PART 2 of 2
Do consider It!
Who made You?
Who made Nature?
Who made the Earth
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Who controls the Earth?
Who controls the Future?
Who knows man’s Future?
Earthquakes in Divers Places
Fire in heavens from Volcanoes
Violent acts of nature Everywhere
Famine increasing with the Population
Pestilence (Infectious Disorders) Climbing
Is the coming of Jesus working on your Mind?
Can’t you see God is using His earth and Heavens,
The very things He made, owns, operates and Controls,
In order to get your attention before His Son’s 2nd Advent?
Whatever you intend to do about, with, or for the Lord – Do Now!
May 13, 2008
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I waddled through the thirties hearing preachers in the hills saying that man was not going to destroy himself, but that God would perform his judgment using the phenomena described in books like Isaiah, Ezekiel, Daniel, Joel, Zechariah, Malachi, Revelation, etc.! Then I stumbled into the forties and began to watch all the man-made weapons of World War II being transposed into Bible prophecies as the instruments God was using to judge mankind, as they were twisted into a best fit scenario as to what the writers could claim was a particular thing in the prophecies of the Bible. Then I was jerked into the craze of converting the many things in prophecy to fit the atomic bomb after we ended World War II with two atomic bomb drops on Japan. And, since the thousands of books written in the rest of the 20th and 21st centuries, I have waded across a long sea of books by countless writers, who used a never ending chain of applications in a process of transposing man’s puny weaponry to fit all the objects, things, symbols, and figures in the prophetic books of the Bible. In all this waddling, stumbling, jerking, and wading, I have clung tenaciously to what I was first taught in the hills of northern Arkansas, and because of it, I am about as popular as a rattlesnake in a rabbit burrow. The prophetic teachings I espouse are, to a large extent, from the pre-1740 era of prophetic interpretation. Most preachers have never taken the time to really explore it. I believe the great Evangelical Movement, which began in 1740 in England, introduced into prophetic teachings new concepts that are simply not true, and most of what is taught today fits II Timothy 4:3-5.
II Timothy 4:3-5 – For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; [4] And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables. [5] But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry.
I have been the pastor of Dardanelle MBC for 34 years, during which time I have done the work of an evangelist.
In our Prophecy Archive I attempt to offer full proof in a meticulous manner in each interpretation of prophetic events I present
The outburst of natural phenomena from 2004 to 2008 has been quite noticeable. One day the people are going to rise from their slumber to find the planet on which they reside in absolute chaos. I know the Bible says it will happen, and I know it will. No one can tell exactly when that day will suddenly come on man, but God did leave us some indicators as to what would be happening just before it suddenly sprang on mankind. The natural phenomena are among the indicators.
All I can tell you for sure is that it “near.” I can offer you a guesstimate of the day suddenly occurring at some point in time before 2010 and 2015, but it is a guess, no more and no less.
Will Tribulation Period Earthquakes Begin Soon?
Two very significant events occurred while I worked at the Federal Office building Office in downtown Kansas City, one in 1963 and one in 1964. I had just issued a severe weather warning box for something or other on November 22, 1963, and was back in the teletype room watching the high speed reports to see if active weather was starting to generate in the box. But the machine I was reading suddenly stopped, which was unusual, and then someone at the transmitting station manually, and very slowly, typed in the hunt and peck system of non-professional typists, a chilling all caps message – “THE PRESIDENT HAS BEEN SHOT.” In 1964, on March 28, in roughly the same manner, I was advised of the great tsunami producing earthquake in Alaska, and the effects of a tsunami flowing out from it in all directions from Prince Edward Sound. It was the first time I was ever actually cognizant of the effects an earthquake and its accompanying tsunami can produce on ocean coastal areas, and it was also the first time my interest in such phenomena was genuinely aroused. In fact, when I put together my first book, “Tectonic Chaos,” published by Diamond W. Graphics in Little Rock, Arkansas, I chose an engraving of the great tsunami of 1755, which swept in from the Atlantic on Portugal’s coastal port of Lisbon, as the book cover for it. In less than a day, the ancient city of Lisbon was completely destroyed by quakes, fire, and finally a wall of water, higher than a two-story building, that swept a half mile inland.
The first set of worldwide earthquake data I obtained, as I recollect, was published by National Technical Information Service, U.S. Department of Commerce, Springfield, Virginia. I believe it was one of the first KGRD – 5 Reports but, whatever the case, one could see the growing number of reported earthquakes up to 1967. I began to have more interest in theology and geology than I did in meteorology, and many Scriptures in the Bible came to life for me spiritually in all the physical things God created. So, after I graduated from the Missionary Baptist Seminary and Arkansas Tech University, the many pieces of the puzzle actually came together, and I started to understand how the following Scriptures, and many others, fit together in the manner they will be fulfilled by God.
