(OPINION) ETH – If you think a typical year flies by, 2021 may go even faster, This is because time is passing quicker now than at any point in the last half-century according to a recent report from the Daily Mail.
This is because Earth’s rotation is faster than normal resulting in the length of a day slightly being shorter than the regulation 24 hours. As a result of this, World timekeepers are now debating whether to delete a second from time to account for the change and bring the precise passing of time back into line with the rotation of the Earth.
According to the report, the Earth has taken slightly longer than 24 hours to complete an entire rotation, but since last year it has been taking slightly less. The Daily Mail reported: “Since the 1960s, atomic clocks have been keeping ultra-precise records of day length and found that, for the past 50 years, Earth has taken a fraction less than 24 hours (86,400 seconds) to complete one rotation.
However, in the middle of 2020, this long-standing trend was reversed and days are now regularly shorter than 86,400 seconds. On 19 July 2020, the day was 1.4602 milliseconds shorter than the full 24 hours – the shortest day since records began.
Prior to 2020, the shortest day occurred in 2005, but this record has been shattered a staggering 28 times in the last 12 months.”So what does that mean? On average, the days are now passing 0.5 seconds shy of 24 full hours. So how could this possibly be fulfilling “Bible Prophecy”? When I read this report, I immediately thought of what Jesus stated in the following passage:
“For then there will be great tribulation, such as has not been since the beginning of the world until this time, no, nor ever shall be. And unless those days were shortened, no flesh would be saved; but for the elect’s sake, those days will be shortened“. Matthew 24:21-22
In this passage above, Jesus warned that in the time of the coming tribulation, the days would somehow be shortened to ensure that there is a remnant that would survive. It is very interesting to me that this latest report is literally telling us that the days are being shortened. Are we seeing yet another, stepping stone to bring about the fulfillment of Bible Prophecy? You decide.
