The Four Groaning Stages of God’s Creation!
September 24, 2005
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[1] Normal [2] Increase [3] Tribulation [4] 2nd Advent!
[1] Normal Groaning of Creation’s Tectonic Plates!
Romans 8:22 – For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.
1967 Groaning Increase – the Beginning of Sorrows!
Matthew 24:7A,8 – And there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
[8] All these are the beginning of sorrows.
[2] Greater Groaning of Final 3 ½ Years of Tribulation!
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.
[3] The Last and Greatest Groaning of All!
Revelation 16:18,19 – 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.
[4] Groaning Ends – Saints Appear at 2nd Advent.
Romans 8:19 – For the earnest expectation of the creature (creation) 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.
Zechariah 14:9 – And the Lord shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one Lord, and his name one.
The following extract, from an article published by Patrick Driscoll in USA TODAY, was posted more than four months ago in May, and is very interesting.
The article was titled “Forecasters Predict Big Season for Hurricanes.”
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“Their official outlook is for 12 to 15 tropical storms, seven to nine of them becoming hurricanes. Three to five could be major hurricanes, with winds of at least 111 mph.
The annual forecast comes as Florida continues to rebuild after four hurricanes crisscrossed the state last year, killing dozens of people and causing billions of dollars in damage.
Six hurricanes struck the U.S. mainland last year.
They were blamed for 60 immediate deaths and at least 94 other fatalities. The storms also left $45 billion in damage, the costliest year ever.
“One of the things that made last year seem extra intense was that there were so many landfalls,” said Bell, a meteorologist for NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center.
Hurricane season begins June 1 and runs through Nov. 30, peaking from August to October. In an average year, about 10 tropical storms (winds of at least 39 mph) develop in the Atlantic and Caribbean.
Six become hurricanes (winds 79 mph or more). Two reach “major” status.
But in eight of the past 10 years, the tally exceeded that. Bell said the trend is likely to continue for another decade or longer because a global climate pattern causes ideal conditions for hurricanes: warmer Atlantic waters, more summer monsoons over western Africa and fewer monsoons in the Amazon basin.
The forecast is similar to last month’s outlook from another research team based at Colorado State University. The Colorado group predicts 13 tropical storms this year, seven of them hurricanes and three of them major. Team leader William Gray says the project’s next update May 31 is likely to mirror Monday’s forecast by the federal government.
Monday’ s outlook follow
s a poll in April that found many residents of Atlantic and Gulf Coast states unprepared and ill-informed about hurricanes.
The survey, part of a “National Hurricane Survival Initiative” by the National Hurricane Center and state and private agencies, found 56% of people in 12 coastal states from Texas to Maine think they are not vulnerable to such storms. Nearly half have no preparedness plan in case of a serious hurricane.”
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