CURRENT & ARCHIVE QUAKES & TSUNAMI INFO – PART 4
March 1, 2010
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SUPPLEMENT TO 4 PREVIOUS BLOGS & PART 4 OF TSUNAMI SERIES
Begin Excerpt from Metro.co.uk
Search for Chile earthquake survivors continues.
By Jo Steele
March 1, 2010
Rescue workers are scrambling to reach people trapped in collapsed buildings in Chile following an earthquake
But while firefighters were busy trying to find survivors, police were struggling to control looting.
One person was shot dead and at least 160 arrests were made in Concepcion, the city closest to the epicentre, after Chilean president Michelle Bachelet called in the troops to enforce a curfew.
She said the government was sending emergency food and medicine supplies
and the UN had responded to an appeal for international aid.
But Prof Eduardo Aundez, said: ‘I feel abandoned by the authorities. We believe the government didn’t take the necessary measures in time, and now supplies of food and water are going to be much more complicated.’
Around 1.5 million Chileans were affected by the 8.8 magnitude quake, which caused buildings and roads to collapse
and left 500,000 homes severely damaged.
Many people were still missing in some communities in the worst-hit central region of Chile, which remained largely cut off by mangled highways and fallen telephone lines.
But rescuers were reportedly making good progress in locating people trapped in a 15-storey tower block in Concepcion. They drilled holes through the thick walls of the toppled building after hearing survivors knocking inside.
Eight bodies were recovered but 25 people were pulled out alive.
Efforts to determine the full scope of the destruction have been hampered by a string of aftershocks but risk assessor Eqecat has put the cost of the damage at £19 billion – equivalent to about 15 per cent of Chile’ s gro
ss domestic product. Chile has asked UN aid workers to to provide temporary bridges, field hospitals, phones, electric generators, water purification systems, field kitchens and dialysis machines.
BEGIN ARCHIVE PROPHECY UPDATE PART 4 FROM TSUNAMI SERIES
TSUNAMI – A PREVIEW OF COMING ATTRACTIONS – PART 4
October 2, 2009
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The death toll on the second major earthquake in southeastern Asia in Indonesia stands at more than 1,000, according to the UN, and officials say they expect it to continue to rise.
Begin Archive Special Prophecy Update Number 205B
SPECIAL PROPHECY UPDATE NUMBER 205B
January 4, 2005
Earth’s Groaning and Travailing Will Soon Accelerate!
I have been consistent from my first book to the last in the insistence that there would be an increase in natural disasters in advance of the tribulation period, and that the increase would show a massive acceleration across the earth following the first great earthquake found in Revelation 6:12, which begins the last 1260 days of the tribulation period.
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;
In my last book of the early eighties, “Tribulation Birth Pangs from the Bottomless Pit,” I titled chapter 1, “The Birth Pangs”, and began it as follows:
BEGIN QUOTE FROM CHAPTER 1
Romans 8:19,22 – For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God. [22] For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.
Before the sons of God appear in glorious manifestation on the millennial earth, there is to be a groaning of God’s creation, and the earth will travail like a woman experiencing birth pangs. Birth pangs were occasionally felt in the earth’s crust by seismic shakings during the time of Paul’s writings, but Matthew indicated they would increase noticeably, even before the tribulation period, in a period of time identified as “the beginning of sorrows.”
Matthew 24:7,8 – For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. [8] All these are the beginning of sorrows.
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Please allow me to continue discussing this acceleration of groaning by a crust that has been producing great groaning sounds for a very long time as its plates slid by one another to produce earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and tsunami.
Romans 8:22 – For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.
The word translated “creation” is “ktisis,” which means “all that which was created,” and, in this context, refers to all that God created, including the earth, all that is on it and in it.
The last massive groaning and travail in pain by earth occurred when man had reached such a state of utter degradation in ungodly immorality that God deemed it necessary to bring judgment on the human race, and he did it by using his creation, the earth, to bring it to pas
s.
God used his earth to destroy man who dwelt on it – He destroyed man with the earth.
Genesis 6:5,13 – And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. [13] And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I WILL DESTROY THEM WITH THE EARTH.
My comments on this verse, which I placed in “The Key of the Bottomless Pit,” more than 25 years ago, and the one which follows it, are quoted from an extract from the book as follows: (Begin Quote from Book)
“We are told repeatedly in the New Testament, “as it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be in the days of the Son of man.” Please recall the magnitude of this first great tribulation in which only eight people survived, the rest being destroyed by water. Please observe in verse 13 that God, not man, did the destroying (I will destroy); and please note it was not done with man’s help or technology (with the earth). God used his own natural creation to destroy sinful mankind with water. How did God being it to pass? The answer is found in Genesis 7:11,12.
Genesis 7:11,12 – In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep BROKEN UP, and the windows of heaven were opened. [12] And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
Most biblical references of today positively identify the “great deep” of verse 11 as the crustal surface of the earth that underlies the seas and oceans of the world. May I remind you that God created the crust of the earth long ago and is able to manipulate it as he pleases.
