[SatinDoll]

I am posting this for information only. As for discussion or argument, I am not interested.

Enjoy the return of the "Star of Bethlehem".

[Maudeen]

Thanks for the post. Will be on the look out for the Star of Bethlehem.

[The_Reader_David]

The Second Coming

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

-- William Butler Yeats

[slumber1]

Not all that uncommon:

Called a conjunction, this celestial convergence is more common than you might think.
They appeared slightly closer together before dawn on August 18, 2014, and they'll be separated by about 1 degree before dawn on the morning of October 26th. During a remarkable conjunction on May 17, 2000, Venus and Jupiter were just 0.01 degrees apart - but too near the sun to be seen. Next year, on August 27th, they'll dazzle again during an evening conjunction with a separation of just 0.1 degrees.

[MUDDOG]

No more Magi though.

ISIS and the Ayatollahs have killed them.

[American Constitutionalist]

The Biblical prophecy of Damascus is nigh also.

Turkey ready to invade Syria.

The next few months will be historic events.

If one saw Jupiter and Venus tonight on the 29th of June 2015 it would look like a clock at the 11th hour.

[captmar-vell]

I’ll share how I view this,

While its true all these spirits and their pagan heathen practices originated from Nimrod and ancient Babylon,

Spiritual and political Babylon wont be be found in Saudi Arabia, quite the reverse,

Allah is a capricious cold impersonal unknowable demon god, his worshipers are on their face five times a day in a starkly bleak, bare and drab almost black and white hate filled existence, yes the men can be very wealthy, but he is a cruel overlord, their lucky to get gruel from him even on their gold kitchenware, and Jews are hardly welcome or that is to say you would be unlikely to find any hanging around the mosque waiting for the call to prayer that God would need to admonish them to leave that place,

Mystery Babylon is a cornucopia of excess and freedoms and sex and wine and wealth and music and over-indulgence and power over the nations of the Earth, buying the worlds goods, a smorgasbord habitation of unclean spirits with a feminine persona sitting at the uppermost throne on her pedestal as a woman called wickedness, always having an excess of Jewish adherents around that have to be told to “come out of her” by God,

The two places could not be more spiritually different,

Anyway, as to the conjunction, could this Venus/Jupiter alignment be a sign for us tomorrow? Yes I believe so,

“He telleth the number of the stars; he calleth them all by their names. Great is our Lord, and of great power: his understanding is infinite. “ Psalm 147:4-5

“Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things, that bringeth out their host by number: he calleth them all by names by the greatness of his might, for that he is strong in power; not one faileth.” Isaiah 40:26

“Mine hand also hath laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand hath spanned the heavens: when I call unto them, they stand up together.“ Isaiah 48:13

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

Bookmark.

[SkyDancer]

In what part of the sky? What time(s)?

[Alex Murphy]

 Tomorrow (June 30th, 2015) the Star of Bethlehem will be making a return. Will this mean that the signs of the end is beginning to unfold? 

More "Walid Shoebat" nonsense.

[semaj]

Thank you for posting.

[Falconspeed]

Thanks for the post. Super bright. Maybe 350º NW. I saw it driving home on 101 Northbound in Ventura. I like to think the bright start is similar to the one shown for the Magi.

[Jess Kitting]

How do they know that this is the Star of Bethlehem, the exact same one that appeared at Christ's birth?

[Finalapproach29er]

Nobody mentioned the series of “blood Red” moons this year.

[Salman]

Yawn.

Christ’s Second Coming is always around the corner.

[Faith65]

BKMK

[onedoug]

Wary of the Biblical warnings to steer clear of superstition, I nonetheless understand how this same type of conjunction would have been taken up by Zoroastrians and others then, and by many of the general masses now.

However, even as a deep believer in God, I don’t necessarily ascribe this event as much more than the serendipitous alignments of solar system geometry as viewed from Earth.

But it is very cool indeed.

[Larry Lucido]

Tomorrow, Christians need to reflect, right after the sun sets (9:26pm eastern time, 8:26pm Central Time and 7:26 Mountain Time)

If you're in Denver, it will still be light out at 7:26 pm local time. If you're in New York City, you will have missed the sunset at 9:26 pm local time.

It also kind of depends on your latitude, longitude and whether your area observes daylight savings time. But long as you have your best rapture clothes on, I'm sure you'll be all set.

[WhatWouldReaganDo]

There's a feeling I get when I look to the west
And my spirit is crying for leaving...

Oooh…It makes me wonder

[RansomOttawa]

When it comes to tomorrow, Christians need to think while watching the Star of Bethlehem which will appear after an absence of roughly 2000 years. Tomorrow (June 30th, 2015) the Star of Bethlehem will be making a return. Will this mean that the signs of the end is beginning to unfold? And what did this sign mean? Is it a time of joy or suffering or both?

We're all gonna die again, I see?

[Jane Long]

Any stargazing FReepers see the Star of Bethlehem, tonight? I did...it was beautiful.

Thanks for posting this thread.