Great Balls of fire swooping over Canada: NASA investigates. Merapi warning of mega-eruption

I work with 5-year-olds every day, for 11 hours each day. When I get home, I'm tired. It is a commitment and a struggle to pray and read the bible at that point, because I am so wiped out, and THEN I begin The End Time essays for the night.

Writing those usually takes me from 2-4 hours. I take the time because good writing takes time. But more importantly, it takes prayer, biblical research and triple-checking, because we are handling the Word of God here.

So tonight, I'm tired. But I'm even more tired because of the news. It is getting crazy nuts to keep up with it, because there are so many things happening. My poor, beleaguered brain can hardly take it all in, what the Lord is doing. This morning I saw the headline that "Great balls of fire over Canada: NASA investigates"

"Great balls of fire have been reported swooping over Eastern Canada and several U.S. states. Even NASA's on the case. There are different theories about what was behind the sighting of those fireballs. A NASA spacecraft got a closer look at one of the possible sources today. The spacecraft flew past Hartley 2 -- taking closeup pictures after the comet made one of its closest passes by Earth this week. But one expert is skeptical of reports that any fireballs came from Hartley -- which is roughly 1.2 kilometres wide and spews deadly cyanide gas. Scientist Peter Brown says his meteor group at the University of Western Ontario tracked one of two fireballs while the other was tracked by NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office."

Saying that the fireballs are from comet Hartley is akin to the old chestnut from the 1950s when every weird UFO in the sky was attributed to a "weather balloon" or "swamp gas." But my layman's suspicions are baseless...unless there is a legitimate scientist saying the same thing. Oh, look, there is: In another article about the event, a scientist stated "The position where they came from the sky, however, was a bit different and their orbit was only in a vague sense similar to Hartley 2."

The key word is "swooping." In both articles, it is stated that the fireballs, or lights, swooped. Meteors travel on an orderly trajectory. They don't backtrack. They don't deviate. They certainly don't "swoop."

Then this afternoon I saw this headline from Der Spiegel: "Geologists Warning Of Merapi “Mega-Eruption.” The link goes to the German language article but here is an English-language essay on the situation from P Gosselin's Climate Science News And Free Commentary From Germany:

"Der Spiegel reports on the growling-ever-louder Indonesian Merapi volcano in an article titled: Geologists Warning of Mega-Eruption of Merapi. Hat-tip to reader Ike."
"The Merapi eruptions are becoming more violent – and the big bang could be just ahead. The Indonesian volcano has been spewing 800°C ash clouds for days."
"According to Der Spiegel, 122 people have been killed, most on Friday. “Merapi is among the most dangerous volcanoes,” says geo-scientist Volker Steinbach of the German Federal Administration for Geoscience and Raw Materials (BGR). Der Spiegel adds:"
"Friday’s eruption is its worst this decade, says the chief geologist of the Energy Administration, Raden Sukhyiar, in the “Jakarta Post”. The biggest known eruptions occurred in 1006, 1369, 1786, 1822, 1872 – destroying a large number of villages – and 1930 when 1300 people perished."
"Investigations of the volcano have revealed that an unprecedented Magma reservoir lurks underneath it, says Birger Lühr, a volcano researcher at the GFZ in Potsdam, Germany."
"A rough estimate indicates that there is three times more magma than what was ejected by the Indonesian volcano Tambora in 1815 – the biggest eruption in the last 10,000 years, which led to a cooling of the climate globally."
"Geoscientists aren’t sure what to make of this huge magma reservoir. As Der Spiegel reports, they are hesitant to make predictions of catastrophe (That’s only done in climate science, even though the odds are far less)."
"Word of a ‘mega-eruption’ is making the rounds among scientists. But apparently they are avoiding the use of the word to avoid being labelled preachers of disasters. ‘We can only speculate what the volcano will do,’ says Birger Lühr. Merapi is hardly predictable."
The bible says in Revelation 6:12 of the Sixth Seal judgment that as the seal was opened the sun turned black like sackcloth. I wrote about the sun as sackcloth in the essay titled "Of volcanoes, dry fog, and sun as sackcloth" in more depth here. I posited the idea that the sun turning black may be from mega-eruptions, in turn, caused by the prophesied earthquakes we're told will occur in the Tribulation. The Seals are judgments, and the Church is not destined for judgment, so the sackcloth event it depicts will likely not occur until after the rapture - if indeed the sun as sackcloth occurs because of volcanic ash darkening the sun in the first place.

Scientists saying things like "unprecedented magma" and 'worst eruption this decade' 'we can only speculate' are hardly comforting phrases. Yesterday I mentioned that the events are unfolding so fast along the active ring of fire in Indonesia that the scientists are simply throwing up their hands and saying 'we don't know what's going on." At some point the world will reach a tipping point and the events unfolding will exceed the scientists' knowledge base to explain them. That is because God exceeds science. The swooping lights from Canada to imminent mega-eruptions to currency wars to gold reaching $1400/oz to mass UFO sightings to...well, it's dizzying.

The tiredness I feel is not just from long workdays and bewildering news - it is from the burden of sin upon the whole world. We groan. We groan! For what do we groan?

