VERSES 1-8 CONTINUED
Here then, is the manifesto published, setting forth, seven points to consider.
Point seven
The effect and consequence of this slaughter shall be universal confusion and desolation,
as if the whole frame of nature were dissolved and melted down.
Isaiah 34:4
All the stars in the sky will be dissolved
and the heavens rolled up like a scroll;
all the starry host will fall
like withered leaves from the vine,
like shriveled figs from the fig tree.
2 Peter 3:12
"...as you look forward to the day of God and speed its coming.
That day will bring about the destruction of the heavens by fire,
and the elements will melt in the heat.
All the host of heaven shall suffer decline and waste away, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon look black, or be turned into blood (Both of which have happened recently) Isaiah 13:10, "The stars of heaven and their constellations will not show their light. The rising sun will be darkened and the moon will not give its light." Acts 2:19, "I will show wonders in the heavens above and signs on the earth below,
blood and fire and billows of smoke."
The heavens themselves shall be rolled together as a scroll or parchment when it is finished, or as when it is shrivelled up by the heat of the fire. The stars shall fall as the leaves in autumn; all the beauty, joy, and comfort, of the vanquished nation shall be lost and done away,
magistracy and government shall be abolished,
and all dominion and rule,
but that of the sword of war, shall fall.
Conquerors in these times, affected to lay waste the countries that they conquered. Such a complete desolation is described here by such figurative expressions as will yet have a literal and full accomplishment in the dissolution of all things at the end of time. Of which the last day of judgement, the judgements which God does now sometimes remarkably execute on sinful nations are figures, sincere, and a sign of things to come. By these figurative expressions we should be awakened to think of that, for which reason these expressions are used here and in Revelation 6:12-13," I watched as he opened the sixth seal. There was a great earthquake. The sun turned black like sackcloth made of goat hair, the whole moon turned blood red, and the stars in the sky fell to earth, as figs drop from a fig tree when shaken by a strong wind." But these figurative expressions are used without a metaphor, 2 Peter 3:10, "But the day of the Lord will come like a thief. The heavens will disappear with a roar; the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and everything done in it will be laid bare."
This?
This isn't a figurative expression.
Here?
Here we are told that the heavens shall pass away with a great noise and the earth shall be burnt up.
I had just watched a show on The Big Bang Theory with my buddys wife while waiting on him to get back from a meeting. On the show they said that right after the big bang explosion? It was the hottest time ever recorded in the universe. So hot in fact that nothing should have continued to exist. A microsecond after the explosion? The universe was a few trillion degrees. Shortly after watching that program I was reading Second Peter and came across:
2 Peter 3:12
"...as you look forward to the day of God and speed its coming.
That day will bring about the destruction of the heavens by fire, and the elements will melt in the heat.
It immediately came to me.
Revelation 22:13
"I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End."Matthew 24:37
"As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man."
Or?
Like this guy sings:
"As it was in the beginning?
So shall it be in the end."
Kinda like this blog post if you think about it.
Peace, love and happiness to you all.
Been a day.
Love you Lucy.
o
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