Anthony Everson is right when he says, in his letter commenting on Lynn Daly's article, "Perhaps something wonderful is going to happen" (Letters, June 26).
The Bible teaches that signs and wonders would herald the coming of the Messiah. For example, the Apostle Peter, preaching on the Day of Pentecost, quoted the Hebrew prophet Joel, who wrote: "I will show wonders in heaven above and signs on the earth below, blood and fire and billows of smoke. The sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood before the coming of the great and glorious day of the Lord. And everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved."
Jesus himself said of his second coming at the end of the age: "The sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from the sky, and the heavenly bodies will be shaken."
Whether or not the currently reported phenomena are genuinely supernatural, there is no doubt such stigma are portents of the coming kingdom of God. Are we prepared for such an event?
-Reverend John Webster, Gleton Avenue, Hove
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