This week has been most prophetic. The Pope as resigned, just like John and Malarky prophesied. Then, St. Peter’s Basilica was struck by lightning. And now, a meteor has struck in Siberia (Russia), just like Wormwood.
A huge meteorite flared through the skies over Russia’s Chelyabinsk region early Friday, triggering a powerful shock wave that injured hundreds of people, blew out windows and reportedly caused the roof of a factory to collapse.
Multiple amateurvideos posted online showed the meteor’s flaring arc across the western Siberia sky. Others from the scene included the sound of a loud boom, followed by a cacophony of car alarms. One video showed the hurried evacuation of an office building in Chelyabinsk.
Not really, but people will want to look for reasons here — not real explanations, but conspiratorial (and that’s how I would explain must of Christian eschatology) reasons for all of this. These events are absolutely not connected the Book of Revelation.
Period.
However, bring on the hits.
Joel L. Watts holds a Masters of Arts from United Theological Seminary with a focus in literary and rhetorical criticism of the New Testament. His interests include exploring the role of mimesis in human civilization, specifically in the study of religion and media, as well as science fiction and the way in which it has allowed mythology to be explored in light of scientific discoveries of the past century. He is the author of Mimetic Criticism of the Gospel of Mark: Introduction and Commentary (Wipf and Stock, 2013) and a co-editor and contributor to From Fear to Faith: Stories of Hitting Spiritual Walls (Energion, 2013).
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Surely not. Everyone knows that the prophesied Wormwood fell on April 26th 1986. If you’re unconvinced, find out what “Chernobyl” means.