THE MIGHTY EARTHQUAKE

There is great darkness upon the earth when the world`s armies surround Jerusalem.

`Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! For the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision. The sun and moon will grow dark, and the stars will diminish their brightness.` (Joel 3: 14 & 15)

Then through the gloom they see a strange light coming closer to the earth. This supernatural sign is the great glory of the Lord and His angelic hosts leaving heaven and coming to this sin-stricken earth. As they come closer the glory gets brighter and by evening it is bright.

`It shall come to pass in that day that there will be no light; the lights will diminish. It shall be one day which is known to the Lord - neither day nor night but at evening time it shall happen that it will be light.` (Zech. 14: 6 & 7)

Suddenly there is a mighty roar from God Almighty and the heavens part and on the earth there is a great and mighty earthquake destroying the cities of the world.

`The Lord also will roar from Zion, and utter His voice from Jerusalem; the heavens and earth will shake;...` (Joel 3: 16)

`And there were noises and thundering and lightnings; and there was a great earthquake, such a mighty and great earthquake as had not occurred since men were on the earth. Now the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell....then every island fled away, and the mountains were not found.` (Rev. 16: 18 - 20)

The multitudes in the valley, and all the peoples of the earth tremble in fear and try to hide, for they know that it is the great day of the wrath of God.

`...behold, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black....and the moon became like blood and the stars fell to the earth,.....Then the sky receded.... and every mountain and island was moved out of its place.

And the kings of the earth, the great men, the rich men, the commanders, the mighty men, every slave and every free man, hid themselves in the caves and in the rocks of the mountains, and said to the mountains and rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of Him who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb!

For the great day of His wrath has come and who is able to stand?” (Rev. 6: 12 - 17)

The Lord Jesus Christ with His mighty angelic host will have shaken this planet to its very core. Truly “Who can stand?”