Our Inability To See
The train wreck that our civilization is rushing towards boggles the mind. Those who see this catastrophe coming, are left wondering why so many do not. This inability to see what should be obvious is amazing, and a big reason why the fall of empire can seem to happen suddenly. But, this isn’t just about ’empire’ of ‘civilization’.
It’s about everyone.
We are all vulnerable to blindness. All of us. Myself included.
I remember the feeling of shock that I felt when I returned to Indiana after 14 years in Jerusalem. It was 2006, and I could hardly believe what had happened to my country. Worse, very few understood what I was talking about, when I shared what I was seeing. This thought was brought home to me recently as I researched the science behind Ezekiel’s Fire over the past couple of weeks.
For those of you who might not know what Ezekiel’s Fire is, it comes from this verse in Ezekiel 39:
And I will send a fire on Magog, and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I am the Lord. – Ezekiel 39:6 (KJV)
That ‘fire’ and its effects are also discussed in Zechariah, Isaiah, Revelation and elsewhere. It is also becoming a topic of discussion among astronomers, but slowly. Too slowly.
When NASA launched the Kepler Space Telescope in 2009, scientists around the world were looking forward to seeing evidence of planets like our own, in orbit around stars like our Sun. And, they found lots of G-class stars with planets. But, what is absolutely astounding was there inability to see absolute evidence of complete disaster.
Even now, when you search for a description of the Kepler Space Telescope, you’ll be lucky to see anything about the superflares that it recorded. And, we only know about them because a Japanese astronomer at Kyoto University got a bunch of 1st year undergrad students to comb through the data.
If it weren’t for Professor Kazunari Shibata, we would probably still not know that our sun has the ability to hit us with a solar flare ten thousand times more powerful than the biggest flare ever recorded in human history. But, even with conclusive evidence, astrophysicists are still pushing back against the idea that our sun could destroy our civilization with such a big burst of energy.
How is it possible for 99% of astrophysicists to ignore such massive explosions of light from stars that are exactly like our own sun?
Unfortunately, it gets worse.
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