New Zealand then Suez Canal Quake
Quakes – Suez 5.9 & Christchurch 6:3!
Hope New Zealand Missionaries are Safe
Whole earth groans awaiting great Quakes
PLANET HAS “A Whole Lotta Shakin Going On!”
One where a future big shake forms a land Bridge
During the pouring out of the Seven Revelation Vials!
February 22, 2011
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Romans 8:21-23 – Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. [22] For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. [23] And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.
Significant Earthquakes this Year from USGS Greater than 6
(Plus Two 4:1 Quakes in Arkansas and California)
Magnitude 6.3 SOUTH ISLAND OF NEW ZEALAND February 21, 2011
Magnitude 4.1 ARKANSAS February 18, 2011
Magnitude 6.6 OFFSHORE MAULE, CHILE February 14, 2011
Magnitude 6.8 OFFSHORE BIO-BIO, CHILE February 11, 2011
Magnitude 6.5 CELEBES SEA February 10, 2011
Magnitude 7.2 SOUTHWESTERN PAKISTAN January 18, 2011
Magnitude 7.0 LOYALTY ISLANDS January 13, 2011
Magnitude 6.6 VANUATU January 09, 2011
Magnitude 4.1 NORTHERN CALIFORNIA January 08, 2011
Magnitude 7.1 ARAUCANIA, CHILE January 02, 2011
Magnitude 7.0 SANTIAGO DEL ESTERO, ARGENTINA January 01, 2011
Begin Excerpt from Voice of America
New Zealand Earthquake Leaves Emergency Responders Overwhelmed
VOA News February 22, 2011
People walk past rubble as they help the injured evacuate after an earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand, in this February 22, 2011 image taken from video footage.
A massive earthquake has devastated the New Zealand city of Christchurch, toppling tall office buildings at the height of the workday and killing at least 65 people.
Fire and rescue crews said their resources were overwhelmed as they struggled to cope with large numbers of people injured and trapped in the rubble. Helicopters were used to douse some fires and a crane was called in to rescue workers from the roof of a high-rise office tower.
Prime Minister John Key, who rushed to the city from the capital, Wellington, said the death toll was liable to rise. He said, “We may be witnessing New Zealand’s darkest day.”
The 6.3-magnitude earthquake was the second in five months for the city, which came through a 7.1-magnitude quake in September without loss of life.
But seismologists said this one struck closer to the city and much closer to the surface, making it far more intense.
The earlier quake also came at 5 a.m., while most residents were safe in their beds. Tuesday’s temblor struck just before 1 p.m., when workers were in their offices or in the streets for lunch and children were making their way home from school.
Video footage showed several multi-story buildings that fell in on themselves or into the streets, including the iconic Christchurch Cathedral, whose stone spire collapsed into a city square. Dazed residents wandered along the broken sidewalks as ambulances raced through rubble-strewn streets with sirens blaring.
The city’s airport was shut down and many roads are impassible.
Mr. Key said in a television interview that crews would work through the night to find and rescue people who are trapped in the collapsed buildings. He said 350 military troops were already at work in the city and another 250 were on the way to relieve them.
The prime minister described seeing residents sitting by the side of the road with their heads in their hands and said the city of about 350,000 people is “in absolute agony.” He said offers of help have been received from the United States and Australia.
Radio New Zealand reporter Laura Davis told VOA from Auckland that search-and-rescue teams were being flown in from around the country and that the government has accepted an offer of help from neighboring Australia.
She said 70 army medical staff have been deployed to help the city’s overtaxed emergency crews and that up to 400 army troops had been sent to help seal off the most affected areas. The city’s airport was shut down and many roads are impassible.
Davis also said schools had let out shortly before the quake and that many children were walking home when it struck. She said it was not clear what had happened to them.
The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake was centered five kilometers from Christchurch and at a depth of just four kilometers. Government seismologist Bill Fry told VOA that made it much more intense than the stronger quake that hit the city in September.
