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Some guy almost 100 years ago predicts a quake will level Rome on May 11, 2011 and today the city residents are fleeing. They believe.
Italians evacuate Rome over 'big one' fears
Italians will on Wednesday flee Rome over fears a giant earthquake is coming following a seismologist's 1915 prediction that "the big one" will strike on May 11, 2011.
"Businesses have reported requests from one in five people to have time off work and many are also keeping children away from school and heading to the beach or country for the day. Romans are taking it so seriously that local newspapers have even been publishing survival guides with tips of what to do – if – the ground starts to tremble. The panic has been fanned by Facebook, Twitter and text messages around a prediction by Raffaele Bendandi, a seismologist who forecast in 1915 that a "big one" would hit Rome on Wednesday. He is also said to have predicted other earthquakes which hit Italy during the last hundred years before his death in 1979. Massimo La Rocca, headmaster of a school in the Trastevere district, said: "We have had quite a few parents calling in and saying they will not be sending their children in."
"I've told them the school will remain open and there is nothing to be scared about but they are adamant – although this is not a justifiable absence for a pupil."
"A barman named Massimo said: "People have been talking about this for the last week. I know dozens who are taking the day off – I'm going to sleep in the camper van with the wife to be on the safe side." Bendandi believed movement of plates and therefore earthquakes were the result of the combined movements of the planets, the moon and the sun and perfectly predictable. In 1923 he predicted a quake would hit central Italy on January 2 the following year – he was wrong by two days. For his work Bendandi was even given a knighthood by Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini – and ordered not to make any more predictions on pain of exile as officials feared he would create immense panic. However seismologists have been quick to step in and say his theories are without any scientific proof and despite his claims earthquakes are completely unpredictable. Seismologist Alessandro Amato, who works at the Italy's National Geophysical and Volcanology Institute, said: "There is absolutely no evidence to say that an earthquake will hit Rome on 11th May and we have told that to the hundreds of people who have called."
Bendandi was wrong lots of times but the world will go after a false prophet rather than the true Prophet who was NEVER wrong and has been proven over and over. O come Lord Jesus!
I fully admit that if a quake hits Rome tomorrow that it will be totally ironic but also a total coincidence. For those who insist on objective evidence and ignoring the bible because it supposedly has none, I remind you that Bendandi developed his own unscientific theory, without any objective evidence, of the nature of earthquakes and the alleged causes that determine them. His studies and his predictions are considered invalid empirical and theoretical justification from the scientific community.
The only reliable predictor for prophecy is the One who delivered it: Jesus in the bible. If the quake does not hit I challenge readers to allow the bible as the standard for prophecy. If the quake does hit tomorrow I still challenge readers to seek the bible as the only barometer of truth and only reliable predictor 100% of what is to come.
If only the world would take the bible as seriously as they do some unscientific guy who was wrong half the time!!
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Italians evacuate Rome over 'big one' fears
Italians will on Wednesday flee Rome over fears a giant earthquake is coming following a seismologist's 1915 prediction that "the big one" will strike on May 11, 2011.
"Businesses have reported requests from one in five people to have time off work and many are also keeping children away from school and heading to the beach or country for the day. Romans are taking it so seriously that local newspapers have even been publishing survival guides with tips of what to do – if – the ground starts to tremble. The panic has been fanned by Facebook, Twitter and text messages around a prediction by Raffaele Bendandi, a seismologist who forecast in 1915 that a "big one" would hit Rome on Wednesday. He is also said to have predicted other earthquakes which hit Italy during the last hundred years before his death in 1979. Massimo La Rocca, headmaster of a school in the Trastevere district, said: "We have had quite a few parents calling in and saying they will not be sending their children in."
"I've told them the school will remain open and there is nothing to be scared about but they are adamant – although this is not a justifiable absence for a pupil."
