Prophecy and Current Events
Signs in the Heavens/Signs in the Earth
11/17/1999
By: Vince A
To His Glory Ministries
http://prophecyandcurrentevents.com/thglory
Signs in the Heavens
The but big news today is the 1999 Leonid meteor shower. Experts are
predicting a big storm on November 18th with up to 100,000 shooting stars per
hour. (Other predictions place the maximum meteor storm in 2000 or 2001). A
Leonid meteor shower happens every year around November 17 when Earth
passes close to the orbit of comet Temple-Tuttle. Usually not much happens. A
typical Leonid meteor shower consists of a meager 10 to 20 shooting stars per
hour. However, every 33 years something special happens. Comet Temple-Tuttle
swings through the inner solar system and brings a dense cloud of debris with it.
When this happens, there can be 1000s of shooting stars per hour.
Meteor showers are small, but Meteor storms are huge. Meteor showers produce
a few to a few hundred shooting stars per hour. Meteor storms produce a few
thousand to a few hundred thousand meteors per hour. A meteor storm, like a
total solar eclipse, ranks as one of Nature's rarest and most beautiful wonders.
Could this be a sign in the Heavens? Not necessarily, but considering its arrival
at the same time of so many other unique signs in the heavens, one has to
wonder -- especially since the best viewing of the phenomonum is in Israel. We do know from the Book of the Revelation that some day a
meteor will plow into the ocean. Could there be a larger fragment hidden in the
debris? No one knows. We will just have to trust God is able to take care of His own and not worry. Isn't it an
interesting coincidence that the NASA's Hubble Space Telescope just happened
to suffered a system failure over the weekend that will leave it unable to transmit
any pictures to Earth until the next, much-delayed, space shuttle mission, the
space agency said on Monday.
Signs on the Earth
Meanwhile, on the earth we continue to experience once in a lifetime events.
Hurricane Lenny is bearing down on Puerto Rico currently just 120 miles south of
San Juan. This is a Category three hurricane, with its 150 mph winds. What is
unusual is that it was formed vary late in the season and is traveling on an
unusual west-to-east course. This the largest late-season hurricane in history
(since records were kept 125 years ago). Those factors surprised forecasters.
"It's unheard of," said veteran meteorologist John Tewey on San Juan's
WOSO-AM radio, "This is a once-in-a-lifetime event."
Another once-in-a-lifetime event. We also have several 7.0 earthquakes in a
short period of time -- a significant occurrence and one that speaks of God's
continued pleading for repentance.
On Mon Nov 15,1999, AP reported that an earthquake with a preliminary
magnitude of 7.0 struck the seabed of the Indian Ocean Monday. The quake was
centered 850 miles southeast of the Sri Lankan capital, Colombo, an observatory
statement said. The tremor was felt only slightly in Colombo, and no damage was
reported. However, Turkey was not so fortunate. A major earthquake with
magnitude of 7.2 struck just northwest of Ankara, Turkey, Friday, November 10th
at 6:57 p.m. local time, the United States Geological Survey, National
Earthquake Information Center reported. This earthquake was located about 70
miles east of the magnitude 7.4. Friday's quake was less catastrophic than the
August quake that killed 17,000 people and injured another 50,000. However, the
latest quake claimed 600 lives, destroyed hundreds of buildings, and left
thousands of homeless shivering in the cold.
A fairly strong earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.7 jolted northern
Japan Monday, November 15th. The earthquake slightly swayed office buildings
in Tokyo, but it was most strongly felt in northwestern cities, including Ofunato in
Miyagi, 250 miles, north of Tokyo, and Morioka in Iwate Prefecture, 290 miles
north of the capital.
Earthquakes are continuing to grow in severity and diversity. Recent Activity
includes:
On Monday, September 20, 1999, a powerful earthquake struck Taiwan. This
one had a preliminary magnitude of 7.6 and struck Taiwan before dawn on
Tuesday. It knocked out power and collapsed buildings. A tsunami warning
(Tidal Wave) was issued. Over 1,000 people have been killed and 3,500 injured,
however, many more are trapped in buildings and the death toll wasexpected to
rise.
On September 8, 1999 there was a Strong earthquake
registering 5.9 on the Richter scale hit Athens Greece on
Tuesday. At least 30 people died, and nearly 100 were reported
missing. More than 100 buildings crumbled and power and
telephone service was out in many places of this city of more
than five million.
On August 26, 1999 an earthquake, with a magnitude of six on
the open-ended Richter scale, shook provinces in the central
and southern Philippines Thursday, causing mild panic but
there were no reports of casualties or damage, officials said.
On August 29, 1999 a strong earthquake with a preliminary
magnitude of 5.5 struck western and central Japan.
On August 17, 1999 a quake measuring 5.0 on the Richter
scale hit the San Francisco area, but fortunately there were no
immediate reports of damage or injury, officials said. (This
may have been a warning to repent before judgement, in
accordance with Jude verses 3-8, is measured out.
On August 17,1999, a massive earthquake struck at the heart
of Turkey's most populated cities killing many thousands of
people Tall buildings and homes collapsed. The National
Earthquake Information Center in Golden, Colo. revised its
estimate of the quake's magnitude upward to 7.8, making it
nearly as powerful as the 7.9-magnitude San Francisco quake,
which killed 700 people in 1906.
On Thu Aug 12,1999, a strong earthquake rocked parts of
central Indonesia. It was a magnitude 6 earthquake struck
centered beneath the Maluku Sea, about 200 miles east of the
Central Sulawesi capital of Palu, said Rasyid, an official of the
Meteorology and Geophysics Agency in Jakarta.
On Wed Aug 11,1999 a series of earthquakes and aftershocks
jolted large parts of the Mideast and western Mediterranean
islands, including Iran and Cyprus, where quakes with
preliminary magnitudes of 4.2 and 5.8 were reported.
Also on Wed Aug 11,1999 a moderate earthquake with a
preliminary magnitude of 4.2 shook Tokyo and the port city
of Yokohama.
GEN 1:14 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to
divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for
days, and years:
"You will hear of wars and rumors of wars, but see to it that
you are not alarmed. Such things must happen, but the end is
still to come. Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom
against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in
various places. All these are the beginning of birth pains."
(Matthew 24:6-8)
JUD 1:3-8 "Beloved, while I was very diligent to write to you
concerning our common salvation, I found it necessary to
write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith
which was once for all delivered to the saints. For certain men
have crept in unnoticed, who long ago were marked out for
this condemnation, ungodly men, who turn the grace of our
God into licentiousness and deny the only Lord God and our
Lord Jesus Christ. But I want to remind you, though you once
knew this, that the Lord, having saved the people out of the
land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe.
And the angels who did not keep their proper domain, but left
their own habitation, He has reserved in everlasting chains
under darkness for the judgment of the great day; as Sodom
and Gomorrah, and the cities around them in a similar
manner to these, having given themselves over to sexual
immorality and gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an
example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire. Likewise also
these dreamers defile the flesh, reject authority, and speak evil
of dignitaries.
HAG 2:7 I will shake all nations, and the desired of all nations
will come, and I will fill this house with glory,' says the LORD
Almighty.
ROM 8:20-23 "For the creation was subjected to futility, not
willingly, but because of Him who subjected it in hope;
because the creation itself also will be delivered from the
bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children
of God. For we know that the whole creation groans and
labors with birth pangs together until now. And not only they,
but we also who have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we
ourselves groan within ourselves, eagerly waiting for the
adoption, the redemption of our body.
For a better understanding of the prophetic significance of the above events,
please reference the Prophetic Links and listed Scripture below.
Maranatha!
Vince
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