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http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/Deadly-qu...l?oneclick=true

Deadly quake had power of N-bomb

By Richard Macey

May 21, 2005

The Boxing Day earthquake that sent a tsunami sweeping across the Indian Ocean, killing more than 283,000 people, released as much power as a 100-gigaton nuclear bomb and triggered other quakes as far away as Alaska.

The energy released by the initial quake was as much as is used in the US in six months, said Roger Bilham, a professor of geological sciences at the University of Colorado, in one of a series of reports on the disaster published yesterday in the journal Science.

Professor Bilham said the 100-gigaton quake (equal to 100 billion tonnes of TNT) shifted more than 30 cubic kilometres of sea water, starting the wave that reached the east and west coasts of the Americas, as well as the Arctic Ocean.

Lifting of the Indian Ocean floor reduced the capacity of the Bay of Bengal and the Andaman Sea enough to raise world sea levels by about a tenth of a millimetre.

Three other scientists blamed the Sumatra quake for sparking a series of jolts an hour later around Mount Wrangell, an Alaskan volcano, almost half a world away.

Surface shock waves radiating out from Sumatra "triggered an 11-minute swarm of 14 local earthquakes near Mount Wrangell", wrote the University of Alaska researchers.

In his report, Professor Bilham warned that Indonesia may be shaken again as a result of forces set in motion on December 26. The Nias quake, on March 28, confirmed a 300-kilometre section of the tectonic plate boundary under the sea off Sumatra had been pushed "to the point of failure".

"The three-month delay between the two earthquakes has awakened fears that a domino-like failure of the already highly stressed plate boundary to the south and east may follow," he said.

Other scientists found that the Boxing Day quake started with a 100-kilometre section of the tectonic plate rupturing at a relatively low speed.

Professor Bilham believed the most remarkable feature was the way the quake ended. "At its northern end, the surface between the Indian plate and the Andaman archipelago took more than half an hour to slide a distance of seven to 20 metres. It was this slow slip that trippled the quake's energy release" from magnitude 9 "to a gigantic" 9.3.

Commentators are calling it the greatest tsunami disaster in human history.

The Bible gives it even greater significance.

After a "tribulation" that would nearly wipe out the Jewish people, Jesus said there would be unusual events in the heavens and troublesome waves on earth -- as part of the sign that his Second Coming was near.

Human history never saw the like of modern space probes or the recent deadly waves.

A comparison of the accounts by Matthew and Luke shows that it would happen "after" the great tribulation:

"Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken." (Matt. 24:29 KJV) "signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars, and upon earth distress of nations in perplexity at the roaring of the sea and the waves" - Luke 21:25

The parallel accounts explain what Great Tribulation Jesus was speaking of:

"For then shall be great tribulation" - Matt. 24:21 - "great distress in the land, and wrath upon this people...led away captive into all nations" - Luke 21:23-24 KJV

These parallel passages show Jesus referred to a centuries-long Tribulation on the Jewish people.

Jesus told the inhabitants of Judea to flee to the mountains when they saw 'the abomination that causes desolation,' spoken of through the prophet Daniel (Matt. 24:15-16; Mark 13:14), which the parallel verse in Luke's account reveals to be when they saw "Jerusalem surrounded by armies" (armies of the Roman Empire). Luke 21:20

Jesus added, "and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled." (Luke 21:24 KJV) The Tribulation would continue a VERY LONG TIME from 70 A.D., and would climax in the Holocaust. It would end when the "times of the Gentiles" would end, and Israel would be restored to the Promised Land and regain control over Jerusalem.

Jesus said, "except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved." (Matt. 24:22 KJV) A million Jews were killed by the Roman Empire, and then six million by the Third Reich.

"Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken." (Matt. 24:29 KJV) After the Tribulation's climax in the Holocaust of 1941-1945, the heavens lost their power as men began to rocket into space. The heavenly bodies figuratively fell from the sky, as they came within mankind's reach.

With satellites circling overhead, Mars rovers exploring the Red planet, and an international space station, we have been seeing the foretold "signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars" for some time now. And the recent tsunami disaster brought "distress of nations in perplexity at the roaring of the sea and the waves" to complete the picture.

"Now when these things begin to take place, look up and raise your heads, because your redemption is drawing near," Jesus added. - Luke 21:28

Well...you might not agree with this interpretation,but it makes you think...

Lets WATCH and PRAY

Maranatha

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This interpretation of Bible prophecy is what happens when someone takes everything figuratively in the Bible.

In the Books of Daniel and Revelation, we are told that the GREAT TRIBULATION will last seven years, and that a single man, known as the antichrist, will rule the world and force everyone to worship him and take his mark. We are told that the Lord will come back after HALF the city of Jerusalem falls, and that BABYLON, which does not even exist as a viable city right now, will be destroyed. Babylon still thrived for decades after the destruction of Jerusalem. So this above interpretation of scripture is so off base that it beggars description.

The December quake is NOTHING compared to the two major earthquakes recorded in the prophetic calendar in the book of Revelation. The last one in the Book of Revelation will be so bad that EVERY mountain will be flattened and EVERY island sank. That is literally hundreds, perhaps thousands or even millions of times stronger than the sumatra 9.3 quake. This quake has nothing to do with bible prophecy except that it fulfills the general statement that there will be "Earthquakes in diverse places" and "The wind and waves raging" it does not fulfill any other specific prophetic text from the Bible.

But hold on to your Bibles, and your loved ones, because there is coming something worse than what has happened. Unless we all repent, God is about to pour out his wrath like never before, and like will never be seen again untill that coming 7 year period again. There is about to be the judgment of God poured out on this nation and the world. Jesus Christ is the King of Kings and Lord of Lords, and we have all been so complacent in our lives. Treating God like our buddy or something, when he is the Almighty creator who gave  his life for us. The tribulation has not even remotely begun yet.

Pray for mercy and for strength form the Lord Jesus to get through this thing.

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Yep,whysoblind,

I agree,it was a link( I forgot to put it...aehm...me not very pc expert)and I wanted see a reaction from the board...but only you answered...so

thanks bro,God blees you