"A barman named Massimo said: "People have been talking about this for the last week. I know dozens who are taking the day off – I'm going to sleep in the camper van with the wife to be on the safe side." Bendandi believed movement of plates and therefore earthquakes were the result of the combined movements of the planets, the moon and the sun and perfectly predictable. In 1923 he predicted a quake would hit central Italy on January 2 the following year – he was wrong by two days. For his work Bendandi was even given a knighthood by Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini – and ordered not to make any more predictions on pain of exile as officials feared he would create immense panic. However seismologists have been quick to step in and say his theories are without any scientific proof and despite his claims earthquakes are completely unpredictable. Seismologist Alessandro Amato, who works at the Italy's National Geophysical and Volcanology Institute, said: "There is absolutely no evidence to say that an earthquake will hit Rome on 11th May and we have told that to the hundreds of people who have called."
Bendandi was wrong lots of times but the world will go after a false prophet rather than the true Prophet who was NEVER wrong and has been proven over and over. O come Lord Jesus!
I fully admit that if a quake hits Rome tomorrow that it will be totally ironic but also a total coincidence. For those who insist on objective evidence and ignoring the bible because it supposedly has none, I remind you that Bendandi developed his own unscientific theory, without any objective evidence, of the nature of earthquakes and the alleged causes that determine them. His studies and his predictions are considered invalid empirical and theoretical justification from the scientific community.
The only reliable predictor for prophecy is the One who delivered it: Jesus in the bible. If the quake does not hit I challenge readers to allow the bible as the standard for prophecy. If the quake does hit tomorrow I still challenge readers to seek the bible as the only barometer of truth and only reliable predictor 100% of what is to come.
If only the world would take the bible as seriously as they do some unscientific guy who was wrong half the time!!
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No quake in Rome today! ;)
ReplyDeletewho wrote the bible? Jesus?
ReplyDeleteIf only the world would take the bible as seriously as they do some unscientific guy who was wrong half the time!!
ReplyDeleteAmen, I say to you, all these things will come upon this generation. (Matthew 23:36 NAB)
Never happened...oops
No, but there were 2 not far away, in Spain.
ReplyDeleteBut there was in Spain, which is very very close to Rome.. Kind of weird..
ReplyDeleteThe location of the eq in Spain is not close to Italy, lol. In a direct line, they are 2000 miles apart. Driving, it's twice that. If you are going to count it in the win column, you might as well count the eq's of equal or greater magnitude that ALSO occurred yesterday, in Tonga, Japan, & Loyalty Islands... No, Bendandi said major EQ in Rome, and that did not happen. #fail.
ReplyDeleteIt is amazing to me how forgiving of failed prophets and failed prophesies people are, still seeking after them, when Jesus gave them all and they all came or are coming true: to the LETTER! Look to Jesus, people, not false prophets.
"Who wrte the bible? Jesus?"
ReplyDeletehttp://bible.cc/2_timothy/3-16.htm
"All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness,"
Well... a quake DID hit the south of Spain on this exact date... Not a PERFECT prediction, but good enough not to call the man a fool. Remember.. the world was once flat.. AND the center of the universe...
ReplyDeletewhy all this talk about a prophet?.. the man predicted eathquakes... so he's off by a few days and miles.. doesn't make him a FALSE prophet.. never was.. haha.. is you local weather man a false prophet..?
ReplyDeleteas I said above, a quake hit on a date 2000 miles away from Spain. You might as well say that a quake that hit Mongolia on or near that day was also a bullseye. #fail
ReplyDeleteAs for the world being flat and the center of the universe, only non-bible believers thought that. The bible states it is round and the universe has many planets and heavens.
people who predict things on the autority of God's word and in His name are prophets. If a prophet speaks these things as Camping is doing on His authority and from His word, and the prediction does not come to pass, it means he is a false prophet
ReplyDeleteJeremiah 23:31 Behold, I am against the prophets, saith the LORD, that use their tongues, and say, 'He saith'.
Jeremiah 14:14 Then the LORD said unto me, The prophets prophesy lies in my name: I sent them not, neither have I commanded them, neither spake unto them: they prophesy unto you a false vision and divination, and a thing of nought, and the deceit of their heart.