As the Apr. 8, date of the Great American Eclipse rapidly approaches, many are filled with unease and wonder what is going to happen after the occurrence is over?
In a recent YouTube video, evangelist Perry Stone addresses the words of Jesus and what will occur as the precursors to the end times and the lead up to the Great Tribulation.
Stone starts by turning to the source of all wisdom: the Word of God and shares what Jesus says in Luke 21:11:
And there will be great earthquakes in various places, and famines and pestilences; and there will be fearful sights and great signs from heaven.
“Notice He says great earthquakes, so whatever the great and fearful signs in the heaven will be, whatever Jesus is talking about in this reference, is connected to earthquakes, famines and pestilences,” explains Stone.
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This particular reference of Scripture draws a distinctly possible connection between the solar eclipse that is going to occur on Apr. 8, and the area in which it will travel, and that is over the New Madrid Fault line.
“How in the world are there signs in the sun and the moon? The answer is in Joel 2 and Acts chapter 2. It talks about the sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood before the great and terrible day of the Lord, the great and terrible day of the Lord’s the tribulation we’re not in the tribulation but we’re headed there, so these cosmic signs will happen before the Great Tribulation but there’ll be a sign that the tribulation is coming in the future blood moons,” Stone continues.
Unbeknownst to many, we just went through a penumbral lunar eclipse on the second day of Purim, on Monday, Mar. 25, exactly two weeks before the solar eclipse is supposed to take place.
These signs in the heavens lining up one after another after another, including the coming Jewish holiday of Passover taking place Apr. 22-30, have many fearful that a large-scale event is going to take place some time during or after the eclipse.
“The big thing that everybody’s talking about is it crosses over the New Madrid fault line,” says Stone. “…now John Kilpatrick a great man of God and several other men for years have had dreams or visions of the New Madrid fault line giving way.”
Should this event happen, and should it happen on a large scale such as 7.0 to 8.0 on the Richter scale or similar in strength to the quakes in the early 1800s, then massive disruption will occur in the United States.
According to the U.S. Department of the Interior, if the New Madrid Fault were to have recurring quakes of this size and scale, it would lead to “significant damage to buildings, transportation and critical infrastructure would occur in at least eight states, resulting in loss of life and economic disruption.”
“The danger to the United States would be that the railroad bridge[s] connecting part of the West with the East Coast are cut off. The bridges for trucks to deliver food are cut off. …So there would be a complete shutting off, a split, between the central and western part of the United States and the east coast of the United States. And the food supply would be diminished within probably, I would say within a few hours, because everybody would panic in trying to get food in the stores,” says Stone.
While Stone is not giving a specific timeline for an occurrence to take place, he does believe that the eclipse on Apr. 8, is one of the great and fearful signs Jesus spoke of, in which case something will transpire in the wake of the eclipse.
Stone encourages believers to take practical steps to be prepared for disaster scenarios, but more importantly, prepare their hearts and ensure that they are prepared spiritually.
“Be prepared is what I’m trying to say, and also realize these are signs that the Messiah is going to return. So your your greatest thing to do is to spiritually prepare for the coming of the Lord. That’s it,” Stone says.
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James Lasher is Staff Writer for Charisma Media.
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