When the Lord Returns to the Earth
It will be in a Volcanic Ash Cloud that will Encircle the Entire Earth
I saw in the night visions and behold, one like the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven and came up, even unto the Ancient of days and they brought Him near before Him. And there was given Him dominion and glory and a kingdom that all people, nations and languages, should serve Him: His dominion is an everlasting and age-enduring dominion, which shall not pass away and His kingdom that which shall not be destroyed, nor brought to ruin. Daniel 7:13-14.
And immediately and straightway, after the pressure and anguish; the tribulation of those days, the light of the sun will be obscure and darkened; and the moon shall not give her brilliant light; and the stars shall fall from the sky of heaven and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken and stirred up; and then shall appear, the sign and token of the Son of man in the sky of heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of the sky of heaven with force and power; and abundant, great glory, dignity, praise and honor. And He shall send His angels with a great sound of a trumpet and they shall gather and collect in the same place, together His elect, chosen and selected ones, from the four winds, from one end and extreme of heaven to the other. Matthew 24:29-31.
But in those days, after that affliction, anguish, burden, trouble and tribulation, the light of the sun from the east shall be darkened and obscured; and the moon shall not give her brilliant light; and the stars of the extension of the sky of heaven shall be falling; and the powers that are in the sky of heaven shall be shaken, disturbed and stirred up. And then shall they see the Son of man coming in the clouds with abundant, great power and glory. And then shall He send His angels and shall gather together and collect in the same place, His chosen and His elect from the four winds, from the extreme uttermost part of the earth, to the extreme uttermost part of heaven. Mark 13:24-27.
And Jesus said, I am: and ye shall see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power and coming in the clouds of the sky of heaven. Mark 14:62.
And there shall be signs, tokens and wonders in the light of the sun; and in the moon; and in the constellation of the stars; and upon the whole earth anguish, anxiety and distress of nations, with a state of perplexity and mental loss; standing in doubtful confusion as what to do, being in a bewilderment, having no way out; because of the loud roaring of the sea and the waves being in a roaring vibration; men’s hearts failing them for fear and having an apprehension, an expectation and an arrival; looking after those things which are coming on the land of the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be moved and shaken. And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and abundant, great glory. And when these things begin to come to pass, then raise, look up and lift up your heads; for on this account, your deliverance and full redemption approaches and is drawing near. Luke 21:25-28.
After The Tribulation Period – The Son Of Man Coming In The Clouds
The Lord Jesus Christ will Return at the end of The Great Tribulation Period, in a single massive cloud of “Volcanic Ash,” which will encircle the entire planet earth. It will be caused by the thousands of erupting volcanoes and perhaps in addition to some “Super Volcanoes.” It will take several years to build this cloud, in which the Lord will pass through, upon His return to the earth.
Every Eye Shall See Him
Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen. Revelation 1:7
This is not the rapture of the saved. This is the return of the Lord Jesus Christ at the end of the Tribulation Period, coming with the saved to begin His millennial reign. It is identified as the Second Advent. I never doubt the Word of God, but I do doubt the ability of myself, and others, to correctly interpret it. I know that the Word of God is infallible, but I know that men are not. If the Bible says something, I believe it even if I do not understand it, but I enjoy it a great deal more if I understand what I believe. This verse of Scripture says, “And every eye shall see him.” How is that possible? This means that survivors in England, Russia, China, Africa, North and South America, and everywhere else will all see him. How is that possible? I know it will happen because the Word says it; but is it possible to understand how within the laws that God has established in his creation? In order to answer these questions, let us examine this verse point by point. We are told “he cometh with clouds.” This means all across the earth he will be seen with the clouds.
This is certainly consistent with the manner in which he departed from the earth in the Book of Acts.
And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and A CLOUD received him out of their sight. [10] And while they looked steadfastly toward heaven as he went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel; [11] Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? This same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall SO COME IN LIKE MANNER as ye have seen him go into heaven. Acts 1:9-11
In verse 9 we are told that a cloud received Him out of their sight, and in verse 11 we are told that when he returns to rule He will return in like manner as He departed into Heaven. He disappeared in a cloud. He will reappear through a cloud – the great cloud depicted in figure 14. This is His return to rule following the destruction of Daniel’s fourth beast with the 11th horn.
I beheld then because of the voice of the great words which the horn spoke: I beheld even till the beast was slain, and his body destroyed, and given to the burning flame. [12] As concerning the rest of the beasts, they had their dominion taken away: yet their lives were prolonged for a season and time. [13] I saw in the night visions, and, behold, one like the Son of man CAME WITH THE CLOUDS OF HEAVEN, and came to the Ancient of days, and they brought him near before him. [14] And there was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages, should serve him: his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed. Daniel 7:11-14
Please note that the Son of man comes with the clouds of heaven. The meteorological conditions of the great day of the Lord will be similar to the clouds, and their associated gloom, described in the following Scriptures.
