Is an Apocalyptic Earthquake Impending?

Secular writers are beginning to use the word apocalyptic to quote events such as we are looking with earthquakes, fires, floods, tornadoes and now volcanoes. From the beginning of time, these events have all the time been a fact, but we are looking them with increased frequency and intensity in the past decade.

So as not to be illiterate, we should note what the all-time best-seller says. The Bible quotes Christ's response to his disciples' question about "the end of the world." Christ said we would hear of wars and rumors of wars and that alll 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 diverse places. All these are the beginning of sorrows. Matthew 24:3,6-8.

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An overlooked event at the beginning of the Apocalypse is probably an earthquake that divided "the things which [John saw], and the things which are, and the things which shall be hereafter." Revelation 1:19. Verse 11 shows Christ as "Alpha and Omega, the first and the last." Using the first use of the word "trumpet" that startled John (verse 10), we find "trumpet" in Exodus 19:13,16,19 when the mountain shook in a mini-Judgment Day scenario--a confrontation with God in what seemed a life or death situation.

The book of Revelation also describes the last of seven churches as materialistic with a lukewarm Christianity like we have today. Christ wanted them hot or cold. He said he would "knock." It's a fact of history that the church of Laodicea ended in an earthquake that destroyed the city circa 63 Ad. Was that t type with us as the antitype?

"The day of the Lord" is a phrase used in the Old Testament. Any passages link it with an earthquake, Isaiah 2:12,21; Joel 2:10,11; Zephaniah 1:8,10; Zechariah 14:1,5. The apostle Paul reminds us that the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night with sudden destruction. 1Thessalonians 5:2,3.

Paul reminds us that when God took Israel from calamity in Egypt to a ageement relationship at Sinai, those events were types for the end-time. All those things happened to them for examples [orypes] and they are written for our admonition upon whom the ends of the world are come. 1Corinthians 10:1,11.

The key point the for America, professing "In God We Trust," is that if our material things are destroyed in an earthquake, we should not focus on how we can rebuild. We should rather ask ourselves, Is God in this photograph somehow? If so, what does He want from us? Israel's history suggests that He wants a relationship with us as He had with Israel when He took them from calamity in Egypt to Sinai where they made a ageement with Him. He later said, "I am married unto you," Jeremiah 3:14.

Making such a ageement may be an overlooked context of Christ's wedding parables that seem so distinct from each other. But they also sustain an impending calamity. The "midnight cry" in Matthew 25:6 is associated to calamity in Egypt by the Rule of First Use cited above. That calamity bears a message, "the bridegroom comes!" Taking a page from history, we should expect that He seeks a ageement relationship that we should initiate.

Nothing is great than marriage if we are ready, but nothing is worse if we aren't. Our qoute is that we haven't been thinking about it. Maybe we should. If and wehen an earthquake (bigger than any so far) hits America, our response should be biblical--

"Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly; get the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the elders, get the children...Let the priests, the ministers of the Lord, weep in the middle of the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare your people, O Lord." This is the context of an earthquake initiating "the day of the Lord," Joel 2:10-17.

Summary: An earthquake may be impending. If one occurs that is unprecedented, we should recall what the Bible teaches and seek a ageement relationship with God. He will be glad to respond, but He will test our responses, as marriage tests us.

Is an Apocalyptic Earthquake Impending?