On Friday, 13 April 2029 AD two weeks after Passover, an asteroid called Apophis will pass Earth within 19,400 miles (31,300 kilometers), that’s just one twelfth of the distance from the Earth to the moon! It is 325 meters wide, and Apophis is Greek for ‘The Ship,’ but in the false ancient Egyptian religion it is their evil god, depicted by a snake or dragon who dwells in the eternal darkness of the underworld.
Apophis belongs to a group of asteroids that spend most of their time inside the orbit of the Earth nearer to the sun, occasionally these asteroids are pulled or pushed further out for a variety of reasons, and that is what has happened with Apophis. First discovered in 2004 it’s currently orbiting the sun slightly faster than the Earth, overtaking us every seven years, and occasionally crossing the orbital pathway of the Earth. Although astronomers have said it should not hit the Earth within the foreseeable future, this of course is assuming nothing changes its predicted trajectory, without wanting to worry anyone, it would only take a small collision with a smaller asteroid, or another body passing close by it, for Apophis to change course and then be on a collision course with the Earth. Of course this has been thought of and there are plans to try and prevent any such eventuality, whether any of these plans would work is another matter. However, during its pass by earth in 2029, it should be seen sailing across the night skies of Europe as a bright third magnitude star, moving at about one degree per minute. But if this asteroid is what John saw in his revelations, then it would have looked to him as just another star and then this would have been what John would have also described this as:
Revelation 9:1
The fifth angel sounded his trumpet, and I saw a star that had fallen from the sky to the earth. The star was given the key to the shaft of the Abyss.
If Apophis did happen to hit the Earth its impact would amount to an explosion equivalent to about 402 MT (million tons) of TNT, the Hiroshima nuclear explosion was the equivalent to 16 thousand tons of TNT. Therefore this would be the equivalent to over 25 thousand Hiroshima bombs. The largest nuclear explosion ever set off was 100 MT, exploded by the Russians in Siberia in 1960. The Indonesian earthquake that created the December 2004 tsunami was equivalent to 250 MT. With an estimated impact speed of 12.6 km/sec, if Apophis hits deep ocean it would create a tsunami with almost four times the energy. John describes this scenario a second time:
Revelation 8:8-9
8 The second angel sounded his trumpet, and something like a huge mountain, all ablaze, was thrown into the sea. A third of the sea turned into blood, 9 a third of the living creatures in the sea died, and a third of the ships were destroyed.
The deep impact of such an asteroid into the sea bed would release huge amounts of oil and pollutants that would kill many sea creatures as described, as well as destroying many sea vessels as also described. However, this is of course assuming the trumpets are not in chronological order, but then much of the Bible is also not in chronological order, so this would be a fair assumption. In fact it sounds like the events described by the trumpets and bowls all happen at about the same time, as they are very similar in their descriptions of the predicted events.
At its estimated impact speed if Apophis hits sea, with an average depth of 2.7 km, it would also impact the sea bed, producing a large crater, ejecting enough material into the upper atmosphere to produce a dirt cloud that would circle the entire world, which by then will be the Anti-Christ’s Kingdom, and it would dim the sun:
Revelation 16:10
The fifth angel poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast, and its kingdom was plunged into darkness.
And:
Revelation 8:12
The fourth angel sounded his trumpet, and a third of the sun was struck, a third of the moon, and a third of the stars, so that a third of them turned dark. A third of the day was without light, and also a third of the night. The dirt cloud containing oil and other pollutants would rain down all over the world poisoning the water supplies:
Revelation 16:3-4
3 The second angel poured out his bowl on the sea, and it turned into blood like that of a dead person, and every living thing in the sea died. 4 The third angel poured out his bowl on the rivers, and springs of water, and they became blood.
And:
Revelation 8:10-11
10 The third angel sounded his trumpet, and a great star, blazing like a torch, fell from the sky on a third of the rivers, and on the springs of water 11 the name of the star is Wormwood. A third of the waters turned bitter, and many people died from the waters that had become bitter.
Wormwood is translated from the Greek word Apsinthos, which although sounds similar to Apophis, is actually also the name of a plant that is very bitter to taste, and is used to make an alcoholic drink called Absinth, which is around sixty percent proof. It’s aniseed flavoured and is derived from the flowers and leaves of the Wormwood plant. Figuratively, Wormwood is intensely bitter, grievous, and brings very sad results:
Jeremiah 9:15
Therefore thus saith the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.
I sincerely hope Apophis does miss us as predicted, but the Bible also teaches us that although Hell is in another dimension it’s also located below us:
Proverbs 15:24
The path of life leads upward for the prudent to keep them from going down to the realm of the dead.
And:
Ephesians 4:9
But what does, He ascended, mean except that He descended to the lower parts of the earth?
And:
John 8:23
But he continued, You are from below; I am from above. You are of this world; I am not of this world.
The star John saw that had fallen from the sky to the Earth,is given the key to the shaft of the Abyss, and could possibly be in reference to this asteroid that could literally smash a hole in the Earth’s crust, and a produce a deep shaft into the Earth. John then describes that strange creatures come from the dirt cloud that is created, which then descend to the Earth:
Revelation 9:1-12
1 The fifth angel sounded his trumpet, and I saw a star that had fallen from the sky to the earth. The star was given the key to the shaft of the Abyss. 2 When he opened the Abyss, smoke rose from it like the smoke from a gigantic furnace. The sun and sky were darkened by the smoke from the Abyss. 3 And out of the smoke locust came down on the earth, and were given power like that of scorpions of the earth. 4 They were told not to harm the grass of the earth or any plant or tree, but only those people who did not have the seal of God on their foreheads. [The 144,000 have the seal of God] 5 They were not allowed to kill them but only to torture them for
five months. And the agony they suffered was like that of the sting of a scorpion when it strikes. 6 During those days people will seek death but will not find it; they will long to die, but death will elude them. 7 The locusts looked like horses prepared for battle. On their heads they wore something like crowns of gold, and their faces resembled human faces. 8 Their hair was like women’s hair, and their teeth were like lions’ teeth. 9 They had breastplates like breastplates of iron, and the sound of their wings was like the thundering of many horses, and chariots rushing into battle. 10 They had tails with stingers, like scorpions, and in their tails they had power to torment people for
five months. 11 They had as king over them the angel of the Abyss, whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek is Apollyon (that is, The Destroyer). 12 The first woe is past; two other woes are yet to come.
This may seem a far fetched scenario to some, but the spiritual dimension and ours are right next to each other. This impact could open up a portal between the two, thus releasing these inter-dimensional entities into our dimension. (I will discuss more about this topic in chapter thirteen). I don’t know for sure if Apophis will hit us, but the object John describes as being something like a huge mountain, all ablaze, that is thrown into the sea, and the resultant effects does sounds very much like an asteroid hitting the Earth, and it’s a very big coincidence that an asteroid big enough to cause the effects listed in the trumpets and bowels, is predicted to be at it's nearest to the Earth on Friday 13 April 2029, just
five months before Jesus returns on 24th September 2029, which is the same amount of time that Revelation says the locusts are attacking people for.
As much as I don’t want to believe it, Apophis seems like it will hit the Earth around Friday 13 April 2029, knocked off course by Satan I imagine and this will change everything and Apophis could also be another reason why the mark of the beast is issued.The locusts will descend upon on the Earth for five months and with the Anti-Christ they will then wage war against Israel which will result in Israel’s total defeat. Jerusalem will be captured and many of the 144,000, along with the Two Witnesses, will be killed.
