31/ATLAS VLT. (also known as C/2025 N1 or A11pl3Z). It's the third confirmed interstellar visitor to our Solar System, following 1I/ʻOumuamua (2017) and 2I/Borisov (2019). By Olivier Hainaut et al./European Southern Observatory(processed by Nrco0e) - Raw images downloaded from ESO Science Archive (query form here), CC BY 4.0, Link
This week, the world had one of its shortest days ever. Scientists say we can blame it on the moon . . . But while June 9th may be down to the moon, almost everyone I talk to about the subject, young and old, tells me time is speeding up anyway and has been for a few years now. You probably know the conversation, "Christmas feels like it happened just a couple of weeks ago!" "A day is gone in an instant!" "I can't keep up anymore."
Well, it certainly feels like that. Could we be witnessing the warning Jesus gave us all when He said days would be shortened: Matthew 24:22
If those days had not been cut short, nobody would be saved. But for the sake of the elect, those days will be cut short.
We don't really know, of course. I do know one thing, though: we are living in incredible prophetic times—I'll get back to 'time' just a little later.
Coincidentally, the third confirmed interstellar visitor to our Solar System has been announced, following 1I/ʻOumuamua (2017) and 2I/Borisov (2019). 31/ATLAS VLT is currently ~670 million km from the Sun. However, the massive space object is coming our way and will be closest to the Sun on 29 October 2025. Many scholars and scientists are speculating that the previous interstellar visitor, 1I/ʻOumuamua, behaved suspiciously during its approach and departure from our Solar System, with some experts coming to the conclusion it was manoeuvred by an intelligent being or system. All eyes are now observing 31/ATLAS VLT for similar idiosyncrasies. According to the 'experts,' 31/ATLAS VLT will have taken millions of years to get here, so whoever is behind the steering wheel must be very old!Early attempts at space travel.
Mankind's obsession with space travel goes back just 4,000 years, when a great warrior named Nimrod dreamed of a way to unite the world. The Tower of Babel story can be found in Genesis 11:1-9 and gives us a clue as to how God views mankind's efforts at reaching the stars! After the Great Flood, humanity spoke one language and settled in the land of Shinar (Babylon and Uruk). They decided to build a city with a tower that reached the heavens, aiming to make a name for themselves and avoid being scattered. God saw their pride and unity in defiance and confused their language, so they could no longer understand each other. As a result, the people stopped building the city, and God scattered them across the earth. The place was called Babel, meaning "confusion."
Jump forward to '1957, and mankind tried to reach the heavens once again. This time, the Magogites (Soviets, Russians) launched Sputnik, the first manmade satellite, into space. Did God get angry again? Well, more on that later.
Did you ever wonder why God designed such a vast Universe, inhospitable and unimaginable for humans to properly comprehend?
I asked Chat GPT how many stars are out there.
The number of stars in the universe is mind-boggling. Astronomers estimate: There are about 100–200 billion galaxies in the observable universe. Each galaxy, like our Milky Way, typically contains 100–400 billion stars. So, doing the rough maths: 100 billion galaxies × 100 billion stars = 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 stars — that's 10²² stars, or 10 sextillion. And that’s just the observable universe. The actual universe could be vastly bigger, possibly infinite, which could fry your sensory bits if you think about that for more than a minute or two. (But—only because we are controlled by time!)
The nearest star to us (besides the Sun) is Proxima Centauri, part of the Alpha Centauri system. It's about 4.24 light-years away, or roughly 25 trillion miles (40 trillion kilometres). To put that on some sort of scale: If you could drive there at 60 mph (100 km/h) non-stop, it would take you over 50 million years to arrive!
But you probably already know about all that stuff—No, my question to you is, why is it so big? You see, for a human being, compromised by a life span of +/- 70 years, something 50 million years away might just as well not be there at all, and that's the nearest one to us! All those stars and planets "have" to be there for a reason, don't they? And all that dark matter, plasma, stardust and other scary phenomena can't just be there to keep our tiny solar system ticking on time, and keeping you and me firmly on terra firma, can it?
