Signs in the sun, moon, and stars: God's powerful witness

The Sun has been acting strangely over the last two years. When it was supposed to have been active, it wasn't. When it was supposed to have been quiet, it isn't. Sunspots and solar flares and coronal mass ejections (CME) are massive, or missing, but then produce flops for flares, or are small but produce unexpected ejections. It has zapped a satellite into a zombie, grown coronal holes so large it seems the sun itself would collapse, and the earth's upper atmosphere (magnetosphere) itself is unexpectedly collapsing.

A Puzzling Collapse of Earth's Upper Atmosphere
NASA-funded researchers are monitoring a big event in our planet's atmosphere. High above Earth's surface where the atmosphere meets space, a rarefied layer of gas called "the thermosphere" recently collapsed and now is rebounding again. "This is the biggest contraction of the thermosphere in at least 43 years," says John Emmert of the Naval Research Lab, lead author of a paper announcing the finding in the June 19th issue of the Geophysical Research Letters (GRL). "It's a Space Age record." The collapse happened during the deep solar minimum of 2008-2009—a fact which comes as little surprise to researchers. The thermosphere always cools and contracts when solar activity is low. In this case, however, the magnitude of the collapse was two to three times greater than low solar activity could explain. "Something is going on that we do not understand," says Emmert."

Well, today spaceweather.com reports on the sun. Again.

"Something bright and active on the far side of the sun is about to turn toward Earth. Magnetic loops towering over the eastern limb herald its approach:"

"NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory took this picture during the early hours of July 26th. The bright glow revealed by SDO's extreme ultraviolet camera comes from million-degree plasma trapped by overlying magnetic fields. A sunspot is likely at the bottom of it all. Or maybe two sunspots... NASA's STEREO-B spacecraft is stationed over the sun's eastern limb, and it sees a pair of active regions approaching single file. The one peeking over the limb now is actually the smaller of the two. Readers with solar telescopes should train their optics here."

We are told that there will be signs in the sun and the moon and the stars. (Luke 21:25).  We have seen strange and puzzling sun behavior, and that is according to the solar scientists. We have seen signs in the stars in the form of unusual meteors, comets, and planetary action in our galaxy and beyond. I mean, Jupiter lost a belt! And a flash so large appeared it stunned scientists, who do not know what it was! And just this weekend, we read, "NASA's Deep Space Camera Locates Host of 'Earths'". 700 new planets were discovered. Amazing!

Just about the only sign we have not seen is in the moon. But the other signs are there. We also know that in Revelation one of the plagues will be a sun so hot it causes men to combust with fire. Perhaps the magnetosphere will be burned off by then. Or perhaps God will simply cause it to happen instantly and supernaturally!

The age of Science has become a false god whom too many worship to the exclusion of the supernatural: an indwelling Holy Spirit ministry, a risen-from-the-dead, living Jesus, and a God who exists outside of time. These Three are supernatural, science cannot explain them. Science will never and cannot explain the Trinity. Soon, even today, events are occurring that science does not know how to deal with. A spate of deep-focus quakes? A sun that should be active but isn't? Comets that appear out of nowhere? Soon the supposed scientific orderliness will disappear. Supernatural realms will become more visible and as they do, humans will be less and less able to cope with the lack of scientific evidence to give them answers. They will not find their answers because they looked to their god Science instead of Holy God.

He will extinguish the sun in a moment! He will create 100 pound hailstones! He will turn the sun back on, and turn it up to scorching heat! He will make the very stars fall! He will turn the sea to blood! These events are God pouring out His wrath and authority on an unbelieving world. He has the power of the universe in His hand, and science will fail men, along with economies, finances, food, infrastructure, (have you read about three dam failures lately?) all the things men put their trust in for insulation against sinful lives. Now is the time for God to show His power in stripping away that insulation and showing men their puniness in the face of a wrathful God who exerts authority over the sun and moon, and stars, and universes and men. Trust Jesus, and escape all these things.