Rapture Watch

MORNING PLANETS: Set your alarm for dawn. Jupiter and Venus have lined up in the eastern sky for a beautiful pre-dawn conjunction. Paul Martini photographed the gathering on July 10th from California's Joshua Tree National Park:

As beautiful as it is now, the show is about to get even better. On July 15th a slender crescent Moon, alight with the Da Vinci glow, will join Jupiter and Venus to form a bright celestial triangle in the morning sky. Don't miss it!

http://www.spaceweather.com/

POISED TO EXPLODE? Big sunspot AR1520 has been relatively quiet for the past 24 hours, but this could be the calm before the storm. The sunspot has a delta-class magnetic field that harbors energy for X-class solar flares

Great post Mike! Very excited about the 15th Its interesting that it is also exactly 7 weeks to the day from Pentecost

Giant sunspot shoots out intense, X-class solar flare

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/post/giant-sunspot-shoots-out-intense-x-class-solar-flare/2012/07/12/gJQAKpDtfW_blog.html

Original post, from 2:30 p.m.: A massive sunspot region facing Earth - known as 1520 - has unleashed a large solar flare. NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center says the flare is rated an X1.4. This type of flare is considered “strong”and can cause a blackout of high frequency radio communication on the sunlit side of Earth for one to two hours.

http://www.spaceweather.com/

X-FLARE! Big sunspot AR1520 unleashed an X1.4-class solar flare on July 12th at 1653 UT. Because this sunspot is directly facing Earth, everything about the blast was geoeffective. For one thing, it hurled a coronal mass ejection (CME) directly toward our planet. According to a forecast track prepared by analysts at the Goddard Space Weather Lab, the CME will hit Earth on July 14th around 10:20 UT (+/- 7 hours) and could spark strong geomagnetic storms.

http://www.spaceweather.com/images2012/12jul12/ipad/x1p4.m4v?PHPSESSID=357oho0kvulcolqmu6tp4eenr3

❀ Alison ❀ at July 12, 2012 at 7:31 PM

Great post Mike! Very excited about the 15th Its interesting that it is also exactly 7 weeks to the day from Pentecost

Excellent point, Looking seven weeks forward too...

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Alison this video is interesting, I pray he becomes a Christian.

Rabbi Richman: Tu b’Av is the day in which man is “married” to his purpose to serve G-d

http://www.hands-for-charity.de/index.php?page=rabbi-richman-tu-bav-is-the-day-in-which-man-is-married-to-his-purpose-to-serve-gd

“Tu B’Av is the time of 7 WEEKS leading up to the Days of JUDGMENT?? — the ultimate manifestation of Hashem's love for the whole world.”

• “... an explosion of life over death.”
• “( Moses would say: ) ‘Let the living separate themselves from the dead.’”
• “It's like a window that’s opening up for us on this day.”
• “A celebration of love & soul-mate finding”
• “The completion of the circle”
• “The surrounding light of the soul mates”
• “Categories of issues of marriage; anti-death; anti-idolatry”
• “A kiss from heaven”
• “Cycle (Psalm 12) of going from death to rebirth”
• “From mourning on the floor of the holy Temple to the dance of the 15th of Av”
• “Burst of supernal joy on this day”
• “Paralleling only Yom Kippur (the Day of Atonement)”
• “Anti-death”
• “Wiping out idolatry”
• “The union of souls”
• “All of these things are testimony to the eternity of life.”
• “This is the true meaning on the deepest level of the beauty of the happiest day of the year — the 15th day of the month of Av.”

SPEECHLESS.

Then, I just read the Psalm 12 reference he pointed us to:

Psalm 12:1 Help, LORD, for the godly are no more; the faithful have vanished from among men.

WOW... very exciting!!!!! We have such encouraging days ahead for us. It seems the news is also right on track to line up with our soon departure ;-) Yea!

Mike, what does the chart mean?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geomagnetic_storm

SLOW EXPLOSION: Sunspot complex AR1520-1521 erupted on July 17th, producing an M1-class flare that unfolded slowly over a period of hours. Slow explosions often produce CMEs, and this one was no exception. Click on the image to view a movie of the bright, massive cloud recorded by the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory:

Impressive