TWO SOLAR ECLIPSES TO CROSS OVER AMERICA

There will be two total solar eclipses in seven years that will form a “Black Cross” over the United States of America.  The first is on August 21, 2017, next year.  The second is 7 years later on April 8, 2024.  The paths of these two solar eclipses will intersect over southern Illinois, around the city of Carbondale.

On the Biblical calendar, the first eclipse on August 21, 2017, occurs on Elul 1, the day Jesus began his forty day fast.  The fast ended on Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement.  This was the beginning of Yeshua’s  3½ year ministry for the salvation of the world.  Jesus was handed the Bible and read from Isaiah 61:1

“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me...to preach deliverance to the captives...to set at liberty them that are bruised, to preach the acceptable year of the Lord.”  These are the words said on the Day of Atonement at the start of the ‘Jubilee’, the year of release of people and debts.

The next total solar eclipse, on April 8, 2024, occurs on the Biblical New Year, Nisan 1.

A lunar eclipse is a bad omen for Israel, and we just had four of them in 2014 and 2015.  A solar eclipse is a bad sign for the nations of the world. Since the United States is the greatest nation, this may be a foreboding sign as these eclipses form a cross, near the population center of America.  The eclipse in 2017 bisects the country in half, going west to east, starting in Oregon and traveling the length of the land to South Carolina.  The eclipse in 2024 travels south to north, from Texas through Maine. Therefore the paths of the two black eclipses literally intersect near the city of Carbondale, Illinois.

On a personal note, I used to read a book by R. Buckminster Fuller, “Utopia or Oblivion”. He was the inventor of the geodesic dome and a professor at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale in the 1960’s.

The last time a total solar eclipse crossed America was a hundred years ago, 1918, the end of WWI.  The end of WWI saw the break-up of the 400 year Ottoman Empire rule over Jerusalem, and the release of Israel to the control of the British. (General Allenby entered Jerusalem on foot without a shot!)

In 2018, the nation of Israel will be 70 years old. It is also about 6,000 years since Adam and the Creation of the world.  We are heading for troubling times, and the Bible predicts a future 7 years of tribulation.  The solar eclipse years 2017 to 2024, may just be a warning “shadow” of what is yet to come.  What are we to do?

Judgment to the nations of the world is coming, as sure as science is predicting the two eclipses of the sun.  We should repent and be ready for the “Day of the Lord”. 

Astronomers predict that this will be the ‘most viewed’ eclipse ever, for it is in summer and easily accessible for millions of people.

It may also be a double warning to as many as will view it, that the creator of the sun, moon, and stars is planning His Second visit to His planet Earth.

Dating the past until the 2017 Total Solar Eclipse:

500 years  1517  Luther and Protestant Reformation; Ottoman Empire rule over Jerusalem.

120 years  1897  Herzl and First Zionist Convention for Israel

100 years  1917  British Balfour Declaration favoring a Jewish State

70   years  1947  United Nations establishes State of Israel

50   years  1967  Jerusalem under Jewish Israeli control

The Jewish Messiah, Yeshua HaMashiach, better known as Jesus Christ, will be returning shortly to take possession of His purchased real estate: The Planet Earth, Ruling from Jerusalem, Israel.

Robert Lyons   San Diego, CA  February 9, 2016