Southeast Asia Tectonic Plate Adjustments 2003-2006
May 29, 2006
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In a little more than two years, the death toll from four single seismic related events along the lengthy tectonic plate structure across Iran, Pakistan, and southeastern Asia since 2003, has reached a count of almost 300,000 in just a little over two years – 31,000 in Iran in 2003, 181,000 in southeast Asia in 2004, 75,000 in Pakistan in 2005, and 4,500 and still counting this week in Indonesia in 2006.
The southeastern extension of this fault structure that stretches south out of Burma through the Andaman Sea, then southeast through the Strait of Malacca to the Java Sea, then east through the Flores Sea to New Guinea and Tonga, has always been subject to high frequencies of earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, and other associated tectonic plate activity. However, it has been unusually active in the last couple of years.
For quite a while the word “isostasy” did not appear in dictionaries because it was geological jargon that only a geologist would use among associates in the discipline. My computer spelling check system still puts a red line under it to let me know
it does not exist.
During the tsunami catastrophe one of the many pastors that called me heard me use “isostasy” in our conversation, so I defined it for him, but advised him he would not find it in any dictionary. Just to make sure I checked in a new dictionary, “The New Merriam-Webster Dictionary,” and lo
and behold, there it was big as life. It gave the following definition: “A general 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 prophetically directed Bible verses indicated the isostasy of the earth was going to be put in a state of equilibrium confusion by the weight shifting of water and land through earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and tsunamis, which would be occurring like never before during the latter portion of the tribulation period.
You will find ample evidence of this in my last book, “Birth Pangs from the Bottomless Pit,” and on this Web Site in the last three Prophecy Updates in our Archives, which will refer you to many others in our Birth Pang and Prophecy Update Archives. I have been teaching this for 30 years, and my last book was written more than 20 years ago, so I am not a Johnnie-come-lately, who has suddenly decided to use the tsunami to bring a new idea to the prophetic stew of our age.
I have taught in “Tectonic Chaos,” “Tribulation Triad,” “The Bottomless Pit,” and “Birth Pangs from the Bottomless Pit” that, according to Scripture, the great tribulation period was going to be dominated by great earthquakes and humongous volcanic eruptions along the thousands of miles of tectonic plate boundaries, and tsunamis that would rake the coastlines of all nations. I am certain the horrific events described vividly by all the prophets from Amos, Joel, and Isaiah in the Old Testament to John’s closing book of Revelation in the New Testament, are visions of geologically generated phenomena. I am also certain that God, not man with his weapons of mass destruction, will produce the bulk of the destruction by
his own power released through his own creation, the earth itself.
In the geological history of earth, there have been periods of unrest in the tectonic plate structure prior to an isostasy rebalancing of the outer crust of the earth. Some of these periods have been accompanied by a dramatic shifting, lifting, and lowering of the crust in what have been called “mountain building” periods or cycles. I have associated this sort of adjustment with the following Scriptures.
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.
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.
Malachi 4:1-3 – 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.
[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.
[3] And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this, saith the Lord of hosts.
Any geologist will tell you that the prediction of earthquakes is far from being a science, and I readily accept that fact.
Geologists do know there is an action and reaction process going on along the plate boundaries, but it is so very vast and complicated that no human really understands precisely what effect massive slippage on one side of the earth will eventually have on the opposite side, and along the worldwide plate boundaries connecting both sides.
However, I must say that I strongly suspect we are the verge of a massive worldwide adjustment. I have long been convinced a very valid part of what is known as “the time of Jacob’s trouble” included a massive isostasy readjustment in the crust of the earth, probably beginning and ending in the Jordan River Valley with Revelation 6:12 and 16:18, and I presented my case for it in 1976 in the book “Tectonic Chaos.” I have never been certain of precisely when it will begin, but I have been convinced for more than 30 years that the event would eventually occur.
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;
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.
Jeremiah 30:7 – Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble; but he shall be saved out of it.
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.
Zechariah 13:9 – 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.
Acts 2:19-21 – And I will shew wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke: [20] 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.
Romans 11:25-27 – For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in. [26] And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob: [27] For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins.
Isaiah 5:14 – Therefore hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it.