Sunday, November 1, 2015

Sixth Seal - sun becomes black

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."

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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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