SUPPLEMENT TO PREVIOUS BLOG ON TECTONIC ISOSTASY
July 8, 2006
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Our Previous Blog discussed how it was possible for Satan to convince mankind, even after 1000 years of reign by Jesus Christ on this earth, to once again attack Jerusalem at the end of his millennial reign. There was a lot of interest expressed in this Blog, and I made double reference to Special Prophecy Update Number 224A in our Archives, but did not include it in the Blog.
Since the Last Blog on Isostasy invoked such interest, I believe it most appropriate to put Special Prophecy Update Number 224A on this Blog, because some seem to have difficulty in extracting Prophecy Updates from our Archives. A definition of Isostasy precedes Update 224A.
Definition of “Isostasy”
Condition of gravitational equilibrium of all parts of the Earth’s crust. The crust is in isostatic equilibrium if, below a certain depth, the weight and thus pressure of rocks above is the same everywhere. The idea is that the lithosphere floats on the asthenosphere as a piece of wood floats on water.
A thick piece of wood floats lower than a thin piece, and a denser piece of wood floats lower than a less dense piece. There are two theories of the mechanism of isostasy, the Airy hypothesis and the Pratt hypothesis, both of which have validity. In the Airy hypothesis crustal blocks have the same density but different thicknesses: like ice cubes floating in water, higher mountains have deeper roots. In the Pratt hypothesis, crustal blocks have different densities allowing the depth of crustal material to be the same. In practice, both mechanisms are at work.
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There is geological evidence in the crust of the earth that upheavals have occurred in the past to restore equilibrium when the isostasy of the earth’s crust required it, and some of this evidence indicated worldwide upheaval, rather than just local episodes.
It is possible that one major upheaval could trigger a series of events worldwide if the tectonic plate structure was critical in several interconnecting areas.
SPECIAL PROPHECY UPDATE NUMBER 224A
May 22, 2005
PREVIEW OF COMING TRIBULATION HORRORS
The Great Sumatra-Andaman Earthquake & Tsunami!
Some 27 years ago I began a lectures series titled “A Geological Exposition of the Second Coming of Christ.” In that series I exposited on a wide variety of Scriptures describing the geological topographical changes in the crust of the earth, both horizontal and vertical, and the resultant affects it would produce on the geomagnetic and geophysical balance of the earth’s axis, as well
as its movement in space.
For more than four months, teams of scientists have been evaluating the characteristics and results of the great earth movement that produced the massive killer tsunami on December 26, 2004 in the archipelago of the Malayan East Indies. A correlation with what I have been teaching for 27 years, and the characteristics and results of the great earth movement, will be made in this Update, along with a preview of the same things which will occur many times over during the last three and one-half
years of the tribulation period. I have been teaching wh at follows for 29 years
at Dardanelle MBC.
The first earthquake in the book of Revelation occurs on the opening of the sixth seal and begins the last three and one-half years of great tribulation with the initial movement of the earth’ s ma
ssive tectonic structure.
Revelation 6:12A – And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake;
Revelation 6:14B – And every mountain and island were moved out of their places.
The last earthquake in the book of Revelation occurs on the pouring out of the last vial of wrath, and closes the movement of the earth’s massive tectonic structure.
Revelation 16:18 – And there were voices, and thunders, and lightnings; and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake, and so great.
Revelation 16:20 – And every island fled away, and the mountains were not found.
There is no question that all the mountains and islands of this planet are firmly attached to the earth’s surface crust, nor is there any question that the earth’s crust floats and moves in the direction determined by the currents of magma underlying its crust, nor is there any question that the mountains and islands merely ride on top of the crust in the direction of the crust’s movement, nor is there any question that their longitudinal and latitudinal coordinates in microseconds change as they float as plate passengers, nor is there any question that their location coordinates in microseconds have considerably changed over the last 500 years, having fled from their coordinates of 500 years ago, and are no longer found at their old locations. Their 500 year changes in location will be much less than their tribulation movements.
The first great earthquake in Revelation will initiate an accelerated movement of the entire plate structure and, by the time of the last quake in Revelation, there will have been an average worldwide movement of 3 to 5 feet along the borders of the thousands of miles of plate boundaries across the surface of the earth. This will produce thousands of fantastic worldwide earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and tsunamis along the borders of the tectonic plates for some three and one half years.
Now, let’s compare this claim of 3 to 5 feet worldwide movement with the Malay Archipelago event.
Scientists estimated the average slippage along the entire length of the plate boundary was in excess of 16 feet, with some areas moving nearly 50 feet.
The entire length of the fault boundary slippage was almost 800 miles, like a movement along a crack in the earth from Florida to New England.
An earthquake normally lasts less than 30 seconds, but the December 26 earthquake lasted at least 10 minutes, and had a magnitude between 9.0 and 9.3. Aftershocks have raked the area for the last four months. All the phenomena associated with worldwide tectonic plate movements were graphically described by the prophet Isaiah and by Jesus in many of his statements.
Isaiah 29:6 – Thou shalt be visited of the Lord of hosts with thunder, and with earthquake, and great noise, with storm and tempest, and the flame of devouring fire.
Luke 21:25,26 – And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; [26] Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.
