read this artcle somewhere yesterday....
Yellowstone Caldera has erupted many times...sometimes a little...sometimes A LOT.
A big eruption could conceivably kill a few hundred million folks across the globe and send up back into the dark ages
a little one, might just kill thousands.
as far as biblical prophecies? who knows which particular volcanic activity could be construed as heralding the ‘last days’.
I am sure that the Krakatoa eruption of 1883, had the Biblical prophecy people on the edge of their seats....same thing with 1980’s Mt St Helens eruption or 1991 with the Mount Pinatubo eruption.
The prophecy came true for those affected.
The key to the Matthew 24 prophecy is Jesus use of the term “birth pains”. Having had many children, my wife starts to get “braxton-hicks” early in the pregnancy. As the pregnancy goes on, the pains become more intense and closer together. Then finally the baby comes. Krakatoa may have been an initial birth pain. Since then, Seismic activity has been exponentially increasing...
from LiveScience.com:
“Mount Pinatubo, Luzon, Philippines 1991 VEI 6
A stratovolcano located in a chain of volcanoes created along a subduction zone, the cataclysmic eruption of Pinatubo was a classic explosive eruption.
The eruption ejected more than 1 cubic mile (5 cubic kilometers) of material into the air and created a column of ash that rose up 22 miles (35 km) in the atmosphere. Ash fell across the countryside, even piling up so much that some roofs collapsed under the weight.
The blast also spewed millions of tons of sulfur dioxide and other particles into the air, which were spread around the world by air currents and caused global temperatures to drop by about 1 degree Fahrenheit (0.5 degree Celsius) over the course of the following year.”
And this wasn’t even the most powerful volcanic eruption in history. When Tambora exploded in 1815, it was “the year without a summer” from the volcanic ash in the atmosphere.