Will this be "the Sign of the Son of Man"? (page 2)

jefferywhat

When you say good friday and easter sunday, are you referring to the secular calender or the jewish one?

a Christian

OBVES,

Everything you wrote was nutty. However your nuttiest statement had to be: " 1914 AD which was a significant date."

Jeffrey,

You asked: When you say good friday and easter sunday, are you referring to the secular calender or the jewish one?

Since neither Good Friday or Easter Sunday are Jewish holidays I tend to believe that when any of the many news articles that have been published on this topic refer to these holidays they are referring to a secular calendar.

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BurnTheShips

We'll find out when it happens!

Caedes

A christian,

I would say that Obves' claims are no more or less nutty than claiming that this object is a sign of the return of jesus.

Narkissos

It's always delightful to be on the watch about exactly when and how the suggestion of insanity comes up in such discussions...

Now let's be scriptural, folks: since the day and hour cannot be known it rules out anything astronomical...

BurnTheShips

Now let's be scriptural, folks: since the day and hour cannot be known it rules out anything astronomical...

Exactly.

Well, at least anything astronomical unless it is a complete surprise. ;-)

Burn

Narkissos

Well, since any predictable date is predictably wrong it becomes plausible again as unpredictable...

(Are you following me? Well, stop it or I call the cops.)

a Christian

Caedes, I am not "claiming that this object is a sign of the return of jesus." If you read my posts you will see that I have only here asked for opinions on if it could be? Nark, You wrote: since the day and hour cannot be known it rules out anything astronomical. Not actually. Christ said no one would know the day or hour of his return. Not the day or hour that a sign indicating he would soon return would appear. Let's say, for the sake of argument, that this asteroid which will first pass through earth's skies on Good Friday, 2029 and then return exactly seven years later on Easter Sunday, 2036 (possibly then striking the earth) does then serve as the "sign" "in the sky" referred to by Jesus in Matthew 24:30. That "sign" will then only indicate that Christ's return is very near. We will still then not know the day or the hour of his return. Some understand Revelation to say that after a "great star blazing like a torch" falls upon the earth (8:10) Christians will preach for "five months" (9:5) and then a couple of other things will happen of unstated duration before Christ returns.

Narkissos

The "sign of the Son of Man" in Matthew 24:30 (distinct from the astral events in v. 29) is generally understood as the very coming of the Son of Man (compare the parallel in Mark 13:26, "Then they will see 'the Son of Man coming in clouds' with great power and glory"), not the umpteenth "sign" that he is coming "soon". Actually there is no further "event" expected after that in the Matthean scenario.

At least if you're right about Good Friday and Easter Sunday it will solve a millenial issue about the date of Easter, in favour of the "orthodox" church calendar and against the quartodecimans (not that this should matter a lot at this stage.)

funkyderek

a Christian:

Yes, congratulations! You've cracked it. Of all the comets, meteors, supernovae and planetary alignments of the last 2,000 years this one alone is the real sign of Jesus coming back.

There's a horrible, sickening irony in someone taking useful rationally-obtained knowledge about the universe and attempting to crowbar it into such a primitive superstitious worldview. The disgust I feel is tempered by my deep embarrassment for you, which itself is heightened by your getting the date for Easter 2029 wrong.

Oh dear! Back to the apocalyptic drawing board, I suppose...

Will this be "the Sign of the Son of Man"?

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