“The Blood Moon” (or “The Hunter’s Moon”) is the first full moon following “The Harvest Moon,” probably in reference to the Blood of the hunt as meat stores are stocked up for winter. However, the term is also used for an eclipse because of what happens to light as it bends around the edge of […]
Between Daniel’s day and Jesus’ birth, Persia and Rome have “a history.” Between 333 and 323 BC, Alexander the Great of Greece has conquered all of Asia Minor over to India and down into Egypt. Then at 33 years of age he dies and his empire is split among his generals. General Seleucus governs Babylon
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Who were the Magi and why would they come? How would they know when and where to go? There seems to be the idea in popular folklore that just because a “star” appeared, that that was all they needed to make the journey. But all sorts of things go on in the sky all the
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The precision of days and connections to the Israel/Jewish Festivals is startling and amazing. When one is talking about huge planets rolling around in the sky, one could easily expect that there should be a fudge factor of at least a few days. But in using the Starry Night program, one can actually measure the
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The remaining festival that is celebrated at Jehovah’s command [Exodus 12:14], that does not show up in the birth sequence for Jesus, now makes its appearance 33 years later. Jesus’ death occurs at the Passover by design, because it has a number of significant elements that also describe the purpose why Jesus has come. Passover
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Notable in the precision of the Ballet of the heavens is the coordination of the various conjunctions to the Israelite/Jewish festival year. All the special days commanded by Jehovah of His People are accounted for. This in itself is fascinating, because if the conjunctions were a month or a half year earlier or later, then
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Imagine two streams of events that after 1500 or so years coincide with unbelievable precision just when Jesus is born. The closest example of this that I can think of is the car assembly plant. A certain make and model’s windshield which had been manufactured elsewhere is placed in sequence among a line of windshields.
I have been told that the art of mime/clown was developed in the middle ages in the Church. The mime’s face started with the base of white, which represented death, but then it would be overlaid with color, which symbolized the resurrection. During the sermon, the mime would come out and be the audio-visual for
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In 3-2 BC, there was a most unusual collection of planet and star conjunctions that apparently has not happened ever before and probably will never happen again. It is not just that the conjunctions happened, it is also when: they occur on the day of major Jewish festivals, which in turn describe key elements in
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It is fascinating how some theologians seem to think that God became discouraged from pledging Himself so totally to humanity, that now in the New Covenant He is more reluctant to bind Himself to people unless they somehow first “prove” themselves. They maintain that a person must first meet certain requirements, for instance, have a
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