Clouds in the Algarve

It has rained mostly all day and the sky is very dark with clouds here in the Algarve. More rain is to come. This post will travel with clouds. The five photographs were taken in different places and at different times and I will try and answer a question involving clouds asked by Jesus disciples. First some words for a cloud: a visible mass of condensed water, a clump of water vapor, a cloud is a hydrometeor consisting of small particles of liquid water or ice or both! What can we see now?

It is going to rain more!

Yesterday at 7:55 am and 7:57 am I saw change framed by the cottage window. The bright morning light made for a bright sky and moving ‘clumps’.

07:55

07:57

Now for that religious question asked by the disciples and maybe by us: ‘What will be the sign of your coming, Jesus, and the end of the world?’

Here is a summary from Matthew 24 / Mark 13,/ Luke 21, all three disciples wrote it down as a question that needed an answer.

Jesus: ‘ The beginning is like a woman having a baby with some pain every now and then. This pain shows itself in the world like this; many will say they are Me, Christ, and people will believe them. Then there will be wars, nations will rise against each other and there will be famine, pests, and earthquakes in different places but this is only the beginning. The worst thing is that people will hate each other and kill each other and love, real warm love, will be cold hearted for those who love Me, Jesus…

Then there will be so much trouble that if I don’t shorten this time, no flesh will be saved…

Then immediately after this terrible time… there will appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and all the different cultures/ tribes/ nations will mourn, and they shall see the Son of Man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.’

( Why won’t they be happy?)

John speaks from Patmos: ‘Behold, He comes with clouds; and every eye will see Him: and all kindred of planet Earth will cry because of Him.’

‘ I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, says the Lord, which is, and, was and which is to come, the Almighty.’

Then Jude writes not to a church or group of people but to them who are sanctified. In the earliest Greek manuscripts the title of this epistle is simply loudas. It is a universal letter of only one chapter. Here are strong words to answer the question: ‘ Why do people cry when Jesus comes?’

This is under ‘The fruitlessness of sin.’ My summary:

… there are spots in your feasts of charity when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about with winds; trees whose fruit withers, pulled out by the roots. Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.’

Then Jude quotes Enoch:

Enoch the 7th from Adam said: ‘Behold the Lord will come with ten thousands of His saints, to execute judgement upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against Him.’

Will we cry when we see His power and glory?

…but there is this at the end of this book of one chapter:

‘ Now to Him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of His glory with exceeding joy, To the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power now and ever. Amen.’

Take care,

Sandy 🙂