These, too, are Wonders in the Heavens -- and Perhaps More So

   "And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke." 

   Both Christian and non-Christian alike can look to see if the words of that prophecy are being fulfilled, the Christian to say that God fulfills his word, and the non-Christian to say it is so much bunk. They can look at the planets aligning, and the star showers, and the other wonders in the heavens, and consider whether such things are more abundant.

   But, as I read a story speaking of how gamma ray might travel faster than the speed of light, I wonder if there are not greater wonders in the heavens that are being discovered. I don't believe it has yet been verified that the gamma rays can travel faster than light. But, even if it isn't true, there are many other such discoveries in the heavens that qualify as wonders in the heavens. Gamma rays, themselves, were not discovered until the 1960s. Gamma rays: I have to look them up to even know what they are. "Extremely energetic explosions that that have been observed in distant galaxies. They are the brightest and most energetic electromagnetic events known to occur in the universe," says Wikipedia.

   What of things just in the skies? Wasn't it considered a marvel when the airplane was invented, putting aside the old notion that if God had intended us to fly, he would have given us wings.

   Wonders in the heavens? Those who discovered that gamma rays might travel faster than light speak of the reversal of time. Such a possible thing -- surely a wonder.

   What of all these things coming forth in our day? What of black holes, and the Big Bang, and the suggestion that humans evolved from the elements of the stars? Whether all these things are true, enough of them most certainly are to say these are great wonders being discovered in our heavens.

   Now. listening to the last part of the scripture, "blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke," leads me to believe all these modern-day discoveries in the heavens may not be what the prophets had in mind. Still, whether they are what was referred to or not, they certainly stand as great wonders in the heavens.