Understanding the End Times Part 2: Black Suns

Perhaps this particular post should be more aptly named 'realizing the end times', since on the surface there really isn't much here to interpret.  On 20 July 2018, the sun went dark in the middle of the day over a little-known part of Russia called Yakutia, which of course is a fulfillment of Biblical prophecy, specifically those such as Acts 2:20 that speak of the last days.

In the past, every time I read those prophecies I, as I would presume most believers, thought they were referencing solar eclipses, which seem to be happening with increased frequency these days.  However this was not the case in Yakutia, unless now eclipses can occur instantly with no foreknowledge,  A simple Google search will reveal there is still no official explanation as to what occurred.  In order words, the sky simply went dark in the middle of the day.

When the incident first occurred, there were reports of this phenomenon perhaps being the result of a really dark, all-encompassing cloud caused by a huge forest fire.  But as you can see from the video below, which was the only shot by an eyewitness, this definitely isn't a cloud, at least not of the likes I ever seen.  In fact, there doesn't really appear to be any clouds in the sky at all:

Biblical prophecy is a tricky game where sometimes they can be fulfilled shortly, even instantly, after they are uttered, and sometimes they can take centuries or even millennia to occur.  Indeed, Jesus himself sometimes spoke as if he thought the world was coming to an end like the next day.  And even if he didn't based on the tone of some of his prophecies, I definitely don't believe he still expected us to be here now, 2,000+ years later.

So sometimes, when people look at the misplaced timeline of these prophecies, they go on to believe that Jesus - albeit the fact that he specifically noted he didn't know the exact time of the end - may have spoken false prophecies if he was implying that the end of the world had already begun during his day.  However, when you understand life and death, like how a human being can literally be dying (i.e. from cancer or HIV for instance) for years before they breathe their final breath, then considering that the Earth took "several million years" to form, there is no reason to believe it wouldn't take at least a few millennia to die.  And even when you take into account that "the end of the world", as prophesied, is not synonymous with the destruction of the Earth, "the world", as in human beings inhabiting this planet, according to science dates back at least 300,000 years.

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