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The Only "Sign" of Christ's Return: The 10th Planet & 2003
by:- Fat Jack McCracken
5-28-02
Forget about everything your preacher taught you about eschatology. Forget about exegesis on Daniel. Forget about the gospel non-signs paraded as 'signs'.
The gospel accounts of Mathew 24:1-14, Mark 13:1-13 and Luke 21:5-19 are simple statements about the nature of the repeating patterns of human history: When first uttered, these things were then future. That these events are non-signs is clear in the context of Jesus' explicit warning,"Look out that nobody misleads you"(with non-signs).
The so-called Great Tribulation can be described as a Great Distress. It is 'Great' in the sense of DURATION. Nothing before in the history of man has approximated the duration of this Distress. It appears to commence circa 70 A.D.. Now, the Master never used the term, "last days", only "the last day"(singular). His disciples reckoned the "last days" as commencing on the day of Pentecost. Both the periods called the "last days" and the "great distress" have been running uninterruptedly since the first century. In short, there is no secondary set of "last days" nor a secondary period of "great tribulation".
However, the disciples Peter, James, Johm and Andrew, according to Mathew's account asked Jesus for a "sign"(singular) as harbinger to his Return, erroneously believing such to happen in their day. Jesus reply first addresses the destruction of Jerusalem from which the "great distress" (v21) apparently commenced. Notwithstanding the rantings of end-timers, from Jerusalem's destruction til now there has been NO major prophecy fulfillment.
The next major event in world affairs is not wars, earthquakes, famines, etc.. The next major event, according to God's greatest prophet, is when a powerful planetary influence interrupts life on earth. This celestial event is identified:- "the sun will darken, the moon will dim, the stars will fall and the powers of the heavens will be shaken"(v29).
Now, there seems to be astronomical evidence that the so-called 12th planet, or 10th planet as it's currently known, visits our solar system approximately every 3600 years. Some identify this planet as Nibiru, but it has been known by other names. In some quarters alarmists are preaching doom. It seems as though this 10th planet may pass through our solar system in May-June of 2003. Based on ancient records and conjecture it seems that Nibiru is capable of shading the sun's light on earth's surface and diminishing the reflective nature of the moon's light toward the color red. As this planet passes through our solar system with its powerful magnetic field it can attract and repel space matter, giving the impression to earth-bound residents that 'stars' are flying everywhere. Its effects on planet Earth may result in a violent pole shift, volcanic eruptions and tidal distortions, which might make an earthling think, 'the powers of the heavens are shaking the earth'.
I am proposing that Christ Jesus may well have know about this celestial phenomenon of a 3600 year planetary cycle when he uttered his famous words as recorded in Mathew 24:29. The only "sign"(singular) as harbinger to Christ's "Coming" is a literal celestial commotion. There is a chunk of time between the celestial "sign" and the actual "Coming" itself; "...these events will happen within the lifetime of this generation". This celestial "sign" is merely signifying the approach of "summer". The culmination of 'summer' is the actual "Coming" itself. Therefore, the thieflike nature of Christ's Return is NOT linked to the "sign" of celestial commotion when Nibiru passes, but connected to the latter event, the "Coming" itself.