Are Natural and Other Disasters End Times Signs?
Are Natural and Other Disasters End Times Signs?
by Bill Knell
March of 2011 ended up setting records when it came to devastating disasters. Earthquakes, floods, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions, extreme weather and more. However, nothing really comes close to the two edged threat caused by the March 12, 2011 Earthquake which may be one of the most severe of all time. Rated at between 9.0 and 9.4, depending on who you ask, the quake and subsequent aftershocks caused over 310 billion dollars in damage. Thousands of people were affected with over six thousand dead and seventeen thousand missing. It also created a nuclear nightmare.
The first fruit of the earthquake was a huge tsunami which stretched from the orient, all the way to the west coast of the United States, although America managed to avoid the kind of wholesale destruction seen in Japan. The Japanese are known for being prepared when it comes to such things as earthquakes, but this one caught them off guard. It was just too powerful and created the additional nightmare of a tsunami that came ashore with heights that ranged from thirty to eighty feet.
Earthquakes that happen under the sea often create the most damaging tsunami waves. The speed and power of the tsunami wave is irresistible and devastating to anyone and anything in its path. Ships, land vehicles, buildings and people are often tossed about like tiny toys in a bathtub. Even the natural shape of the land can be altered by the power of this phenomenon. In the aftermath of the huge waves, the receding water can easily draw people and things out into the ocean.
Residents of towns along the Japanese coast had little time to prepare for what would become record-setting wave heights that worked their way inland, past areas thought to be tsunami safe. One wave that was twenty-three feet high raced ashore at the speed of a jumbo jet and managed to get six miles inland before it began to recede. People, vehicles and buildings of all sizes were laid waste by the giant waves. Nothing could stand up before this huge force of nature and survive.
Along with power outages, lack of clean water supplies, food shortages and thousands of dead bodies washing up on to the beaches of the Japanese coast, came the sudden possibility of a nuclear disaster. Several reactors and containment buildings for their spent fuel were damaged in the earthquake. Japan's Prime Minister, Naoto Kan, became increasingly somber and pessimistic as he addressed the Japanese People and the world.
The most frustrating thing for the average American was the inability of our national news media to speak the truth concerning the extent of the nuclear problem that faced Japan and the world. It was almost as if it either didn't exist, or would never reach the shores of the Americas. Even religious leaders and broadcasters seemed to be ignoring the nuclear situation. Most of them were more focused on using the earthquake and tsunami as fundraising tools for their individual programs and worldwide ministries.
Several days after the earthquake and tsunami hit Japan, one national religious broadcaster was in the midst of an annual fundraising effort. Although they ran a text graphic at the bottom of the screen asking people to pray for the Japanese, they did not mention the twin disasters during their live show and made no mention whatsoever of the nuclear threat posed by the power plants that were damaged. Instead, the preacher in charge asked people to send him ten dollars for a new internet ministry to receive financial blessings. If you didn't have the ten dollars, he suggested that folks go to their neighbors, borrow the money and send it off to him.
It's time for people to understand what really happened in Japan. Within forty-eight hours of the earthquake, a spokesperson for the Union of Concerned Scientists appeared on The Today Show and stated that the area around the Fukishima facility was registering one million times above normal trace radiation levels. That same area had radiation levels ten thousand times above safe limits. The sea water around the Fukishima reactors became highly contaminated with levels over 1000 times normal.
More frightening than that was the fact that radiation from one or more nuclear reactors in Japan had been leaking into the world's natural environment for over a year. Several scientists pointed out that the reactors had not been properly inspected for over ten years. They also said that previous earthquakes and tremors in Japan may have caused damage that was not detected and could explain the enigmatic deaths of fish and birds throughout the world.
On March 9, 2011 over one million dead sardines clogged a marina in Redondo Beach, California. The cause of death remains unknown, but many had high levels of radiation in them. So much so that they could not be used for fertilizer as originally planned. Fishing vessels within a thousand miles of Japan reported pulling up nets full of dead fish within weeks of the earthquake. Those fish also showed higher then normal levels of radiation when tested.
Tens of thousands of dead fish washed up on the shores of the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland during the early months of 2011. Since December of 2010, 100 tons of fish had washed ashore near Paraná, Paranaguá, and other costal towns in Brazil. New Zealand reported that hundreds of dead snapper fish washed onto the beaches of Coromandel on the North Island. Not all of these odd occurrences may have been related to some unknown or unreported release of radioactive materials, but I couldn't recall a time when so many unexplained events of this type happened so often throughout the world.
In early January over five thousand blackbirds and starlings fell out of the sky and were already dead when they hit the ground in Arkansas. Five hundred birds fell dead out of the sky in Louisiana less than a month later. In all, the U.S. Geological Survey has reported that at least ninety thousand deaths of birds and other wildlife occurred between June and December of 2010. None had been explained to the satisfaction of scientists and most wildlife preservation societies.
