Here's an article from the June edition of Prophecy in the News about the mysterious sounds heard worldwide. It's a nice read, especially for those who have been hearing these sounds. "My ears perked up" when reading this section (okay--someone can poke fun and post a good one for that):
Fourteen hundred years later, in the first century, the historian Flavius Josephus wrote of many supernatural disturbances that took place around the time that the Romans destroyed the Second Temple in AD 70. A “star resembling a sword” was seen over Jerusalem. It remained in the sky for an entire year.
About a week before Passover, a brilliant light shone down upon the Temple Mount, making it as bright as day. The Temple’s huge inner eastern gate, so heavy that it took twenty men to move them, opened of its own accord. Following Passover, the following event was noted:
“Besides these, a few days after that feast, on the one-and-twentieth day of the month Artemisius [Iyar], a certain prodigious and incredible phenomenon appears; I suppose the account of it would seem to be a fable, were it not related by those that saw it, and were not the events that followed it of so considerable nature as to deserve such signals; for, before sun-setting, chariots and troops of soldiers in their armor were seen running about among the clouds, and surrounding of cities. Moreover, at that feast which we call Pentecost, as the priests were going by night into the inner court of the
temple, as their custom was, to perform their sacred ministrations, they said, that, in the first place, they felt a quaking, and heard a great noise, and after that they heard a sound as of a great multitude, saying, ‘Let us remove hence.’” [Josephus, Wars of the Jews Book VI., v., 2]
http://www.prophecyinthenews.com/sounds-out-of-heaven/
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Shomer~The star that looked like a sword that was in the sky for a year is something for you to look into in your upcoming class!
The "Let us remove hence" is interesting that this accompanied with an earthquake happened on Pentecost. Don't know if it means anything for us, but keep looking up!
