{"id":4188,"date":"2016-11-25T14:27:25","date_gmt":"2016-11-25T14:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=4188"},"modified":"2016-11-28T16:59:35","modified_gmt":"2016-11-28T16:59:35","slug":"events-and-signs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/events-and-signs\/","title":{"rendered":"Events And &#8216;Signs&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3127\" src=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/logoinside.gif\" alt=\"logoinside\" width=\"350\" height=\"45\" \/><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Nature has been serving up some interesting displays, no?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong>Certainly, it has been granting fascinating visual effects.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong>In the span of just a week or two, we&#8217;ve seen the following:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong>A fireball in Florida, witnessed from the Keys way up to the panhandle (Panama City, Tallahassee).<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.rt.com\/files\/2016.11\/original\/5835ee48c46188ac408b4691.jpg\" alt=\"\u00a9\u00a0ABC 7 Sarasota - WWSB\" \/><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong>Around the same time, a meteorite was photographed in Japan, immediately after a significant quake there, as sort of a punctuation mark, presented in the London\u00a0<em>Mirror<\/em>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/i2.mirror.co.uk\/incoming\/article9306847.ece\/ALTERNATES\/s615b\/Man-films-meteorite-burning-across-sky-following-Japanese-earthquake.jpg\" alt=\"Image result for meteorite Japan quake\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong>And there was a quake that hit Central America &#8212; exactly as a hurricane approached there&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-images.forbes.com\/marshallshepherd\/files\/2016\/11\/CyDgWBpWEAQF6mc.jpg-large.jpg?width=960\" alt=\"Hurricane Otto near Central America coast during the 2016 Thanksgiving holiday season. Source: NOAA\/NASA\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong>A severe fire erupted in the Holy Land, as reported below, that same week, in the\u00a0<em>New York Post.<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img class=\"wp-image-10562180 aligncenter\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thenypost.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/11\/gettyimages-6257303141.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=568 1x, https:\/\/thenypost.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/11\/gettyimages-6257303141.jpg?quality=40&amp;strip=all&amp;w=640 2x\" alt=\"ISRAEL-FIRE\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong>And, back in Japan, snow in Tokyo for the first time in half a century (as reported in the Washington <em>Post<\/em>).<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/img.washingtonpost.com\/wp-apps\/imrs.php?src=https:\/\/img.washingtonpost.com\/rf\/image_960w\/2010-2019\/Wires\/Images\/2016-11-24\/Getty\/AFP_IE2YQ.jpg&amp;w=1484\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong>Some panic at such things. Reported <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>RT News<\/em><\/span>, about that fireball: &#8220;A handful of residents on Florida\u2019s western coast called the police to ask if an alien invasion was unfolding, after seeing a bright light in the night sky. The fireball turned out to be a small meteor, according to the U.S. government. <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong>The American Meteor Society\u00a0received over 150 reports from residents living from Key West in the south to the Florida panhandle in the north, who spotted the great ball of fire on Monday evening. The fireball was recorded on dashboard cameras of two police cruisers in North Port, on the southwestern coast of Florida.&#8221; One does have to note the very many &#8220;UFO&#8221; reports (the number of which has skyrocketed).<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong>Are these just curiosities, or &#8220;signs&#8221;?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Hard to tell.<\/span> In most cases, curiosities. The fire is Israel was arson. It does snow in Japan! <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong>Natural phenomena. <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong>Seismic events can even cause atmospheric ones. And meteorites\u00a0<em>do<\/em> fall (every day, somewhere); quakes happen along the &#8220;Ring of Fire&#8221; (that huge seismic zone that runs along the eastern and western shores of the Pacific &#8212; down to New Zealand, which keep getting hit).\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Electrical phenomena are sometimes seen before or during an earthquake (as occurred in New Zealand). <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Said\u00a0<em>LiveScience <\/em>last week: &#8220;The magnitude-7.8 earthquake that rattled New Zealand early Monday morning local time, killing at least two people and stranding many others in the region, also had a strange side effect: eerie blue and green flashes of light in the sky during the shaking.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>&#8220;Only in recent years have seismologists taken reports of these so-called earthquake lights seriously. The strange light shows \u2014 which may appear as sizzling flames emanating from the ground, flashes of lightning, ghostly globes or blue and green shimmers \u2014 usually occur at rifts where huge chunks of Earth are pulling away from each other, according to a 2014 study published in the journal <em>Seismological Research Letters<\/em>.&#8221;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">But it keeps the eyes open,<\/span> do all these coinciding events (especially when a quake and hurricane hit the same day, or a meteorite flies over a place that has been hit with a seismic shock, just an hour after), as do inexplicable rumblings that &#8212; in our view &#8212; may speak of something way deep below the surface of the earth, something changing and shifting. <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong>If nothing else, the Ring of Fire is increasingly active &#8212; and since it is the source of the greatest known quakes, it&#8217;s something to heed.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.livescience.com\/images\/i\/000\/087\/527\/original\/new-zealand-earthquake-road.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"ap-story-p\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><em><strong>[Return to<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiritdaily.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">www.spiritdaily.com<\/span>]<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ap-story-p\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">[<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/store.spiritdaily.com\/product-p\/sa-1.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Special Reports<\/a><\/span> by Michael Brown]<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"ap-story-p\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><em><strong>[<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/store.spiritdaily.com\/category-s\/1832.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Ebooks section<\/a><\/span>]<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ap-story-p\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">[<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/store.spiritdaily.com\/category-s\/1869.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Christmas Offers<\/a><\/span>]<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"ap-story-p\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><em><strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/store.spiritdaily.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Bookstore page<\/span><\/a>]<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ap-story-p\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">[Emergency <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/store.spiritdaily.com\/SearchResults.asp?Cat=1856\" target=\"_blank\">Supplies<\/a><\/span>]<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"gsp_post_data\" \r\n\t            data-post_type=\"post\" \r\n\t            data-cat=\"commentary,signs\" \r\n\t            data-modified=\"120\"\r\n\t            data-created=\"1480084045\"\r\n\t            data-title=\"Events And &#8216;Signs&#8217;\" \r\n\t            data-home=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nature has been serving up some interesting displays, no? 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