Japan suffers yet another plus 8.0 earthquake today!
http://www.aol.com/article/2015/05/...htmlws-main-bb|dl11|sec1_lnk3&pLid=1051850496
51 Earthquakes in Southern California in 7 days?
http://earthquaketrack.com/v/la/recent
I say we are witnessing the birth pangs that Jesus so clearly spoke of when He was questioned as to what we could expect to see when it came close to His time to return (Matthew 24:7 and Luke 21:11).
I realize that all these things He spoke of have been manifesting ever since He spoke those words, but we do need to live as if He could return at any moment, and unfortunately the church is living more like it not imminent, but rather a long way off, still!
What say you? Are we living like His return is but a heartbeat or breath away? Or is the church looking forward to the Rapture or His second coming as it is still months or years away? Your answer to that question is paramount to the kind of witness and life He called us to live every moment of the day!
Earthquakes in "Divers" Places!?
Discussion in 'General Baptist Discussions' started by righteousdude2, May 30, 2015.
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righteousdude2 Well-Known MemberSite Supporter
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John of Japan Well-Known MemberSite Supporter
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evangelist6589 Well-Known MemberSite Supporter
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He is too! -
Typically quakes on the "ring of fire" seem to trigger quakes at other far locations on the ring of fire. Thus California and Japan suffer a flurry of quakes.
Christ's return is immanent. -
The geologic/climatic history of the earth is catastrophic; earthquakes, volcanos, floods, tornadoes, hurricanes, are a part of that history.
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We look to our Bibles and say we have the answer.
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My question is, is it odd that Japan had an earthquake? It's not for California. The way I read the verse is that earthquakes will be happening where they normally don't, and I would add my opinion that they will probably not have a normal, physical explanation.
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Even the world thinks "the end is near."
http://thebulletin.org/three-minutes-and-counting7938
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righteousdude2 Well-Known MemberSite Supporter
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What is more intriguing (as it says in Matthew 24: "diverse places"), are reports of earthquakes in places like Michigan.
http://www.cnn.com/2015/05/02/us/michigan-earthquake/index.html
http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-michigan-earthquake-20150502-story.html
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/...arthquake-felt-in-chicago-20150502-story.html
Michigan is located on the Canadian Shield, a massive rock of shale that covers much of the northern part of the continent. The difference is like taking a hammer and hitting an anvil or hitting sand. When the hammer hist the anvil it reverberates immediately. But the sand just absorbs the shock.
Either way, the earthquake at Michigan was rare--the first one since 1947.
The one in Nepal was 7-8-8.0 was the strongest that was felt in 80 years.
They are used to earthquakes but not of that intensity.
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John of Japan Well-Known MemberSite Supporter
When we lived in the Kanto Plain we experienced earthquakes all the time. Hokkaido, on the other hand had almost no earthquakes in Asahikawa where we lived, but more on the coast. -
What do you think of this scenario?
A group of tourists went to Malaysia to climb Borneo's highest mountain, 4,095-metre-high Mount Kinabalu in eastern Sabah state on Borneo island. When the entourage reaches the top ten foreigners break away from the group, and in a different spot strip naked posing for a shot on top of the mountain (later posted on social media of course).
Even in our nation this is against the law. How much more in an Islamic nation! To add injury to insult this particular mountain is a sacred mountain to the local people of the area (non-Muslim). They believe that the indecent actions of these foreigners have angered "the mountain spirit." All of this took place on May 30, one week ago.
One week later, June 6, 2015, a 5.9 earthquake hit on that very mountain. There were 13 confirmed dead, 10 missing, and others trapped in the mountain, as huge rocks and boulders came reining down the mountain.
This earthquake is being blamed on these 10 foreigners. They are being charged in a native court for allegedly violating local native laws.
Later a special ritual needs to be conducted to "appease the mountain spirit."
Yes earthquakes are still happening. So is idolatry, and so is stupidity.
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/foreign-a...adians-barred-leaving-malaysia-165340519.html
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Adam Clarke commentary:
The Fourth sign, earthquakes or popular commotions.
Earthquakes, in divers places - If we take the word σεισμοι from σειω to shake, in the first sense, then it means particularly those popular commotions and insurrections which have already been noted; and this I think to be the true meaning of the word: but if we confine it to earthquakes, there were several in those times to which our Lord refers; particularly one at Crete in the reign of Claudius, one at Smyrna, Miletus, Chios, Samos. See Grotius. One at Rome, mentioned by Tacitus; and one at Laodicea in the reign of Nero, in which the city was overthrown, as were likewise Hierapolis and Colosse. See Tacit. Annal. lib. xii. and lib. xiv. One at Campania, mentioned by Seneca; and one at Rome, in the reign of Galba, mentioned by Suetonius in the life of that emperor. Add to all these, a dreadful one in Judea, mentioned by Josephus (War, b. iv. c. 4). accompanied by a dreadful tempest, violent winds, vehement showers, and continual lightnings and thunders; which led many to believe that these things portended some uncommon calamity. -
Good info Grasshoppah. Thanks for that.
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OnlyaSinner Well-Known MemberSite Supporter
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(ESV) For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be famines and earthquakes in various places.
(MKJV) For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be famines and pestilences and earthquakes in different places. -
Since it speaks of them in multiple places, I wonder if the ones caused by fracking are a big and growing part, because they're not natural and are happening in places where it is not common to have them at the current number or intensity. Places in New York and Oklahoma (OK now has more than CA) seem to be having tons. Other states too, but they don't yet admit that fracking can trigger them.