Worth The Hype!!

Well there it went! The greatest and in my opinion most overly hyped scientific event this millennium SOLAR ECLIPSE 2017! finally arrived and was over in 2 minutes. For the past 12 months the legend of the SOLAR ECLIPSE OF 2017!!! got bigger by the day along with the expectation that we were all about to witness a life altering event the likes of which would never be seen again for 100 years. Hide your pets, blindfold your children, grab your welder’s mask, and stare in amazement as the world goes dark during the middle of the day…but not really. Lets be honest it barely got cloudy outside. I’m not saying it wasn’t something to take a peek at, but was it really drive 200 miles, rent a hotel room for 3 days, stand outside in a 100 degree blazing mid-day sun kinda neat? I just don’t see it (even though I did see it).

Frankly after seeing how packed Spring Park was, not to mention the millions of pictures on social media showing football stadiums at standing room only crowd levels, I couldn’t help but think of another day when we will all be staring up at the sky waiting for something truly amazing to happen. A time when as Jesus described it in Matthew 24 verses 29-31 “the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from the sky, and the heavenly bodies will be shaken. Then will appear the sign of the Son of Man in heaven. And then all the peoples of the earth will mourn when they see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven, with power and great glory. And he will send his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other.”

Now that’s something worth risking blindness over!

Bill Beck iii