Tectonic Chaos on Earth’s Horizon
July 16, 2008
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I have long believed the geological upheavals in the prophetic Scriptures describe perfectly what has occurred on the earth in the past during what geological texts refer to as “mountain building” periods. I believe God controls the elements of the earth that produce these “mountain building” periods, which can be brief or very long term episodes.
Basically, that is what my three books describe – a worldwide mountain building period of some three and one half years. It will be abrupt in its initial surge and diminish as rapidly as it began some three and one half years later. Earth’s episodes of mountain building are what caused me to title my first published book “Tectonic Chaos.”
The word “isostasy” is a geological term used to define the general state of equilibrium in the earth’s crust maintained by the gravity induced flow of deep rock.
I first heard the word used in a Physical Geology class I had at Arkansas Tech University in the seventies and, by the time I had graduated and taken post graduate geological courses, I became convinced that many of the prophetic Bible verses indicated the isostasy of the earth was going to be put in a state of equilibrium confusion at some future point, quite likely during my lifetime, if I made fourscore years.
I have believed for some 32 years that the first earthquake in the Book of Revelation begins a three and one half year mountain building period and the last earthquake in it marks the close of it.
Revelation 6:12,14 – 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. [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 16:18,20 – 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. [20] And every island fled away, and the mountains were not found.
I also believe both these earthquakes will occur in Israel.
Earthquake to Israel’s far North
May be Loosening Plate Structures
For a future big earthquake to its South
Earthquake near Greek island felt in Israel
July 15, 2008
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Begin Jerusalem Post Excerpt
Earthquake near Greek island felt in Israel
July 15, 2008
Jpost Staff and AP , THE JERUSALEM POST
Tremors of a powerful earthquake with an epicenter near the Greek island of Rhodes were felt throughout Israel on Tuesday morning.
According to Israeli reports, the quake measured 6.8 on the Richter Scale, and was felt in Israel at 6:35 a.m, primarily in the northern and central parts of the country.
While nobody was wounded in Israel and no damage was reported, in Greece a 56-year-old woman was killed after falling down a flight of stairs while she ran towards safety.
The Athens Geodynamic Institute said the quake struck at 6:26 a.m. (0326 GMT) with its epicenter located 445 kilometers (275 miles) sou theast of A
thens, beneath the seabed south of Rhodes, and was also felt on the islands of Santorini and Crete.
The US Geological Survey gave the magnitude as 6.4. Magnitudes often differ in the first hours and days after an earthquake.
Local authorities in the affected areas appealed for calm, and seismologists said that while Rhodes lies in a seismically active area, major aftershocks were not expected.
The quake occurred at a depth of about 70 kilometers (about 45 miles).
Recently in Israel, Health Ministry director-general Prof. Avi Yisraeli issued a letter to all hospitals, health funds and Magen David Adom asking them to ensure that they are prepared for the possibility of an earthquake in the North.
Judy Siegel contributed to this report.
I issued the following Archive Blog when scientists first started noticing pronounced changes in the earth’ s magnetic field
due to accelerated flow in the earth’s internal liquid rock regions.
Earth’s Magnetic Pole accelerating its Movement
December 11, 2005
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In my books and lectures for the last 29 years, I have discussed the field of magnetism generated on the earth by a great internal movement of a liquid mantle around a solid core. The magnetic poles are positioned by liquid iron movement around the solid core of the earth, determining the immediate position of both poles by the iron’ s weight juxtapo
sition at that moment.
Studies have determined that the earth’s magnetic shield protection has decreased by some ten percent over the last 150 years. The magnetic shield protects life on earth from deadly rays from the sun which would long ago have initially prevented or destroyed human life’s existence on the planet.
The recent monster shifting in the earth’s crust that produced the great tsunami off the coast of Sumatra a year ago, affected the internal weight balance of the earth, which in turn affects the magnetic declination of a moving magnetic north.
Magnetic north was first discovered in 1831, and it moved more than 30 miles by 1904. During the last century and a half magnetic north has moved almost 700 miles into the Artic. Its movement for the first one hundred years, following its discovery, was steady, but its movement increased in the last century, and it is accelerating at the present time. If the present rate and direction of movement continue, it will swing out
of extreme northern Canada into Siberia.
