Wrath of Nature

[Eurogal]

Seeing the following picture I started gloating in my fantasy of God in his letting out his wrath on the sins of men that will be coming soon.

Lightning flashes over hotels and casinos on The Strip in Las Vegas, Nevada, as a storm rolls through the Las Vegas Valley in this July 2003 file photo. REUTERS/Ethan Miller

[Little Lamb]

I like that picture.

[Eveningstar]

neat...

[me again]

Wow Eurogal, that is some picture!!! :wow:

[Little Lamb]

ES,

I like your picture too!

[Ron Lambert]

Here's a cool picture of lightning. You want to talk about being zapped by divine justice....

[Ron Lambert]

Here's another. I like the green cloud.

[Little Lamb]

:wow: to Ron's pictures!

[Yahvist]

".......zapped by divine justice...."! Ron Lambert.


That must have been a cut/paste montage but was very effective in giving a great message of what the power of nature controlled by God can bring forth. Being an avid Revelation, and OT prophets reader I sure was impressed by that first pic contribution of yours.

Could the green glow in the second picture of lightening have something to do with the night filter used? I know that lightening chasers are real weather prognosis listeners of online sites giving forcasts where the action is going to take place. The rush to the sites before the storm and set up their cameras.

Yahvist

[Ron Lambert]

I don't know the circumstances of either picture, but I would imagine that the first one was a montage, and the second one probably has greenish hues as a product of the night filter or film type--since the ground clutter lights also have the same greenish hue. The one Eurogal posted is certainly more colorful, and the colors seem more natural.

[Ron Lambert]

Speaking of wrath of nature, nebulae are often the result of stellar explosions. Following are two of my favorites. They were taken with the Hubble Space Telescope. Someday maybe we will be able to see these close up, as we travel through space with the Lord. (Note Rev. 14:4, second sentence: "These are the ones who follow the Lamb wherever He goes." -- NKJV).

[Ron Lambert]

Here's another. This is called the Cat's Eye Nebula:

[Ron Lambert]

And here is one of the most intriguing--the "Dumbbell Nebula." When I reoriented the photo, turning it over on its side, it looks very much like the Americas in the western hemisphere of earth. This is object M-27 in the Messier Catalog.

[Eurogal]

Gorgeous!! Fabulous!! and those are just fotos. Think how marvelous it is going to be sailing by those nebulas with our new resurrected transformed bodies. We won't be bound to the elements of this world anymore and will be allowed certainly to have a look at those universe stars and cosmic thingys when we are on the way to Heaven with the King of Kings.

Thanks ever-so much Ron for getting those pics uploaded here.

:hi: from me Eurogal

[Ron Lambert]

I should post this, too. This is NGC7000, the one officially called the "North America Nebula." I think the Dumbbell Nebula turned on its side is a lot more convincing. The formation to the right is called the "Pellican Nebula."

[Eveningstar]

John 17:1-26

[Little Lamb]

Originally posted by Eveningstar
John 17:1-26
ES,

I love John 17. My Saviour is talking to my Heavenly Father.

[Little Lamb]

For those who are going to be in Heaven with me:

I'm really looking forward to it. We will actually be able to be in space. What a fun time that will be.

[Eveningstar]

Jhn 17:15 I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil.

[Ron Lambert]

Eveningstar, Earth will always be our home. Even after the thousand years in Heaven, we will return to Earth with the New Jerusalem. But we will never be confined to Earth the way Satan was after his fall from grace. Indeed, even though we now live during the time before the history of sin has come to an end, God still permitted men to walk on the Moon.

Jesus promised: "He who overcomes, I will grant to him to sit down with Me on My throne, as I also overcame and sat down with My Father on His throne." (Revelation 13:21; NASB) If we are given the honor and responsibility of sitting on the throne of the universe with Jesus, doesn't that imply that our job desciption for eternity will include plenty of travel?

[Little Lamb]

Originally posted by Eveningstar
Jhn 17:15 I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil.
That's supposed to be now.

[Ron Lambert]

Right, Little Lamb. And Jesus also said: "In My Father's house are many dwelling places; if it were not so, I would have told you; for I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also." (John 14:2, 3; NASB) So at some point Jesus IS going to take us out of this world, at least for a while.

[Little Lamb]

Originally posted by Ron Lambert
Right, Little Lamb. And Jesus also said: "In My Father's house are many dwelling places; if it were not so, I would have told you; for I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also." (John 14:2, 3; NASB) So at some point Jesus IS going to take us out of this world, at least for a while.
I use the King James and it has mansions in the place of dwelling places. But in any event, the saved will be there with Jesus.

Jesus is going to make a new Heaven and a new earth. We will be with Him forever.

Just think about that. A new Heaven, we may not have our solar system anymore. We will also have another kind of earth. :wow: The Lord is truly amazing.

[Ron Lambert]

Revelation 21:1 would seem to indicate that. At least, the earth's surface will be remade. And it could be the atmosphere will be remade too, so that there is water above the atmosphere (called "firmament" in the KJV, "expanse" in the NASB) as well as beneath it, the way it was originally created, according to Genesis 1:6-8.

