MBoA attacking from the South. Israel truly is surrounded by enemies, officially, now!” But then it got better (well… you know what I mean) – Netanyahu declared Jerusalem under attack this morning, with Palestinians throwing rocks at kindergarten children. That’s not including the three car bombs/terrorist crashes from the past two days, which killed an infant in a stroller and wounded others. Keep watch!