Earthquakes in Diverse Places

More than 50,000 people are estimated to have died in the May 12 earthquake in China, many of whom still lie beneath rubble scattered across an area the size of Belgium. Elsewhere, the city of Reno, Nevada looks nervously to the northwest, where thousands of minor earthquakes have rattled the area since February 28. Scientists are puzzled by this cluster because they don’t fit any known pattern of And here in the Midwestern U.S., we were startled by a M5.2 earthquake centered in southeast Illinois on April 18, the second strongest earthquake recorded in the state since the arrival of white settlers in the early 19th century. What’s with all of the unusual seismic activity? And how does this relate to biblical prophecies of catastrophic global earthquakes in the end times? The number of earthquakes has increased in both numbers and intensity within the last 30 years. From 1960 to 1979 there were over 64 earthquakes measuring over 6.0 on the richer scale. From 1980 to present there have been over 200. This is one of the Biblical signs of the end of the age, just before the Rapture of the believers in Jesus Christ as their saviour, and the beginning of the great 7 year Tribulation upon the Earth.