Dark Matter/Bok Globule Hypothesis

Revelation 6:12 I watched as he opened the sixth seal. There was a great earthquake. The sun turned black like sackcloth made of goat hair, the whole moon turned blood red, 13 and the stars in the sky fell to earth, as figs drop from a fig tree when shaken by a strong wind. 14 The heavens receded like a scroll being rolled up, and every mountain and island was removed from its place.

If a large cloud of dark matter made up of dust and rocks and larger asteroids was streaking towards our solar system at unimaginable speed, we would not be able to detect it until it was already here.

As it swept into the solar system it would wipe the light of the stars and planets from the sky - they would literally disappear from one side of the night sky to the other as if they were being rolled up like a scroll being allowed to snap shut. As the cloud passed in front of the sun it would be so thick as to blot out the sun's light completely. A huge number of the stones and asteroids would strike the earth. This and potentially the gravity of the cloud itself would cause massive earthquakes and tsunamis big enough to collapse mountains and wash away islands. There would be a vast prolonged meteor shower like figs dropping from a tree. Volcanic eruptions and worldwide fires would cause the darkened moon (from no sunlight) to reflect back the earth's lurid glow as the colour of blood.

Finally this cloud would knock larger bodies of the solar system into earth's orbital path including a mountain sized asteroid and a comet (later trumpet judgements)

I'm not saying that God could not fulfil the sixth seal without a physical means but huge invisible clouds of hurtling dark matter are very real possibilities and one such a one might have been aimed at earth by the Lord thousands of years ago.

Two Repentances

The question was asked:
Should one repent EVERYDAY as a follower of Christ?
My answer:
In a sense we Christians use the word repentance in two similar but subtly different ways. There is the sense in which each sin, and especially each habitual fleshy sin, must be repented of continuously - literally turning and keep turning back to the way of righteousness daily or even by the hour or minute, and we need to help each other to do this too (that is what the washing of the feet symbolised and why we must not stop meeting together to spur each other on to love and good deeds - i.e. accountability in fellowship and submission to church discipline). There is also the first and greatest sense of repentance that happens only once in a believer's life and that is the changing of the mind about who Jesus is and what He has done on the cross for our salvation and His glory - the repentance which is unto life. The greatest sin is to reject salvation in Christ and so it is the first and most pressing repentance we preach as we evangelise the lost. This is a one-off repentance that leads to a life of walking humbly with our God, loving His mercy and acting justly (forgiving others) and having an attitude of continual repentance. Amen?