Transit of Mercury
| Mercury
Transit Event |
Sydney
Melbourne |
Singapore
Hong Kong
Manila |
Jerusalem
Athens
|
Rome
Paris
Oslo |
London
(UT) |
New York
Toronto
Miami |
Chicago
Mexico City |
Denver
Phoenix
SLC |
Seattle
LA
Kennewick |
| Contact 1 |
06:12 |
03:12 |
21:12 |
20:12 |
19:12 |
14:12 |
13:12 |
12:12 |
11:12 |
| Contact 2 |
06:14 |
03:14 |
21:14 |
20:14 |
19:14 |
14:14 |
13:14 |
12:14 |
11:14 |
| Greatest |
08:41 |
05:41 |
23:41 |
22:41 |
21:41 |
16:41 |
15:41 |
14:41 |
13:41 |
| Contact 3 |
11:08 |
08:08 |
02:08 |
01:08 |
00:08 |
19:08 |
18:08 |
17:08 |
16:08 |
| Contact 4 |
11:10 |
08:10 |
02:10 |
01:10 |
00:10 |
19:10 |
18:10 |
17:10 |
16:10 |
yellow=visible
gray=November 9 white=November 8
November 8, 2006 is Heshvan
17 according to the Jewish Calendar.
November 9, 2006 is Heshvan
17 according to the Karaite group, which bases it on the first visible crescent.
At Jerusalem time
of the initial transit, it is still November 8, but Heshvan 18 on the accepted
calendar (after sundown). However, it would be Heshvan 17 on the visual
or witness based calendar. Either way it is still 14,400 days or 40 years
of 360 days from June 7, 1967.
As has been said by others,
the timing of the transit fits Christ coming at the midnight hour in Israel.
Is this the indicator (Mark 13:35, Matthew 25)?
Time is coming fast enough
and it will soon be known.
The parallel of the Rapture
to the Days of Noah and Lot (Luke 17) suggest that when we are taken, judgment
immediately follows (2 Thess. 1:6-7). Everything up to this point has pointed
to days of interest and warning by the use of forty days this year (Av 9,
August 14, September 11, Rosh Hashanah, and Heshvan 10). It now comes down
to one day it would seem. One day to give our attention to the coming of
our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Given what has been seen, it would be
folly not to be showing some measure of faith on that day.
If it is not the day
then there is still hope because it will still happen. There is no harm
to being prepared and ready. The harm is not to be.
Will the Lord find faith
on Earth when He returns?
Daniel Matson