In the fall of 2011, I received a phone call from Young-Hye Kim, Ph.D., in California, who told me that the discovery of Planet X—a distant planet long speculated about by astronomers—had been confirmed.

On September 14, 2011, I boarded a flight from Oakland International Airport to Chicago to attend a wedding the next day, where I was to serve as best man. With air travel still uncertain after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, my brother Diugo thought I was taking a great risk. After praying, however, I felt encouraged to proceed.

During the flight, I shared the Gospel with a fellow passenger, using Romans 1:20 and the solar system as an illustration. He then showed me a Discover magazine he had bought during our stop in Las Vegas. It contained a story about the new planet, which immediately reminded me of an ongoing project I had titled “The Second Exodus.” He later gave me the magazine, and I treasured it throughout the rest of the trip.

For me, the report of a tenth planet supported my earlier speculation that there might be more than nine planets. I believed that such a possibility could reinforce my interpretation of Romans 1:20 in relation to the arrangement of Israel’s wilderness camp described in Numbers 2 and 3. The magazine also mentioned a highly advanced telescope then under development that might eventually pinpoint Planet X and reveal objects beyond it.

I later told Young-Hye that, if I could, I would encourage astronomers to search for two additional planets because I strongly suspected there might be twelve, corresponding to the twelve tribes of Israel.

Here is a copy of the hypothetical diagram I developed after a vision of the Lord that I experienced on February 14, 2000.