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Heads Up: Falling Satellite: NASA Tries To Predict Where And When It Will Hit Earth

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- A dead 6-ton satellite is getting closer and closer, and is expected to smack down on Earth on Friday.

NASA's old research satellite is expected to come crashing down through the atmosphere Friday afternoon, Eastern Time. The spacecraft will not be passing over North America then, the space agency said in a statement Wednesday evening.

The predictions should become more precise by

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EARLY CHURCH FATHERS ON FIRST CENTURY FULFILLMENT - 07.25.2011

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“Christ, he asserts, not merely opened, but broke in pieces the gates of brass, in order to make the prison useless; where there is neither door, nor bar, whosoever enters is not detained. What God destroys, who can set up again?

Earthly kings indeed set free prisoners, yet leave untouched the prison gates; but Christ broke in pieces the gates of brass. Christ went to the utterly black and joyless portion of hades, and turned it into heaven, transferring all its wealth, the race of man, into His royal treasury.

In this, too, Christ surpasseskings, for they send messengers, but He went in person to set the captives free. So again, he says: 'Our Lord, when He was in hades, set free all who were kept prisoners by death.'”

 

— St. John Chrysostom, 347-407 (in reference to 1 Peter)