Yup. Praise the Lord. No doubt about it. More earthquakes today than ever before. Same thing for starvation and lawlessness. Complete rubbish, of course. Here are all of the earthquakes magnitude 8 and over since 1900. See any pattern in the tea leaves?1. 1902-06-11 05: 50.00 148.00 8.0 Sea of Okhotsk2. 1903-01-04 05:07 -20.00 -175.00 8.0 Tonga3. 1903-08-11 04:32 36.36 22.97 8.3 southern Greece4. 1905-07-09 09:40 49.0 99.0 8.4 Mongolia5. 1905-07-23 02:46 49.0 98.0 8.4 central Mongolia6. 1906-01-31 15:36 1.0 -81.5 8.8 Colombia-Ecuador7. 1906-08-17 00:40 -33.0 -72.0 8.2 Valparaiso, Chile8. 1907-10-21 04:23 38.00 69.00 8.0 Afghanistan9. 1908-12-12 12:08 -14.0 -78.0 8.2 off the coast of central Peru10. 1911-06-15 14:26 28.0 130.0 8.1 Ryukyu Islands, Japan11. 1914-05-26 14:22 -2. 137. 8.0 West New Guinea12. 1915-05-01 05:00 47. 155. 8.0 Kurile Islands13. 1917-05-01 18:26 -29.0 -177.0 8.0 Kermadec Islands, New Zealand14. 1917-06-26 05:49 -15.0 -173.0 8.4 Tonga15. 1918-08-15 12:18 5.653 123.563 8.0 Celebes Sea16. 1918-09-07 17:16 45.5 151.5 8.2 Kuril Islands17. 1919-04-30 07:17 -19.823 -172.215 8.2 Tonga region18. 1920-06-05 04:21 23.5 122.0 8.0 Taiwan region19. 1920-09-20 14:39 -20.0 168.0 8.0 Loyalty Islands20. 1922-11-11 04:32 -28.553 -70.755 8.5 Chile-Argentina Border21. 1923-02-03 16:01 54.0 161.0 8.5 Kamchatka22. 1924-04-14 16:20 7.023 125.954 8.3 Mindanao, Philippines23. 1928-06-17 03:19 16.33 -96.7 8.0 Oaxaca, Mexico24. 1931-08-10 21:18 47.1 89.8 8.0 northern Xinjiang, China25. 1932-06-03 10:36 19.84 -103.99 8.1 Jalisco, Mexico26. 1933-03-02 17:31 39.22 144.62 8.4 Sanriku, Japan27. 1934-01-15 08:43 27.55 87.09 8.1 Bihar, India28. 1938-02-01 19:04 -5.05 131.62 8.5 Banda Sea29. 1938-11-10 20:18 55.33 -158.37 8.2 Shumagin Islands, Alaska30. 1939-04-30 02:55 -10.5 158.5 8.0 Solomon Islands31. 1940-05-24 16:33 -10.5 -77.0 8.2 near the Coast of central Peru32. 1941-11-25 18:03 37.171 -18.960 8.2 Azores-Cape St. Vincent Ridge33. 1942-08-24 22:50 -15.0 -76.0 8.2 Off the coast of central Peru34. 1943-04-06 16:07 -30.75 -72.0 8.2 off the coast of Coquimbo, Chile35. 1944-12-07 04:35 33.75 136.00 8.1 Tonankai, Japan36. 1945-11-27 21:57 24.5 63.0 8.0 off the coast of Pakistan37. 1946-04-01 12:28 52.75 -163.50 8.1 Unimak Islands, Alaska38. 1946-08-04 17:51 19.25 -69.00 8.0 Dominican Republic39. 1946-12-20 19:19 32.5 134.5 8.1 Nankaido, Japan40. 1948-01-24 17:46 10.5 122.0 8.2 Panay, Philippines41. 1949-08-22 04:01 53.62 -133.27 8.1 Queen Charlotte Island, B.C., Canada42. 1950-08-15 14:09 28.5 96.5 8.6 Assam-Tibet43. 1952-03-04 01:22 42.5 143.0 8.1 Hokkaido, Japan region44. 1952-11-04 16:58 52.76 160.06 9.0 Kamchatka, Russia45. 1957-03-09 14:22 51.56 -175.39 8.6 Andreanof Islands, Alaska46. 1957-12-04 03:37 45.15 99.21 8.1 Gobi-Altai, Mongolia47. 1958-11-06 22:58 44.329 148.623 8.3 Kuril Islands48. 1959-05-04 07:15 53.351 159.645 8.2 near the east coast of Kamchatka49. 1960-05-22 19:11 -38.29 -73.05 9.5 Chile50. 1963-10-13 05:17 44.9 149.6 8.5 Kuril Islands51. 1964-03-28 03:36 61.02 -147.65 9.2 Prince William Sound, Alaska52. 1965-02-04 05:01 51.21 -178.50 8.7 Rat Islands, Alaska53. 1966-10-17 21:41 -10.807 -78.684 8.1 near the coast of central Peru54. 1968-05-16 00:49 40.903 143.346 8.2 off the east coast of Honshu, Japan55. 1969-08-11 21:27 43.478 147.815 8.2 Kuril Islands56. 1970-07-31 17:08 -1.49 -72.56 8.0 Colombia57. 1971-01-10 07:17 -3.132 139.697 8.1 Papua, Indonesia58. 1974-10-03 14:21 -12.254 -77.524 8.1 near the coast of central Peru59. 1976-08-16 16:11 6.292 124.090 8.0 Mindanao, Philippines60. 1977-06-22 12:08 -22.878 -175.900 Tonga region61. 1977-08-19 06:08 -11.085 118.464 8.3 south of Sumbawa, Indonesia62. 1979-12-12 07:59 1.598 -79.358 8.1 near the coast of Ecuador63. 1985-03-03 22:47 -33.135 -71.871 8.0 offshore Valparaiso, Chile64. 1985-09-19 13:17 18.190 -102.533 8.0 Michoacan, Mexico65. 1986-05-07 22:47 51.520 -174.776 8.0 Andreanof Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska66. 