I've talked about this particular aspect of end times prophecy
before but I have been thinking about it occasionally since I
first mentioned it.  I haven't read any fiction for probably two
years, if not longer, because the Library for the Blind here in
Denver had done something different on their website and I could
no longer access the link, once I upgraded to jaws seven, to order
books online.  I checked it occasionally, and a couple of weeks
ago, their pages had been redesigned so I tried the link and
bingo, I was into the order area and search links.  I looked up my
trusty old favorites by starting with Clive Cussler.  You have to
like books that have adventure, heroes, and the good guys always
win, to enjoy Cussler's books.  I've read everything he has
written in fiction and some of the stories I like so well, I have
read them 6 and 7 times over the years.  Clive Cussler used to
live in the Denver area and only about 20 minutes up the road from
where Sandy and I live and from where Todd and Lelia live.  Well,
about the same for Vicki where she lives, too.  I wrote Cussler a
letter many years ago by sending it to his publisher.  It was
probably his fifth or sixth book at the time.  He has probably
over two dozen books written now and at least five years ago, if
not more, I heard him on a local Denver talk show talking about is
books and at that time, there were over 90 million copies in print
of his books.  So, old Clive is pretty popular.  Generally
speaking, there is very little bad language in his books but there
is a lot of action, in places, so the Library of Congress puts a
disclaimer at the beginning to let you know that there are
descriptions of violence but he writes in such a way, I find it
difficult to label it violent.  Anyhow, I simply wrote him and
thanked him for his latest book and to my amazement, he wrote me
back, gave me his home phone number in Golden, Colorado, just up
the mountain a ways as I said, and apologized for writing his
letter by hand but he was almost walking out the door and his
stuff was all loaded into the car and he and his wife were on
their way to their winter home in Arizona.  He now lives in
Telluride, Colorado, that's in western Colorado where all the real
rich people live.  Vale and Aspen are still rich people mountain
ski communities but it is now nothing compared to Telluride. 
Anyhow, Clive owns and collects and restores like new, antique
cars, and he takes them to car shows all over the country.  I had
mentioned this in my letter, and his return letter said that when
he return, I was supposed to call him in about six months, and he
would come down and pick me and Sandy up and take us to where he
stores all his antique cars and show them to us.  I kept his
letter for a long time, along with his home phone number in Golden
but frankly, when the date came and went of his return, I honestly
didn't have the nerve to try and call him but I often wish I had
done so.  Clive Cussler must now be in his seventies.  So what
does this have to do with what I brought up before?  I'm glad you
asked.  Cussler touches on some very interesting ideas in his
adventure novels.  The main character of at least the first 15
books or so is a man who is very much like Cussler himself in many
ways.  His books are largely about the world's oceans and evil
groups of sinister diabolical people who are out to destroy the
earth in one way or another.  So, back to the Library for the
Blind website.  I typed in Cussler's name and up popped a list of
all his books.  Several new ones were now available which I had
not read because, as I said, I haven't read anything for a couple
of years, and I probably had not read any of Cussler's books for
five or more years due to the slower pace they are recorded and
made available to the blind through the talking book program.  So,
I ordered a dozen books but one in particular I really wanted to
read right away because it sounded like it was a global story that
I have personally wondered about now for some time concerning the
seven years of tribulation.  As I have said before, I have been a
news hound for most of my life.  At times, I am almost addicted to
news.  In the past two or three years, the Middle Eastern news,
and things related, simply cannot go unnoticed by a Christian.  I
pray with a financial adviser once each week and have done so for
about two years.  We skip weeks, as we did last week, because he
is often out of town.  When we first met, a friend of his in
Texas had found my website, I believe it was either from that
website or another one listing me as an intercessor who prays with
people, and since he was in Denver, he called and talked about
what type of ministry I had.  He had been out of work for six
years do to depression and he physically was getting worse as
well.  He came to some of our Friday night prayer meetings for
awhile but he lives about 30 minutes south of my house so it is
quite a ways for him to drive.  After about six months of prayer
sessions, sometimes twice a week, he went and applied at another
place, got the job, and has been back in investment counseling for
the last year and a half.  He has made good money and last week
was asked to come and apply at a place he really has always wanted
to work where they literally deal in millions, try 500 million
dollars, worth of investments.  His health, by the way, has
improved, too.  Randy watches world trends like I do and he has
contacts who do business all over the planet.  Each week, we
spend about half our prayer time discussing prophecy, the
tribulation, world markets, and world events.  I've learned a lot
about world economies and globalism from him simply because the
people he works for, and contacts he has made over the years, give
him insights I normally don't hear about.  He has lots of
knowledge about the history of things like our Federal Reserve
Bank and the International Monitory Fund, IMF, and other such
banking organizations that have given me a stronger idea of things
I have often wondered about concerning the tribulation.  God has
healed this man in so many places, we just normally plan on
praying once a week to see if anything new is there and some
things I have written about are directly healing experiences this
man has experience, praise God.  Anyhow, I told you all about this
guy for background information and because of things he has said
that have added to some of my personal beliefs about globalism. 
