A PILLAR (OF SMOKE) BY DAY AND A PILLAR (OF FIRE) BY NIGHT

I HAVE ALWAYS MARVELLED AT THAT (PILLAR DAY/NIGHT) REFERENCE IN OUR HYMNAL TALKING ABOUT THE LORD BRINGING THE ISREALITES OUT OF BONDAGE IN EGYPT.

I HAVE NEVER HAD MUCH MORE THAN A THOUGHT OF FASCINATION ABOUT IT UNTIL I READ VELIKOVSKY, A RUSSIAN-BORN JEW (AND CLOSET PHYSICIST) WHO SAID THAT THERE IS PROBABLY A PHYSICAL PHENOMENON TO ACCOUNT FOR THE EVENTS DESCRIBED BY MOSES IN EXODUS.

VELIKOVSKY DID MENTION A COMET OR N.E.O. CAUSING THE PILLAR PHENOMENON - AND I WAS ABLE TO STOMACH THE POSSIBILITY BUT NEVER GOT A VISUAL UNTIL NOW:




VELIKOVSKY WAS A CLOSE ASSOCIATE OF ALBERT EINSTEIN - IN FACT EINSTEIN HAD A COPY OF VELIKOVSKY'S BOOK ON THE DESK THAT HE WAS SLUMPED OVER WHEN THEY FOUND HIM DEAD. HOPEFULLY THE RESEARCH DIDN'T GIVE EINSTEIN A HEART ATTACK. DESPITE HIS BEST EFFORTS WHILE ALIVE, VELIKOVSKY WAS NEVER TAKEN SERIOUSLY (AS MANY OTHER GREATS HAVE NOT BEEN), BUT MOST OF HIS MAIN POINTS SUCH AS PLANETS WITH METHANE ATMOSPHERES HAVE BEEN LOCATED SINCE HIS DEATH IN THE EARLY '80S. THE OTHER MAIN POINT THAT HE WAS JUST RECENTLY VALIDATED ON IS THAT THERE WAS A LARGE (MARS SIZED) PLANET THAT SLAMMED INTO OUR OWN TO CREATE OUR MOON FROM THE IMPACT EJECTA.

I HAVE MUCH MORE ON THIS SUBJECT THAT I WILL POST LATER, BUT I WANTED TO GET THIS READ STARTED NOW WITH THIS GREAT SHOT.