A Biblical question
Mar 18, 2024 10:29:59 #
NotMAGA
Loc: Upstate NY - in a very red county
The next "Great American Eclipse" is three weeks from today. For 3 to 4 minutes (depending where you live) the sun will be covered by the new moon and the earth in the path of the eclipse will be dark as at night.
After the great flood, God made this promise in Genesis 8:22:
“As long as the earth endures,
seedtime and harvest,
cold and heat,
summer and winter,
day and night
will never cease.”
My question - what would God's people in antiquity have thought when the first total eclipse of the sun after Noah occurred?
Job talks about God speaking to the sun "so it does not shine" - but it's almost matter of fact.
All other possible mentions of an eclipse in the Bible (that I remember) are predicting The End.
After the great flood, God made this promise in Genesis 8:22:
“As long as the earth endures,
seedtime and harvest,
cold and heat,
summer and winter,
day and night
will never cease.”
My question - what would God's people in antiquity have thought when the first total eclipse of the sun after Noah occurred?
Job talks about God speaking to the sun "so it does not shine" - but it's almost matter of fact.
All other possible mentions of an eclipse in the Bible (that I remember) are predicting The End.
Mar 20, 2024 00:48:47 #
Whatever God's people thought for three or four minutes is really irrelevant in the historical scheme of things.
God promised regularity in the seasons. He also promised special signs in the heavens that would bring wonderment to mankind. (Genesis 1:14; Psalm 65:5 )
There are more pertinent verses, those are the ones that comes to mind at the minute.
It's doubtful that many, if any, could have reached a sufficient state of panic in that brief timespan to do themselves or others any permanent damage.
After all, they were momentarily
stumbling around in the dark!
Being in on the ground floor of this first time phenomenon was an honor.
After this, it would be but another eclipse.
God promised regularity in the seasons. He also promised special signs in the heavens that would bring wonderment to mankind. (Genesis 1:14; Psalm 65:5 )
There are more pertinent verses, those are the ones that comes to mind at the minute.
It's doubtful that many, if any, could have reached a sufficient state of panic in that brief timespan to do themselves or others any permanent damage.
After all, they were momentarily
stumbling around in the dark!
Being in on the ground floor of this first time phenomenon was an honor.
After this, it would be but another eclipse.
Mar 21, 2024 06:50:19 #
Mar 24, 2024 18:31:26 #
NotMAGA wrote:
The next "Great American Eclipse" is thr... (show quote)
There was an eclipse during the ten plagues of Egypt... there were other eclipses like with Josua when Israel marched in the land of Canaan.
Mar 25, 2024 15:28:54 #
NotMAGA
Loc: Upstate NY - in a very red county
Zemirah wrote:
Whatever God's people thought for three or four mi... (show quote)
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Total eclipses only happen about once a century in the same place on land, so the first people to see one might not have witnessed a other in their lifetimes unless they stayed in the same place for a very long time.
There was someone in our area who sold his farm, all his animals, all his equipment, in anticipation that the predicted total eclipse of 1925 meant the end.
Someday I think it will be. Maybe not this one... But someday.
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