THE DAY OF RECKONING (4 OF 4)
by Jeff Strite
Scripture: Daniel 5:1-30
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The Day of Reckoning (4 of 4)
Series: Taking A Stand
Jeff Strite
Daniel 5:1-30
In 1883, the greatest volcanic explosion in modern history took place. Krakatoa, a volcano in Indonesia, exploded and shot 6 cubic miles of debris 24 miles up into the stratosphere. Its shock wave traveled around the world 7 times, and its debris fell more than 2000 miles away. The official death toll - over 90,000 people. The sky was so blackened from the clouds of debris that the sun was blocked from the sky for the next 24 hours as far away as New England.
At the time of Krakatoa's explosion, the Captain of a nearby British sailing ship wrote these words in his log: ''I am writing this blind in pitch darkness. We are under continual rain of pumice-stone and dust. So violent are the explosions that the ear-drums of over half my crew have been shattered.... I am convinced that the Day of Judgment has come.'' (Russ Lawson, www.heartlight.org 2/1/09 and ''Our Daily Bread'' 12/1/07)
The Day of Judgment (PAUSE)
ILLUS: How many of you are aware that we had a Solar Eclipse last week (everyone laughed and raised their hands because the news media had flooded the airwaves with information on this event). I have to admit that I'd forgotten all about it until I stepped out of my office about 2:30 that afternoon and was amazed at the eerie feel even a partial blocking of the sun had. The sky felt different and the even the grass looked different.
My son got an email from a friend down in Kentucky and that friend said that the solar eclipse made the sky so dark that they could see the stars in the sky and the temperature dropped an entire 25 degrees during the eclipse.
At various spots along the path of this event, 1000s of people would gather together and put on their special glasses and shouted and laughed as the sun became hidden behind the moon. As you can imagine, the Eclipse had a lot of people excited and partying... but there were others who weren't quite sure the eclip ...
Series: Taking A Stand
Jeff Strite
Daniel 5:1-30
In 1883, the greatest volcanic explosion in modern history took place. Krakatoa, a volcano in Indonesia, exploded and shot 6 cubic miles of debris 24 miles up into the stratosphere. Its shock wave traveled around the world 7 times, and its debris fell more than 2000 miles away. The official death toll - over 90,000 people. The sky was so blackened from the clouds of debris that the sun was blocked from the sky for the next 24 hours as far away as New England.
At the time of Krakatoa's explosion, the Captain of a nearby British sailing ship wrote these words in his log: ''I am writing this blind in pitch darkness. We are under continual rain of pumice-stone and dust. So violent are the explosions that the ear-drums of over half my crew have been shattered.... I am convinced that the Day of Judgment has come.'' (Russ Lawson, www.heartlight.org 2/1/09 and ''Our Daily Bread'' 12/1/07)
The Day of Judgment (PAUSE)
ILLUS: How many of you are aware that we had a Solar Eclipse last week (everyone laughed and raised their hands because the news media had flooded the airwaves with information on this event). I have to admit that I'd forgotten all about it until I stepped out of my office about 2:30 that afternoon and was amazed at the eerie feel even a partial blocking of the sun had. The sky felt different and the even the grass looked different.
My son got an email from a friend down in Kentucky and that friend said that the solar eclipse made the sky so dark that they could see the stars in the sky and the temperature dropped an entire 25 degrees during the eclipse.
At various spots along the path of this event, 1000s of people would gather together and put on their special glasses and shouted and laughed as the sun became hidden behind the moon. As you can imagine, the Eclipse had a lot of people excited and partying... but there were others who weren't quite sure the eclip ...
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