In the Scriptures, we find God displaying His anger and announcing His judgment by using the earthquake or other loud and forceful phenomena of nature like storm and tempest, thunder and lightning. The Prophet Isaiah for instance announced the impending judgment by saying, “Thou shalt 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” (Isa 29:6). The Apostle John in the Apocalypse , “And the angel took the censer, and filled it with fire of the altar, and cast it into the earth: and there were voices, and thunderings, and lightnings, and an earthquake” (Rev 8:5). Like what Jesus said in Matthew 24:7, earthquakes are God’s way of telling people that He is angry with them for all their evil and wickedness, and that He is ready to judge and punish them if they refuse to repent.
In the world today, we are hearing and seeing more and more earthquakes. Is God not telling us something, that the world is ripe for judgement? Skeptics deny this. They say that earthquakes have been commonplace throughout history. People think they are becoming more frequent but actually the frequency is not due to more earthquakes but to vast improvements in news reporting and communications technology, and so we find ourselves getting more informed about such events. Although that may be so, yet it must not be ignored that in the last decade, we find an increasing number of earthquakes hitting big cities or highly populated areas, the Haitian earthquake for example, and The Straits Times on Tuesday 2 March 2010 reported that the Chilean quake has affected no less than two million people in one way or other.
In the world today, we are hearing and seeing more and more earthquakes. Is God not telling us something, that the world is ripe for judgement? Skeptics deny this. They say that earthquakes have been commonplace throughout history. People think they are becoming more frequent but actually the frequency is not due to more earthquakes but to vast improvements in news reporting and communications technology, and so we find ourselves getting more informed about such events. Although that may be so, yet it must not be ignored that in the last decade, we find an increasing number of earthquakes hitting big cities or highly populated areas, the Haitian earthquake for example, and The Straits Times on Tuesday 2 March 2010 reported that the Chilean quake has affected no less than two million people in one way or other.
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