There are rainbows literally everywhere showing we are in the days of Noah. Now a man has been swallowed by a whale and been spat out, and has survived it! We are in the days of Jonah – the days of the resurrection.
Christ said that the sign in days before his return and the resurrection of the dead from unknowing dust, were the signs of the days of Noah.
But first must he (Messiah) suffer many things, and be rejected of this generation. And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man. They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all. (Luke 17:25-27)
But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only. But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left. Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord does come. (Matt 24:36-42)
We can see the increasing violence, the cities of all nations led by those in the Americas bathed in blood that is not avenged. Both North and South America lead the world in violence with the cities of North America overtaking those of South America for their dead in the streets, and yet they marry and give in marriage – the party goes on. More so all over the world in all the places of violence and partying they put up rainbow flags - the rainbow is associated with Noah!
Global news covered the amazing recovery of a man swallowed by a whale. Christ speaks of the sign of Jonah!
“An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas” (Hebrew Jonah): (Matthew 12:39 also Luke 11-29-32)
What was the sign about?
For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. The men of Nineveh shall rise in judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: because they repented at the preaching of Jonas; and, behold, a greater than Jonas is here. (Matt 12:40-41)
The sign was about a wicked generation that would not repent when called to repent. The sign was about death and resurrection.
PROVINCETOWN — At a little before 8 a.m. Friday, veteran lobster diver Michael Packard entered the water for his second dive of the day. His vessel, the “Ja’n J,” was off Herring Cove Beach and surrounded by a fleet of boats catching striped bass. The water temperature was a balmy 60 degrees and the visibility about 20 feet.
Licensed commercial lobster divers literally pluck lobsters off the sandy bottom, and as Packard, 56, dove down Friday morning, he saw schools of sand lances and stripers swimming by. The ocean food chain was in full evidence, but about 10 feet from the bottom Packard suddenly knew what it truly felt like to be part of that chain.
In something truly biblical, Packard was swallowed whole by a humpback whale.
“All of a sudden, I felt this huge shove and the next thing I knew it was completely black,” Packard recalled Friday afternoon following his release from Cape Cod Hospital in Hyannis. “I could sense I was moving, and I could feel the whale squeezing with the muscles in his mouth.”
“I was completely inside; it was completely black,” Packard said. “I thought to myself, ‘there’s no way I’m getting out of here. I’m done, I’m dead.’ All I could think of was my boys — they’re 12 and 15 years old.”
Outfitted with scuba gear, he struggled and the whale began shaking its head so that Packard could tell he didn’t like it. He estimated he was in the whale for 30 to 40 seconds before the whale finally surfaced.
“I saw light, and he started throwing his head side to side, and the next thing I knew I was outside (in the water),” said Packard, who lives in Wellfleet.
..Crewman Josiah Mayo, who relayed some of the details . saw the whale burst to the surface, and that he initially thought it was a great white shark.
“There was all this action at the top of the water,” (Cynthia) Packard said Mayo told her. Then the whale flung her brother back into the sea.
Lobster diver Michael Packard, 56, of Wellfleet, gives the thumbs up Friday morning from Cape Cod Hospital in Hyannis, where he was taken after he was injured in an encounter with a humpback whale Provincetown. He was later released from the hospital.capecodtimes.com
“And then I felt around and I realized there was no teeth,” he said. “And then I realized, ‘Oh my God I’m in a whale’s mouth. . . and he’s trying to swallow me.'”
Packard said he thought to himself “This is it, I’m gonna die.” He thought about his kids and wife and felt there was no getting out of the whale’s mouth.
“Then all of a sudden he went up to the surface and just erupted and started shaking his head. I just got thrown in the air and landed in the water,” Packard recalled. “I was free and I just floated there. I couldn’t believe. . . I’m here to tell it.”
“He’s damn lucky to be alive,” said Captain Joe Francis, who was heading a fishing charter nearby. He got a front row seat to the narrow escape.
“Then I saw Mike come flying out of the water feet first with his flippers on and land back in the water,” Francis said. “I jumped aboard the boat. We got him up, got his tank off. Got him on the deck and calmed him down and he goes, ‘Joe, I was in the mouth of a whale’ he goes ‘I can’t believe it, I was in the mouth of a whale Joe!’” boston.cbslocal.com
Unlike Jonah, Michael hasn't mentioned praying – even to CBS news – though his account does mention God.
Michael means 'Who is like El? Packard means 'Pike man' or Brave man'. The witness who helped names are, Josiah from Hebrew origin meaning 'God supports, heals' and Joseph means 'He (God) will add'.
Apart from establishing to any and all doubters that indeed a whale might swallow a man whole, and then later spit him out, it is a sign to this wicked generation. If the generation of our Lord was so wicked the leaders of Nineveh who repented would condemn it – consider this generation where added to hypocrisy is an alphabet soup of 'rainbow' coloured rebellion!
The sign of Jonah is resurrection and then a call to repentence of the nations, before their destruction!
When my soul fainted within me I remembered the LORD: and my prayer came in unto thee, into thine holy temple. They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy. But I will sacrifice unto thee with the voice of thanksgiving; I will pay that that I have vowed. Salvation is of the LORD. And the LORD spake unto the fish, and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry land. (Jonah 2:7-10)