"For while we are in this tent, we groan and are burdened, because we do not wish to be unclothed but to be clothed instead with our heavenly dwelling, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life."(2 Corinthians 5:4)

We groan because "We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time." (Romans 8:22). The entire creation groans! And we humans, children of God all, groan because we are part of the creation, and the burden of sin weighs on us heavily. We may even lament, but certainly God again is ahead of us, telling us we would feel that way in these end days of the end time:

"And when they ask you, ‘Why are you groaning?’ you shall say, ‘Because of the news that is coming. Every heart will melt with fear and every hand go limp; every spirit will become faint and every leg will be wet with urine.’ It is coming! It will surely take place, declares the Sovereign LORD.” (Ezekiel 21:7)


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  1. Groanin' with you! It has been a whirlwind of a week. Thanks for the great stories you find and feature here;)

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  2. Thank you for your blog. Your time devoted is much appreciated and reaching more than you surely realize.

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  3. That last scripture you posted from Ezekiel, wow, that is serious. Lord I pray you find me worthy to escape all these things and bless my sisters and brothers here the same. Amen!

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  4. Elizabeth, Have you seen Mark Biltz on Prophecy in the News? If you haven't seen it, YOU HAVE TO SEE IT!!! Very, very, very interesting!!! It's all about the blood moons! I would love to know what you think about Rev. 6:12 possibly landing on or around 2014/ 2015. You can find it on YouTube. God bless you! Thanks for keeping us posted!

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  5. Hi Lisa,

    Yes, that is a serious chapter. It involved three pronouncements of coming judgments that perform a double duty: immediate fulfillment in Ezekiel's day, and the coming judgment at the end of time (as most prophecy in the bible does double duty). In Ezekiel's day the times were of Nebuchadnezzar and the city/nation of Babylon. The verses 1-7 involve the first set of declarations from the LORD pertaining to His sword. He was telling Ezekiel to proclaim against Israel & Judah because the Jews had allowed Jerusalem to become defiled and He would soon destroy it. There is a lot in the chapter about metals and purification, an allusion which is prevalent throughout the bible. Purification sometimes involves destruction, as part of the process. Ezekiel was telling the People that their grief would soon be unbearable. Ezekiel had been prophesying about the Israelites' rebellious nature and God's processes of bringing them back to Himself- a repeated theme in our day.

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  6. Elizabeth -

    Thank you for this very important work that you are doing. I pray for strength and renewal for you!

    Charlie

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  7. Anonymous RE Mark Biltz:

    Yes! I have seen that video, it IS quite interesting. Here is one answer to your question and a chronology:

    http://gracethrufaith.com/ask-a-bible-teacher/more-on-the-blood-moons/

    I'm going to use the bible to answer and not answer your question, because I don't believe in dating the end time events but I do believe in using the general timeframes He provides to adhere to the admonishment to watch and thus we will not be surprised: (Mark 13:35; Luke 21:28; 1 Thess 5:4)

    The Seal and Trumpet judgments take place over 3.5 years and are completed prior to the Great Tribulation (the moment when AC stands in the Temple declaring himself to be God. The Great Tribulation (Bowl judgments) takes 3.5 years to complete.

    [Jack Kelley's chronology w/verses: Six of the Seal judgments take place in Rev. 6 with the 7th in Rev. 8:1, six of the Trumpets are in Rev. 8-9 with the 7th in Rev. 11:15-8. The Great Tribulation begins in Rev. 13 when Satan is cast to Earth and indwells the anti-Christ, and the Bowl Judgments begin in Rev. 16. I didn’t say there would be a long pause between the introduction of the Anti-Christ and the Bowl judgments, only that one happens in Rev. 13 and the other begins in Rev. 16]

    Jesus said that the generation to see these things begin will not pass away until these things have happened. (Matt. 24:34)
    The bible says that the length of our lives is 70 (Psalm 90:10).

    So let's back schedule. Israel being in the land occurred in 1948. It was a major birth pang. 70 years (a man's lifetime) from 1948 is 2018. 7 years prior to the tribulation ending is 2011. Three and a half years prior to the end of the Tribulation (if interpreting the chronology based on the bible, correctly) is 2014/15, and general time frame of Biltz's blood moons and the judgment in Rev 6 you mentioned

    It could certainly be possible that the blood moon of Rev 6 may occur in 2014 or 2015. It seems we could be on track for that. But the Lord's timing is His own, and the people that saw Israel be born into a nation thought that the end would come in 1988, misinterpreting the Matthew verse as a generation instead of a length of a lifetime. We may have overlooked something as well.

    However, it is my belief that the signs are such that we will be raptured soon, certainly within the next year. Actually, I'm looking for it any day...:)

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  8. Thanks Ma~ and Anonymous for the encouragement! Also, thank you to those who emailed. I really appreciate it. It is especially hard on me to see the world's burden of sin weighing down the children. They are mightily affected. Their parents have lost jobs, their homes are in disarray, if they even still have a home. Many are moving from relatives' house to relatives' house. There is often not enough to eat. Uncertainty as to the future is affecting the parents, which permeates the atmosphere in their homes and affects them, too. The world's sins are manifesting in increases in dread diseases, too. Many of the kids' parents have enormous health issues to deal with. So I ache for the little ones and pray for the rapture on their behalf, so they will be restored, happy, and SAFE in heaven with our Savior.

    I also pray to Jesus for my own behalf. I really REALLY want to see Him! :) I know you all do too. Praise Him, we will soon, I think.

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