Elenin's nucleus could resemble that of Comet Hartley 2 seen here by NASA's Deep Impact mission.
A recently discovered comet named Elenin is racing toward our home planet.  It is not an asteroid and there has been no prediction it will hit the Earth, but it is expected to be at its closest point to us during the culmination of God's annual holy days mentioned in the Bible, the Feast of Trumpets; which many Bible theologians have believed would correlate with the coming of Lord.  This has sparked a wave of speculation that it could be a miraculous sign possibly heralding the anticipated return of Jesus, our Lord and Savior, to Earth.  A Russian astonomer, Leonid Elenin, discovered the comet in the United States on December 10, 2010, at the International Scientific Optical Network's robotic observatory near Mayhill, New Hampshire.  Many are wondering what type affect it will have in the Earth's atmosphere.  People speculate whether it may even hit Earth, but more scrutiny is given to the possibility of a strong magnetic pull, resulting in a shift of the Earth's axis, causing catastrophic earthquakes, tsunamis, and possibly a number of other cataclysmic disasters.  It has been estimated that the comet will come to its closest proximity to Earth on October 16, 2011, during the Feast of Tabernacles, according to today's Jewish calendar.  When the apostles asked Jesus what the signs of His return would be, He said, "There will be great earthquakes in various places, and famines and pestilences, and there will be fearful sights and great signs in heaven" Luke 21:11.  Hypothetically, this comet could cause major activity, such as an ecliptic "blood moon" and other wondrous or fearful signs in heaven, as Jesus mentioned in the Gospels.  The prophet Joel said, "The sun will be turned into darkness and the moon into blood before the great and terrible day of the Lord comes" Joel 2:31.  Jesus said, "The stars of heaven will fall and the powers in heaven will be shaken and then they will see the Son of man (Jesus) coming in the clouds with great power and glory" Mark 13:25-26.  David Morrison, a planetary astronomer at NASA's Ames Research Center and senior scientist at the NASA Astrobiology Institute states emphatically that the comet does not have the magnetic pull to cause any such celestial or severe earthquake activity.  Another astronomer, Colin Johnston, said Elenin will definitely not hit earth, nor will it have any affect on the Earth's atmosphere.  Then there are theorists on the internet who allege NASA is trying to "cover-up" to stem fear and panic.  

 Pastor Mark Biltz of El Shaddai Ministries in Bonney Lake, Washington, noted a coming rare phenomenon of four consecutive total lunar eclipses, known as tetrad, and often called "blood moons" since the moon often takes on a bloody color.  He says that during this century, tetrads occur at least six times, but what's interesting is that the only string of consecutive blood moons that coincide with God's holy days of Passover and the spring and autumn Feast of Tabernacles (also called Succoth) occurs between 2014 and 2015 on today's Gregorian calendar.  "The fact that it doesn't happen again in this century I think is very significant," Blitz explained.  "So then I looked at last century and, believe it or not, the last time that four blood red moons occurred together was in 1967 and 1968, tied to Jerusalem being recaptured by Israel!"  Then he started to notice a pattern of the tetrads.  "What is significant to me is that even before 1967, the next time that you had four blood moons again was right after Israel became a nation in 1948; it happened again in 1949 and 1950 ... on Passover and Succoth.  You didn't have any astronomical tetrads in the 1800s, the 1700s or the 1600s.  In the 1950s, there were six, but none of those fell on Passover or Succoth."  When checking the schedule for solar eclipses, Biltz found two - one on the first day of the Hebrew year and the next on the high holy day of Rosh Hashanah, the first day of the seventh Hebrew month.  Both of these take place in the 2014-2015 year.  Biltz says "You have the religious year beginning with the total solar eclipse, two weeks later a total lunar eclipse on Passover and then the civil year beginning with the solar eclipse, followed two weeks later by another total blood red moon on the Feast of Succoth, all in 2015."  In February of last year, the astronomical community was dazzled with a spectacular unknown object that some felt could be a sign from God, as they said it resembled a flying cross or a Star of David.  "The truth is, we are still struggling to understand what this means," comet expert David Jewett at UCLA told Britain's Daily Mail.  "It's most likely the result of a recent collision between two asteroids."  
 
 Excerpts taken from WorldNetDaily.com  

Commentary:  The Hebrew word for feasts is moadim, which literally means "appointed times."  God commanded the Jews to observe feasts during specific time periods throughout the year, Leviticus 23.  God actually provides a prophetic picture of His entire plan for His creation through observance of the Holy Feasts, which correlate perfectly with God's plan of redemption for sinful man through His Son, Jesus.  The first four spring feasts were fulfilled literally right on the actual feast day in correlation with Jesus's first coming, death and resurrection.  The fall feasts, it is believed by many, will likewise be fulfilled in correlation with the return of Jesus.  

