Luke 21:25,26 “There will be signs in the sun, moon and stars. On the earth, nations will be in anguish and perplexity at the roaring and tossing of the sea. Men will faint from terror, apprehensive of what is coming on the world, for the heavenly bodies will be shaken.
They make blockbuster movies about asteroids this size.
An asteroid the size of three football fields is set to make a close brush with Earth Monday night. The near-Earth asteroid, known as 2000 EM26, will not hit the planet but will pass close enough to be seen clearly by orbiting cameras.
Scientists say the asteroid is flying at 27,000 miles per hour and will pass about 8.8 lunar distances from Earth. (A lunar distance is the space between the Earth and the moon or approximately 238,900 miles.)
Operators of the Slooh Space Camera are using the arrival of the asteroid to raise awareness of the fact many asteroids are not found until they are days away from the planet.
“We continue to discover these potentially hazardous asteroids — sometimes only days before they make their close approaches to Earth,” said Paul Cox, Slooh’s technical and research director. “Slooh’s asteroid research campaign is gathering momentum with Slooh members using the Slooh robotic telescopes to monitor this huge population of potentially hazardous space rocks. We need to find them before they find us!”
The fly by comes almost exactly a year after an asteroid exploded over Chelyabinsk, Russia, with the energy equivalent of 20 atomic bombs. On that day, scientists were focused on another near-Earth object’s passing, 2012 DA14, and did not notice the space rock that exploded over Russia.
NASA will be streaming video of the asteroid’s passing starting around 9 p.m. Eastern time on their website space.com.
I know that we see this as a sign because we have the technology to see it. But, I honestly think that this has been going on since the beginning of time. We didn’t have the technology to know that it was happening and so nobody worried about it. God is in control.
The asteroids and comets are going to become more and more frequent until finally the TRUMPET JUDGMENTS of Revelation chapters 8 & 9 begin: The First: A large meteorite shower that burns up all the grass and a third of the trees as each one starts major fires all over; The Second: Either a large asteroid plummeting to earth in the ocean, or a large land mass sinking like the Canary Island Volcano, and the heat from it causing the oxygen to be sapped out of the water allowing for red-tide or red-agae to form creating the impression of “blood.” It will destroy a third of the ships, marine life, many coastal cities and people. The Third: a large comet or asteroid; the gasses of which are poison, called “Wormwood” that kills many people from drinking the poisoned water, and finally the Fifth: “THE MOTHER OF ALL ASTEROIDS” which actually cracks the Earth’s crust or sets off something like the Yellowstone Cauldron and Volcano system, which over the period of the next two trumpet judgments will darken the entire sky: the FINAL SIGN Jesus said would herald His Second Coming in which He will “gather us unto Himself” or “rapture us out” as He returns in the clouds of heaven at the 7th and final, LAST TRUMPET! (See Matthew 24:29-31 and Revelation 11:15-18.) –SO– We’re getting closer and closer! Time is short! Praise God! -john