Virtually all references identify “windows of heaven” as the atmosphere of the earth, which was also a previous creation of God. So God took two things he has already created and manipulated them to bring forth water from above and below to destroy sinful mankind.
In the approaching Great Tribulation Period, God will once again manipulate the crust and its atmosphere to bring forth not water, but rather fire from below and from above. During the pages that follow, I will show that God intends to shake the earth to its geological foundations by his great power, and the results of that shaking will be the fulfillment of most of the destructive prophecies uttered by the revelator John and the Old Testament prophets concerning the last years of this age.” (End Quote from Book)
The soon coming tribulation period will see the greatest groaning and travail of the earth that has ever occurred since God placed man upon it.
Matthew 24:21 – For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.
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.
Romans 8:22,19 – For we know that the whole creation (ktisis) groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. [19] For the earnest expectation of the creature (ktisis) waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.
The same Greek word, “ktisis” is used for “creation” and “creature.” In context it refers to all the things God created except man, and it is mankind that the rest of his creation is waiting to see manifested in glorified form, children of God in glorified bodies when Christ brings them back to earth at his Second Advent. The greatest massive groaning and travailing of the earth will occur during the last 1260 days of the tribulation period, which will be ended by the return of the saved to the earth at the Second Advent of Jesus. The massive local groaning and travailing of the earth’s crust that produced the tsunami in the East Indies is a forerunner of what we can expect on a worldwide basis during the great tribulation period. We have not yet entered into the tribulation period, but I do believe our entrance is just around the corner, not in the distant future.
The most important thing for a child of God is not to know WHEN it will occur, but to be ready now for its sudden arrival.
A child of God should want to have great rewards with Christ at his Second Advent. One surely needs to be in one of the Lord’s churches, and to be member who is watching for Christ’s coming in his lifestyle and work for Christ, as Jesus indicates in his warning to the church at Sardis. Men and women are not saved by their baptism, church membership, or works, but such things determine what you wear on the glorified body, and where you live relative to where the Lord positions himself in the millennium on this earth, and in the final kingdom on the new earth. I am saved eternally by grace through faith, but make no mistake, as one who is assured of living in heaven, I would be a spiritual fool if I did not follow my master’s example. He walked some 50 miles to be baptized by the proper authority, and, as the head and foundation of the first church, was faithful to death. Works by saved men and women determine what they wear and where they live after they have already arrived in heaven. You will not lose your inner garment, but you can lose your robe and your crown if you sow to the flesh rather than to the Spirit, who indwells you and tries to lead your saved soul in good works.
Ephesians 4:30 – And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.
Galatians 6:7 – Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
John warned the churches at Sardis and Philadelphia that lifestyles of individual church members would be manifested by the outer appearance of what they would be wearing one day in heaven.
Revelation 3:2-4 – Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die: for I have not found thy works perfect before God.
[3] Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on thee as a thief, and
thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee. [4] Thou hast a few names even in Sardis which have not defiled their garments; and they shall walk with me in white: for they are worthy.
Revelation 3:11 – Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown.
His warning to the church at Laodicea is also for the entire church and the individual members of it. Most of the Lord’s churches today are in the spiritual condition of the church at Laodicea.
Revelation 3:14-22 – And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God; [15] I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. [16] So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my m
outh. [17] Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked: [18] I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see. [19] As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent. [20] Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me. [21] To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father
in his throne. [22] He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto
the churches.
Faithfulness in one of the Lord’s local churches will be manifested by the outer apparel he or she wears forever in heaven. Hopefully, this horrible tsunami in the East Indies may wake up some spiritually sleeping members to a more zealous service to God before the really great tsunamis of the tribulation period begin. Please take a look at the following Scriptures and ask yourself: How glorious will I appear in heaven?
Romans 8:22,19 – For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. [19] For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.
I John 3:2 – Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.
I Corinthians 15:38 – But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every seed his own body.
I Corinthians 15:41,42 – There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars: for one star differeth from another star in glory. [42] So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption:
I Corinthians 15:49 – And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.
I Corinthians 15:51,52 – Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, [52] In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
Daniel 12:3 – And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever.
Begin Excerpt from BBC News
October 2, 2009
Race to save Sumatra quake buried
Rescue teams have resumed the desperate search for survivors following a devastating earthquake on the Indonesian island of Sumatra.
Many people are thought to be trapped under rubble after the 7.6-magnitude quake struck on Wednesday.
The death toll already stands at more than 1,000, according to the UN, and officials say they expect it to rise.
On Friday, Indonesian Health Minister Siti Fadilah Supari appealed for foreign aid to help the rescue effort.
“We need help from foreign countries for evacuation efforts,” AFP news agency quoted her as saying.
“We need them to provide skilled rescuers with equipment. Our main problem is that there are a lot of victims still trapped in the rubble.
We are struggling to pull them out.”
The quake struck close to the city of Padang, the capital of West Sumatra province, bringing scores of buildings crashing to the ground.
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