Life after the eclipse (sign of Jonah)

[Sparko]

Well, there was no alien invasion or giant meteor either! Or gamma ray burst! Or random black hole! Or earth shattering kaboom!

[Terraceth]

Welp, it's now after September 23. Still waiting for the sign I was supposed to see.

This is why the clever doomsday preachers avoid giving exact dates. That way, they can never be proven wrong.

[Rayado]

Welp, it's now after September 23. Still waiting for the sign I was supposed to see.

I'll post more about this later since it's been a nuisance for me lately, but--the sign technically happened. The sun passed through the constellation Virgo, as it does every now and then, with exactly no more or less theological significance than any other time it has done so.

Which is to say: no theological significance. This time, or any other time. Several YouTube prophets(tm) could not help themselves and tried to predict a September 23 rapture...then a September 30 rapture... and some have shot for the next several days too. Failure is evidently no discouragement to that crowd when the Lord personally confirms their dreams and feelings and (reapeatedly ) tells them that "this will be their last video."

[One Bad Pig]

The crickets I"m hearing from our resident doomsday prophet are speaking volumes.

[KingsGambit]

Unpopular opinion alert:

I think the doomsday prophets should have been ignored. It seems they were random people with no following and most of the attention they seemed to be getting were from Christians denouncing them, resulting in more bad PR for Christianity.

[Rayado]

Unpopular opinion alert:

I think the doomsday prophets should have been ignored. It seems they were random people with no following and most of the attention they seemed to be getting were from Christians denouncing them, resulting in more bad PR for Christianity.

The inconvenient difficulty of ignoring them is that they clearly have a willing audience; the YT Prophets have videos with 10, 20, 30, 40 thousand views or more--sometimss many more. There is a decent chunk of people who are intensely interested in things like this and they will prop up every two-bit prognosticator that comes across their radar.

[Rayado]

That said, there is one question I have yet to see asked, much less answered:

Why should we think that Revelation 12 is the "sign of Jonah?"

[KingsGambit]

The inconvenient difficulty of ignoring them is that they clearly have a willing audience; the YT Prophets have videos with 10, 20, 30, 40 thousand views or more--sometimss many more.

That many? Oy.

[Sparko]

That said, there is one question I have yet to see asked, much less answered:

Why should we think that Revelation 12 is the "sign of Jonah?"

because all of these fishy prophets?

[rogue06]

because all of these fishy prophets?

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[Darfius]

That said, there is one question I have yet to see asked, much less answered:

Why should we think that Revelation 12 is the "sign of Jonah?"

As usual, you guys are ignorant, but that won't stop you from running your mouths. The "sign of Jonah" was the total solar eclipse local to America, which only happened one other time in 1776. No significance there, right? A total solar eclipse happened in Nineveh shortly before Jonah appeared, which likely led to the Ninevites obeying his call to repentance. The total eclipse was not the Rev 12 sign, which involved more than "the sun going through Virgo." It was an alignment of the sun, moon, the constellations Virgo, Leo, Ophiuchus and the planets Venus, Mars, Mercury and Saturn, which doesn't happen "every now and then."

The sign definitely happened. I never said the Rapture would happen.

[One Bad Pig]

The total eclipse was not the Rev 12 sign, which involved more than "the sun going through Virgo." It was an alignment of the sun, moon, the constellations Virgo, Leo, Ophiuchus and the planets Venus, Mars, Mercury and Saturn, which doesn't happen "every now and then."

What does astrology have to do with Christianity?

[KingsGambit]

The "sign of Jonah" was the total solar eclipse local to America, which only happened one other time in 1776. No significance there, right?

Correct.

[Bill the Cat]

The "sign of Jonah" was the total solar eclipse local to America, .

The sign of Jonah was Christ laying dead in the earth for 3 days.

[Darfius]

What does astrology have to do with Christianity?

Astronomy isn't astrology, piglet.

Scripture Verse: Genesis 1

14 And God said, “Let there be lights in the vault of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark sacred times, and days and years, 15 and let them be lights in the vault of the sky to give light on the earth.”

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Scripture Verse: Job 38:31

Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?

32 Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons?

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mazzaroth

The word's precise meaning is uncertain but its context is that of astronomical constellations, and it is often interpreted as a term for the zodiac or the constellations thereof