Crazy weather, Ethiopia earthquake, & Africa splitting apart

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2010's world gone wild: Quakes, floods, blizzards
This was the year the Earth struck back. Earthquakes, heat waves, floods, volcanoes, super typhoons, blizzards, landslides and droughts killed at least a quarter million people in 2010 - the deadliest year in more than a generation. More people were killed worldwide by natural disasters this year than have been killed in terrorism attacks in the past 40 years combined. "It just seemed like it was back-to-back and it came in waves," said Craig Fugate, who heads the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency. It handled a record number of disasters in 2010. "The term '100-year event' really lost its meaning this year."

In 2005, the continent of Africa began unzipping. In just days, a 35-mile-long rift opened up, which was 20 miles wide at spots. It happened quickly and initially, scientists surmised that a new sea was growing. However, this assessment as controversial, because their understanding of plate tectonics holds a longer and a slower view. In other words, continents don't move and split apart in days, it takes millions of years. Or so they thought. In November of 2009, scientists concluded that indeed, the continent of Africa is birthing a new sea, and that was when they used the word "unzipped."

Here is an excerpt from that article: "The new study, published in the latest issue of Geophysical Research Letters, suggests that the highly active volcanic boundaries along the edges of tectonic ocean plates may suddenly break apart in large sections, instead of little by little as has been predominantly believed. In addition, such sudden large-scale events on land pose a much more serious hazard to populations living near the rift than would several smaller events, says Cindy Ebinger, professor of earth and environmental sciences at the University of Rochester and co-author of the study."

Man's understanding is in some cases wise, and in other cases miraculous, but in other cases poor and meager. The earth is not millions of years old and plates can shift apart in a matter of days, or even in a moment. How do I know this to the point of contradicting decades of general scientific understanding? Because in the Tribulation, massive geophysical changes will occur in moments, and the world will indeed split apart quickly. "The earth is broken up, the earth is split asunder, the earth is thoroughly shaken." (Isaiah 24:19). "The sky receded like a scroll, rolling up, and every mountain and island was removed from its place." (Rev 6:19). Jesus controls all judgments and He will judge the earth, and He won't take millions of years to do it.

At the Horn of Africa last month, an earthquake swarm at Yemen caused alarm. The swarm was situated at the opening to the Red Sea at the Gulf of Aden, and seemed to be an unusual place for seismic activity. According to the history of the area, at USGS, the Yemen-Gulf of Aden-Djibouti area IS seismic, but in a minor way. Between 1950 through yesterday this area had 56 earthquakes ranging between mag 4.0-5.9. There were no quakes greater than mag 5.9 during that date range. Now there have been 31 (as of 1:00pm), which is 2/3 as many as in the last sixty years. This is statistically significant, as well as prophetically interesting. (Mark 13:8)

And in a third piece of interesting news from that area, not only have there been unusual geophysical changes occurring in rifts suddenly opening, and unusual earthquake activity that has never been replicated historically, but today at the other end of the rift, a 5.1 mag earthquake occurred in Ethiopia.

 How secular man, atheists, and lukewarm "believers" can NOT see the signs is beyond me. God has always used weather to claim man's attention, " 'I will make a violent wind break out in My wrath ... flooding rain and hailstones ...' "(Ez 13:13) and "    'There will be ... dismay among nations, in perplexity at the roaring of the sea and the waves' (Lk 21.25)" are just two of many examples of how He uses weather and earth changes to warn us out of complacency. Today in this millennium, the weather is acknowledged to have been crazy-unusual, the geo-physical changes in many areas of the world are upending scientists' understanding, yet they all claim that it is man causing these changes. It is not man causing these changes, or if he is, it is man's sin causing the world to stumble. Isaiah 24 is the chapter that describes the destruction of the world by God, "The LORD’s Devastation of the Earth" and the reason is explained: "so heavy upon it is the guilt of its rebellion that it falls—never to rise again." (Is 24:20). Once again, the LORD is using weather and earth changes (as prophesied) to warn us of His impending wrath.

The Lord is just, and He will not allow sin to languish forever. Sin's day is soon coming to an end, which means the LORD'S Day is about to begin!
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