Daniel 12:4 – But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.
Revelation 6:14 – And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places.
Revelation 16:20 – And every island fled away, and the mountains were not found.
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.
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.
I realized that what I had been taught from the Bible as a young man growing up under Missionary Baptist preachers in northern Arkansas was more likely to be true than what most post atomic bomb preachers taught. Most 20th Century writers said worldwide catastrophes would be fulfilled by man’s many weapons of mass destruction. I was taught that God would use the earth to fulfill his own prophecies by his own power through the release of natural disasters. In 2004 we viewed the results of one in southeastern Asia. The estimated death toll of this tsunami has been revised so many times to a higher figure I shiver to think what the final toll of it and its disease aftermath actually totaled.
As I took post-graduate courses at ATU, and continued to learn the physical sciences of the earth on, below, and above it, it became apparent to me that a worldwide shifting of the tectonic plates would produce the exact phenomena described by the Old and New Testament prophets and writers. I visualize one or two tsunamis like the one in Southeast Asia occurring each month for the final 42 months of the tribulation period. I am convinced this earth will go into a shortened tectonic mountain building period, likely beginning at some point in time between 2010 and 2015, such as man has never experienced in his history.
Revelation 16:18-20 – 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.
[19] And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell: and great Babylon came in remembrance before God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath. [20] And every island fled away, and the mountains were not found.
All the earthquakes in the book of Revelation are placed between the opening of the sixth seal in 6:12 and the pouring out of the seventh vial of wrath in 16:18. It is in this time period that the greatest geological upheaval and transformation of the tectonic plates, since God placed Adam on this earth, will occur. The following extract from Prophecy Update 182A, Tectonic Chaos Number 4 in our Prophecy Update Archives, concerns this geological upheaval. To view the many figures referenced below in Tectonic Chaos Number 4, click on “Birth Pangs” on our Menu, then click on “Birth Pang Figures,” then on the exposed individual diagrams to enlarge them.
Figures 6, 7, and 8 are particularly informative on tsunamis.
(Begin Archive Tectonic Chaos Number 4 Extract)
Revelation 6:12 – And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood; (See Archives – Birth Pang 3)
This earthquake will trigger a chain reaction that spreads erratically on the tectonic plate borders of the earth to produce countless numbers of earthquakes for some three and one-half years across the surface of the entire planet. All mountains and islands are firmly impregnated into these massive plates, and ride along as passengers on their surface. By the end of the three and one-half years, every mountain peak, and the center of every island, will have a new set of latitudinal and longitudinal coordinates in microseconds. I know this to be true because Revelation 6:14 states that “every mountain and island were moved out of their places.” Furthermore, I believe the fantastic breakup along the shifting place borders will produce thousands of volcanic eruptions, which will fulfill the phenomenon “and the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together.” I believe the use of a Jewish scroll as a simile to show the gradual disappearance of the sun, moon, stars, and blue sky, is the perfect illustration of the effect volcanic smoke has on the appearance of the heavens as it builds up in the stratosphere. When the great volcano Krakatoa erupted in 1883 more than half of the island was destroyed and blown away in the explosion. The cloud over the volcano reached 17 miles into the air, and the volcanic dust from the eruption was carried completely around the world by the winds of
the stratosphere – taking months to drift down to the earth’s surface. The microscopic volcanic particles in the earth’s atmosphere produced beautiful sunrises and sunsets throughout a large part of the world long after the eruption.
I am convinced that the shifting of the plates will generate the formation of long chains of volcanic eruptions, pictured in figure 10, along all the boundaries of figure 3. God, who made everything I have described to the point, has also created, around the entire earth, a great temperature inversion shroud in the lower section of the stratosphere, just above the tropopause. So any time there is a moderate to severe vertical volcanic eruption, smoke is forcefully injected through the tropopause, and then trapped beneath the temperature inversion of the stratosphere.
There is virtually no moisture found above the tropopause, so the volcanic smoke particles take a long time to become heavy enough to fall earthward by condensation of water vapor on them, and smoke remains suspended in the lower section of the stratosphere for five to fifteen years. The winds, in the lower section of the stratosphere, do spread the volcanic smoke around the entire envelope of atmosphere that surrounds the earth over a two to four year period. Figure 11 portrays the great temperature inversion that exists through the stratosphere around the entire earth. As the smoke attempts to rise through this inversion it soon reaches a temperature near its own, and then begins to flatten out into a great shield of smoke, a shield that is then carried by upper level winds to produce an earth encompassing cloud in the lower stratosphere. Have you ever really looked at all the Old and New Testament prophecies that describe the appearance of the heavenly bodies during the last three and one-half years of the Tribulation Period? Let us now consider just a few of them, to see if we can correlate them with the increasing severity of their visual effect on the view of human eyes from start to finish.
