My Visit With An Elderly Hannibal Couple and Their Friend
One of my favorite experiences in about 2003 was with my friend Debbie in the beautiful River View Park here in Hannibal. An elderly couple from Hannibal and their elderly friend crossed our paths and we made small talk for a little while. (The host introduced us to his guest from New Jersey and I learned from him that he was a retired political science college professor. I told him, "Oh, I guess that I'll talk to you, anyway," leading them to laugh.)
I segued to telling them about my lifelong interest in astronomy, showing them my photo taken on Easter Sunday, 1997 of the Hale-Bopp Comet with my parents' family farm windmill in the foreground (a truly beautiful photo) that won third place in the biennial Official Manual for the State of Missouri, 1997-1998, under the Missouri Scenery section.
I then gave all three of them my Luke 21:25a/Matthew 24:29-30a prophecy cards with those three 1999 celestial events fulfilling Matthew 24:29 on the back side. I told the elderly man who was from Hannibal, "It's just that when I was 10 years old, I took Christ's statement in Luke 21:25 that 'there will be signs in the sun, the moon, and the stars' to mean that the astronomers living just prior to Christ's return will be able to determine when the events described in Matthew 24:29 will take place."
In dramatic fashion, with his right elbow against his waist, this man extended his right forearm and swung it around towards me and said, "A-a-a-a-a-a-and."
I quickly picked up on his cue and, jabbing my right index finger at him for emphasis, I replied, "AND...I was so proud....of my abilities as a 10-year-old astronomer in 1964.....that I wanted to think....that if these events were to occur in MY lifetime....that there was NO WAY...that they...were going to get past me!!!"
There was then a few seconds of silence among the five of us before this man replied, "Well, you just never know what you're going to run into in this town of Hannibal," causing all of us to laugh very hard.
I segued to telling them about my lifelong interest in astronomy, showing them my photo taken on Easter Sunday, 1997 of the Hale-Bopp Comet with my parents' family farm windmill in the foreground (a truly beautiful photo) that won third place in the biennial Official Manual for the State of Missouri, 1997-1998, under the Missouri Scenery section.
I then gave all three of them my Luke 21:25a/Matthew 24:29-30a prophecy cards with those three 1999 celestial events fulfilling Matthew 24:29 on the back side. I told the elderly man who was from Hannibal, "It's just that when I was 10 years old, I took Christ's statement in Luke 21:25 that 'there will be signs in the sun, the moon, and the stars' to mean that the astronomers living just prior to Christ's return will be able to determine when the events described in Matthew 24:29 will take place."
In dramatic fashion, with his right elbow against his waist, this man extended his right forearm and swung it around towards me and said, "A-a-a-a-a-a-and."
I quickly picked up on his cue and, jabbing my right index finger at him for emphasis, I replied, "AND...I was so proud....of my abilities as a 10-year-old astronomer in 1964.....that I wanted to think....that if these events were to occur in MY lifetime....that there was NO WAY...that they...were going to get past me!!!"
There was then a few seconds of silence among the five of us before this man replied, "Well, you just never know what you're going to run into in this town of Hannibal," causing all of us to laugh very hard.
posted by supersweet101 at 2:29 PM
7 Comments:
Just curious... to which 3 events in 1999 are you referring?
See my entire blog page and you will learn of how I, between 1965-1990, uncovered three 1999 celestial events that fulfilled all of the celestial events described by Christ in Matthew 24:29. This has been known by everyone except the general public for quite a long time.
http://www.blogger.com/profile/7227366
Let me know if you are able to access this info.
Supersweet101
Wow... ok, I hadn't looked at your profile... I'll look through them. Thanks!
Supersweet,
You have an interesting blogging style-- may I ask why you tend to start a new blog address for each entry rather than multiple posts in one cohesive blog (as you have begun to do in "My Favorite Vignettes")?
At any rate, I found the 3 events... The eclipse, the meteor shower, and the Pluto orbit... all 3 are plausible explanations for the scriptural reference.
The eclipse in particular is quite interesting... especially considering the path (http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/SEmono/TSE1999/TSE1999Map/TSE1999MidEast.jpg) through the Middle East.
Interstingly, the peak visibility of the 1999 Leonids fall in the same path.
(http://www.saunalahti.fi/fmbb/astro/leonids.htm)
(http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?searchtype=address&formtype=latlong&latlongtype=degrees&latdeg=30&latmin=00&latsec=00&longdeg=50&longmin=00&longsec=00) - (http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?searchtype=address&formtype=latlong&latlongtype=degrees&latdeg=40&latmin=00&latsec=00&longdeg=50&longmin=00&longsec=00)
The Pluto orbit thing doesn't seem as strong of a correlation to me, or maybe I don't understand the significance in the same perspective as yourself. Christ would theoretically have had knowledge of the small planet, and could have also theoretically known of our ability to see it in 1999 with modern equipment, but it seems like a very obscure and undetectable event from a earth-bound perspective, in comparison to the eclipse and the leonids.
I guess I have trouble considering such a distant (from earth) and nearly invisible event being a reliable celestial sign. Care to elaborate any thoughts on this?
Kevin B.,
I just decided to post as I do so a person can choose a narrative from my blogs titles list. I'm rather new at this so I may be missing something but that seemed the simplest way to post it.
If one reads the end of my 2005 Christmas Letter blog, they learn that it was, of all people, my ex-wife who suggested to me in Feb., 2005 to establish my own blog. I was initially uninterested and then I thought, "What the hell?!"
Yes, at first the 1999 celestial event of Pluto becoming farther from the sun than Neptune was rather surprising that it might be referred to by Christ in Matthew 24:29 but there was that last event described by Christ in Matthew 24:29 ("and the hosts of heaven will be shaken loose") and I thought of this event pertaining to Matthew 24:29 really through 'guilt by association' with the 8-11-99 Mideast total solar eclipse and the 11-18-99 Leonid meteor storm and, as you said, I realized in November, 1990 that this event is just as knowable to God as the other two.
A little over a year later, in January, 1992, I purchased a St. Jerome Catholic Study Bible (c. 1985) and I opened it up to Matthew 24:29 and received quite a shock when the familiar phrase of "and the hosts of heaven will be shaken loose" had been replaced with an obviously synthetic wording of "and the powers in space will be driven from their courses," and I laughed hysterically for several seconds as I quickly could see that the Vatican's use of the words 'space' and 'courses' indicated that Catholic Bible had made the same interpretation that I had made.
What seemed to be an incredibly impossible 'religious calling' for me would, in time, be a hobby that gives me something to do.
Any other questions?
Thanks for your answers. The other translation does parallel the event more closely.
Although it could be considered as a 'translation', as you say, I see this version as an outright synthetic revision with the event of Pluto becoming farther than the sun than Neptune in February, 1999 in their minds.
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