I have summarized each of the Holy Feast days and their correlation to Jesus, our Messiah:

Passover (Leviticus 23:5):  God commanded the Jews to sacrifice a pure lamb during their captivity in Egypt on the night before the Lord would go throughout all Egypt and kill every firstborn.  The Jews were instructed to place the blood of the pure lamb on the door posts, and God told Moses that as He went throughout Egypt killing all of the firstborn, He would "pass over" their homes and not slay their firstborn when He saw the blood of the pure lamb on the door posts.  After this, they were instructed to observe the Passover every year in the same fashion, in remembrance of God's mercy and their deliverance out of Egypt.  This is a type and shadow of Jesus's shed blood for our sins, so we would not be condemned to death.  Jesus suffered in our place and paid the penalty for our sins, so we could have eternal life; if we only believe, receive this gift and follow God's commandments through the power of the Holy Ghost, which God provides to each one of us who receive the Lord.   

Unleavened Bread (Leviticus 23:6):  God commanded the Jews, directly after the Passover, to eat unleavened bread for seven days, and to observe this feast every year after the Passover Feast.  The Word of God makes eight references in the New Testament to leaven as signifying sin; one example is 1 Corinthians 5:8.  The Feast of Unleavened Bread represents the sinless life of Jesus, our example, and which makes Him the perfect sacrifice (Holy Lamb of God) for our sins

First Fruits (Leviticus 23:10):  God commanded the Jews to bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of their harvest to the priest, as an offering, after they arrived in the promised land.  This signifies that Jesus is the "firstfruits" of the resurrection of the dead.  The Bible tells us that, "Now Christ is risen from the dead and became the firstfruits of those who slept (the dead)" 1 Corinthians 15:20.  Jesus was actually resurrected on this very day, which is why Paul referred to Him as the "firstfruits of the dead" in 1 Corinthians 15:20.  

Pentecost (Leviticus 23:16):  This feast occurred fifty days after the Feast of Unleavened Bread.  God told Moses, "...after the seventh sabbath, count fifty days and offer a new meat offering unto the Lord" Leviticus 23:16.  This signifies the outpouring of the Holy Ghost and the birth of the church on the actual day of Pentecost (Acts 2), following the offerings of "prayer and supplication" (Acts 1:14), and the apostles' waiting in the upper room for the outpouring of the Holy Ghost, as promised by Jesus prior to His ascension into heaven (Acts 1:4-5).    

Trumpets (Leviticus 23:24):  This is the first of the fall feasts.  God commanded Moses that this would be a holy gathering and blowing of trumpets on the sabbath of the first day of the seventh month.  The Bible often signifies the "catching up" of the church, otherwise referred to as the rapture (taken from the Greek translation of the Bible, harpazo, meaning rapture), by the sounding of a trumpet:  "He will send His angels with a great sound of a trumpet and they will gather together His elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to another" Matthew 24:31-.  "The Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first; then we which are alive and remain will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will forever be with the Lord" 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17

Day of Atonement (Leviticus 23:27):  God told Moses to gather the Jews for this holy feast day to observe a sabbath, do no work, rest, and offer up a burnt offering to the Lord in observance of the atoning blood of the sacrifice for their sins.  This feast points to the return of Jesus, who is the propitiation and atonement for our sins.  We will rest and reign with our Lord after His return to set up His kingdom on earth for one thousand years, and we will continue to offer sacrifices of praise to the Lord for His atoning blood.  

Tabernacles (Leviticus 23:34):  The Lord told Moses to have the Jews prepare the Feast of Tabernacles for seven days.  He went on to instruct Moses to have the people create and dwell in booths for these seven feast days, in remembrance of the fact that they dwelled in booths when the Lord delivered them out of Egypt's bondage.  This alludes to the new heavenly bodies our spirits will dwell in after the Lord returns and we are changed (1 Corinthians 15:52).  Paul said before his death, "Shortly, I must put off this tabernacle, even as our Lord Jesus Christ showed me" 2 Peter 1:14.  He spoke here of his earthly body as a tabernacle.  He also said, "We know that if our earthly tabernacle is dissolved, we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens" 2 Corinthians 5:1.  He spoke here of this earthly body (tabernacle) versus the heavenly body (tabernacle) which is eternal in heaven.