Rev 6:12 And I beheld when he had opened the sixth
seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as
sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood;
(Daniel and
Revelation by Uriah Smith - Excerpts)
The Darkening of the
Sun.
--Following the
earthquake, as announced by prophecy, "the sun became black as sackcloth
of hair."
(((The following is
based upon the fact this book was written only a little over a hundred years
after this happened, 1897. We know
right now that people who are living today in the year 2015, have heard of
things that happened over a 100 years ago, we know it as our history. In the
early 1900's we will recall the following-
• 1901
- William McKinley assassinated
• 1901
- Theodore Roosevelt becomes President
• 1901 - U.S.
Steel founded by John Pierpont Morgan
• 1902 -
First Rose Bowl game played
• 1903 - Great
Train Robbery movie opens
• 1903 - Ford
Motor Company formed
• 1903 -
First World Series
• 1903 -
The Wright brothers make their first powered flight in
the Wright Flyer
• 1904
- Roosevelt Corollary to Monroe Doctrine
• 1904 - Panama
Canal Zone acquired
• 1904 - Worlds
Fair St. Louis
• 1905
- Niagara Falls conference
• 1905
- Industrial Workers of the World
• 1906 - Susan
B. Anthony dies
• 1906 - Pure
Food and Drug Act and Meat Inspection Act
• 1906 - San
Francisco earthquake
• 1907
- Oklahoma becomes a state
• 1907 - Coal
mine explodes in Monongah, West Virginia, killing at least 361. Worst
industrial accident in American history.
• 1908 - Ford
Model T appears on market
• 1908
- Federal Bureau of Investigation established
• 1909 -
The U.S. penny is changed to the Abraham Lincoln design
• 1909
- William Howard Taft becomes President
• 1909 - Robert
Peary claims to have reached the North Pole
• 1909
- NAACP founded by W. E. B. Du Bois
• 1911 - First
ever Indianapolis 500 is staged; Ray Harroun is the first
winner
• 1912
- RMS Titanic sinks
• 1912 - New
Mexico and Arizona become states
• 1912 - Girl
Scouts of the USA was started by Juliette Gordon Low
• 1912
- Theodore Roosevelt shot, but not killed, while campaigning for the
Bull Moose Party
• 1913
- Woodrow Wilson becomes President
• 1913 - 16th
Amendment, establishing an income tax
• 1913 - Henry
Ford develops the modern assembly line
• 1914
- Mother's Day established as a national holiday
• 1915
- RMS Lusitania sunk
• 1916 - U.S.
acquires Virgin Islands
• 1917 - U.S.
enters World War I
• 1918 - Treaty
of Versailles ends World War I
• 1919
- Theodore Roosevelt dies
• 1919 - United
States Senate rejects Treaty of Versailles and League of
Nations
• 1919 - 18th
Amendment, establishing Prohibition
• 1919 - Black
Sox Scandal during the that year's World Series, wherein the fallout
lasts for decades
1920s
• 1920 - 19th
Amendment, granting women the right to vote
• 1920 - First radio
broadcasts in Pittsburgh and Detroit
• 1921 - Warren
G. Harding becomes President
• 1924 - J.
Edgar Hoover is appointed director of the Bureau of
Investigation — predecessor to the FBI.
• 1925
- WSM broadcasts the Grand Ole Opry for the first time.
• 1926
- NBC founded as the U.S.'s first major broadcast network
• 1927
- Charles Lindbergh makes first trans-Atlantic flight
• 1927 - The
Jazz Singer, the first "talkie" (motion picture with sound) is
released
• 1927 - U.S.
citizenship granted to inhabitants of U.S. Virgin Islands
• 1927 - Columbia
Broadcasting System (later called CBS) becomes second national radio network in
the U.S.
• 1928 -
Disney's Steamboat Willie opens, the first animated picture to
feature Mickey Mouse
• 1928
- Kellogg–Briand Pact
• 1928 - Amelia
Earhart becomes the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
• 1929
- Herbert Hoover becomes President
• 1929 - St.
Valentine's Day Massacre
• 1929
- Immigration Act
• 1929 -
The Dow Jones Industrial Average plummets a record 68 points over a
two-day period, setting off the Wall Street Crash of 1929 and
triggering the Great Depression
• 1929 -
The Museum of Modern Art opens to the public in New York City
• 1929
- American Samoa officially becomes a U.S. territory
• 1929 - The Great
Depression Starts
This is history and
people RECALL history. While we might
NOT recall this great dark day in 1897 they were still recalling it
vividly.))))