He, too, watches what is going on in the Middle East but he knows
contacts there who do business with people that makes the Bible
prophetics come alive.  As I started to say, for some time, I have
had an idea in the back of my head but had no scientific knowledge
about it so I have just kept my ears opened.  The subject has been
surfacing and filtering up into our news levels, and also on the
science channels I watch, so my little theory has been coming
together more and more.  Again, all this is relative so don't give
up on me yet even if this email seems long.  The last time I
wrote on this, I quoted passages from Isaiah and Revelation about
what I believe would happen to the earth during the tribulation. 
I have said, and still believe, it is pretty clear, and I won't
list all the Biblical reasons again, but it is pretty clear the
sun goes into a nova phase during the tribulation.  I believe this
because of the passages which say the moon shines like the sun,
the moon turns blood red, the earth's climate becomes seven times
hotter, and due to other such Biblical references.  A sun that
novas, scientist say, becomes at least seven times hotter than
normal.  The moon reflects the sun's light, thus, it will appear
to shine as the sun at that time of solar peak output.  A nova
cycle used to be believed, by scientists, to take thousands of
years.  For decades now, they have studied novas in our own galaxy
and now know it came take as little as seven years.  The perfect
number for the tribulation.  This means, as I think I have said
before, that the sun expands, getting hotter and hotter, and
suddenly burns out.  By that I mean, it begins to cool rapidly. 
As it cools, it condenses, that is, it collapses in upon itself. 
It's mass shrinks, it's color turns a dull red, isn't that
interesting, just another Biblical confirmation of a nova, and as
it condenses in mass, falling in upon itself, it becomes smaller
and smaller and smaller.  The theory is that black holes, are
holes in space that act something like a vortex and that they are
created from a dying star, or sun in other words, as it becomes a
neutron star.  It continues collapsing in upon itself, getting
heavier and heavier until space itself can no longer hold it's
dense mass and punches a literal hole into the fabric of space. 
There's your black hole.  A black hole is said to even suck up
light passing by and they can be literally millions of light years
across they have recently discovered.  The gravity is so powerful,
some scientists believe the worm holes are created into other
parallel universes and that the big bang theory occurred from the
other end of a black hole coughing out all the compressed atoms
into another empty universe and life was born.  I didn't say I
believe all of this and in fact, I personally do not even believe
black holes exist but I am no scientist so believe what you wish. 
I have reasons why I believe all this stuff so just hold on and
let me continue.  Anyhow, our sun right now is going through
several years of unprecedented, and highly irregular, changes that
man has never seen before in man's life upon this earth.  I won't
go into all those changes for now but it is happening and it is
being reported on from many journals and even from some news
broadcasts.  The Scriptures, according to those passages I quote
in Isaiah chapters 23 and 24 and in the book of Revelation are
pretty clear that the earth is just about torn apart by titanic
gravitational changes effecting the earth from within the planet
and from space.  Also, the star falling into the world's oceans
and all that Revelation talks about, could easily bring earth
changes almost instantly into play so I won't try and preach a
whole sermon here right now on this.  What I am typing would take
hours to teach Scripturally and from a systematic standpoint. 
Earthquakes, as we all know, play a big part of the tribulation
period of time.  The grand daddy earthquake flattens all
mountains, that's right, all mountains, and all islands disappear. 
Read it for yourself in the book of Revelation.  There is also
another element that I believe will occur to bring about
cataclysmic global catastrophe and that is a polar magnetic and
geo polar shift.  It could be one, or both, of these types of
shifts.  The first is magnetic in nature and would cause the least
amount of damage.  Your compass would point south.  Births birds,
bees, and animals of all kinds would lose their ability to
navigate.  Electronically, it is likely everything would totally
be screwed up, break down, and burn up.  There are some scientists
who believe we have experienced magnet polar shifts already over
millions of years but you'd have to believe the earth was
literally, as they guess it to be, about 5 billion years old for
their theoretical magnetic polar shifts to have occurred at all
and I'm not in that camp.  The geo polar shift would be something
totally irreversible and  would likely cause the entire earth's
surface to move around like an ice skater on a frozen pond.  The
geo polar shift means the crust of the earth's surface, that which
we live on, and the mantel, just below that level an probably
drops to 1800 miles or so below surface level, will slip around on
the earth's core.  It is estimated that such global movement would
literally turn the earth sideways so the magnetic poles would be
where the earth's equator is now and the equator would move to
where the magnetic poles are now.  It could be even worse.  In
such a case, can you see how every mountain will be flattened and
every island would disappear?  The oceans would move and the
continents as well.  Isaiah says the earth wobbles to and fro in
its orbit at this time as a drunken man.  such a geo polar shift
would have exactly they type of effect.  Well, interestingly
enough, Clive Cussler's book called "Polar Shift," is on this
exact topic and it is explained in scientific, howbeit from a
fictional standpoint, how such a polar shift could be created by
man.  So, I know this has been long, but I found the story
fascinating as it relates to what I see in Scripture concerning
what the earth will suffer during the seven years of tribulation.

Phil.