The great day of the Lord is near, it is near, and hasteth greatly, even the voice of the day of the Lord: the mighty man shall cry there bitterly. [15] That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness, Zephaniah 1:14,15
For the day is near, even the day of the Lord is near, a cloudy day; it shall be the time of the heathen. Ezekiel 30:3
As a shepherd seeketh out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered; so will I seek out my sheep, and will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day. Ezekiel 34:12
Just how will the heavens appear when Jesus returns at the end of the Tribulation Period? Matthew paints the picture of His return in graphic form.
Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken: [30] And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man COMING IN THE CLOUDS of heaven with power and great glory. Matthew 24:29-30
I have already described in Birth Pang Numbers 9 and 10 how the gradual building of the great cloud in the stratosphere will engulf the entire outer portion of the earth’s atmosphere. This will cause the sun to be darkened and the moon not to give her light. In verse 30 the “sign of the Son of man” will appear in heaven. What is this sign? As the Son of man approaches the outer limits of the earth’s atmosphere, His “great glory” of verse 30 will light up the stratospheric cloud around the entire earth, and his glorious light will spread through it by God’s laws of refraction, scattering, and reflection. Every eye on the face of the earth will behold the blinding light of the glory of God in this great cloud. This is the sign of the Son of man in the heaven the Hebrews identified as our atmosphere. The closer Christ moves to the earth, the more brilliant will be the illumination of the cloud band around the entire earth. There will be no night as he returns to reign. He will break through the great cloud over the holy land, and, by the effects of light created by scattering, diffusion, reflection, refraction, inferior mirage, superior mirage, light inversion, and looming through air of differing temperature densities, His bodily presence image will be seen around the globe as he descends towards the Mount of Olives. The Shekinah Glory of God, in the bodily presence of the Lord Jesus Christ, will descend on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem, and the prophecy of Zechariah 12:9-14 will begin to be fulfilled.
And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem. [10] And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn. [11] In that day shall there be a great mourning in Jerusalem, as the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon. [12] And the land shall mourn, every family apart; the family of the house of David apart, and their wives apart; the family of the house of Nathan apart, and their wives apart; [13] The family of the house of Levi apart, and their wives apart; the family of Shimei apart, and their wives apart; [14] All the families that remain, every family apart, and their wives apart. Zechariah 12:9-14.
The following are some articles about Volcanic Eruptions that have ejected ash into the atomsphere that has encircled the entire earth. Towards the very end of the Great Tribulation Period, a massive Volcanic Ash Cloud will encircle the entire planet. It will truly be a day of darkness.
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https://watchers.news/2019/12/19/undersea-volcanism-year-of-darkness-536-ad/
Undersea volcanism as the cause of ‘year of darkness’ and upheaval period from 536 – 555 A.D.
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Researchers presented underwater volcanism as a new interpretation of why the sky mysteriously went dark for over a year beginning 536 A.D., with some parts of Europe and Asia seeing the Sun for only about four hours a day and accounts saying the Sun gave no more light than the Moon for 18 months. The dimming led to catastrophic global cooling, famine, and civil upheavals in Medieval times.
“People thought it was the end of the world,” said Dallas Abbott who studies paleoclimate and extraterrestrial impacts at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory.
536 A.D. was also one of the worst periods to be alive, according to Harvard University medieval historian Michael McCormick, who is not part of the study.
“And it came about during this year that a most dread portent took place,” wrote Byzantine historian Procopius. “For the sun gave forth its light without brightness, like the moon, during the whole year.”
This period of darkness and cooling marked the beginning of a longer upheaval period as trees struggled to grow from 536 to 555 A.D., indicating that the dimming was extensive, and experts have no idea exactly why.
Abbott and her colleague John Barron from the US Geological Survey presented their analysis in a poster at the meeting of the American Geophysical Union.
Their study of a Greenland ice core pointed to underwater eruptions that carried sediments and marine microorganisms into the atmosphere, which helped dim the sunlight.
Volcanic eruptions are known to spew sulfur and other particles into the atmosphere that can block out sunlight. However, geological records only showed big eruptions in 536 and 541 A.D., which are not sufficient in explaining the nine-year downward spike in tree growth.
Moreover, it would require a lot of sulfur and ash to darken the sky, and some of that material should be present in rock layers and ice cores.
