The End of Days?

I was fortunate enough to enjoy a weekend of sitting around and doing nothing.  I noticed the History Channel was having one of their “We’re All Going to Die” weekends, which I suppose is better than 72 hours of Hitler, since it was Veterans Day weekend.  One of the dooms day shows they were playing was “10 Ways the World Will End”.  One of the ways is an asteroid, of which they discussed that Apophis will dip below our satellites as it passes through earth orbit on April 13, 2029 (Friday the 13th).  Then, if it continues on it’s path as expected, it will hit the earth and kill us all.  Only a handful of people are actually preparing to defend the earth against Apophis.  They believe that by flying a ship close to it, the gravity of the ship will be enough to pull Apophis off course so that it won’t hit us.  This theory is untested, and scientists only think it will work.  But that’s not the the odd thing that came to mind.

And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth. Revelations 6:8

Asteroids are big and gray (kind of pale), and when they smash into the Earth they cause fire and mass destruction (hell). A large asteroid hitting us could wipe out 1/4 of the planet easily, and would put enough debris in the atmosphere that the sun would be choked out and eventually there would be world wide famine. It’s easy to imagine how this could be the “pale horse.”

Also, the number 7 has significant meaning in the bible and in Revelations. Apophis appears and then will return after 7 years to destroy us

I am Christian, but I tend to take a more agnostic viewpoint, but that is discussion for another time. If a man from 2000 years ago saw a vision of an asteroid hitting earth, they wouldn’t know how to explain it, other than creating some sort of analogy that they could relate to. Thus we have these cryptic messages warning us of the end that is coming that can apply to a great many things.

Apophis probably isn’t what John was talking about. I just find the connection interesting.