Can we find the answer in the Bible?
The Bible is full of interesting space stuff. Jesus Christ's Resurrection, time travel, UFOs, angels and fallen angels, different dimensions, to mention just a little, but space travel? Well, yes, maybe!
Deuteronomy 30:4:
King James Bible—If any of thine be driven out unto the outmost parts of heaven, from thence will the LORD thy God gather thee, and from thence will he fetch thee:
New King James Version—If any of you are driven out to the farthest parts under heaven, from there the LORD your God will gather you, and from there He will bring you.
BibleHub translates the verse into Hebrew: מִקְצֵה הַשָּׁמַיִם (miqtzeh hashamayim) — literally, "from the end of the heavens." In ancient thought, this likely meant the most distant parts of the known sky or cosmos — poetic language for the farthest imaginable place. Are the stars there to be explored? (At a later date, perhaps, but not now . . . Not by us anyway)
The Fermi paradox.
So, where is everybody?—There is a "cavernous absence" of clear evidence of extraterrestrial life. Which is extremely puzzling when one considers the number of livable planets out there and the apparently high likelihood of their existence. Wikipedia claims, those affirming the paradox generally conclude that if the conditions required for life to arise from non-living matter are as permissive as the available evidence on Earth indicates, then extraterrestrial life would be sufficiently common such that it would be implausible for it not to have been detected. The paradox is named after physicist Enrico Fermi, who informally posed the question—often remembered as "Where is everybody?"—during a 1950 conversation at Los Alamos. The problem, though, is that Firmi was an Evolutionist and NOT a Creationist.
Creation or Evolution.
Couldn't the absence of other life forms out there be God's way of thumbing His nose at the whole idea of Darwin's theory of Evolution? The Fermi Paradox does open up some fascinating conversations, especially when you look at it through the lens of creation or intelligent design. The more we search the stars and come up empty-handed, the more it seems to echo that sense of intentional uniqueness, doesn’t it? Does the absence of life outside our little bubble prove, once and for all biological evolution is not, and never was, possible? After all, Darwin said before his death, "The true answer of evolution lies with God!" Until we have physical evidence of otherworldly life forms, evolution must be filed away under its own title—Theory.
Time.
Mankind's true enemy, of course, is time. When our clock stops, we will surely die. When the clock reaches 6,000 years, will it stop this system of things for everyone on the planet? It's incredible, but the average global lifetime is less than 700,000 hours—73 years × 365.25 days/year × 24 hours/day ≈ 639,420 hours. So, as you can imagine, we are not built for space travel. However, mankind will not be boxed in by time forever. As I wrote earlier, many people are experiencing the feeling that time is speeding up; less than 700,000 hours feels remarkably short, and we have to consider, God will speed up the days, too!
7,000 Years of Mankind?
What Early Voices Said About Earth's Timeline:
In a world hurtling toward technological singularity and environmental collapse, it's worth asking: Was human history always meant to be short-lived? Did the Creator already set a time limit for mankind — a sort of divine countdown? Interestingly, some of the earliest Jewish and Christian writers believed just that.
The 7,000-Year View. The idea is simple: 6,000 years for human history — toil, struggle, sin. 1,000 years of rest — the Sabbath Millennium — when God's Kingdom reigns. This model was built around Genesis 1 and Psalm 90:4: “A thousand years in Your sight are like a day that has just gone by.” – Psalm 90:4 “…with the Lord a day is like a thousand years…” – 2 Peter 3:8 So just as the Creator made the world in six days and rested on the seventh, these early thinkers believed the world would run for 6,000 years — then enter a final 1,000-year rest.
The Epistle of Barnabas (c. 70–135 A.D.)
This early Christian document lays it out clearly: “In six days, that is, in six thousand years, all things shall be accomplished… And He rested on the seventh day: this means, when His Son shall come… then shall He truly rest on the seventh day.” — Barnabas 15:4, 5.
The Great Day of The Lord.
