GREAT COMET  Just some thoughts on Comet McNaught - discovered by an Australian (Robert McNaught) just a few months ago (7 August 2006).  As Friedrich Wenz pointed out, comet is embodied in 'COMETh".  The (separate) word comet is not in the KJV but it is in the Amplified Bible - in Isaiah 41:25. "he comes with the suddenness of a comet, but none of the idol oracles of the nations has anticipated it".  I have read this for many years, and puzzled over it as most comets, such as Halleys, were tracked well in advance.  All of a sudden we have a comet - the brightest in the Southern Hemisphere for around 40 years, and it appeared out of obscurity in the universe.

Exactly what this foreshadows may remain a mystery, but God is speaking to us very clearly that His coming is drawing very near.  The context of this verse, the coming of Cyrus and his victory in Babylon is very interesting.  Some excerpts from the following five verses are pertinent:  behold the Jews will be restored to their own land (27), to Jerusalem I will give a herald bringing the good news (27), and I look upon the heathen prophets…there is no man among them who could predict these events (28).  Our Saviour is asking us to walk a different path, and one  that is not always easy - but Babylon and human wisdom (and predictions) is about to be challenged by the power of the Word of God.  And Babylon will, in its various forms, FALL in the not too distant future.  And Babel has just been voted best picture in the Golden Globes.  Maranatha from Australia