In the Word of God, we find the term "earthquake" fifteen times and "earthquakes" four. That word is already scares us, right? The increase in the number and intensity of earthquakes in recent years should serve to shake also inside human beings, so that books on time of spiritual inertia. It is estimated that each year about 500 earthquakes occur worldwide, and there are those say up to 1 million earthquakes which people come to perceive with their senses 100 000 and at least 1,000 harm.
already registered in Japan in just a weekend, a chain of more than 200 earthquakes of mild and moderate. Although many Japanese consider these facts as a characteristic "normal" country, all these earthquakes and the activity of the 86 volcanoes in the country are, in fact, the prelude to a massive catastrophe that, contrary to what serious people imagine realistic, is not restricted to a too-distant future. This situation of great insecurity and foretold millennia ago all mankind. Those are considered major earthquakes of magnitude less than 6 degrees of the scale current. The Kobe earthquake in Japan, which took place on January 17, 1995 and was considered "the worst in the last 70 years", presented at a magnitude of 7.2 degrees on the Richter scale.
this The last Friday of 8.9 magnitude was the seventh worst ever, according to the American agency, and also the worst ever recorded in Japan. Throughout the twentieth century, until May 1997, there had been 96 major earthquakes that killed more than 2,150,000 people. When analyzing earthquakes the last 2,000 years, can see clearly that until the sixteenth century took little or no earthquake. It was from the eighteenth century that the subject increased significantly.
In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and now in the XI was an explosion of earthquakes in various parts of the world, providing complete fulfillment of Jesus' prophecy concerning the nearness of his coming into this world. Actually, we are in the end times, Matthew 24:7. Beyond that frequency has increased, is also an increase in the intensity, something that gave a "reputation" momentary one of the earthquakes in relation to destruction and deaths they caused, such as Guatemala (1 million affected) and that of China (750 thousand deaths) in 1976, in Mexico in 1985 and Japan in 1995. Unfortunately, even these big disasters after a while end up in oblivion, becoming mere historical curiosities. Jesus said: "There will be signs in the sun, moon and stars, and on earth distress of nations, in perplexity at the roaring of the sea and the waves, men fainting from fear and expectation things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken. Then see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. When these things begin to happen, look up and lift up your heads, because your redemption is near. He also told them a parable: Behold the fig tree and all trees. When they now shoot forth, seeing, you know for yourselves that summer is near.
So likewise ye, when ye see these things happening, know that it is about the kingdom of God. Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass away until all these things. Heaven and earth shall pass away but my words shall not pass. Take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts not weighted down with dissipation and drunkenness and cares of this life, and suddenly come upon you that day. For as a snare shall it come upon all who dwell on the face of all the earth "(Luke 21:25-35). It is time to reflect deeply on what is happening on our planet, although it should be even greater reflection on the spiritual life of each. If Jesus came today, are you ready?
Luis Gonçalves
evangelist Pastor Seventh Day Adventist Church for eight countries de Sudamérica.
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