Posted on 12/02/2007 12:00:24 AM PST by camerakid400
An earthquake was felt in Jerusalem Sunday morning.
There were no immediate reports of injuries or damage, and it was not yet known the exact strength of the quake.
OK, who touched the Ark?
Ah oh, we’re still here!
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Nothing showing yet on the USGS site.
Do we have any data as to how often there has been an earthquake in that area ..??
The reason I’m asking is because I heard a prophecy a few years ago about Israel having an earthquake and then an oil deposit disappeared. Years later (during the end times) there would be another earthquake and the oil would return.
There have been people in Israel searching for the oil for a few years now. It would really be something if they now found the oil.
Curious ..??
Prayers for everyone’s safety
Very interesting .. thanks!!
A 4.0 is very small.
Quick wit there Spktyr.
(I was curious is it pronounced spoketire)
Interesting post CyberAnt do you know the source of where you heard this prophecy?
Just curious also.
Thanks Cindy
We just had a 4.9 here in Afghanistan. I looked it up after we felt it, and USGS has it. It was at 1627L in the hindu Kush region, about 175 miles NE of me. Just a little shaker here, shelves rattling and building creaking.
The Dead Sea/Jordan Valley is an EXTREMELY dangerous fault line very similar to the San Andreas Fault, and it runs all the way from the Gulf of Aquaba north through Syria.
The area comprising Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria have all been repeatedly devastated by massive (Magnitude 7.5+) earthquakes, even big tsunamis (the fault splits in Lebanon and parts are underwater) historically. However, It's been a long time (close to 1,000 years) since the last really one in the populated regions. There's some evidence that the area is about due.
When it does happens, I expect the apocalyptikooks to work themselves into a frenzy over a geologically routine occurence.
And of course we all know that "apocalyptikooks" think that G-d and nature are independent of each other and unless it's an obvious miracle there is no significance whatsoever.
Something tells me you've never read Megillat-'Ester.
Isn't it a swell thing that there are secular people out there who are totally devoid of prejudice and never engage in name-calling (like those religious fanatics do!)?
(Is this one of the people you were talking about, Metmom?)
When there is even the vaguest actual evidence that natural disasters have something remotely to do with any sort of deity, I might take you seriously.
People can't handle the fear that natural disasters are simple physics and don't "mean" anything. The recent Bangladeshi Cyclone is simply evidence that over a tropical sea in a low shear environment, you can get a powerful tropical cyclone, and it's perhaps not a good idea to live on the coast there 1 foot above sea level. There's no message to the people living there, or the world in general, other than that.
When the next big earthquake happens in the Middle East, as thousands have happened before for tens of millions of years, it will simply be evidence that the Arabian tectonic plate is continuing to slowly move north as it has for tens of millions of years, which it was not only doing long before Islam or Christianity or Judaism existed, it was doing so long before humans existed.
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