During the history of the earth there have been sudden reversals of the magnetic poles. During these episodes the magnetic shield temporarily breaks down, which allows solar rays to penetrate to the surface of the planet. These episodes are associated with mountain building periods, which would align with the prophecy of Isaiah.
Isaiah 24:17-21 – Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth. [18] And it shall come to pass, that he who fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth do shake.
Evidence for Rapid Geomagnetic Reversal
Coe and Prevot have analyzed paleomagnetism in a Miocene basalt flow at Steens Mountain in southeastern Oregon, U.S.A. Using cooling models, they obtained good estimates of the time lapse between when various levels of the basalt flow cooled to a sufficiently low temperature for the magnetic characteristics to remain fixed (be recorded). From an analysis of the paleomagnetism at various levels in the flow, together with the associated time differences, they were able to establish geomagnetic field change rates of at least 3 degrees direction and 300 gammas intensity per day. At 3 degrees change per day a reversal (180 degrees change) could be completed in two months.
Three hundred gammas is in the vicinity of 1/150 of the present geomagnetic intensity. The available evidence indicates that although the geomagnetic field intensity decreased during reversals, it did not drop to zero.
Coe and Prevot describe 3 degrees per day as “an astonishingly rapid rate of variation of the geomagnetic field direction”, and state further that “the rapidity and large amplitude of geomagnetic variation that we infer …, even when regarded as an impulse during polarity transition, truly strains the imagination”. They conclude that the most probable explanation for the observations on which their conclusions are based “is the occurrence of a large and extremely rapid change in the geomagnetic field during cooling of the flow, and that this change most likely originated in the core [of the earth]”.
Begin Article from National Geographic News
Earth’s Core, Magnetic Field Changing Fast, Study Says
Kimberly Johnson
For National Geographic News
June 30, 2008
Rapid changes in the churning movement of Earth’s liquid outer core are weakening the magnetic field in some regions of the planet’s surface, a new study says.
“What is so surprising is that rapid, almost sudden, changes take place in the Earth’s magnetic field,” s aid study co-
author Nils Olsen, a geophysicist at the Danish National Space Center in Copenhagen.
The findings suggest similarly quick changes are simultaneously occurring in the liquid metal, 1,900 miles (3,000 kilometers) below the surface, he said.
The swirling flow of molten iron and nickel around Earth’s solid center triggers an electrical current, which generates the planet’s magnetic field.
The study, published recently in Nature Geoscience, modeled Earth’s magnetic field using nine years of highly accurate satellite data.
Flip-Flop
Fluctuations in the magnetic field have occurred in several far-flung regions of Earth, the researchers found.
In 2003 scientists found pronounced changes in the magnetic field in the Australasian region. In 2004, however, the changes were focused on Southern Africa.
The changes “may suggest the possibility of an upcoming reversal of the geomagnetic field,” said study co-author Mioara Mandea, a scientist at the German Research Centre for Geosciences in Potsdam.
Earth’s magnetic field has reversed hundreds of times over the past billion years, and the process could take thousands of years to complete.
Upper Atmosphere Radiation
The decline in the magnetic field also is opening Earth’s upper atmosphere to intense charged particle radiation, scientists say.
Satellite data show the geomagnetic field decreasing in the South Atlantic region, Mandea said, adding that an oval-shaped area east of Brazil is significantly weaker than similar latitudes in other parts of the world.
“It is in this region that the shielding effect of the magnetic field is severely reduced, thus allowing high energy particles of the hard radiation belt to penetrate deep into the upper atmosphere to altitudes below a hundred kilometers (62 miles),” Mandea said.
This radiation does not influence temperatures on Earth. The particles, however, do affect technical and radio equipment and can damage electronic equipment on satellites and airplanes, Olsen of the Danish space center said.
Keep Watching
The study documents just how rapidly the flow in Earth’s core is changing, said Peter Olson, a geophysics professor at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, who was not involved with the research.
By using satellite imagery, researchers have a nearly continuous measurement of changes, he said.
“They provide a good rationale to continue this monitoring longer,” Olson said.
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