1989-05-23 10:54 -52.341 160.568 8.1 Macquarie Island region67. 1994-06-09 00:33 -13.841 -67.553 8.2 La Paz, Bolivia68. 1994-10-04 13:22 43.773 147.321 8.3 Kuril Islands69. 1995-07-30 05:11 -23.340 -70.294 8.0 Near Coast of Northern Chile70. 1995-10-09 15:35 19.055 -104.205 8.0 Near Coast of Jalisco, Mexico71. 1996-02-17 05:59 -0.891 136.952 8.2 Irian Jaya region, Indonesia72. 1998-03-25 03:12 -62.877 149.527 8.1 Balleny Islands region73. 2000-11-16 04:54 -3.980 152.169 8.0 New Ireland region, Papua New Guinea74. 2001-06-23 20:33 -16.264 -73.641 8.4 near the coast of southern Peru75. 2003-09-25 19:50 41.815 143.910 8.3 Hokkaido, Japan region76. 2004-12-23 14:59 -49.312 161.345 8.1 north of Macquarie Island77. 2004-12-26 00:58 3.295 95.982 9.1 off the west coast of northern Sumatra78. 2005-03-28 16:09 2.074 97.013 8.6 Northern Sumatra, Indonesia79. 2006-05-03 15:26 -20.187 -174.123 8.0 Tonga80. 2006-11-15 11:14 46.592 153.226 8.3 Kuril Islands81. 2007-01-13 04:23:21 46.243 154.524 8.1 East of the Kuril Islands82. 2007-04-01 20:39:58 -8.466 157.043 8.1 Solomon Islands83. 2007-08-15 23:40:57 -13.386 -76.603 8.0 Near the Coast of Central Peru84. 2007-09-12 11:10:26 -4.438 101.367 8.5 Southern Sumatra, Indonesia85. 2009-09-29 17:48:10 -15.489 -172.095 8.1 Samoa Islands region86. 2010-02-27 06:34:14 -35.846 -72.719 8.8Same thing for famines - more dead as a percentage of world population than at any time in recorded history (not)On the other hand..... 2nd Century CE: Prophets and Prophetesses of the Montanist movement predicted that Jesus would return sometime during their lifetime and establish the New Jerusalem in the city of Pepuza in Asia Minor. 365 CE: A man by the name of Hilary of Poitiers, announced that the end would happen that year. It didn't. 375 to 400 CE: Saint Martin of Tours, a student of Hilary, was convinced that the end would happen sometime before 400 CE. 500 CE: This was the first year-with-a-nice-round-number-panic. The antipope Hippolytus and an earlier Christian academic Sextus Julius Africanus had predicted Armageddon at about this year. 968 CE: An eclipse was interpreted as a prelude to the end of the world by the army of the German emperor Otto III. 992: Good Friday coincided with the Feast of the Annunciation; this had long been believed to be the event that would bring forth the Antichrist, and thus the end-times events foretold in the book of Revelation. Records from Germany report that a new sun rose in the north and that as many as 3 suns and 3 moons were fighting. There does not appear to be independent verification of this remarkable event. 1000-JAN-1: Many Christians in Europe had predicted the end of the world on this date. As the date approached, Christian armies waged war against some of the Pagan countries in Northern Europe. The motivation was to convert them all to Christianity, by force if necessary, before Christ returned in the year 1000. Meanwhile, some Christians had given their possessions to the Church in anticipation of the end. Fortunately, the level of education was so low that many citizens were unaware of the year. They did not know enough to be afraid. Otherwise, the panic might have been far worse than it was. Unfortunately, when Jesus did not appear, the church did not return the gifts. Serious criticism of the Church followed. The Church reacted by exterminating some heretics. Agitation settled down quickly, as it later did in the year 2000. 1000-MAY: The body of Charlemagne was disinterred on Pentecost. A legend had arisen that an emperor would rise from his sleep to fight the Antichrist. 1005-1006: A terrible famine throughout Europe was seen as a sign of the nearness of the end. 1033: Some believed this to be the 1000th anniversary of the death and resurrection of Jesus. His second coming was anticipated. Jesus' actual date of execution is unknown, but is believed to be in the range of 27 to 33 CE. 1147: Gerard of Poehlde decided that the millennium had actually started in 306 CE during Constantine's reign. Thus, the world end was expected in 1306 CE. 1179: John of Toledo predicted the end of the world during 1186. This estimate was based on the alignment of many planets. 