Scripture for Today: Solar Eclipse, 8/21/17 ?

Update Follow-up:
 Irma hit Florida USA ... September 9, 2017 twenty days after 'Great American Eclipse of the Sun.' After Irma will be Rosh Hashana ..  thirty-three days after the eclipse. The Hebrew New Year and End of the 50 Year 'Jubilee' - ROSH HASHANAH aka Feast of Tabernacles, September 22, 2017.

UPDATE: Monday, 8-21-17, today was the GREAT AMERICAN ECLIPSE OF THE SUN! I've been watching the coverage on Fox News as it was very cloudy in my Utah town and I saw nothing. Looks it was fun for all!  -- Annette

Will The August 21, 2017 Great American Solar Eclipse Begin A Warning Period For America Of  
“Forty Days & Forty Nights?"
8-15-17, Forty is the number for waiting, preparation, testing or punishment. It is also the number to start a new chapter of the history of salvation;  there are numerous occasions that the number forty appears in scripture - see image:

"Jonah began to enter into the city a day’s journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown." Jonah 3:4 
Noah Flood - "rained forty days and nights" Genesis 7:12;8:6 [1]

8-15-17, A solar eclipse is a lineup of the Sun, the Moon and Earth occuring only at a new moon and they don’t happen at every new moon. The rarity of the August 21, 2017 solar eclipse is not only considered a once in a lifetime event, it will be a once in about seven lifetimes! 

At this particular moment in Earth’s history – although the sun’s diameter is about 400 times larger than that of the moon – the sun is also about 400 times farther away, they appear nearly the same size as seen from Earth. That’s why - we on Earth - occasionally are able to witness the most amazing of spectacles, a total eclipse of the sun.  Some amazing facts follow:

The Number Thirty-Three

1. First contact of the 8/21 eclipse is the state of Oregon [the 33rd state in the USA]
2. The last contact is is South Carolina [on the 33rd parallel]
3. At 10:16 am Pacific Time the totality of darkness will reach Oregon ending at 2:49 pm Eastern Time in South Carolina - total travel time =  1 hour and 33 minutes (33 again)
4. This eclipse happens on day 233 of the year
5. If the Revelation 12 "sign" Virgo & Jupiter alignment event is valid, it occurs 33 days before September 23, 2017
6. The Messiah, Jesus Christ was 33 when He was crucified
7. It's 99 years [1918] (3 x 33) since the last eclipse went coast-to-coast over the US
8. From September 23, 2017 (Revelation 12 sign) to the end of the year, December 31, 2017 is 99 days

Following are just nine of thirty-three remarkable facts:*

• First big city the eclipse hits in Oregon is Salem – Salem was named after Jerusalem. The eclipse also begins in Oregon exactly at sunset time in Jerusalem. So technically speaking, as the sun sets in America it will be setting in Jerusalem.
• NUMBER TWELVE: The center line crosses through 12 primary states to receive total darkness; Jesus had 12 disciples, 12 months in a year, the meaning of 12  symbolizes God’s power and authority, as well as serving as a perfect governmental foundation.
• SEVEN years after the 8/21/17 one another will happen on April 8, 2024 marking an "X" over the United States. The combined time of totality of these eclipses together will be 7 minutes.
• The exact point where the two eclipses cross is specifically next to SALEM Road, near Cedar Lake in Illinois (Salem again!).

• ​The path of the eclipse will be situated in such a way that every single state of the US will experience it, even Hawaii and Alaska.
• ANOTHER "FORTY:" It will occur exactly 40 days before Yom Kippur [Sep 29-30, 2017] “Day of Atonement” and is a time of repentance. Everything may remain “normal” afterwards, however historically tragic events occurred soon after - like the pandemic of 1918. History: http://www.history.com/topics/1918-flu-pandemic​

​Does this forty day period from the eclipse to Yom Kippur have real significance for the USA?  Maybe, maybe not - either way turn to Jesus receive His forgiveness and newness of life!

Excerpted and adapted full original The Countdown Report here according to Rachel Baxter

12 Critical Events Over 40 Day Period from Aug 21 to Sept 30, 2017-  Michael Snyder here

[1] Rained 40 days Genesis 7

Note: Salem Oregon's name Wikipedia here:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salem,_Oregon

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