Revelation 6:12 – And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood;
Joel 2:30,31 – And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke. [31] The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the Lord come.
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.
Joel 2:10 – The earth shall quake before them; the heavens shall tremble: the sun and the moon shall be dark, and the stars shall withdraw their shining:
Matthew 24:29 – Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:
How can this be? One prophet says you will not be able to see the sun, moon, and stars about one-third of the time, but another says you won’t be able to see them at all. These prophecies are fulfilled gradually over the last three and one-half years of the Tribulation Period, and the prophets have been given visions of their effects on the view of the heavenly bodies from the earth, at different times, during this period. Let us assume that the last three and on-half years of the Tribulation Period have begun, and a person is standing at point “X” on figure 12. This person could look up and see the sun, moon, or stars from this vantage point on the earth’s surface without obstruction. Now, let’s allow figure 12 to come alive, with the winds of the stratosphere moving the volcanic smoke clouds around the earth in patches. Within a few hours after you first made your unobstructed observation of the sun, moon, or stars, the thin leading edge of the volcanic cloud would begin to move between you and the heavenly bodies. If it were night, the moon would turn blood red.
If it were day, the sun would be darkened. Within an hour or two the thicker part of the volcanic smoke shield would move over you, and the sun, moon, or stars would completely disappear from view. After a few more hours the back side of the cloud would move past, and you would once again be enjoying a clear space between volcanic cloud patches, such that the sun, moon, or stars would again be visible. This scenario would be repeated over and over again during the last three and one-half years of the Tribulation Period, but on a gradually worsening trend. You would not be able to see the sun, moon, or stars about one-third of the time – at times the moon would be blood red and the sun black as sackcloth of hair – and sometimes you could not see any of the heavenly bodies. All of this is exactly what the Old and New Testament prophets observed in their visions. These are a part of the “signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars” prophesied by Luke.
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.
At this point it may seem I have been sidetracked from explaining “and the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together,” however, everything up to this point has been for that specific purpose. In Revelation 6:14, the word used for heaven is “ouranos,” and there are three of them: (1) The heaven where God dwells, (2) The heaven that makes up our atmosphere, and (3) The heaven were the sun, moon, stars, and other heavenly bodies dwell, that is, the universe. It is the universe heaven to which John refers. The word translated “departed” is “apechoristhe,” which, in this case, simply means “was removed from view.” John is saying he saw what the Hebrews considered heaven (sun, moon, and stars) removed from his view. When a man departs, or is removed, he is no longer visible to the one from which he departed. He may “depart” quickly or slowly. He may remain in view for a long time before he does finally “depart” from view. John says that the heaven disappeared from his view, and then tells us the very slow manner in which it disappeared – “as a scroll when it is rolled together.” The reader of the scroll reads, then rolls,
reads, then rolls, reads, then rolls, and continues this process until the writing departs from his view after the final page is read. On the last turning the two rollers come together, at which time the writing completely disappears from his view.
In figure 13 you can see the likeness of a Hebrew scroll. If, while you were reading the scroll, it was slowly rolled together, then it could be truly stated that the writing departed from your view, “as a scroll when it is rolled together.” In his vision John looked up into what the Hebrews considered the heavens and, as he watched, all the heavenly bodies slowly disappeared over a period of time.
This is exactly what will occur during the period of time we identify as the last three and one-half years of the Tribulation Period. It will occur like the slow rolling together of a scroll, such that by the end of the Tribulation Period a continuous cloud band of smoke will completely engulf the earth in the lower section of the stratosphere. No one will be able to see the sun, moon, or stars through the thick shroud for about five months before the Battle of Armageddon. It is through the great stratospheric cloud, shown in figure 14, that the author believes the Lord shall return at the end of the Tribulation Period.
(End Tectonic Chaos Number 4 Archive Extract)
I believed, ever since 1967, that at some point in time before 2008 Israel would be attacked from Syria and, when the attack occurred the great earthquake of Revelation 6:12 would rumble through the Jordan River Valley, and Israel would be driven into the Negev wilderness. In the late seventies I thought the attack could occur as early as the late eighties or early nineties, but by the late eighties I realized things were moving much slower than I had anticipated in the seventies, and I knew it would occur after 2000. By the late nineties I began to believe it was probably going to just before 2008. All I have ever known for certain is that it is going to occur and, based on world events since 2004, I suspect the most likely time Israel will be attacked lies at some point between 2010 and 2015.
The two excerpts which give accounts covering the last 48 hours are from the Miami Herald and Newday.Com. The worst is yet to come. I examined the southwest to northeast valley rift through this long area through which the earthquake rippled, and I suspect the death count will be astronomical once all the area is searched.