1205: Joachim of Fiore predicted in 1190 that the Antichrist was already in the world, and that King Richard of England would defeat him. The Millennium would then begin, sometime before 1205. 1284: Pope Innocent III computed this date by adding 666 years onto the date the Islam was founded. 1346 and later: The black plague spread across Europe, killing one third of the population. This was seen as the prelude to an immediate end of the world. Unfortunately, the Christians had previously killed a many of the cats, fearing that they might be familiars of Witches. The fewer the cats, the more the rats. It was the rat fleas that spread the black plague. 1496: This was approximately 1500 years after the birth of Jesus. Some mystics in the 15th century predicted that the millennium would begin during this year. 1524: Many astrologers predicted the imminent end of the world due to a world wide flood. They obviously had not read the Genesis story of the rainbow. 1533: Melchior Hoffman predicted that Jesus' return would happen a millennium and a half after the nominal date of his execution, in 1533. The New Jerusalem was expected to be established in Strasbourg, Germany. He was arrested and died in a Strasbourg jail. 1669: The Old Believers in Russia believed that the end of the world would occur in this year. 20 thousand burned themselves to death between 1669 and 1690 to protect themselves from the Antichrist. 1689: Benjamin Keach, a 17th century Baptist, predicted the end of the world for this year. 1736: British theologian and mathematician William Whitson predicted a great flood similar to Noah's for OCT-13 of this year. 1792: This was the date of the end of the world calculated by some believers in the Shaker movement. 1794: Charles Wesley, one of the founders of Methodism, thought Doomsday would be in this year. 1830: Margaret McDonald, a Christian prophetess, predicted that Robert Owen would be the Antichrist. Owen helped found New Harmony, IN. 1832?: Joseph Smith (1805-1844) was the founder of the Church of Christ, which became the Restorationist movement after many schisms. It now includes The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints -- a.k.a. the Mormons, and about a hundred other denominations and sects. He heard a voice while praying. He wrote, in Doctrines and Covenants section 130: 14: "I was once praying very earnestly to know the time of the coming of the Son of Man, when I heard a voice repeat the following:" 15: "Joseph, my son, if thou livest until thou art eighty-five years old, thou shalt see the face of the Son of Man; therefore let this suffice, and trouble me no more on this matter." 16: "I was left thus, without being able to decide whether this coming referred to the beginning of the millennium or to some previous appearing, or whether I should die and thus see his face." 17: "I believe the coming of the Son of Man will not be any sooner than that time." 14 The year in which this event occurred is not recorded. However, one commentator suggested 1832 or earlier. 16 Smith is later recorded as having said: "I prophesy in the name of the Lord God, and let it be written--the Son of Man will not come in the clouds of heaven till I am eighty-five years old." 17 Smith would have reached the age of 85 during 1890. Unfortunately, by that year, Smith had been dead for almost a half century, having been assassinated by a mob. Note that his prophecy is ambiguous. It can be interpreted that: Jesus would return during 1890 (which did not materialize) or that 1890 would pass without Jesus' return (which did come to pass). Some anti-Mormon sources quote only verses 14 and 15, and draw the former conclusion -- that Smith's prophecy failed. 