Preface: I'll do this often....abcnews.com has up right now a photo of mammatus clouds over Austin. The post that I'm bringing back here is from last July. The photo on the ABC NEWS video is what it looked like in Pittsburgh. All that is neither here nor there.....for it just gives me an opportunity to bring back a post....these posts of mine are everywhere....warning of the superstorm that is coming. I just finished listening to a sermon from a typical cool church of today. The text chosen was good....but everything around it made it sound like man created God just so that man would have someone to love us so much. Folks....there was a lot of time spent on telling us much we are loved....but not an ounce of warning....that might mar our delicate constitutions.
Fifty years ago.....in June of 1972....Hurricane Agnes was forming in the Western Caribbean. Before it died out....in Canada....it had become disastrous enough that the name Agnes was retired....there would therefore never be another Hurricane Agnes.
I was serving my last months in the army at the time...at Fort Bragg, North Carolina.....and the then tropical storm Agnes passed by us without much fanfare....but it combined with a colder weather system....and heavy rains played havoc with people's lives on the East Coast....and particularly in Pennsylvania.
On September 19th I got out of the army....bought a bowling ball at the PX....had the fingers drilled and rolled one game at the base bowling alley....a 245. I loaded up my green MGB....top down....put on my blue and white polka dot cap.....and headed north. It was hot....and I baked in the sun. By the time that I reached the Breezewood interchange to the Pennsylvania Turnpike....I was so exhausted....that I wasn't sure if I was headed west towards Pittsburgh or east towards Philly. I turned around at one of the service crossovers.....and thought it was a mistake....so I turned around again....and again. Oh how I remember that trip home! Today I travel that road so often that I know every turn.....every mountain….and every tunnel...and almost every building.
When the Hurricane landed in Florida and quickly weakened to a tropical storm....no one up north was concerned.....but within a couple of weeks the Susquehanna River turned the Harrisburg area into a disaster area....the memories of that flooding still in the minds of those old enough.
There is a hurricane of Noahic proportions coming to the world. It may be in that weakened stage right now as I type....the horrors of the week before....or the month before....having passed as a wandering thunderstorm....but it will restrengthen into a monster and have everyone searching for higher ground in a hurry. God's Word is so very clear on this....and one can see it if they have their biblical meteorological training....which is simply a burning desire to see Jesus return to this world that is imploding upon itself.
A couple of days ago here in the Pittsburgh area....there was an evening sky that was like nothing I had ever seen before. People are still talking about it. Apparently the meteorological term for the cloud formation is....mammatus....for low hanging pouch like formations. I kid you not here....if you Google 'Diana of Ephesus'.....and look at an ancient statue of the pagan god.....the multiple mammary glands on that statue are exactly what the Pittsburgh area sky looked like.....and that is why science choose the name for the cloud formation that it did....but they conceivably could have called them....Diana of Ephesus clouds.
I just happened to be out on my patio at the time....and I took a couple of photos on my iPhone. The above described pouches were in the sky to the south of me....as directly above was more of a beautiful cloud formation than the ominous pouches. They were sunburst streaks....emanating from the southwest and shooting over our home towards the northwest....not rays of the sun that we often see between the clouds....but sun-brightened elongated clouds shooting off in that starburst pattern. Within two minutes....as I referred to the time on my photos...the sky had taken on a reddish hue.
I'll leave off this post with the words of Jesus recorded in the 16th chapter of Matthew. The Pharisees and Sadducees demanded a sign....from which Jesus responded..."When it is evening you say, 'it will be fair weather for the sky is red'; and in the morning. 'it will be foul weather today, for the sky is red and threatening.' Hypocrites! You know how to discern the face of the sky, but you cannot discern the signs of the times."
Note: The above photo was taken at 8:55 PM....a photo three minutes later....8:58...and there was a reddish tint to the streaks. Sunset was 8:52 that evening.
