ASTEROID “APOPHIS”
Coincidence or Prophetic Sign?
“I (God) will utterly
sweep away everything
from the face of the Earth,”
declares the Lord.
I will cut off Mankind
from the face of the Earth
declares the Lord.”
(Zephaniah 1:2-3)
Asteroid Apophis
On June 19, 2004 astronomers sighted a very large asteroid hurtling towards Earth.
On July 19, 2005 (one year later) it was named “Apophis.”
Initial trajectory analysis showed a statistical probability this large asteroid could strike the Earth on April 13, 2029.
Then, in 2021, NASA announced this asteroid would not strike the Earth, but warned it will be an extremely near miss (the closest in all recorded history for an asteroid this size).
“Apophis” in Ancient Egypt
In ancient Egypt, Apophis was worshiped as the “Serpent” god and also as the god of “Chaos.”
A Coincidence or Prophetic Fulfillment?
Below is a prophecy Jesus gave when asked, “When will these things take place?”
He begins with things we will see just before the end …
“Then He (Jesus) said to them,
“Nation will rise against nation,
and kingdom against kingdom.
And there will be great earthquakes …
and famines and pestilences (diseases).
and there will be fearful sights
and great signs from heaven.”
(Luke 21:10-11)
Jesus then goes on to warn these “fearful sights” seen in the sky will be so terrifying that “men’s hearts will fail” …
“Men’s hearts will FAIL them from fear
and the EXPECTATIONS of those things
which are coming upon the Earth”
(Luke 21:26)
An Asteroid Apophis & Gaza (Israel) Connection?
Gaza (in Israel) represents a very important Bible Prophecy.
Could asteroid Apophis and the apocalyptic prophecies of Gaza, as found in the book of Zephaniah, be related?
An interesting coincidence …
In Bible Prophecy we find GAZA is linked to the Tribulation (“Apocalypse”) which is also called “The Day of God’s Fierce Anger and Wrath” in the Old Testament (Tanakh).
Prophecies of GAZA
In 2005 the world watched as every Jew living in Gaza was forcibly removed from their homes and from their land.
Gaza was forsaken. Even those Jews buried in cemeteries in Gaza were dug up from their graves and removed …
This ‘uprooting’ of the Jews from Gaza which the whole world watched on the news may be a much more significant prophetic event than most realize.
Through the prophet Zephaniah, God warned Gaza would one day be ‘forsaken.’ Gaza is in the land which was given to the tribe of Judah (Joshua 15:1-12), and one of Messiah’s titles is “The Lion of the Tribe of Judah” (Revelation 5:5).
Through the following prophecies in the book of Zephaniah, God wants the children of Israel and ALL Mankind to learn and know at least TWO (2) things:
First:
GOD has issued a terrible warning (and plea) to both Israel and ALL Mankind …
“Gather yourselves together,
Yes, gather together O undesirable nation
Before the decree is issued,
Before the Day passes like chaff,
Before the Lord’s fierce anger comes upon you,
Before the Day of the Lord’s Anger comes upon you!
(another prophetic term for the coming “Apocalypse”)
Seek the Lord,
All you meek of the Earth
who have upheld His justice (a warning to ALL Mankind)
Seek righteousness,
Seek humility.
It may be that you will be hidden
In the Day of the Lord’s Anger (Wrath).”
(See the prophecies of the coming ‘Rapture’)
(Zephaniah 2:1-7)
Second:
GOD wants all on Earth to know that GAZA will help trigger the coming Apocalypse and Armageddon (also called “The Day of God’s fierce anger and wrath” which will bring forth a time of great “Chaos” upon the whole Earth).
“For GAZA shall be forsaken, (by Israel)
And Ashkelon desolate;
They shall drive out Ashdod at noonday,
And Ekron shall be uprooted.
Woe to the inhabitants of the seacoast,
The nation of the Cherethites!
The Word of the Lord (Jesus Christ – John 1/Revelation 19)
is against you, O Canaan,
land of the Philistines (Palestinians):
“I (God) will destroy you
So there shall be no inhabitant.”
(Zephaniah 2:1-7) (The troubles in Gaza are a warning!)
Could “Apophis” Be Prophetically Significant?
