Earthquakes are on the rise...is America next??

From the recent deadly Christchurch earthquake to this week's unusual 4.7 quake in Little Rock, Arkansas, it is becoming more and more evident that the Words of Jesus, prophesied for the last days, are coming to pass before our eyes: 

Matthew 13:8 For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be earthquakes in various places; there will be famines. These are but the beginning of the birth pains.

I would like to share the following, insightful analysis by a learned friend, R. Johnson, regarding the rise in earthquakes in "divers places" :

"You used to never hear of earthquakes in the central region of the USA. They were something only Californians had to deal with. 

However, they have been rapidly increasing all over the USA and around the world. Nearby Arkansas has had an incredible number of earthquakes recently.

Mississippi and other states in the to-be-affected area are currently preparing for the next New Madrid fault-line to make it's first adjustment (earthquake) in over 200 years. Earthquake emergency scenario exercises are planned for May 2011 in Mississippi.

I learned about these special training exercises because I'm a Ham Radio Operator. A number of Ham Radio Operators who are trained to handle Emergency Communications during a communications infrastructure collapse have been called upon to participate in these exercises. 

(As an aside: Ham Radio is and will be the only reliable means of communication across town, county, state, nation, and globe if and when landline phones, cell phones, and Internet go down or are blocked. Unlike phone and Internet you don't have to pay monthly fees. It's free after the small cost of buying the radio equipment. So if in your emergency planning you have neglected to address a fail proof back up form of communication you might want to look into Ham Radio)

In regards to the New Madrid fault earthquake, I have heard comments that it's not of matter of "if it will happen", but rather "when it will happen" and the general consensus is soon! Hence the importance of preparing for it now.

I also stumbled upon the following unrelated website which is promoting April 19th as Shake Out Day, billed as the largest earthquake drill in the central USA, and warns:

'We all must get better prepared for major earthquakes, and also practice how to protect ourselves when they happen. The purpose of the ShakeOut is to help people and organizations do both.'

http://www.shakeout.org/centralus/

The Government seems to know what the Bible prophesies, that earthquakes are going to increase!" ~R. Johnson

WILL OBAMA'S POLICY TOWARDS ISRAEL RESULT IN EARTHQUAKES/DEVASTATION TO AMERICA?

EARTHQUAKES:

NEW MADRID IS DUE/OVERDUE FOR MODERATE SIZED QUAKE:

"The New Madrid (MAD'rud) Seismic Zone, midway between St. Louis and Memphis, has a history of shaking violently, about every 500 years. When it shook for three months in 1811-12, this was the western frontier, and the population was sparse. If it shook with that magnitude again, the devastation would make Hurricane Katrina look "like a Sunday School picnic."

"The New Madrid fault system is a series of faults several miles below the surface.""Suggesting these are just aftershocks and therefore (the New Madrid fault) is dead doesn't follow," says Susan Hough of the USGS. We have a seismic zone that produces earthquake clusters. The odds that it has shut off are pretty low."

"2/19/10 - Missouri's Governor convened a panel of officials in New Madrid who are on the front line of emergency response. From AP/KCStar:

Missouri state geologist Joe Gillman said an earthquake the magnitude of the 1811-12 quakes is expected to happen just once every 500 years. But a moderate quake with a magnitude 6.0 to 6.5 is expected to happen every 90 years, and the last one was in the late 1800s.

“We are due, if not overdue, for a moderate-sized earthquake,” Gillman said. “Such a quake could devastate power lines and underground water and wastewater pipes, and many buildings could crumble.”

Read about recent quakes along New Madrid faultline

Recent seismic activity

We know the earthquakes will be increasing as birth pains. We see evidence of that- starting with the massive 7.0 Haiti quake, then the 8.8 in Chile, and most recently, the 6.1 in Turkey.There have been a total of 10 quakes in the past week that have been 6.0 or greater. There was even one in SOUTHERN SUMATRA, INDONESIA that registered at 6.8 but did not cause damage (the recent Turkey quake was only a magnitude 6.0.).

The three widely reported, destructive quakes occurred within less than a two month period. This does not even include the high magnitude increased seismic activity that is not even being reported-due to the depth or location of occurrence there has been no damage.

No doubt, earthquakes are on the rise just as Jesus warned us would happen:

Matthew 24:7 Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and EARTHQUAKES IN VARIOUS PLACES. 8 All these are the beginning of BIRTH PAINS.

IF the Obama adminstration continues to "poke God's eye" as they have been doing, then America will be then not only unprotected, but cursed by God:

Zechariah 2:8 For thus saith the LORD of hosts; After the glory hath he sent me unto the nations which spoiled you: for he that toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eye.

Genesis 12:3 And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.

See Is America asking for it?

We need to be repenting for our nation as well as ourselves. Judgment is coming from the just judge.  We cannot not know the day or the hour, but we can know the seaon.

We can tell Springtime is near as we see the blossoming of the trees and flowers and flitting about of the Robins. Accordingly, we can see the season of His return and that the coming Judgment of a God-rejecting, God-ignoring world is near.

We need to pray that we may be counted worthy to escape the wrath to come and to stand before the Son of Man.

21:34 And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.


21:35 For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth.

21:36 Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.