Contemporary observation
Total solar eclipse of 8 April 2024 (North America)
undetermined · Observation ≠ proven fulfilment
2024-04-08 · Mexique, États-Unis, Canada
See the full entry: sources, objections, answersWhat is reported
A total solar eclipse crossing North America. A predictable astronomical phenomenon, calculated centuries in advance, and strictly local in its path of totality. Historical reference point: a 2024 source, kept for comparison and not as the current state — the phenomena relevant to the current window are the eclipse of 27-28 August 2026 and the absence of any eclipse in September 2026.
Main objection (in French for now)
An eclipse is predictable centuries in advance: it has nothing of the exceptional character the text attaches to the day of wrath.
The text (World English Bible)
I saw when he opened the sixth seal, and there was a great earthquake. The sun became black as sackcloth made of hair, and the whole moon became as blood. The stars of the sky fell to the earth, like a fig tree dropping its unripe figs when it is shaken by a great wind. The sky was removed like a scroll when it is rolled up. Every mountain and island was moved out of its place. The kings of the earth, the princes, the commanding officers, the rich, the strong, and every slave and free person, hid themselves in the caves and in the rocks of the mountains. They told the mountains and the rocks, “Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him who sits on the throne, and from the wrath of the L…
Rev 6:12-17
“It will happen afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh; and your sons and your daughters will prophesy. Your old men will dream dreams. Your young men will see visions. And also on the servants and on the handmaids in those days, I will pour out my Spirit. I will show wonders in the heavens and on the earth: blood, fire, and pillars of smoke. The sun will be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of the LORD comes. It will happen that whoever will call on the LORD’s name shall be saved; for in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will be those who escape, as the LORD has said, and among the remnant, those whom the LORD calls.
Joel 2:28-32
Sources
- Total Solar Eclipse of 2024 April 08 — NASA Goddard Space Flight Center