But it is also possible that the "second heaven," where the stars and other planets are, will be changed too. Revelation 22:5 says: "And there shall no longer be any night; and they shall not have need of the light of a lamp nor the light of the sun, because the Lord God shall illumine them; and they shall reign forever and ever." (NASB) And Isaiah 30:26 tells us: "And the light of the moon will be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun will be seven times brighter, like the light of seven days, on the day the Lord binds up the fracture of His people and heals the bruise He has inflicted." (NASB) These texts might be construed as implying that the earth will be moved, perhaps closer to the center of the universe, or at least the center of the galaxy, where stars are much closer together and the sky is always light. That may be what is happening to the earth during the millennium. It's surface is wasted and uninhabitable, because it is exposed to the cold of space so that even the atmosphere freezes, as it travels from its current location two-thirds out on the Orion arm, to some place nearer the center. Even if it takes a thousand years, that would still mean the earth would have to travel faster than the speed of light. I wonder if the sun, moon, Mars, Venus, Saturn, etc., will also be brought with us, so that we have the same sun and moon.

OK, true, the above is sheer speculation. It would explain a few things. But mainly it is fun to consider the possibility.

[Admiral_D]

I love to look at the outer space pictures...They are soooo cool...Thanks to Ron et al for posting those neat pictures....

My only request is to see more of those type of pictures....

maybe a new thread with space pictures should be started...
:D

[Ron Lambert]

This one is designated NGC6826. It is also a photo taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. There are a lot of great photos to be seen taken by the HST. Here is one website you can go to in order to view many such photos:

http://hubblesite.org/gallery/

[Ron Lambert]

Of course, the best known of all is the Great Nebula in Orion, M-42. It can be seen with the naked eye as the slightly blurry middle star in the the "sword" hanging from the "belt" in the constellation Orion. I have a number of pictures of this nebula, but this is the best one I have seen.

Seventh-day Adventists have long wondered if this nebula has anything to do with Ellen G. White's intriguing statement in Early Writings, p. 41: "Dark, heavy clouds came up and clashed against each other. The atmosphere parted and rolled back; then we could look up through the open space in Orion, whence came the voice of God. The Holy City will come down through that open space."

Was she referring to the open space in the clouds, or to some kind of "open space" in the Constellation of Orion? Might the Great Nebula be a sort of funnel, with an "open space"?

Orion is a northern constellation, and the Bible associates God's throne with the north: "For you have said in your heart: 'I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God; I will also sit on the mount of the congregation On the farthest sides of the north...'" (Isaiah 14:13; NKJV)

Also: "Out of the north comes golden splendor; Around God is awesome majesty." (Job 37:22; NASB)

[Ron Lambert]

Here is a diagram that shows where the Great Nebula can be found in the Constellation of Orion.

[Little Lamb]

That's very interesting, Ron.

[Eveningstar]

http://www.robgendlerastropics.com/Oriondeepfield.html

[Eveningstar]

From ground-based telescopes, the "ant nebula" resembles the head and thorax of a garden ant.

[Eveningstar]

Lightning ripples over the Bass Performance Hall in Fort Worth, Texas, on June 14, 2003.

[Eveningstar]

:eek: Dark clouds roll over Blair, Neb., on May 9, 2003, bringing thunder and flashes of lightning.

[Eveningstar]

God is such a show-off! :p

[Little Lamb]

That's very interesting, ES. :D

[Little Lamb]

Originally posted by Eveningstar
God is such a show-off! :p
God can do anything He wants. No one but no one can stop Him.

[Eveningstar]

Tue Mar 9, 4:16 PM ET


Astronomers at the Space Telescope Science Institute unveiled the deepest portrait of the visible universe ever achieved in this image released March 9, 2004 taken by Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) and the Near Infrared Camera and Multi-object Spectrometer (NICMOS). In this image, blue and green correspond to colors that can be seen by the human eye, such as hot, young, blue stars and the glow of Sun-like stars in the disks of galaxies. Red represents near-infrared light, which is invisible to the human eye, such as the red glow of dust-enshrouded galaxies. The image required 800 exposures taken over the course of 400 Hubble orbits around Earth. The total amount of exposure time was 11.3 days, taken between Sept. 24, 2003 and Jan. 16, 2004. (NASA (news - web sites) via Reuters)

[Eveningstar]

Lightning creeps across the sky as fans sit in their seats through a severe weather delay at The Ballpark in Arlington, Texas, where the Texas Rangers (news) were hosting the Boston Red Sox (news), Friday, April 30, 2004. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)


Psa 135:7 He causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth; he maketh lightnings for the rain; he bringeth the wind out of his treasuries.

[Eveningstar]

The nebula called the ``Red Rectangle,'' one of the most unusual celestial bodies in the galaxy, is shown in this image created from observations by NASA (news - web sites)'s Hubble Space Telescope (news - web sites) taken on March 17-18,1999, and was released Tuesday, May 11, 2004. The detail from the Hubble image shows the twin stars at the nebula's core ejecting conelike streams of gas and dust outward in opposing directions, producing a distinctive rung-like pattern. Astronomers know of no other nebula like it in the universe. (AP Photo/NASA, HO)