[Quix]

I just posted . . .

for THOSE INTERESTED IN PROPHETIC, BIBLICAL ISSUES RELATED TO DISASTERS . . .

a very sobering and probably more accurate than comfortable

doc at post #1311

on the PROPHETIC SIGNS OF THE END TIMES thread:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/1274030/posts?page=1307

[sissyjane]

There are disasters everyday, and this earthquake may be bigger than most, but earthquakes happen all the time.

There were 242 earthquakes in California alone within the last week.

[David]

Chapter Six of the Revelation lists and describes six events or conditions that occur during the period prior to commencement of the Great Tribulation (Mathew 24:15-21)--we know that because the last verse in Revelation 6, verse 17, says "the great day of his wrath is come"--it is about to start but has not started previously.

Those six events are: 1) A conquering; 2) A war; 3) A complex event in the market for wheat and barley; 4) Complex events in a quarter of the earth; 5) Persecution and death of Christians; and 6) "a great earthquake" in which "every mountain and island were moved out of their places".

The wheat and barley event is most significant--a prophecy that wheat will trade at three times the price of barley and that Oil and Wine will not be hurt. (Rev 6:6) Wheat has traded at three times the price of barley one time during the Church Age--May 1996; at which time the 200% penalty tax on oil and wine which was suspended and never collected, was ultimately terminated, assuring that the oil and wine would not be hurt. We believe 6:6 may have happened then.

The conquering was Saddam's conquest of Kuwait; the war was Desert Storm. The quarter of the earth in 6:8 is that portion of the earth between 76 degrees East Longitude and 14 degrees West Longitude; the war was Bosnia; the killing by beasts of the earth was by the desease transmitted by eating the flesh of the beasts (eboula; mad cow; etc.).

World Net Daily runs a continuing Chronicle of persecution and killing of Christians.

The next thing to look for is a Great Earthquake in which the mountains and islands are moved out of their places. Note that the word translated "islands" in KJV Rev. 6:14 is actually a Greek word which means shorelands, including islands.

[COEXERJ145]

And people have been saying every natural disaster has been a sign of the "end times" for the last 2000 years and yet we're still here. The truth is no one has a clue except God the Father and for humans to try and predict it is just foolish.