Greetings and peace to you all and to your dear households -
Some time ago, we had a thread going about the Master "coming on the clouds" (
viewtopic.php?f=22&t=2407&p=43961&hilit=clouds+of+smoke#p43961) and I shared with you then what he explained to me about the clouds not being the white puffy collections of moisture we usually see in the sky, but clouds of smoke. For instance:
Well, that's a dust cloud, but it's very close to what he showed me, so picture a smoke cloud just as thick.
Preceding that "coming," he told the disciples what would occur immediately after the tribulation, quoting
Isaiah 13:10; 34:4:
“‘the sun will be darkened,
and the moon will not give its light;
the stars will fall from the sky,
and the heavenly bodies will be shaken.’
“Then will appear the sign of the Son of Man in heaven. And then all the peoples of the earth will mourn when they see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven, with power and great glory." Matthew 24:29, 30Luke also recorded Peter quoting Joel:
"The sun will be turned to darkness
and the moon to blood
before the coming of the great and glorious day of the Lord." Acts 2:20; Joel 2:31Is it possible that the sun could be darkened in broad day? Or the moon turned to "blood"? Well, given the sun around HERE over the past month, and particularly the sky today, due to the CLOUDS OF SMOKE... I can totally see the possibility. For instance, the few weeks ago, I woke up and the sky was the regular blue/gray outside my window. But all of a sudden it flashed (and I mean in a BLINK) to this (no, don't look at my blinds or the bedroom... look OUTSIDE the windown - LOLOL!):
Then, last week, it looked like this for most of the day (no, no, don't look at the "ratty" looking neighborhood - it's actually not that ratty but it is old and the light just made it look very weird. But no crime, very few renters, etc. We've been there 16 years; some have been there 40+ years. Ennywho...):
This morning, however, one of my staff said, "Shel, come here! You HAVE to see this!" He wanted me to go outside with him to see something. Our building is and has been since May boarded up to prevent vandalism during any protests (thus far, no breakage but routine graffiting). The boards, however, are only 12 feet high but the windows are 18 feet high. I immediately looked to the tops of the windows but couldn't see anything. I didn't understand why... until we got outside. I walked out... and into the "night":
Talk about weird! It was as if I had stepped out of the building at 9:20pm. But... it was 9:20 AM!
Until I turned to the right:
and left:
to see the RED sky. I shared with dear Kimmie (peace to you, luvee!) and she sent me pics from where she was (farther north, visiting family):
So, I dunno. I can see how some might be skeptical, but given what wildfire smoke from OUR world does to the sun and sky... if chariots of the gods ARE what's coming, yeah, I can totally believe in the sun going dark and the moon turning to "blood." Apparently, while somewhat rare, it's totally possible.
Peace to you ALL and to your dear, dear households (and sorry for the huge pics - don't know why they're so much bigger than the first one)!
Your servant, sister, and a slave of Christ,
Shel