Posted on 02/27/2010 8:02:16 PM PST by Freedom'sWorthIt
Disasters - earthquake, Tsunami, others - happening rapidly now.
Read Matthew 24. There will be earthquakes.....etc.
When we see these events occurring in increasing frequency it is because these are the "birth pangs" that we have been told by Jesus Christ Himself - would happen closer together in time as do the birth pangs of a woman in labor. The closer she gets to giving birth, the worse the birth pangs become and the closer together they come.
No. My understanding of Scripture does not allow thousands of years.
I beileve that at least one person must be alive when Christ returns who
was alive at Israel’s becoming a country again in 1948
or
at the retaking of Jerusalem in 1967.
INDEED.
Maybe so....or maybe not,,
It is amazing how the various branches of Christianity fight and argue more with each other than with the true enemies of the Cross.
Who is standing around screaming “the end is near”?
I am not. I’m sitting down - even reclining for heaven’s sake!
LOL
And I haven’t been screaming - not even typing in all caps!
LOL
Jesus Christ hasn’t been screaming either....He speaks in a still small voice - but also He speaks in the storms of life...and in the literal storms around us!
He spoke yesterday in the taming of the Tsunami at just the right moment!
He speaks and all of nature hears His voice and does what He says - which makes perfect sense since He is after all the Creator of it all and through Him it all holds togehter - see Colossians (sp) for more on that.
Used which line?
It makes as much sense as your screed.
PLENTY OF TRUTH in all that.
It’s sometimes a hard . . . thing to discern . . .
where to draw the line . . . in fircely and forcefully presenting truth to the lurkers who may be ignorant or on the fence . . . using the argumentative blokes as foils
vs getting all contentious in the flesh to no good result.
for later
fine - God bless you!
Rev 1:3
(3) Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand.
Can you provide the citation?
... I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night.
SnakeDoc
I don’t understand your post.
Footsteps of the Messiah, Chap 4, p96
Dr. Arnold Fruchtenbaum
The earthquake factor is even more interesting. According to the Encyclopedia Americana, between the years 63-1896 A.D. there were only twenty-six recorded earthquakes. Most of the world’s earthquakes began to occur since 1900 (per USGS Natl Earthquake Information Center. Earthquakes with 1,000 or more deaths from 1900.) (http:neic.usgs.gov/neis/eqlists/eqsmajr.html. 12May2000)
More recent web lists form USGS record some 80 quakes from 856AD to 1896, and some 432 major quakes for the 20th century, while in the first decade alone over 432 major quakes over 6.0 have been recorded (this tally is not consistent though, as some of those in the 20th century 432 tally are less than 3.0 located in remote areas or are aftershocks, while frequently over 100 quakes are recorded daily in the same range in the early 21st century. see http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/world/historical.php)
One article from the “Dispatch from Jerusalem”, 3rdQtr, 1992, p.11 referenced in Footsteps of the Messiah provides a greater number in middle centuries as recorded:
“In the first 1000 years after Jesus, there were approxiamately 5 recorded major earthquakes (although we are sure more occurred in remote locations). However, the trend has been on the increase:
14th century, there were 157 major earthquakes.
15th century, there were 174 major earthquakes.
16th century, there were 253 major earthquakes.
17th century, there were 278 major earthquakes.
18th century, there were 640 major earthquakes.
19th century, there were 2119 major earthquakes.
Nearly 900,000 earthquakes have been recorded thus so far in the 20th century. An earthquake every hour!”
The trend does appear to be undeniably increasing with respect to the impact of earthquakes upon humanity.
I’m not mocking. Just making light of something, that’s all
I’ll let you sit around and worry bout that.
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