Some 30 years ago I was taught the principle of isostasy. It has to do with principles governing the geomagnetic and geophysical balance of the earth, and is directly affected by massive weight balance shifts in horizontal and vertical movements of the outer and inner crust. The earth has experienced more than one mountain building period which produced periods of shift in its isostasy, causing reversals of its magnetic field, and such events as abnormal percussion of its axis, causing a tottering of its axis, and a slight change in its solar orbit. I am convinced this will happen during the last three and one half years of the tribulation period. The single event in the December episode in the earth’s crust in the East Indies will be magnified by a multiplicity of similar events, which will lead to worldwide tectonic chaos. Scientists were amazed that the entire earth vibrated. The ground in Sri Lanka, more than 1000 miles from the earthquake epicenter, moved up and down by almost four inches, and no place on earth escaped movement. It was powerful enough to vibrate the whole planet as much as half an inch. The quake released an amount of energy equal to a 100 gigaton bomb. A one gigaton bomb releases the energy of a billion tons of TNT, and the power of that energy lasted longer than any quake ever recorded.
I have taught for 29 years that the earth’s outer crust, which now consists of some 27 tectonic plates, varying in size from very small to gigantic, would begin to move on the opening of the sixth seal and, by the time the movement ceased some three and one-half years later, there might be as many as 30 to 35 due to breakage into smaller pieces. And, because of this massive change in isostasy the planet would go out of balance sufficiently to briefly totter on its geomagnetic axis during the tribulation, and there would be a slight change in its elliptical orbit around the sun.
The Old Testament prophetic tribulation Scriptures are indicative of what I have written in the three preceding paragraphs, some of which are as follows.
Haggai 2:6 – For thus saith the Lord of hosts; Yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land;
Ezekiel 38:19,20 – For in my jealousy and in the fire of my wrath have I spoken, Surely in that day there shall be a great shaking in the land of Israel; [20] So that the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the field, and all creeping things that creep upon the earth, and all the men that are upon the face of the earth, shall shake at my presence, and the mountains shall be thrown down, and the steep places shall fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground.
Isaiah 24:1 – Behold, the Lord maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof.
Isaiah 13:13 – Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the Lord of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.
Isaiah 24:19,20 – The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly. [20] The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.
In Isaiah 24:19, the expression, “clean dissolved,” does not mean the entire earth melted. The literal meaning of the Hebrew word “parar” is “ to break in pieces.
It was translated as “clean dissolved” in the Authorized Version because any large object broken into smaller pieces would be more difficult to see in its individual smaller pieces than when it was whole. Isaiah 24:19 portrays an earth broken into smaller tectonic pieces of crust by the great excessive movements of the outer crust. Isaiah 19:20 describes the results of this great shifting – the earth will totter slightly in space on its axis as though it had lost its equilibrium like a drunk person. The word translated “cottage” is the Hebrew word “melunah,” which means “hammock.” It pictures a hammock tied between two trees, and pictures the earth swinging slightly in space like a man dozing in a hammock.
Because of a great redistribution of weight in the earth’s upper crust, the earth may undergo a reversal of its geomagnetic poles. The close of verse 20 advises it will never be found exactly as it was before the great shaking occurred.
I believe the Lord means just what he said in Matthew and Daniel concerning the tribulation period.
Matthew 24:21,22 – For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be. [22] And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened.
Daniel 12:1 – And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.
Nahum 1:6 – Who can stand before his indignation? and who can abide in the fierceness of his anger? his fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are thrown down by him.
And many New Testament Scriptures are companion in character to previously listed Old Testament prophecies of the coming terrible events of the tribulation period. Once the tectonic plates begin to shift on a worldwide basis, it will eventually build a cloud shroud around the earth in the stratosphere, as the smoke from thousands of volcanic eruptions is blown upward through the vast tropopause inversion layer. This movement of tectonic plates will send hail, fire, and brimstone down upon the earth in a fantastic display of graphic horror never seen before by man on a worldwide scale – just a few of these Scriptures follow.
Revelation 6:15 – And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains;
Revelation 8:5B – And there were voices, and thunderings, and lightnings, and an earthquake.
Revelation 11:13A – And the same hour was there a great earthquake, and the tenth part of the city fell, and in the earthquake were slain of men seven thousand:
Malachi 4:1 – For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the Lord of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
Revelation 8:7 – The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.
Revelation 8:12 – And the fourth angel sounded, and the third part of the sun was smitten, and the third part of the moon, and the third part of the stars; so as the third part of them was darkened, and the day shone not for a third part of it, and the night likewise.
Revelation 9:2 – And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.
Joel 3:15 – The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their shining.
Joel 3:13,14 – Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe: come, get you down; for the press is full, the fats overflow; for their wickedness is great.
[14] Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision.
Jude 1:14,15 – And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints, [15] To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.
Zechariah 14:4 – And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south.
Zechariah 13:8,9 – And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the Lord, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein. [9] And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The Lord is my God.
Malachi 4:2 – But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.
Acts 2:20,21 – The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before that great and notable day of the Lord come: [21] And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved.
Acts 4:12 – Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.
Romans 10:13 – For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.
Romans 10:17 – So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
Romans 10:9,10 – That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. [10] For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
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