Saturday, August 30, 2025

Science and the Scripture #1: Fearful Sights and Great Signs in the Heavens

 Four interesting things were presented in the news in the last few weeks.  First, the discovery of a comet type body that is from outside our solar system is fast approaching.  There is some speculation as to what it could be, as we have never seen a cometary body that emits light in front of it.  Cometary bodies heat up as they pass closer to the sun, causing melt and ice crystals to form a tail that catches the light.  This body is either emitting light or is so smooth and shiny that it is reflecting light while still a great distance from the sun.

The second item is that a large, dark planetary body, possibly as large as Jupiter, is going to pass through our solar system.  Depending on where it passes, there will be various effects from it.  The gravity from a body that size could change wave patterns here even if it passes well outside the orbit of the moon.  It could literally pull the moon out of its orbit if it came close enough.  To do that would probably destroy a large part of our satellite capabilities.

Scientists using the James Webb telescope found the third anomaly which is a huge lighted area at, or just past, the edge of our universe.  This area is putting out an amazing, unmeasurable amount of light.

And fourth, experiments continuing with the large hadron collider are showing that other dimensions may well exist, and that our gravity, for one type of energy, may be leaking over into this other dimension.

In the Gospel of Luke, Jesus says this:

And he said, Take heed that ye be not deceived: for many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and the time draweth near: go ye not therefore after them.But when ye shall hear of wars and commotions, be not terrified: for these things must first come to pass; but the end is not by and by.  10 Then said he unto them, Nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:  11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.

Jesus tells us here that there will be "fearful sights and great signs" in heaven.  All the things that we are currently discovering seem to point to this being the beginning of the end times.