1843-MAR-21: William Miller, founder of the Millerite movement, predicted that Jesus would come on this date. A very large number of Christians accepted his prophecy. 1844-OCT-22: When Jesus did not return, Miller predicted this new date. In an event which is now called "The Great Disappointment," many Christians sold their property and possessions, quit their jobs and prepared themselves for the second coming. Nothing happened; the day came and went without incident. 1850: Ellen White, founder of the Seven Day Adventists movement, made many predictions of the timing of the end of the world. All failed. On 1850-JUN-27 she prophesized that only a few months remained before the end. She wrote: "My accompanying angel said, 'Time is almost finished. Get ready, get ready, get ready.' ...now time is almost finished...and what we have been years learning, they will have to learn in a few months." 10 1856 or later: At Ellen White's last prediction, she said that she was shown in a vision the fate of believers who attended the 1856 SDA conference. She wrote "I was shown the company present at the Conference. Said the angel: 'Some food for worms, some subjects of the seven last plagues, some will be alive and remain upon the earth to be translated at the coming of Jesus." 11 That is, some of the attendees would die of normal diseases; some would die from plagues at the last days, others would still be alive when Jesus came. "By the early 1900s all those who attended the conference had passed away, leaving the Church with the dilemma of trying to figure out how to explain away such a prominent prophetic failure." 12 1891: Mother Shipton, a 16th century mystic predicted the end of the world: "...The world to an end shall come; in eighteen hundred and eighty-one." 1891 or before: On 1835-FEB-14, Joseph Smith, the founder of the Mormon church, attended a meeting of church leaders. He said that the meeting had been called because God had commanded it. He announced that Jesus would return within 56 years -- i.e. before 1891-FEB-15. (History of the Church 2:182) 1914 was one of the more important estimates of the start of the war of Armageddon by the Jehovah's Witnesses (Watchtower Bible and Tract Society). They based their prophecy of 1914 from prophecy in the book of Daniel, Chapter 4. The writings referred to "seven times". The WTS interpreted each "time" as equal to 360 days, giving a total of 2520 days. This was further interpreted as representing 2520 years, measured from the starting date of 607 BCE. This gave 1914 as the target date. When 1914 passed, they changed their prediction; 1914 became the year that Jesus invisibly began his rule. 1914, 1915, 1918, 1920, 1925, 1941, 1975 and 1994, etc. were other dates that the Watchtower Society (WTS) or its members predicted. Since late in the 19th century, they had taught that the "battle of the Great Day of God Almighty" (Armageddon) would happen in 1914 CE. It didn't. The next major estimate was 1925. Watchtower magazine predicted: "The year 1925 is a date definitely and clearly marked in the Scriptures, even more clearly than that of 1914; but it would be presumptuous on the part of any faithful follower of the Lord to assume just what the Lord is going to do during that year." The Watchtower Society selected 1975 as its next main prediction. This was based on the estimate "according to reliable Bible chronology Adam was created in the year 4026 BCE, likely in the autumn of the year, at the end of the sixth day of creation." 8 They believed that the year 1975 a promising date for the end of the world, as it was the 6,000th anniversary of Adam's creation. Exactly 1,000 years was to pass for each day of the creation week. This prophecy also failed.My very real fear concerning the end times is that some gullible fool believing in the story will push the nuclear button.
John Theodore Clark ● 6019d