On Christmas Eve and Christmas Day in 1957, the world was given a glimpse of the power of the Lord.
I mentioned earlier, in the post, that the Magogites (Russians) launched Sputnik, the first manmade satellite, into space in October 1957. Did God get angry again, just as he did with Nimrod, 4,000 years earlier? It's hard to say, however, there is substantial evidence out there which suggests he may well of.
There will be 'great earthquakes,' famines and pestilences in various places, and fearful events and great signs from heaven.
1. Fearful events and great signs from heaven.
1957: Pestilence, Poverty, and the Quiet Cracks in a Post-War World
“When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or command locusts to devour the land or send a plague among my people…” — 2 Chronicles 7:13
In the optimistic glow of the post-war West, 1957 appeared to be a year of progress. Rockets broke through Earth’s atmosphere. Television sets flickered with dreams. The atomic age promised a future shaped by science and power. But beneath the shine of innovation and empire, something darker stirred. A pestilence emerged. Poverty tightened its grip. And the world—though unaware—stood again on the edge of something deeply spiritual.
3. The Asian Flu:
A Global Whisper of Warning. In early 1957, in the remote hills of Guizhou, China, the H2N2 influenza virus appeared quietly. Within months, the virus—later named the Asian Flu—had swept across continents. By the year's end, it claimed between one and two million lives globally. It spread not by divine storm or angelic trumpet, but by the marvels of our own making: trains, ships, aeroplanes. In a time of growing confidence in man’s ability to conquer the elements, this virus was a divine footnote—an invisible but unmistakable whisper: “I Am still here.”
4. Famines.
While the Western world raced toward space and wealth, much of the globe was gasping for basic life. India, just a decade after independence, was drowning in rural poverty. Entire villages had no clean water, no electricity, and no medical care. Malaria, cholera, and typhoid were part of daily life, but not breaking news. Across colonial Africa, poverty was systemic. Ghana had just declared independence, but most of the continent remained in chains—economic, political, and spiritual. Disease and malnutrition ravaged populations while European powers siphoned resources. In China, the Anti-Rightist Campaign began in 1957, Mao Zedong’s purge of intellectuals and perceived dissenters. As cities silenced thinkers, rural communities starved in silence, laying the groundwork for the catastrophic Great Leap Forward to come. The poor weren’t simply poor. They were forgotten; millions would die.
In hindsight, 1957 wasn’t loud. It wasn’t explosive. But it was pivotal. It was a spiritual hinge point. Humanity had begun looking skyward—literally. The Soviets did launch Sputnik in October of that year. Men dreamed of reaching the moon. But in their rush to ascend, they neglected the foundations—the moral, spiritual, and natural laws that held them up. 1957 wasn’t judgment day. But it was maybe yet another gentle warning from the Creator. A nudge. A whisper. A signpost.
From Then Until Now Today, the echoes of 1957 ring louder.
Another pandemic—COVID-19—has swept the globe. Another wave of poverty, famine, and displacement rolls through Africa, Asia, and Latin America. The West, once so confident in its might, now wavers under the weight of division, moral confusion, and fear. Wars, and rumours of wars, jump from pages of The New Testament, but once again, man reaches skyward—not with prayer, but with artificial intelligence, genetic engineering, and global surveillance. The warnings come not just from the military industrial-complex or leaders and politicians but in the form of plagues and poverty, floods, fires, earthquakes, and deathly silence from dying species. Just like our Lord said it would.
The Big Wobble
The earth itself is groaning.—The world is wobbling. And yet, He remains steady.
“If My people, who are called by My name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.” — 2 Chronicles 7:14.
This is not a call to fear, but to awareness. To repentance. To return.
If 1957 was a gentle warning. Today, we are nearing the final chapters.Stay safe, folks!
*Footnote. I made the earthquake graph above using data from the USGS website in January 2019; see the date stamp next to the graph above. Unfortunately, since then, USGS have changed their entire data covering 1900 to 2024 regarding the number of major quakes. They now claim, 175 major quakes were recorded that year—See here
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