Fry explained that during the 10-second temblor, the ground was accelerating more rapidly “than the rate of an apple falling out of a tree.”
Some information for this report was provided by AP, AFP and Reuters
End Excerpt from Voice of America
There will be great earthquakes in the Suez Canal and Israel during the Tribulation Period, and they will form a dry land bridge across the Suez Canal waterway during the Tribulation Period, so that the remnant can cross on dry land from Africa to Israel during the Millennium.
Isaiah 11:16 – And there shall be an highway for the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria; like as it was to Israel in the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt.
Begin Excerpt from Arutz Sheba
Earthquake Shakes Up Suez Canal as Iran Warships Approach
By Tzvi Ben Gedalyshu
An earthquake measuring 5.9 on the Richter scale shook up residents at the entrance to the Suez Canal early Monday morning, 48 hours before two Iranian ships, a frigate and a supply vessel, are expected to enter the canal.
The National Institute for Astronomical and Geophysical Research reported that tremors from the 3 a.m. quake lasted for 27 minutes, but caused no damage.
The ships had originally been expected to enter the Suez today (Monday), but Egyptian officials announced the delay this morning, without explanation.
Iran inexplicably announced Sunday morning that two of its warships had crossed the Suez, a report that was thoroughly denied by Egyptian authorities. Iranian media did not mention the ships on Monday, and the false report may have been for local consumption.
No Iranian ship has been allowed to pass through the Suez Canal since Iran’s 1979 overthrow of the Shah and Egypt’s signing of a peace treaty with Israel the same year.
Egyptian-Iranian Reproachmen
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Egypt’s agreeing to allow Iranian ships to pass through the Suez is seen by many analysts as a signal that the new regime in Egypt is leaning towards ties with Iran, but Suez Canal officials have pointed out that an international convention requires it allow passage to all ships.Egypt has reportedly agreed to allow the Iranian boats to pass through the canal en route to Syria. The Obama administration is concerned about “what’s the cargo on board, where is it going, to whom, for what benefit,” U.S. State Department spokesman Philip Crowley told reporters. Iran has said that the ships are headed for Syria for training, Crowley commented, as laughter was heard in the audience: “My initial response to that would be that we’re highly skeptical of that claim.”
President Shimon Peres and Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu have accused Iran of trying to exploit the crisis in Egypt to increase its influence in the Middle East.
“Iran wants to say to the world, to the United States, Israel and other countries in the Mideast that it has reached not only areas close to it but also farther away, including in the Mediterranean,” Ephraim Kam of the Institute for National Security Studies in Israel told the Associated Press.
The Iranian maritime maneuver also signals it is prepared to protect the Hamas and Hizbullah terrorist organizations on Israel’s southern and northern borders.
Iran officials last month announced that its ships would be sailing through the Suez to gather intelligence, but analysts stress that the Islamic Republic’s ultimate goal is to establish Shi’ite dominance in the Muslim world, far beyond Lebanon and Syria.
(IsraelNationalNews.com)
End Excerpt from Arutz Sheva
Begin Archive Excerpt from Birth Pangs
Chapter 23 – God Forms a Dry Highway
November 2, 2001
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Isaiah 11:15,16 – And the Lord shall utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with his mighty wind shall he shake his hand over the river, and shall smite it in the seven streams, and make men go over dryshod. [16] And there shall be an highway for the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria; like as it was to Israel in the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt.
In Isaiah’s day the “tongue of the Egyptian Sea” is what we identify as the Gulf of Suez, a northern extension of the Red Sea that slithers between Egypt and Sinai like a long wet tongue. Since Isaiah’s writings man has dug out a northern extension of the “Egyptian Sea” to link the Mediterranean and Red Seas together.