This part of the
prediction has also been fulfilled. We need not here enter into a detailed
account of the wonderful darkening of the sun, May 19, 1780. Most persons of
general reading, it is presumed, have seen some account of it. The following
detached declarations from different authorities will give an idea of its
nature:
"Dark Day, The.
May 19, 1780--so called on account of a remarkable darkness on that day
extending over all New England. . . . The obscuration began about ten o'clock
in
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the morning, and
continued till the middle of the next night, but with differences of degree and
duration in different places. . . . The true cause of this remarkable
phenomenon is not known."
"In the month
of May, 1780, there was a very terrific dark day in New England, when 'all
faces seemed to gather blackness,' and the people were filled with fear. There
was great distress in the village where Edward Lee lived, 'men's hearts failing
them for fear' that the Judgment-day was at hand; and the neighbors all flocked
around the holy man, [who] spent the gloomy hours in earnest prayer for the
distressed multitude."
"The time of
this extraordinary darkness was May 19, 1780," says Professor Williams.
"It came on between the hours of ten and eleven A.M., and continued until
the middle of the next night, but with different appearances at different
places. . . .
"The degree to
which the darkness arose was different in different places. In most parts of
the country it was so great that people were unable to read common print,
determine the time of day by their clocks or watches, dine, or manage their
domestic business, without the light of candles. In some places the darkness
was so great that persons could not see to read common print in the open air,
for several hours together; but I believe this was not generally the case.
"The extent of
this darkness was very remarkable. Our intelligence in this respect is not so
particular as I could wish; but from the accounts that have been received, it
seems to have extended all over the New England States. It was observed as far
east as Falmouth [Portland, Maine]. To the westward we hear of its reaching to
the furthest parts of Connecticut, and Albany. To the southward it was observed
all along the seacoasts, and to the north as far as our settlements extend. It
is probable it extended much beyond these limits in some direct-
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tions, but the exact
boundaries cannot be ascertained by any observations that I have been able to
collect.
"With regard to
its duration, it continued in this place at least fourteen hours; but is
probable this was not exactly the same in different parts of the country.
"The appearance
and effects were such as tended to make the prospect extremely dull and gloomy.
Candles were lighted up in the houses; the birds, having sung their evening
songs, disappeared, and became silent; the fowls retired to roost; the cocks were
crowing all around, as at break of day; objects could not be distinguished but
at very little distance; and everything bore the appearance and gloom of
night."
"The 19th of
May, 1780, was a remarkable dark day. Candles were lighted in many houses; the
birds were silent and disappeared, and the fowls retired to roost. . . . A very
general opinion prevailed that the day of judgment was at hand." [20]
Whittier, in a
well-known poem, pictures it thus:
" 'Twas on a
May-day of the far old year
Seventeen hundred
eighty, that there fell
Over the bloom and
sweet life of the Spring,
Over the fresh earth
and the heaven of noon,
A horror of great
darkness, like the night
In day of which the
Norland sagas tell,--
The Twilight of the
Gods. The low-hung sky
Was black with
ominous clouds, save where its rim
Was fringed with a
dull glow, like that which climbs
The crater's sides
from the red hell below.
Birds ceased to
sing, and all the barnyard fowls
Roosted; the cattle
at the pasture bars
Lowed, and looked
homeward; bats on leathern wings
Flitted abroad; the
sounds of labor died;
Men prayed, and
women wept; all ears grew sharp
To hear the
doom-blast of the trumpet shatter
The black sky, that
the dreadful face of Christ
Might look from the
rent clouds, not as He looked
A loving guest at
Bethany, but stern
As Justice and
inexorable Law."
*******
You can go to the
following link which will give a cause for this great dark day, and they'll
tell you because it was explained by a fire in Canada that it wasn't important
to prophecy.
Truly, God doesn't
HAVE to use events that are inexplicable for signs, why would He? Why CAN'T HE
who controls ALL things use a forest fire to bring about this DARK DAY which
brought to people's minds of that time the coming of the Lord? Signs are used to herald events- near and
far. Who are WE to presume that the
signs are not from God? How dare we make that assumption. God works in HIS time, and allows people to
who will see to see, but those who would be blind will remain blinded. If you
WANT excuses NOT to believe, to NOT comprehend, they will be abundant! Satan
LOVES to supply a wealth of excuses to keep people in the dark and all who want
them - have at them. I pray to God that I NEVER accept any excuse of Satan's
but that the Holy Spirit opens my heart and mind to ALL the truth I need to be
HIS!
More on all of this
tomorrow, all by the GRACE and MERCY of our LORD and SAVIOR, JESUS CHRIST NOW
AND FOREVER!
AMEN!
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