You shall be visited of the LORD of hosts with thunder, and with earthquake, and great noise, with storm and tempest, and the flame of devouring fire. Isaiah 29
When I began studying bible prophecy a little over ten years ago, the IRIS Seismic Monitor was still pretty quiet, I would go to the site and at most find a few circles, here and there, that marked an earthquake. But these days its constantly lit up like the Vegas strip, and they are small, medium and large ,”in various places” all over the globe. And the area that is covered by these circles is growing by the year.
But don’t take my word for it, see for yourself.
http://www.iris.edu/seismon/
At that time scientist where dismissing the seeming uptick in earthquakes as a by product of better surveillance, not only better monitors, but more of them. A reasonable conclusion that no one could really question,especially those pesky christians, who everyone knows expected earthquakes to not only become more frequent but more destructive too.
This remained a reasonable and satisfactory answer from them, for anyone who asked, until the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake. That quake not only rung the earth like a bell, it set off alarms in the science community and forced them to sit up and take notice. It wasn’t too long after that , when I began to hear their whispers on the internet , “there is more this than meets the eye” and soon it was clear that their answer of ” bigger and better tech ” was no longer adequate for them either. And they had to begrudgingly admit that yes the earthquakes were happening more frequently and that they had no good reason for what was going on.
From then on they could only bite their tongues when the christian pointed to, for instance, the prophecy in Matt. 24 as the answer, because they couldn’t reasonably refute it any more, thanks to Google Earth and the IRIS Monitoring site.
Geoscientists find clues to why first Sumatran earthquake was deadlier than second
“When you hear of wars and rumors of wars, do not be frightened; those things must take place; but that is not yet the end.
“For nation will rise up against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; there will be earthquakes in various places; there will also be famines.
These things are merely the beginning of birth pangs.
Mark 13