The Bible tells us that God put signs in the sky to alert us to the seasons, the days, and the years and to Inform us of The LORD’s appointed times, such as the feasts. Much of what the Bible says about the signs in the sky, including Christ himself, point to the return of the Messiah, the Day of the Lord. Joel 2:30-31, for example, says “And I will show wonders in the heavens and in the earth…The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.” This is repeated in Acts 2 by Peter. Revelation is very specific about the signs in the sky. A lack of understanding of these signs can result in the wildest theories, as we saw with the recent eclipse.
It was amazing to observe the crazy interpretations of the eclipse, especially by the political left that demonstrated their lack of knowledge of both God and science. It’s sad that these people can admit that there are signs in the sky placed by God, but not really believe in God, nor even understand the science they say they believe. One fine example is Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) who took the eclipse opportunity to wow Houston high school students with her vast knowledge of science (she previously served on the House Science Committee). She told the students that the moon was a “planet” and “made up of mostly gases,” which would prevent humans from living there. WHAT?
On Monday’s “The View,” ABC legal analyst Sunny Hostin made fun of her makeup artist that thought an earthquake and the eclipse was the sign of the Rapture. She said the makeup artist ran down the hallway saying “Jesus is coming. I’m out. I’m leaving. We got a solar eclipse. We’ve got an earthquake.” Then Hostin said that the cicadas coming, the eclipse and the earthquake, “all those things together, would maybe lead one to believe that either climate change exists, or something is really going on.” Joy Behar reminded her that earthquakes are not climate change related because they are underground. Whoopi Goldberg pontificated that cicadas and eclipses were cyclical and that “God doesn’t give you a warning…God does stuff and then you figure, oh.” Such wisdom.
Politicians used the eclipse to misinform students of science. Actors, TV news “journalists” and others used the eclipse to promote their political agenda. Even many in the religious community have extra-biblical, emotional and self-indulgent ideas of what the eclipse meant. But I tell you the truth: If there is no contextual understanding of the Holy Scriptures about the signs in the sky, there is a wide berth for error. These people often claim they don’t even believe the scriptures, yet they try to tell the world the meaning of the signs in scripture, showing stupidity. The definition of stupid is: showing poor judgment or little intelligence. And when stupid becomes systemic in society, we have, say it with me…Stupidocrisy.
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