Posted on 12/27/2004 6:08:33 AM PST by NYer
The largest earthquake in the past 40 years and the resulting deaths of thousands from 33-foot tidal waves are being compared by an American reporter to descriptions of disaster from Holy Scripture.
"The speed with which it all happened seemed like a scene from the Bible – a natural phenomenon unlike anything I had experienced before," said Washington Post reporter Michael Dobbs, who was swimming off a Sri Lankan island when the disaster struck this morning.
"As the waters rose at an incredible rate, I half expected to catch sight of Noah's Ark. Instead of the Ark, I grabbed hold of a wooden catamaran that the local people used as a fishing boat. My brother jumped on the boat, next to me. We bobbed up and down on the catamaran, as the water rushed past us into the village beyond the road."
Officials at the U.S. Geological Survey the 9.0 quake centered off the Indonesian island of Sumatra was the world's fifth-largest since 1900 and the biggest since a 9.2 temblor hit Prince William Sound Alaska in 1964.
The temblor sparked a tsunami, a series of giant walls of water which left more than 14,000 dead in six countries, with the death toll continuing to rise.
Dobbs gives a first-person account of the dramatic event in the Post:
Disaster struck with no warning out of a faultlessly clear blue sky. ... I was a quarter way around the island when I heard my brother shouting at me, "Come back! Come back! There's something strange happening with the sea." ...
In less than a minute, the water level had risen at least 15 feet – but the sea itself remained calm, barely a wave in sight. ...
After a few minutes, the water stopped rising, and I felt it was safe to swim to the shore. What I didn't realize was that the floodwaters would recede as dramatically as they had risen.
All of a sudden, I found myself being swept out to sea with startling speed. Although I am a fairly strong swimmer, I was unable to withstand the current. The fishing boats around me had been torn from their moorings and were furiously bobbing up and down.
For the first time, I felt afraid, powerless to prevent myself from being swept out to sea.
I swam in the direction of one of the loose catamarans, grabbed hold of the hull, and pulled myself to safety. My weight must have slowed the boat down and soon I was stranded on the sand.
As the water rushed out of the bay, I scrambled onto the main road. Screams and yells were coming from the houses behind the road, many of which were still half full of water, trapping the inhabitants inside. Villagers were walking dazed along the road, unable to comprehend what had taken place.
I was worried about my wife who had been on the beach at the time I went for my swim. I eventually found her walking along the road, dazed and happy to be alive. She had been trying to wade back to our island, when the water had carried her across the road and into someone's back yard. At one point she was underwater, struggling for breath. She finally grabbed onto a piece of rope and climbed into a tree, while the waters raged beneath her.
An Italian scientist says the earthquake was so strong, it even disturbed the rotation of the Earth.
"All the planet is vibrating," Enzo Boschi, head of Italy's National Geophysics Institute said on SKY TG24 TV.
The U.S. State Department says at least three Americans are confirmed dead, two in Sri Lanka and one in Thailand.
A written statement from the White House says "the President expresses his sincere condolences for the terrible loss of life and suffering caused by the earthquake and subsequent tsunamis in the region of the Bay of Bengal.
"The United States stands ready to offer all appropriate assistance to those nations most affected including Sri Lanka, the Maldives, Thailand, and Indonesia, as well as the other countries impacted. Already relief is flowing to Sri Lanka and the Maldives. We will work with the affected governments, the United Nations, non-governmental organizations, and other concerned states and organizations to support the relief and response to this terrible tragedy."
Relief agencies say the full scale of the disaster is impossible to assess, since communications have been cut to remote areas.
Othodox Jews do not write out the name of the Lord, they write it as G-d.
The Vatican, appealing for urgent assistance from world Catholics, said on Tuesday it had raised $6 million so far in emergency aid following Asia's tsunami disaster that killed more than 50,000 people.
Members of church groups like Caritas and Jesuit Refugee Services were also being dispatched to affected countries to reinforce relief efforts, according to Cor Unum, the Vatican organisation that coordinates charity funds.
Could you post it here?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1309697/posts
On the early morning of 11/11 before the sun rose in the Philippines, I received the following vision: I was climbing a large mountain somewhere near the "Indonesian" coast, traveling upwards into a place of refuge.
netmilsmom,
The stuff in your post #138 comes from a website devoted to the Bayside apparitions, which have been condemned by the Church. Just be careful using documents or quotes from anyone associated with Bayside, OK?
