Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: fiddler@eng.sun.com (Steve Hix) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Landmarks of the End Times Message-ID: Date: 19 Dec 90 09:25:53 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Lines: 22 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu In article , st0o+@andrew.cmu.edu (Steven Timm) writes: > Several Bible texts indicate landmarks of the end times: > > Note that the dark day of 1789 which was a visible phenomenon in most of the > Eastern United states, and was not associated with an eclipse. That evening > the moon appeared as blood. 1833 saw a dramatic meteor shower (Perseids, > I believe) which was one of the brightest ever recorded. I submit > that a good deal of the specific signs (in addition to the generic > signs of Daniel 12) have already been fulfilled and we are in the last times. I've been long familiar with both the 1833 meteor shower and the 1789 dark day (and personally attach roughly the same signifigance to the events as you do), but haven't seen a convincing description of the cause of the dark day so far. Do you have information about any objective event that might have caused it? (Reading newspaper and personal journal accounts of the event are pretty interesting.) -- ------------ The only drawback with morning is that it comes at such an inconvenient time of day. ------------