When he opened the sixth seal, I looked, and behold, there was a great earthquake, and the sun became black as sackcloth, the full moon became like blood, and the stars of the sky fell to the earth as the fig tree sheds its winter fruit when shaken by a gale. The sky vanished like a scroll that is being rolled up, and every mountain and island was removed from its place. Then the kings of the earth and the great ones and the generals and the rich and the powerful, and everyone, slave and free, hid themselves in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains, calling to the mountains and rocks, "Fall on us and hide us from the face of him who is seated on the throne, and from the wrath of the lamb, for the great day of their wrath has come, and who can stand?"
~Revelation 6:12-17
Last night I had the privilege to witness the collision of a lunar eclipse with the winter solstice, and I got to do it in the company of a sweet group of people. We sang and danced and joked and were awed by God's wonder and majesty displayed in something that was seen last by Galileo and his contemporaries. The passage above was related to me by a friend last night (this morning). And below is what we got to see; such illustration of the Word can be chilling, and reassuring, and inspiring, and...how dreadful it is to fall into the hands of the living God! How wonderful, how gracious it is to be protected, to be loved by the living God!