However, “the amount of sulfate that was deposited wasn’t as much as in other eruptions where they experience a similar amount of dimming,” Abbott explained.
Number of fossils from tropical areas deposited in the Greenland ice during the 6th century (blue line). Sulfate levels in the ice core (black line). Image credit: Dallas Abbott/LDEO
The researchers examined ice layers from an ice core named GISP2 that were laid down between 532 and 542 A.D and measured the chemistry of the meltwater. They also extracted microscopic fossils.
“We found by far the most low-latitude microfossils that anybody’s ever found in an ice core,” said Abbott.
The researchers were only able to identify one high-latitude species that were believed to be blown into the atmosphere by underwater volcanic eruptions near the equator.
These submarine eruptions around 536 and 538 A.D. would have vaporized seawater with the rising steam carrying calcium-laden sediments and microscopic sea creatures into the atmosphere.
Some of the particles would have eventually settled in the Arctic.
Equatorial volcanic eruptions can affect the entire planet. Once the white sediments and microorganisms were in the atmosphere, it would have been very good at reflecting sunlight back into space. These are also difficult to detect in sediment records.
There is a chance that space rocks hitting near the equator could have thrown the sediments and microfossils into the air, but the ice core chemistry and lack of cosmic dust in the layers make this less likely.
“If there were impact events, they would have to be relatively small.”
Abbott and her team said they would like to study another Greenland ice core next to see whether they can replicate the surprising findings.
Related:
“New ice core evidence for a volcanic cause of the A.D. 536 dust veil” – Larsen et al. – Nature – DOI: 10.1029/2007GL032450
Abstract
New and well‐dated evidence of sulphate deposits in Greenland and Antarctic ice cores indicate a substantial and extensive atmospheric acidic dust veil at A.D. 533–534 ± 2 years. This was likely produced by a large explosive, near equatorial volcanic eruption, causing widespread dimming and contributing to the abrupt cooling across much of the Northern Hemisphere known from historical records and tree‐ring data to have occurred in A.D. 536. Tree‐ring data suggest that this was the most severe and protracted short‐term cold episode across the Northern Hemisphere in the last two millennia, even surpassing the severity of the cold period following the Tambora eruption in 1815.
Featured image credit: jplenio/Pixabay
See also: https://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2019/12/17/undersea-volcanism-medieval-darkness/
Starting in 536 A.D., the sky went dark for more than a year. In some parts of Europe and Asia, the sun only shone for about 4 hours a day, and “accounts say the sun gave no more light than the moon,” says Dallas Abbott, who studies paleoclimate and extraterrestrial impacts at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. The mysterious dimming of the sun brought on global cooling, famines, and civil upheavals; the Chinese reported eclipses that still can’t be explained today. Naturally, “people thought it was the end of the world,” says Abbott.
The world didn’t end then, of course, but this period of intense dimming and cooling was the start of a longer period of upheaval. Trees struggled to grow from 536 to 555 A.D., suggesting that the solar dimming was extensive, and scholars don’t know exactly why. Last week, in a poster at the meeting of the American Geophysical Union, Abbott and her colleague John Barron from the U.S. Geological Survey presented a new interpretation of the event. Their analysis of a Greenland ice core points to underwater eruptions that carried sediments and marine microorganisms into the atmosphere, where they helped to dim the sunlight.
Researchers discovered a high number of fossils from tropical areas (blue line) deposited in the Greenland ice during the 6th century. This indicates that underwater eruptions near the equator may have contributed to epic sky-dimming during 536-537 A.D. (The black line shows sulfate levels in the ice core, an indicator of another type of volcanic eruption.) Image: Dallas Abbott/LDEO
Volcanic eruptions have been known spew sulfur and other particles into the atmosphere that can block out sunlight. But geological records only indicate big eruptions in 536 and 541, which aren’t enough to explain the nine-year downward spike in tree growth. In addition, it would require a lot of sulfur and ash to darken the sky so much, and some of that material should be visible in rock layers and ice cores. However, says Abbott, “the amount of sulfate that was deposited wasn’t as much as in other eruptions where they experience a similar amount of dimming.”
That led her and Barron to suspect that perhaps impacts from space rocks could have thrown up enough dust to cause the dimming. But now, after analyzing a Greenland ice core, they have another theory.
From an ice core named GISP2, the scientists carefully analyzed ice layers laid down between 532 and 542 A.D. They measured the chemistry of the meltwater, and extracted microscopic fossils to study them under a microscope.
