Earthquake

[soulwinner]

What we have seen here with over 50,000 dead and rising completely bogels the mind and we need to be praying for these people but is this a Judgement from God or a reminder of God's Judgement. Curious to get your opinions?

[apothanein kerdos]

I think it's just a tragedy that God allowed to happen.

[Ovedya]

I think that as believers we can definately view this event as a sign of the Lord's quick return. This is the largest earthquake in the world in the past 30 years. While it is tragic in terms of human and financial loss, it is nevertheless the fulfillment of the Lord's direct word.

I'd also like to add that it is a great opportunity for the spread of the Gospel.

[apothanein kerdos]

I think that as believers we can definately view this event as a sign of the Lord's quick return.  This is the largest earthquake in the world in the past 30 years.  While it is tragic in terms of human and financial loss, it is nevertheless the fulfillment of the Lord's direct word.

I'd also like to add that it is a great opportunity for the spread of the Gospel.

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So i like this reply better than my own...so I'm just going to say "ditto".

[other one]

SJ,,, I agree "dittos"

[Matthitjah]

Amen Ovedya,

On the other hand the world goes on ticking by without missing a beat.

Please pray that the Lord uses this to further the Gospel and to make people think about their Salvation.

Check this out;

Tuesday December 28, 4:13 PM   

British couple go ahead with wedding plans on devastated Thai island

AFP Photo

A British couple will go ahead with plans to get married in Phuket, unfazed by the trail of destruction unleashed by killer tidal waves that hit the popular Thai island, a hotelier said.

Motoring consultant Marc Singleton, 43, and his fiancee Lucinda Semark, 35, flew to Phuket from Singapore Monday for their Wednesday wedding at Cape Panwa Hotel on the southeastern tip of the island which was relatively unscathed by the tidal waves.

"It's going ahead as planned. They will enjoy a Thai style wedding in the morning with monks, then go to Phang Nga bay on a speedboat, sail on a traditional Chinese junk, and come back for cocktails and fireworks here at the hotel," a guest relations manager told AFP.

"They've brought a lot of friends," he said, adding that hotel staff were working hard to raise the spirits of everyone at the resort.

"Apart from the fact that many people are sitting by the beach instead of swimming, everything seems fine," Singleton told Singapore's Straits Times newspaper.

"Just being here, you wouldn't know disaster had struck the west coast," he said.

Phuket was hit Sunday by tsunamis trigerred by an undersea quake off the west coast of nearby Sumatra island in neighboring Indonesia that measured 9.0 on the Richter scale.

An estimated 2,000 people including hundreds of foreign tourists are believed to have died in the whole of southern Thailand including Phuket, which saw some 2.75 million international visitors last year.

Peace,

Dave

[Dad Ernie]

Greetings,

Matthew 24:6-8 And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. 7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. 8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.

Luke 21:9-13 But when ye shall hear of wars and commotions, be not terrified: for these things must first come to pass; but the end is not by and by. 10 Then said he unto them, Nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: 11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven. 12 But before all these, they shall lay their hands on you, and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues, and into prisons, being brought before kings and rulers for my name's sake. 13 And it shall turn to you for a testimony.

The "natural events" have been occuring since Noah's flood. So has wars and rumours of wars. They shall continue, but I believe their intensity and number will increase.

But note, that before this earth gets to its worst, "they shall lay their hand on you and persecute you...." We have been seeing "martyrs" since the cross, but it is going to increase beyond what we can understand now.

Blessings,

Dad Ernie

[RustyAngeL]

All these earthquakes are foretold in scripture, however judgement? I don't think so. Right after the earthquake in San Francisco in the late 80's where there several hundred dead, I had a guy come up to me with a paper he wrote saying that the earthquake was God's judgement on the gays. I told him he was ten miles out of line. God's judgement never get's out of control. He asked me to explain. I told him that there were a lot of innocent people that were not gay, children older people, that had perished in that quake, what about them? No I really don't think this is God's judgement, but I pray that people will now seek God and His Son.

Edited December 29, 2004 by Rustyangel

[nebula]

I only know two things -

One is that huge and horrible natural disasters have happened forever on this planet, and everytime (at least in this past century that I know of) there are many claims of this being the sign of the end.

Mass communications around the globe and a higher population of people than ever before make a huge difference.

The second are the verses in Revelation that speak of the horrors befalling the people of the Earth, "yet they did not repent of their [sin]."

Whether more of the same or indeed a sign of the end, we should always watch a pray.

And lending a ministering hand wouldn't be a bad idea, either, if we can.

[Leonard]

Folks, regardless of how you view it, this is a good time to make as generous a donation as you can to World Vision..........