It was upsetting to watch news and weather professionals basically lie to people about the potential danger to the United States and other nations posed by the Japanese nuclear disaster. They keep saying that any radiation carried to other areas by seawater currents would be completely dispersed, but is that really true? If loads of dead fish are being pulled up in nets by fishing boats within one thousand miles of Japan and reports indicated that one or more reactors may have been leaking for a over a year or more, can we not assume that at least some of the damage was already done?
On March 28, 2011, news gathering organizations in the U.S. reported that radioactive iodine (radioiodine-131) had been detected in rainwater. Officials in California, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, North and South Carolina and Washington State reported that "low levels" of radioactive iodine were detected in rain that fell in those areas. Meanwhile, Japanese officials said that soil in some areas distant from the nuclear reactors was eighteen hundred times higher than normal.
Japanese officials reported that several pools of radioactive water existed in containment and nuclear reactor buildings which were ten million times above normal. Certain types of radiation exposure tends to create damage in humans and animals from the inside out.
Let's take a look at the situation from a scientific, Biblical and prophetic standpoint:
As early as March 12, 2011, newspapers and broadcasters were making statements like "It's not good" about the nuclear disaster in Japan. The reactors in question were forty years old and had not been inspected properly for some ten years. The record-setting Earthquake in Japan merely added to a problem or leak that already existed. At least five reactors had problems or were in danger of a core meltdown.
On March 24, 2011, three workers from one plant were admitted to the hospital after they were exposed to a pool of contaminated water that may have contained radioactivity that was a million times above the normal levels. The workers were shielded by a large tarp to keep the public from seeing what happened to them. The news media and their carefully chosen expert spokespersons were simply ignoring the reality of radiation science and making things up as they went along, attempting to quell panic among their readers, listeners and viewers.
The worst offenders were the people that claimed to speak for the Lord. They stood in their pulpits and remained silent about the threat and the fact that Bible Prophecy is coming true while we watch. God warned people about ignoring Him and disobeying His Will. For example, the Bible says in Psalm 9:17, "The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God." There are many people in many nations that believe that God is merely a concept; that his Word is a book of fairy tales; that his prophecy and judgments are merely made up stories designed to frighten people. But, guess again!
During the past twenty years we have witnessed a number of disasters and odd events that have been predicted in the Word of God. These include numerous and powerful earthquakes, devastating floods, pestilences, strange and unidentified objects seen in the skies all over the world, wars, conflicts, rebellions, the shrinking and then enlargement of the moon, famines and much more.
ON THE EARTH: According to the U.S. Geological Society, there have been over 100 earthquakes ranging in magnitude from three all the way to the 9.0-9.4 (depending on which expert you listen to) worldwide. Record cold weather destroyed or delayed crops in many U.S. States. A new type of citrus pest is killing orange trees and citrus crops in the southeast and also threatens the southwest. Hoards of up to a million wild boars are roaming the Southern and a few Midwestern U.S. States. They destroy crops, damage property and are difficult to kill.
IN THE SKIES: Last year scientists told us that the Moon was shrinking; now they say it’s growing larger. A huge object appeared over North and South American and moved slowly across the sky. It was photographed and filmed by thousands of people. Scientists were unable to identify this object which did not appear to be a meteor or easily recognizable astronomical object. It did not break apart and may have crashed into the Atlantic Ocean.
The following Bible verses give us a preview of things to come as God’s Judgment plays out on the Earth:
Matthew 24:3-8: "And as he sat upon the Mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world? And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you. For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many. And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. All these are the beginning of sorrows."
Luke 21:5-11: And as some spake of the temple, how it was adorned with goodly stones and gifts, he said, As for these things which ye behold, the days will come, in the which there shall not be left one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down. And they asked him, saying, Master, but when shall these things be? and what sign will there be when these things shall come to pass? And he said, Take heed that ye be not deceived: for many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and the time draweth near: go ye not therefore after them. But when ye shall hear of wars and commotions, be not terrified: for these things must first come to pass; but the end is not by and by. Then said he unto them, Nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven."
Isaiah 34:4: "And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll: and all their host shall fall down, as the leaf falleth off from the vine, and as a falling fig from the fig tree."
Ezekiel 22: 25-31: There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst thereof, like a roaring lion ravening the prey; they have devoured souls; they have taken the treasure and precious things; they have made her many widows in the midst thereof. Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned mine holy things: they have put no difference between the holy and profane, neither have they shewed difference between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them. Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain. And her prophets have daubed them with untempered morter, seeing vanity, and divining lies unto them, saying, Thus saith the Lord GOD, when the LORD hath not spoken. The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy: yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully. And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none. Therefore have I poured out mine indignation upon them; I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath: their own way have I recompensed upon their heads, saith the Lord GOD.
Zechariah 14:12: “And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.”
It’s important for people to understand that the world will probably not end tomorrow, but the events that are unfolding worldwide are certainly a sign that we are witnessing the beginning of the end. God’s patience is running out and it’s time for people to examine their lives and their relationship with the Creator of our world! Do not be fooled by the happy talk of news media pundits and preachers sold out to the idea that having people support their lavish lifestyles is more important than telling the truth as it’s revealed in God’s Word.
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