As noted earlier, APOPHIS was the Egyptian god of “Chaos” also called “The Serpent” (the first of Satan’s many “titles”).
When reviewing the Apophis discovery timeline, there seems to be an uncanny and striking parallel between historic events surrounding APOPHIS and GAZA all taking place around the exact same time which might be more than coincidental.
Since the prophecies in Zephaniah concerning Gaza (being “forsaken”) clearly link Gaza to the coming Tribulation (“The Day of God’s Fierce Anger and Wrath”) I think it might be worth noting.
ITEM 1: APOPHIS & GAZA
June 2004: Israel’s Cabinet officially approves the GAZA “Disengagement (Evacuation) Plan” for the first time
June 2004: Asteroid (later named Apophis) is first sighted
July 19, 2005: Tens of thousands of Jews gather to protest their forced uprooting from Gaza, and Israel’s government sends 20,000 Israeli troops to stop and oppose them
July 19, 2005: The new asteroid officially named “Apophis”
August, 2005: Gaza forsaken. The mandatory “uprooting” and removal of all Jews living in GAZA officially begins
ITEM 2: APOPHIS & “THE AGES OF ELIJAH”
The Jewish “6000 Year” (7th Day) Prophecy …
“But, beloved, do not forget this one thing,
that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years,
and a thousand years as one day.”
(2 Peter 3:8 & Psalm 90:4)
Note: This prophecy is rarely mentioned in today’s churches.
Yet, this prophecy was the one thing AGREED upon by both the early Jewish and Christian writers and teachers!!
Early Jewish and Christian teachers/writers all wrote as though it was common knowledge and teaching at the time that at the very end of 6000 years of human history (the year 6000 AM, per the Biblical Jewish Calendar) a terrible global cataclysmic judgment will end Mankind’s (and Satan’s) rule over the Earth in order to make way for the “7th Day” (the 7th Millennium … the “Day of Rest”) when Messiah (Christ) will fully restore the Earth in peace and beauty and will reign for 1000 years (per the remarkable Bible prophecies which will be reviewed later in this book).
THE CLIMAX OF ALL HUMAN HISTORY
(7000 “YEARS” = 7 “DAYS” = FOUR “AGES” )
The FIRST 6000 Years (6 DAYS) of human history were to be prophetically divided into THREE AGES of 2000 Years each:
1st: CHAOS (Serpent in the Garden – Fallen Angels – Flood)
2nd: TORAH (The Law – Abraham – Moses – King David)
3rd: MESSIAH (As ‘Light unto Gentiles’ before Kingdom Age)
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“Jewish historian, Josephus, stated Elijah ran the school of the prophets and Elijah’s outline of prophecy was written in what was called the Epistle of Elijah which still existed in his day (70 AD).
The Talmud and the commentary, Tanna Debe Eliyyahu, both say that Elijah taught there would be six thousand years of human history and then the establishment of a one-thousand-year Messianic Kingdom.
JEWISH WRITINGS
THE “YEAR 6000″ (7th DAY) PROPHECY
We will begin this section with an “Ask The Rabbi” question found on Chabad.org which provides a good summary of the 6000 Year/7th Day Prophecy from a Jewish perspective …
Ask A Rabbi …
Rabbi Baruch S. Davidson
http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/607585/jewish/Significance-of-the-year-6000.htm
Question:
“I heard from a rabbi that the year 6000 will be the last year”
Rabbi’s Answer:
“The Talmud tells us that this world, as we know it, will last for six thousand years, with the seventh millennium ushering in the cosmic Shabbat, the Messianic Era. Six days a week we work, and on the Shabbat we rest and enjoy the fruits of our labor; the same is true with millenniums. The source of the Talmudic statement quoted is Rosh Hashana 31a and Sanhedrin 97a.”
School of Elijah – Talmud
Sanhedrin 97a
The William Davidson Talmud
https://www.sefaria.org/Sanhedrin.97a.14?lang=bi
“The school of Eliyahu (Elijah) taught: Six thousand years is the duration of the world. Two thousand of the six thousand years are characterized by Chaos; two thousand years are characterized by Torah, from the era of the Patriarchs until the end of the mishnaic period; and two thousand years are the period of the coming of the Messiah.”
