Columbia and Mars foretell destruction

Look to the skies. A spaceship becomes a comet. The planet of war approaches our world. Both are omens of death and destruction.

The Columbia space shuttle fell to earth on February 1, 2003. My mother worked as an electronic assembler on shuttle components when Columbia was built. She received a medallion and a commendation for her work signed by astronauts John Young and Bob Crippen. My mother was a midwife to the birth of Columbia. I am here to interpret its death.

The shuttle crew represented the three main targets of Islamic extremists: America, Israel and India. Their fiery deaths portend destruction for the people of those nations.

John Hogue, editor of the Hogue Prophecy Bulletin, suggested that the bright streaking shuttle was the "comet" that would herald the fall of a third Antichrist and the beginning of a 27-year war, as predicted by Nostradamus.

Records from China and Europe extending back nearly 3,000 years associate comets with major disasters such as plagues, wars, floods and fires. Comets were considered part of the heavenly machinery governing our fates. But since Columbia was a man-made "comet," this omen suggests that humans, not gods, govern their own fates. Or it could mean that the man-made and god-made comets are now interchangeable; the border between the material and spiritual worlds has been breached.

According to babynameworld.com, "Columbia," in Old English, is a girl's name meaning "a dove." The dove represents peace. The prospects for peace died when Columbia died.

Also noteworthy is the fact that the major breakup of the shuttle occurred in the skies near the town of Palestine, Texas. Perhaps peace, like the shuttle, will fall apart over the Palestine of the Middle East.

Red Planet  Mars was the Roman god of war. The blood-hued planet's swing near Earth in 2003 can only be a bad sign. Mars came within 34.6 million miles of Earth, 30 percent closer than average, on 08.27.2003. Note how the numbers in that date add up. The first and last numbers, 8 and 3, equal 11; 2 + 7 = 9, 7 + 2 = 9, and 2 + 7 + 2 = 11. An echo of Nine Eleven.

Mars "attacked" earth on October 31, 1938 when the radio broadcast of War of the Worlds caused a panic when many listeners thought we were really being invaded by aliens from Mars. Some considered the Mars "attack" a symbolic prelude to World War II.

The 2003 visitation by the red planet, along with Steven Spielberg's 2005 remake of War of the Worlds, may herald the approach of World War III. In Spielberg’s version, the alien craft laid dormant for eons beneath the earth’s surface before emerging to attack the planet. Similarly, humans may need to fear the ancient demons buried deep in their own subconscious.