John, Doves,

today Dec. 10, 2012, I marvelled about the Scripture verses …John, you put ahead the Dec. 10 letters…

10 Dec 2012

I Thessalonians 4:16: For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
I Thessalonians 4:17: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
I Thessalonians 4:18: Wherefore comfort one another with these words.

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Later I went to Spaceweather.com to look for news...

Wow!!! There just today is a breathtaking report: When the sun set over the UK on Dec. 9th, sky watchers were stunned by an unexpected apparition of super-colorful stratospheric clouds. …(see below - look at the pictures…!!!) amazing…!!!

Surely we live in the time of the “Second Advent” – Jan, thank you, you wrote in your letter http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/dec2012/jms128.htm “...have a blessed 2.Adventsunday, hopefully we are going home to Jesus soon…” Amen! Amen!

(Dec. 9^th – Sunday, was the 2. Advents-Sunday - The theme of readings and teachings during Advent is often to prepare for the Second Coming while commemorating the First Coming of Christ at Christmas…. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advent#Traditions )

Maranatha, Come Lord Jesus

Here is the Spaceweather report from Dec 10, 2012:

http://www.spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=10&month=12&year=2012

COLORFUL STRATOSPHERIC CLOUDS OVER EUROPE: When the sun set over the UK on Dec. 9th, sky watchers were stunned by an unexpected apparition of super-colorful stratospheric clouds. "They were amazing to see and a dream come true to photograph," reports Lesley Jennings of Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. "There were all sorts of colors. I've never see the like before!" added Rachael Taylor also from Aberdeenshire. Nigel Feilden photographed this specimen from Inverurie, Scotland:

"These are nacreous clouds," explains atmospheric optics expert Les Cowley. "Of all Earth's clouds they are most spectacular, and a very rare treat for skywatchers."

"For up to an hour after sunset or before dawn they glow like eerie electric discharges or gas jets in the darkening sky, their filmy shapes slowly curling and uncurling with intense shifting colors. They are composed of tiny ice crystals more than twice as high as ordinary clouds, 9-16 miles up, in the stratosphere and form at temperatures of minus 85 Celsius and below. The crystals are all of similar size and they diffract the high altitude sunlight to make the colours."

"Search for nacreous clouds at high latitudes (e.g., Scotland, Scandinavia, Iceland, Northern US) in winter and preferably downwind of mountains," Cowley advises. "They like stormy weather that perhaps creates gravity waves to loft the necessary moisture to make them upwards across the tropopause into the stratosphere. Once seen they are never forgotten!"