Scientists believe that at least the mystery of it may have been solved. It happened last August. A tsunami was initiated in the southern Atlantic Ocean....apparently by an earthquake that should not have been strong enough....and was too deep anyway....to cause the tsunami that rippled up the coasts of three different oceans. As it turns out....there was a series of five different earthquakes involved....in quick succession over several minutes....and one of them was shallow...and about ten times as strong. They are describing it as a 'silent' earthquake....an initially undetected earthquake.....because the metering systems in place....which essentially take 'snapshots' of the seismic activity....only gave a "fraction" of the information that would have been needed to immediately see the 8.2 earthquake. As it was it took months to figure it all out.
Only a few days ago....in normal daily reading of God's Word....this time the book of Colossians....I wondered how the famous earthquake in the area....that damaged and may have destroyed the city....might have affected the Collossian's faith....being that the earthquake probably hit shortly after they received Paul's letter. Paul instructed that his letter also be read by the Laodiceans....a nearby city also damaged by the earthquake.
The Bible quite a few times in both testaments describes God as shaking the earth....usually in judgment. It is a minority opinion for sure.....but one that I lean to....that the earthquake described in "the days of Peleg"....(Genesis 10:25 and 1 Chronicles 1:19)....may have set in motion the separating of the continents.....thus completing in only a few hundred years what science believes to have taken millions of years.
The topography of Israel and its surroundings in itself in amazing....with much of the Jordan Rift Valley....leading to the Dead Sea....below sea level....and we know that when Jesus Christ returns that the Mount of Olives will be split in half from east to west.
So all of these thoughts just to point out that although we have many judgments upon us today....plagues and war and multiple examples of delusion and deception....that earthquakes will definitely play a part in what is ahead.
We were able to avoid any culpability in the pandemic that God brought to this world. That turned out to be relatively easy...just blame the Chinese and Fauci....and we will find appropriate blame for the wars that are ahead....but the day will come when we run out of scapegoats....and whether it be plague or war or geological or cosmic....we will finally see the pattern....and the reason for them....which would be at best for Christians....evidence of time wasted.
"Awake, O sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you....
Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise...
making the best use of time, because the days are evil." Ephesians 5:14b-16 ESV)
or...from the prophets of the day
"Forget all this God's warning stuff
just keep listening to Fox and talk radio
and your favorite podcaster
for the democrats are evil."
Addendum: I'd like to take this opportunity to recommend two Christian programs that are up on their websites today. The first is from John Piper's ministry....his Sermon Of The Day....titled Christ Crucified, Our Boast....In The Cross. Please consider listening to this and see for yourself if there are men out there or not who may preach in a way that you may have never heard before. Just go to desiringgod.org and follow the directions. The second is a little different. R. C. Sproul's ministry has a series on Church history that will be of help to many. Just go to Ligonier.org and it is right there. In that program the speaker Robert Godfrey related an old Peanuts comic that was really profound....Lucy is standing in front of the class and says....'this is my report on church history....a report on church history must start at the very beginning....our pastor was born in 1930...." Folks....sometimes we act as if church history begins with our church....but we must instead see where our church fits into the history of the church since the Apostles.