I am familiar with this area because it lies south of the Chinese missile test range impact zone near Lop Nor.
Begin Miami Herald Excerpt
Chinese here reach out to relatives
May 12, 2008
By Erika Beras
As the death toll in earthquake-ravaged areas of China soared past 9,000 on Monday, members of South Florida’s Chinese and Chinese-American community reached out to relatives abroad and began talk of preparing aid for the victims.
The news reached Charles Cheung about 8 a.m., shortly after the 7.8 earthquake struck. Relatives in Taiwan called him.
Of Chinese descent, Cheung was born and raised in Taiwan and lives in Northwest Miami-Dade. A year ago, he opened a wine business in Chongquing. The office is on the 40th floor of a skyscraper in the downtown area.
Cheung spoke with his employees on Monday morning and they described their experiences.
Tzu Chi, a nonprofit welfare organization based in Taiwan with a chapter in Miami, expects to be providing some relief.
”We’ve been busy with the cyclone,” said Allen Tsai, president of the local chapter.
They presently have volunteers working in nearby Myanmar, where on May 3 a cyclone struck, with up to 100,000 feared dead.
Another local agency includes the Miami Overseas Chinese Association. In the past they have raised money for the victims of 2004’s Indian Sea tsunami. They were not immediately reached for comment.
Begin Newsday.com Excerpt
Rescuers dig for thousands buried in China quake
By WILLIAM FOREMAN
Associated Press Writer
4:34 AM EDT, May 13, 2008
DUJIANGYAN, China
Rescue workers dug through schools and homes turned into rubble by China’s worst earthquake in three decades to reach thousands of victims trapped beneath slabs of concrete, as the death toll of 10,000 appeared certain to rise on Tuesday.
A day after the powerful 7.9 magnitude quake struck, state media said rescue workers had only just reached the epicenter in Wenchuan county — cut off by the disaster and where the number of casualties was unknown.
But the official Xinhua News Agency reported 10,000 people “remained buried” in Mianzhu, 60 miles from the epicenter.
Heavy rain, which had contributed to the difficulty of reaching the epicenter, continued to impede efforts and a group of paratroopers called off a mission to the area, Xinhua said.
The tremors caused a wide swath of damage across central China, leveling buildings and severing roads and communications. It sent people rushing out of their offices across the country in Beijing, and was felt as far away as Vietnam.
Nearly 10,000 people died in Sichuan province alone and 300 others in other provinces and the mega-city of Chongqing, Xinhua reported.
Earthquake rescue experts in orange jumpsuits extricated bloody survivors on stretchers from demolished buildings, and some 34,000 troops swarmed into the region to help.
A 40-car freight train with 13 gasoline tankers derailed in the quake and was still burning Tuesday, the agency said, with no word on casualties.
Aftershocks rattled the region for a second day, sending people running into the streets in the city of Chengdu. The U.S. Geological Survey measured the shocks between magnitude 4 and 6, some of the strongest since Monday’s quake.
Just east of the epicenter, 1,000 students and teachers were killed or missing at a collapsed high school in Beichuan county. The six- or seven-story building was reduced to a pile of rubble about two yards high, according to Xinhua. Another 900 students were feared dead when their school collapsed in Juyuan, which is in Dujiangyan city.
The Beichuan school had more than 2,000 students and teachers in three school buildings. The other two buildings collapsed partially, Xinhua said.
Up to 5,000 people were killed and 80 percent of the buildings had collapsed in Beichuan, Xinhua said, in a region of small cities and towns set amid steep hills north of Sichuan’s provincial capital of Chengdu. The government has poured more than 16,000 troops into the area with tens of thousands more on the way.
Buildings were knocked down on every block and corpses were laid out in the street. People were seeking rides out of town, where makeshift tent cities were being erected as shelter from rain that began Tuesday and could affect rescue efforts.
Before the rescue workers arrived, the only previous contact with hard-hit Wenchuan, Xinhua said, was a satellite phone call from the local Communist Party secretary to appeal for air drops of tents, food and medicine. The official, Wang Bin, said there were 57 reported deaths so far, with more than 300 other people seriously injured. He said the figures were likely to rise as there was no information from mountainous areas.
He estimated that at least 30,000 of the county’s 105,000 residents slept outside Monday night.
The quake was China’s deadliest since 1976, when 240,000 people were killed in the city of Tangshan, near Beijing in 1976.
The latest quake hit a fault where South Asia pushes against the Eurasian land mass, smashing the Sichuan plain into mountains leading to the Tibetan highlands — near communities that held sometimes violent protests against Chinese rule in mid-March.
Associated Press writer Christopher Bodeen in Juyuan, China, contributed to this report.
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