*smile*
Oooops!
The original poster asked about the Catholic three days of darkness. It was the most complete on Google.
I think Padre Pio talked about it first. I'll have to look it up.
I have the same questions as you. Have you read anything else on this? How was the rotation affected?
I think St. Faustina made references to "The Warning" (but not in those words) in her writings too. I'm not sure where the "Three Days of Darkness" prophecy originated. I do know that Garabandal, which mentions both, is not said to be authentic by the Church.
Please post whatever you find associated with St. Pio and these subjects, OK?
Here is another that I found....
"Here are some reported visions:
Saint Anna Maria Taigi, 1825, married with 7 children. She saw thoughts and distant events in a symbolic, miniature sun, in which the hearts of others were revealed.
- Here shall come over the whole earth an intense darkness lasting three days and three nights. Nothing will be visible, and the air will be laden with pestilence which will claim mainly, but not only, the enemies of religion.
- On this terrible occasion so many of these wicked men, enemies of His Church, and of God, shall be killed by this divine scourge, that their corpses round Rome will be as numerous as the fish, which a recent inundation of the Tiber had carries into the city. All the enemies of the Church, secret as well as known, will perish over the earth during that universal darkness, with the exception of a few, whom God will soon convert. The air shall be infected by demons, who will appear under all sorts of visible forms.
Marie Julie Jahenny La Fraudais, 1940, the Breton Stigmatist (France)
The earth will be changed into an immense cemetery; the corpses of the wicked and the just will cover the face of the earth. The famine that will follow will be great.
Saint Padre Pio, 1950, the Capuchin Stigmatist (Italy):
- 'On that day, as soon as complete darkness has set in, no one shall leave the house or look out of the window. The darkness shall last a day and a night, followed by another day and a night, and another day - but on the night following, the starts will shine again, and on the next morning the sun shall rise again, and it will be springtime!'
- 'My beloved, have confidence. I am in the midst of you. My kingdom shall be glorified and My Name shall be blessed from the rising of the sun unto the setting thereof; and to My Kingdom there shall be no end... 'Those who hope in Me, and believe in my words, have nothing to fear because I will not forsake them, nor those who are in the state of grace and who seek My mother's protection.
- 'In the days of darkness, My elect shall not sleep, as did the disciples in the Garden of Olives. They shall pray incessantly, and they shall not be disappointed in Me. I shall gather My elect. Hell will believe itself to be in possession of the entire earth, but I shall reclaim it."
Basically, from all the threads and thoughts, I've gleaned that we've been shaken up a bit resulting in a temporary slowing of the rotation resulting in a loss of about 3 microseconds. This isn't enough to make any discernable difference to humans and not to anything else, I suspect.
Also, I've guessed from what I've read, there is a slight possibility of the rotation or even tilt being permanently changed, but it is still too early to discern that. This isn't very probable however.
BTW, please keep me informed also. I do not want to post any misinformation but I want to cover all bases!
Disregard the Padre Pio reference!
See this website.
http://www.acad.sunytccc.edu/clubs/basic/rosaryqueen/PadrePio/default.htm
Good work, thanks!
>>But God punishes both the just and the unjust together - it is his way. Christ told us as much. Such is also self evident in Scripture.<<
Would you let me know which book this scripture comes from? I have not read this before.
The sexreational tourism angle is interesting. I had noticed in some of the articles the media somewhat avoiding mention of what the tourist attraction was. Seems like an awful far journey if a beach resort vacation were the only goal.
Absurd...except on such a small scale as to be unmeasureable. Besides, the energy release is between two tectonic plates releasing tension between them and there is an equal release of energy in both planes. There is no net loss or gain in motion in either direction.
Guess it all depends on your religious view point.The "End Times" have been coming ever since the Bible was written.
Wonder if those 96 Russian underground nuclear tests in the 60 & 70's rocked the earth?
SIN,huh?
Good question. And why did they not reveal the Third Secret in 1960 as the Blessed Mother commanded, and when they did (in 2000?) it was not the entire thing. (At least I don't think it was)
Isn't there an Yves Dupont book with a collection of valid Catholic prophecies? IIRC, the 3 days of darkness was prophecied by several saints.
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