While Christ was upon the cross of Calvary, "It was now about noon and darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon because of an eclipse of the sun."
In Christ's death on the cross, when the sun was eclipsed, God was judging the sins of the world. Moreover, Jerusalem's destruction was also imminent because of her sin, which was a figure of the general judgment of all the nations that reject the Lord's Christ.
It's significant, I think, that the coming solar eclipse on August 21st is called the Great American Eclipse. It will arch the country from Oregon to South Carolina. This total eclipse will touch only one country: the United States. A century ago, the total eclipse of 1918 swept from the west coast to the east coast too, but it also visited the Bahamas. This one, with its possible implications of a coming judgment, seems strictly for America.
Some 100,000 people have been forced from their homes, including 3,000 evacuated on Saturday from the city of Santa Rosa, about 50 miles north of San Francisco, and another 250 from nearby Sonoma city.
About 10,000 firefighters supported by air tankers and helicopters overhead were battling 16 major wildfires, some encompassing several smaller merged blazes, in areas north of San Francisco that have consumed nearly 214,000 acres over seven- an area larger than New York City.
‘This is truly one of the greatest tragedies that California has ever faced. The devastation is just unbelievable. It is a horror that no one could have imagined Ever since the eclipse it seems to be desaster after another for America MMMMM I'm really starting to wonder!!!!!
In Christ's death on the cross, when the sun was eclipsed, God was judging the sins of the world. Moreover, Jerusalem's destruction was also imminent because of her sin, which was a figure of the general judgment of all the nations that reject the Lord's Christ.
It's significant, I think, that the coming solar eclipse on August 21st is called the Great American Eclipse. It will arch the country from Oregon to South Carolina. This total eclipse will touch only one country: the United States. A century ago, the total eclipse of 1918 swept from the west coast to the east coast too, but it also visited the Bahamas. This one, with its possible implications of a coming judgment, seems strictly for America.
Some 100,000 people have been forced from their homes, including 3,000 evacuated on Saturday from the city of Santa Rosa, about 50 miles north of San Francisco, and another 250 from nearby Sonoma city.
About 10,000 firefighters supported by air tankers and helicopters overhead were battling 16 major wildfires, some encompassing several smaller merged blazes, in areas north of San Francisco that have consumed nearly 214,000 acres over seven- an area larger than New York City.
‘This is truly one of the greatest tragedies that California has ever faced. The devastation is just unbelievable. It is a horror that no one could have imagined Ever since the eclipse it seems to be desaster after another for America MMMMM I'm really starting to wonder!!!!!
