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Calypsis4
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Message 1 of 2 (529513)
10-09-2009 5:26 PM


During the orbit of the moon by Gemini 8 during December, 1968, Stanly Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke unveiled 2001, A Space Odyssey. This science fiction story was of man's first encounter with extra-terretrials.
From the opening scene and throughout the movie the viewers were treated with panoramic views of space. But I noticed that in each instance where the earth and/or Jupiter lined up perfectly with the sun or moons there was a major development in man's 'evolution' and man was given the ability to take the next step in his progress.
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It is clear to the careful observer that timing was a very important matter in man's evolutinary growth, development, and understanding.
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From the ape-like ancestor man supposedly came from..
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...to the end where the hero of the story encounters the perfect alignment of Jupiter with five of its moons & the mysterious monolith there is a major change in man with each experience. The final encounter results in a miraculous transformation of the hero into something that Clarke suggests in his novel, a being powerful enough to change the world. All in time with what the highly evolved pure energy extraterrestrials had planned with precision timing.
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I watched this movie at the theater with a friend who happened to be agnostic. As we left the theater I told him, "I think I get it. The power in the monolith was God." He only nodded and replied, "Interesting that you would say that." Of course I no longer hold to that interpretation of the movie.
Well, that's science fiction. This is reality.
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The near alignment of Jupiter with some of its moons, resulting in the eclipse of Jupiters moon Europa being eclipsed by Io.
So the readers won't have to wait any longer on my point, it is my contention that all events and occurrences happen according to a perfect timing by the providence of Almighty God. In other words, from an eternal point of view, there are no 'accidents'. I intend to give some rather stunning examples of that.
1. In approx. 1440 B.C. the Hebrews of Isreal were commanded to take a lamb for each family, slay it and place its blood upon the doors of their homes. This was to be done on the 14th day of the month Nisan (April).
2. Later, the high priest of Isreal was likewise commanded to slay a lamb, this time a Ram, by putting his hand upon the head of the animal and stabbing it in the heart. The blood of the animal was to be brought before the Mercy Seat in the tabernacle. Each day of atonement (Nisan 14th) this was done for centuries. But the Jews never understood why it had to be done this way, at least not until the first century.
3. In approx. 535 B.C. Daniel the prophet was informed by the Spirit of God that exactly 483 yrs. after the command of Artaxerxes to rebuild Jerusalem the Messiah would be killed: 'cut off' ("...shall Messiah be cut off; which word signifies cutting off, or cutting down, as a tree). That date was approx. 450-444 B.C. but the month is exact: Nisan.
4. Joel told us 800 yrs B.C. that the day of the Lord would be accompanied by (a) a darkening of the sun and (b) a lunar eclipse (2:31) Most of us who believe this prophecy think that there is a double fulfillment involved here; both in the past and the future.
5. So: not only was the promised one (called the 'lamb of God') killed as prophesied it was done on the 14th of Nisan (April 3) A.D. 33, exactly 483 yrs to the day that the prophets said he would be killed.
What about the darkening of the sun? What happened on that fateful day?
Not only did the followers of Christ record that the world went dark that day...
Quote: "Phlegon Trallianus records in his history, Olympiades (41):
'In the fourth year of the 202nd Olympiad [AD 32-33], a failure of the Sun took place greater than any previously known, and night came on at the sixth hour of the day [noon], so that stars actually appeared in the sky; and a great earthquake took place in Bithynia and overthrew the greater part of Niceaea,' obviously not a simple astronomical event." Attorney Steve Larson in bethlehem.com.
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Also, Quote: "Julius Africanus mentions Phlegon's report of the darkness, and also a similar report of the darkness by Thallus, who wrote his History circa 50-100 AD. Thallus' manuscripts have not survived, but Africanus perserves some of his writing by critiquing it. Specifically, Africanus faults Thallus for stating that the darkness was the result of a solar eclipse.
"On the whole world there pressed a most fearful darkness; and the rocks were rent by an earthquake, and many places in Judea and other districts were thrown down. This darkness Thallus, in the third book of his History, calls, as appears to me without reason, an eclipse of the sun." See, John Chapman, Phlegon Examined Critically and Impartially (Cambridge University Press, London, 1734)
Matthew tells us that at the hour of Christs death, "and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent." 27:51.
But even more astonishing than all of this is the fact that on that day there was a lunar eclipse, which if one could hypothetically view the scene from the lunar surface looking back at the earth/sun then one could potentially view the constellation Aires (the Ram!) in the bacground...with the dark of the eclipse in the very heart of that Ram.
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Check out the time of the lunar eclipses according to NASA:
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http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/LEhistory/LEhistory.html
A lunar eclipse on April 3, A.D. 33, the day Jesus Christ died on the cross. Perfect timing by the God who ordained it all.

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