[Cvengr]

Interesting observation.

The earthquake in Bam Iran occurred on the same date a year ago.

[Cvengr]

Stats on the Bam earthquake about one year ago.

http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/eq_depot/2003/eq_031226/

[RayChuang88]

Mind you, the earthquake in Bam, Iran was particularly horrible because most of the buildings there were more or less adobe huts, which will collapse very quickly in any large earthquake.

[Quix]

I don't have any burning absolute from God about it. But it does begin to have a certain . . . "HELLO?!" ring to it.

People seem to have very funny notions about suffering. Especially those in rebellion against God for one reason or another.

I've been through several periods of extreme suffering in my life and been around plenty more in the lives of those close to me and masses more observed close at hand in a variety of Asian lands.

God would rather no one suffer and all enjoy HIS PEACE, HIS PROVISION, HIS WHOLENESS AND HEALTH; EVEN HIS WEALTH.

BUT

HE REQUIRES: SEEK FIRST THE KINGDOM OF GOD AND HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS AND ALL THESE OTHER THINGS WILL BE ADDED UNTO YOU.

Man insists on doing things man's way AND ALSO EVEN THEN HAVING ALL THE GOODIES.

God is NOT STUPID, FOLKS! HE KNOWS VERY PAINFULLY WELL--having paid the price on the estremely excruciatingly horrible suffering on The Cross--He knows extremely well:

THE WAGES OF SIN = DEATH.

Sin is anything short of His Perfection; anything in opposition to Him; anything put in the place of God in a life instead of God. All that results in death.

ALL ****THAT**** RESULTS IN SUFFERING--SOONER OR LATER.

That's just the way God set the universe up. It is not insanity or evil or anything but redemptive truth to note the truth about how God set reality up.

God has declared that in our end times era, ALL THAT CAN BE SHAKEN WILL BE SHAKEN--and destroyed--is the implication. That will ultimately include in all the 'Christian' nations as well.

But it appears that God is beginning to attempt to get people's attention in the lands where the fiercest opposition to him is engendered by the Koran--a religion devoted to a demonic moon god.