I have written about asteroids zooming by earth for several years now. This is due to John’s warnings in the book of Revelation that asteroids will become a threat in the days leading up to Christ’s second coming.

The one that zoomed by earth yesterday (Sunday, Jan 12, 2025) particularly caught my attention, because it was described as being the ’size of a mountain.’

This is exactly how the Apostle John described one asteroid that will hit the earth during the opening of the seven seals in Revelation 8.

John writes, “The second angel sounded, and something like a great mountain burning with fire was hurled into the sea” (Revelation 8:8 NASV).

Yesterday’s asteroid, named Aida, is compared to the size of New York City’s Manhattan Island, the Daily Mail reports. Manhattan is 13 miles (21 km) long and 2.3 miles (3.7 km) wide, making Alida a monstrous asteroid. In comparison, Mount Everest, the world’s largest mountain, is only 5.5 miles (8.9 kilometers) high.

It orbits our solar system every 3.89 years. In what astronomers described as ‘once in a decade event’, Alida zoomed close enough for people to see it with their naked eyes. Though, this was the closest it had been to earth in about 100 years, it was still a comfortable 7.6 million miles away.

Despite its regular appearances in our solar system, astronomers believe there is little chance that Alida will ever hit earth.

But if something that big ever did, it would be catastrophic.

Jake Foster, who works at Britain’s Royal Observatory Greenwich described the impact of a mountain-sized asteroid this way.

“The effects would undoubtedly be globally catastrophic,” Foster said. “The shockwave that follows would likely flatten anything within a few hundred kilometers.”

‘Those lucky enough to escape the initial destruction would need to contend with the devastating after-effects,” Foster added. “Earthquakes would likely be felt across the planet, with enormous tidal waves triggered by the tectonic activity.”

“Disruptions to ecosystems and animal life would be severe, with multiple species extinctions expected,” he said.

When John wrote the book of Revelation around 90 AD, he didn’t have long range telescopes or the benefits of years of scientific observations. All he had was a vision of what would take place hundreds of year’s in the future supplied by the Holy Spirit.

But John’s description is eerily like Foster’s.

After slamming into one of the earth’s oceans, John writes, “a third of the sea became blood, and a third of the creatures which were in the sea and had life, died; and a third of the ships were destroyed” (Revelation 8:8b-9 NASV).