Perilous Times
American lake turns blood-red, sparking end-times wonder
'The Bible prophecies are slowly fulfilling themselves in the midst
of a revelation'
Posted: August 03, 2011
12:27 pm Eastern
By Dave Tombers
OC Fisher Reservoir (Texas state photo)
The severe drought throughout most of Texas is taking its toll on
ranchers, travelers, athletes, businesses and natural resources, and
that last category includes the OC Fisher Reservoir, which has dead
fish floating on its little remaining water.
But what has caught the attention of many is the fact that the water
has turned blood-red.
The development, coming as it has amidst the various turmoil around
the globe and just as a comet has been reported to be racing toward
Earth at the peak of God's holy days, has sparked talk of biblical
prophecy even from distributors of scientific information such as
Live Science.
There, a headline questioned, "End Times? Texas Lake Turns
Blood-Red."
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Pastor Paul Begley, of the Community Gospel Baptist Church in Knox,
Ind., said people should be taking note.
"I'm not saying that this Texas lake is these Scriptures in
Revelation but what I am saying is the Bible prophecies are slowly
fulfilling themselves in the midst of an end time revelation – that
we need to be right, we need to be saved, we need to be born again
and ready to meet the coming King," he said.
Which also was accompanied by a silent video revealing the color of
the lake:
Revelation 8:8 states, "And the second angel sounded, and as it were
a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea; and the
third part of the sea became blood."
And in Rev. 16:3-4, the Bible states, "And the second angle poured
out his vial upon the sea; and it became as the blood of a dead man:
and every living soul died in the sea. And the third angel poured
out his vial upon the rivers and fountains of waters; and they
became blood."
It was just days earlier that reports appeared about a real-life
comet named Elenin that is racing toward Earth.
It's not on a crash course and experts believe it's closest point
will be some 21 million miles away but it comes during the
culmination of God's annual holy days mentioned in the Bible.
Begley said in a YouTube video then, "It's on its way and right in
the middle of the Feast of the Trumpets, it is going to come through
and get in between the Earth and the sun."
Members of the scientific community point to a lack of oxygen in the
water causing bacteria to thrive, causing the red color in the
reservoir. Chromatiaceae bacteria is the scientific term for the
bacteria that experts identify.
And on the YouTube page of Begley's commentary, skeptics abounded:
"instead of getting his info from a primitive book, he needs to take
a science class," wrote one.
The Lower Colorado River Authority reports that much of Texas is
enduring severe drought at this point.
"A prolonged stretch of exceptionally dry weather is causing the
drought across Texas and the lower Colorado River basin to
intensify. The nine months from October 2010 through June 2011 have
been the driest for that nine-month period in Texas since 1895, when
the state began keeping rainfall records. Across most of the Hill
Country and the Austin area, rainfall since last October is between
12 and 16 inches below normal. Across the eastern counties of
Central Texas and the middle Texas coast, rainfall is running more
than 20 inches below normal."
Hope-for precipitation from tropical storms that moved through the
region last weekend failed to develop.
Live Science senior writer Stephanie Pappas noted that Charles Cruz,
a fish and wildlife technician with the Texas Parks agency, said the
impact of the drought on the lake was "pretty sickening."
"Begley may not have any more luck at predicting the end of the
world than did Harold Camping, the radio preacher who set the date
for May 21, 2011. But for as long as the drought persists, the OC
Fisher reservoir is a reservoir no longer," Pappas reported.
Begley's earlier warnings about Elenin noted that the comet's
nearest point to Earth will take place Oct. 16, during the Feast of
Tabernacles, according to today's Jewish calendar.
"I'm here to tell you right now, we're getting closer and closer and
closer and closer to the Second Coming of Jesus Christ," Begley
said.
In the New Testament, Jesus predicted celestial signs concerning the
end of this current age and His return to Earth to govern the
kingdom of God.
* "And the stars of heaven shall fall, and the powers that are
in heaven shall be shaken. And then shall they see the Son of man
coming in the clouds with great power and glory." (Mark 13:25-26)
* "And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines,
and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be
from heaven." (Luke 21:11)
A Space.com article noted, "Internet rumors about Elenin began
spreading earlier this year. Its approach to Earth was blamed for
shifting the Earth's axis by 3 degrees in February, precipitating
the Chile earthquake, then shifting the pole even more to trigger
the Japan quake in March."
David Morrison, a planetary astronomer at NASA's Ames Research
Center and senior scientist at the NASA Astrobiology Institute,
wrote, "Ignoring plate tectonics as the cause of earthquakes, they
suggest that the comet exerted strong gravitational or
electromagnetic effects on our planet."
When it was pointed out how small the comet actually is – just 2 to
3 miles wide – with no magnetic field and that it won't even pass
very near Earth, rumors began to circulate about NASA withholding
information about Elenin.
"Ironically, the inconspicuous nature of this comet plays into some
of the conspiracy theories," Morrison told Space. "For people who
are convinced the comet did cause the earthquakes, this proves that
Elenin is not a comet at all, but a much more massive, and
dangerous, interloper."
As was previously reported, a minister who promotes the Old
Testament roots of Christianity suggests a rare string of lunar and
solar eclipses said to fall on God's annual holy days in 2015 could
signal the return of Jesus.
Pastor Mark Biltz of El Shaddai Ministries in Bonney Lake, Wash.,
noted a coming rare phenomenon of four consecutive total lunar
eclipses, known as a tetrad, and often called "blood moons" since
the moon often takes on a bloody color.
He has reported during this century, tetrads occur at least six
times, but what's interesting is that the only string of four
consecutive blood moons that coincide with God's holy days of
Passover in the spring and the autumn's Feast of Tabernacles (also
called Succoth) occurs between 2014 and 2015 on today's Gregorian
calendar.
"The fact that it doesn't happen again in this century I think is
very significant," Biltz explained. "So then I looked at last
century, and, believe it or not, the last time that four blood red
moons occurred together was in 1967 and 1968 tied to Jerusalem
recaptured by Israel."
He then started to notice a pattern of the tetrads.
"What's significant to me is that even before 1967, the next time
that you had four blood red moons again was right after Israel
became a nation in '48, it happened again in 1949 and 1950 ... on
Passover and Succoth. You didn't have any astronomical tetrads in
the 1800s, the 1700s, the 1600s. In the 1500s, there were six, but
none of those fell on Passover and Succoth."