Sky-gazers stood transfixed across North America on Monday as the sun vanished behind the moon in total eclipse for the first time in nearly a century.
He posted on Facebook that the Bible states the sun and moon serve as “signs” while attempting to interpret the signs.
“This is a metaphor, or a sign, of the work of the Prince of Darkness in obscuring the light of God’s truth, Satan, and those who unwittingly serve as his accomplices by resisting the public acknowledgement of God and seeking to repress the expression of Christian faith in our land, are bringing on us a dark night of the national soul.” he wrote.
Fisher then called on his followers on Facebook to “fight the darkness that we may return this nation to an unapologetic acknowledgement and embrace of the God of the Founders and his transcendent standard for human behavior as enshrined in the Ten Commandments.”
He however gave a disclaimer saying he did not, in fact, receive a “revelation from God” related to the eclipse but his post was instead “an effort to ponder this sign in the heavens and speculate as to its possible spiritual implications.”
But as Christians we are supernatural beings whose battle is already won. We are only standing in the victory already won. Therefore, eclipse can only be viewed in this light. As a metaphor to explain certain phenomenon of the how the light prevails in darkness, Fisher may have had some pointers with his metaphoric expression of the eclipse. Just like how Jesus uses parables to explain some circumstances. However, his metaphor almost sounds affirmative and for a Christian, to be more aware of the darkness than the light is a breeding space for a troubled life.
There has been some assumption with scientist trying to rationalize some events in the bible and doing so with eclipse. Christianity Today said, they look to regular astronomical events like total solar eclipses to understand these events. We read how the stood still for Joshua, how the sky darkened during Jesus’ crucifixion, about the darkened sun on the day of the Lord in Joel, or about the sun turning black as sackcloth in Revelation.
But, the events described in Joshua, Joel, and Revelation are not regular natural occurrences, they are special supernatural events. In Joshua, “the sun stopped in the middle of the sky and did not hasten to go down for about a whole day.” If a solar eclipse occurred that day, it would have lasted only minutes. God, in the rarest of occasions, interrupts time and space to make his point. Christianity Today posits.