This extension is known as the Suez Canal. The two words “utterly destroy” come from “charam,” which means “to be cut off” or “to shut up.” We are advised by God, through the prophet Isaiah, that He intends to completely shut-up the waters of what we identify today as the Suez Canal. He will do so by crushing the western and eastern banks together by movement of two tectonic plates.
In Birth Pang Number 18, Chapter 20, the division of the Mount of Olives into two remaining halves was described, with one half being carried northward on the extreme southern edge of a newly created Gaza Plate, while the other half drifted south on the northern tip of a newly formed Sinai Plate (See Figure 33). In Figure 34 you may observe the consequences of the movement of the Sinai Plate as it floats southward on an underground liquid sea of magma.
As the southward drift occurs, the Sinai Plate will be jammed against the massive African Plate. Dry land will crunch against dry land, and the “tongue of the Egyptian Sea” will be “completely shut-up.” It will be possible to walk across this area on dry land throughout the millennial reign of Christ.
When the expression “the river” is used in Hebrew, if there is no context above or below to identify it specifically, always means the Euphrates River. The term “the river,” found above in verse fifteen, is “hannahar,” and it applies to the Euphrates River. When it states that the Euphrates should be smitten “in the seven streams,” the Hebrew construction does not mean that it already existed as seven streams, and that God smites all seven. Instead, it states that God shall smite a single river and, when he has performed that action, it will have divided it into seven streams. That single river is none other than the massive Euphrates River. This drying up of the great Euphrates is also echoed by John in Revelation.
Revelation 16:12 – And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.
We are advised in verse sixteen that the drying up of the great Euphrates creates a dry highway, a highway for the millennial return of Israelite tribulation survivors from lands east of the Euphrates. The latter portion of this verse also indicates that the dry highway will extend into Egypt. The “Israel” of verse sixteen represents the descendants of the man Jacob, hence the personal pronoun “he” is used, even though it refers to the entire nation that came forth from him through his twelve sons. When the nation of Israel “came up out of the land of Egypt,” God parted the waters of the extreme northern extension of the Red Sea, the extension that Isaiah identified as “the tongue of the Egyptian Sea” in 700 B.C., but which is identified as the Gulf of Suez today.
On the day Israel crossed the “yam cuwph” extension of the Red Sea, while fleeing from the Egyptian Pharaoh, it could be said that God created a highway of dry land from Egypt to Assyria. But God closed his dry land bridge to destroy the Pharaoh’s mighty army with a flood of closing walls of water, however, the dry land bridge he describes in Isaiah will last a thousand years.
Because of the drying up of the Euphrates, and the shutting up of the Suez Canal, it will be possible to walk all the way from Egypt to Assyria without passing through waters that cannot be waded in sandals. When God jams the Sinai Peninsula against the extreme northeastern tip of Africa, a sea-free highway will be created, a highway that will last for a thousand years. Two great continents, the African and the Eurasian, will be fused together by God. Throughout the millennial reign of Christ the many nations of these massive continents will move up and down this dry land bridge to worship Christ in Jerusalem, the new capital of the world. The commerce
of Africa will flow through Israel to Eurasia, and the products of Eurasia will flow through to Africa. Israel will sit at the crossroads of the world’s land and sea commerce. She will be the center of the world. God will destroy those who came against Jerusalem during the Tribulation Period. And the city of Jerusalem will be the place where all the nations of the world come up to worship the King of kings, Jesus Christ, the Messiah of Israel.
Zechariah 14:2,3,16 — For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city. [3] Then shall the Lord go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.
[16] And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles.
Luke 1:30-33 — And the angel said unto her, Fear not, Mary: for thou hast found favour with God. [31] And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name Jesus.
[32] He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David: [33] And he shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever; and of his kingdom there shall be no end.
Daniel 7:13,14,27 — I saw in the night visions, and, behold, one like the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven, and came to the Ancient of days, and they brought him near before him. [14] And there was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages, should serve him: his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed. [27] And the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people of the saints of the most High, whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey him.
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