Hopkinsville, Kentucky, or "Eclipseville," became the center attraction on August 21st, 2017.
It was the point of the Total Solar Eclipse's longest duration.
Christian County offered the country
the best viewing of a celestial event
foreshadowing a spiritual event to come.
But as for Christian County, even the government agreed as a resolution on March 29 designated Hopkinsville-Christian County as "the best place on earth" to view the Total Solar Eclipse.
Location, Location, Location
What is unique about all of this is that Hopkinsville was 2 counties away from the Second Great Awakening, which was the most responsible for changing the character and course of America in the later part of the 1700s.
This is the movement that saved America from destruction.
A famous phrase says,
“A coincidence is a miracle where God choses to remain anonymous,”
while the Jews say,
“Coincidence is not a kosher word.”
If that indeed is true, more miracle-coincidences were still to be unfolded concerning the eclipse path.
The 2017 Total Solar Eclipse
was going to reveal its biggest show
in the place of the Second Great Awakening.
Will people once again look unto heaven by going to a place called Christian?
What we saw happen was that people flocked to a place where America once had a heart for God, and repented for their sins with great fervor, where a move of God affected a nation. It was a prophetic indicator that soon people would turn their hearts to the Gospel message.
God is revisiting the old paths of national revival.
Things That Changed
A man named Israel Christian, the first to come to America from Scotland, was born on the Isle of Man about 1714. With a name like Israel Christian, destiny was afoot for his son William Christian, the Revolutionary War General, who would be the namesake for a new county in Kentucky, and this is how Christian County’s name was derived.
Where the Second Great Awakening started, history shows was originally Logan County. In 1797, after the Second Great Awakening began, Logan County split, forming what is now Christian County selecting Hopkinsville as its county seat.
The Great Awakening which produce Camp Meetings and Tent Revivals, began in Logan County, therefore, the place of the 2017 Greatest Eclipse Duration (Hopkinsville) was originally in the same county as the famous revival.
God was putting His finger on something.
Therefore, the Total Solar Eclipse’s longest duration is in the ‘original’ county of the Second Great Awakening.
The City Seat: Russellville.
Once Logan County was subdivided, Christian County lay in the plot of land westward, and Logan County remained its most eastward region. A middle county was added named Todd.
Since Hopkinsville was now Christian County's seat, the county seat of Logan became Russellville. American Revolutionary war hero, General William Russell owned land here and donated some of it to build a Logan County Courthouse. The city was renamed in his honor in 1798, the year after the Logan County was divided into three.
Russellville is the seat of Logan County, the county of the Second Great Awakening, therefore, Russellville is connected with revival.
And Russellville would be a name that would hold a surprise in connection to Eclipses.
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