sixth seal update

When I went to bed last night, my sheets smelled like campfire smoke. And pretty much everyone in the greater San Jose area woke up this morning to find ash and soot all over everything–especially noticeable on cars. I went to a bridal shower this morning (another wedding!) in a woman’s backyard, and she’d set up these little begonia flower pots on the tables last night, and they had ashes on them too. The ash, of course, came from the smoke-clouds of doom last night. Oh, and I heard that the smoke and ash weren’t from the fire in the Santa Cruz mountains, but another forest fire somewhere else. I was watching the news the other day, and it showed a map of northern California, with little flame pictures where there were raging forest fires, and I swear it was a ring of fire with San Jose right in the middle. No wonder we had smoke-clouds of doom yesterday. I just wonder why we haven’t been having them all along.

And, of course, the ashes falling out of the sky make me think of brimstone. Creepy. Maybe I’m just morbid.

sixth seal

I think a lot of my post titles are rather dark and mysterious…oh well.

Anyways, this is really bizarre. The moon is red. Like, it’s high in the sky and it’s red, none of this horizon color-change stuff like usual. And the sun was red earlier. I think it’s a combination of smoke from the forest fire up in the Santa Cruz Mountains and just normal clouds. But all I know is, I rode my bike to work just before noon, thinking what a beautiful day it was, blue sky and all, then I rode home after six and there were just these dark, red, oppressive clouds overhead. I couldn’t smell smoke or anything, so I thought they were storm clouds. But the sun was red, like I said. Okay, more orange. But you get the picture. Then my mom came in about an hour ago and told me the moon was also red (orange). “Is it the end of the world?” she asked me. And I gotta say, every once in a while I see the orange moon when it hangs low in the horizon, and I think of that verse where it talks about the moon “becoming as blood” in the sixth seal (Revelation 6:12). And now it’s moving all over the sky like that.

Creepy.