CHRISTIAN WRITINGS
THE “YEAR 6000″ (7th DAY) PROPHECY
Ancient Church Fathers
From “The End Times by the Ancient Christian Fathers”
Dr. Ken Johnson pp. 13-15 ( www.BibleFacts.org)
Epistle of Barnabas 17:7-9
(1st Century AD)
“Therefore, children, in six days, or in six thousand years, all the prophecies will be fulfilled. Then it says, ‘He rested on the seventh day.’ This signifies at the Second Coming of our Lord Jesus, He will destroy the Antichrist, judge the ungodly, and change the sun, moon, and stars. Then He will truly rest during the Millennial reign, which is the seventh day.”
Iranaeus Against Heresies 5:28
(180 AD)
“The day of the Lord is as a thousand years; and in six days created things were completed. It is evident, therefore, they will come to an end in the six thousandth year.”
Hippolytus, Fragment 2 Commentary on Daniel 2:4
(205 AD)
“The Sabbath is a type of the future kingdom… For “a day with the Lord is as a thousand years.” Since, then, in six days the Lord created all things, it follows that in six thousand years all will be fulfilled.”
Commodianus; Against the Gods of the Heathens 80
(240 AD)
“Resurrection of the body will be when six thousand years are completed, and after the one thousand years (millennial reign), the world will come to an end.”
6000 Year Estimates Using Modern 365-Day Calendar:
Bible (Approx.) .…. 6000 AM ≈ 2000 AD
Bishop Usher ………. 6000 AM = 1996 AD
Bible Knowledge …. 6000 AM = 2028 AD
Isaac Newton ………. 6000 AM = 2060 AD
Johnson Index ……… 6000 AM = 2075 AD
Official Jewish ……… 6000 AM = 2239 AD
Corrected Jewish ….. 6000 AM = 2074 AD*
* https: //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_years_(Jewish_calendar)
Notes: 1. Johnson Index (see Biblefacts.org)
- Bible Knowledge Index (see BKI.net)
Estimate Using the Jewish Essene “364-Day” Years:
Year 6000 = 2056 AD
Estimate Using the Bible’s Prophetic “360-Day” Years:
The Year 6000 has arrived beginning in: 2020 AD!!
Prophetic Events which are appointed to take place …
Bible Prophecy warns sometime around the year 6000 there will come a terrible time of God’s Judgment which will include destroying angels (‘aliens’) returning to Earth, devastating wars, diseases, earthquakes, demonic invasions, asteroids, and global destruction coming upon all living upon the Earth who have rejected, denied, or ignored God’s Word.
We are warned this will be a time of “CHAOS”!!!
Elijah’s first Age of “Chaos” (see above) included:
– The “Serpent” Satan
– Fallen angels “mingling” with humans
– Terrible Judgment & Destruction (The Flood)
So, what does all this have to do with Asteroid Apophis??!!
As its name implies, our “Age of Messiah” may end with:
– The Serpent Satan (“Apophis”)
– Fallen Angels (Aliens) “mingling” with humans
– Terrible Judgment & Destruction (the Apocalypse)
– Exactly as in the Age of Chaos!! (“Apophis” = “Chaos”)
Note: If it’s orbit changes just slightly, or if the Earth’s gravity (or a missile) might cause it to split in two, asteroid “Apophis” could possibly fulfill these two prophecies which we find in the book of Revelation …
“Then the second angel sounded:
And something like great mountain
burning with fire was thrown into the sea,
and a third of the sea became blood,
and a third of the living creatures in the sea died,
and a third of the ships were destroyed.”
(Revelation 8:8-9)
“Then the third angel sounded:
And a great star fell from heaven,
burning like a torch,
and it fell on a third of the rivers
and on the springs of water;
And the name of the star
is Wormwood (bitter),
a third of the waters became wormwood,
and many men died from the water,
because it was made bitter.”
(Revelation 8:10-11)
Is this asteroid Apophis which is now hurtling towards Earth prophetically significant, and will it one day become a “great sight in the heavens” which will cause men’s hearts to fail?
We will have to wait and see (and prepare, just in case) …
“WATCH therefore,
and pray ALWAYS
that you may be
counted worthy to ESCAPE
all these things
that WILL come to pass.”
(Luke 21:36)
(Through faith in His worthiness … not ours!)