Surprisingly, the layers of the ice core contained 91 fossils of microscopic species that would have lived in warm, tropical waters. “We found by far the most low-latitude microfossils that anybody’s ever found in an ice core,” says Abbott. By comparison, they were only able to identify one high-latitude species in the mix.
A few examples of microfossils found in the Greenland ice core. These species would have lived in warm tropical or subtropical waters. So what were they doing in Greenland? Image: Dallas Abbott/LDEO
How did all those warmth-loving tropical and subtropical species get all the way up onto the Greenland ice sheet?
The team suspects they were blown into the atmosphere by underwater volcanic eruptions near the equator. Rather than emitting lots of sulfur, these submarine eruptions (in approximately 536 and 538 A.D.) would have vaporized seawater, the rising steam carrying calcium-laden sediments and microscopic sea creatures into the atmosphere. After floating around the atmosphere for a while, some of these particles would have eventually settled in the Arctic.
Equatorial volcanic eruptions in particular can affect the entire globe and, once in the atmosphere, the white sediments and microorganisms would have been very good at reflecting sunlight back into space. They’re also difficult to detect in sediment records, which explains why they hadn’t been noticed before.
There is still a slight possibility that space rocks striking near the equator could have thrown the sediments and microfossils into the air, but the ice core chemistry and lack of cosmic dust in the layers makes this hypothesis less likely. “If there were impact events, they would have to be relatively small,” says Abbott.
Next, she and her team would like to analyze another Greenland ice core to see whether they can replicate these surprising results.
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The Final 1335 Days Of The Age Of The Gentiles
The information in the first section of this page is from: www.TribulationPeriod.com
Event 1 – Israel is attacked 1335 days before the end of the Tribulation Period.
Event 2 – Some 30 days later the two witnesses begin their testimony in Israel when Jerusalem falls.
Event 3 – Some 45 days later the IDF is driven south to Beersheba and the United Nations brokers a truce or hudna is agreed to by Islam and Israel.
Event 4 – Israel remains surrounded in the Negev Wilderness for some 1260 days after the truce agreement.
Event 5 – Some 45 days before the end of the Age of the Gentiles the two witnesses will be killed by the Antichrist after having testified for 42 months (1260 days). The Antichrist will declare himself to be God on the Temple Mount – This is the abomination “that maketh desolate.”
Event 6 – Three and one half days later three events occur in rapid succession. They all three occur on the same day.
#1 – The two witnesses ascend up to heaven through the clouds.
#2 – A great earthquake occurs in the same hour the two witnesses depart.
#3 – The last trump (7th) Trump sounds and all of the saved are caught up.
Event 7 – All of the saved are judged in heaven while the seven vials of God’s wrath are poured out on unbelievers.
Event 8 – Christ returns with all the saved some 1335 days after the initial attack of Islamic forces against Israel.
SUMMARY
- Israel will be attacked to start the last 1335 days of Israel’s Travail
- Jerusalem will fall 30 days after the initial attack
- The two witnesses will testify for 1260 days after the fall of Jerusalem
- A truce or hudna will be declared at Beersheba 45 days after Jerusalem falls
- Israel will remain in the Negev for 1260 days after the truce or hudna
- Antichrist will kill the two witnesses and declare himself to be God on the Temple Mount making himself the “abomination that maketh desolate.”
- Three and one-half days later three events occur in rapid succession on the same day: (1) The two witnesses ascend into heaven, (2) A great earthquake occurs, and (3) The seventh trump sounds and all the saved are caught up, including the sealed 144,000.
A composite of the Hebrew words for Joel 2:30: And I will show a token, a sign and wonder in the visible arch of the sky where the clouds move and throughout all the earth, in the fields, in the country, in the wilderness and it will have the appearance of blood, along with a burning, hot flaming fire, with columns of cloudy dust, smoke and vapor.
A composite of the Hebrew words for Joel 2:31: The brilliant sun, from the rising of the sun in the east to the sun rays in the arch ways of the sky, will be changed into darkness, as if it were night and the moon will take on the appearance of blood before the great and noble, fearful and terrible day in which Jehovah, the self-Existing One, the Eternal Lord shall come.
A composite of the Greek words for Acts 2:19: And I will bring forth a rare event so extraordinary, it will inspire wonder, for it will be in the elevated area of the sky and a token of these events, will be throughout the entire regions under the surface of the soil, of all the land of the world, for it will be a visible wonder of flowing substance like blood, of flashes of lightening and fire, with a mist of smoke.
A composite of the Greek words for Acts 2:20: The rising of the sun in the east and the rays of daily light will become as an outlining shadow and the bright shining moon, will appear to be a blood red color, before that mighty and visible day in which the One in supreme authority will come.
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