Are we on the verge of the *GREAT EARTHQUAKE* predicted in the Book of Revelation?

Question

Apocalypse 11:13: And there was made a great earthquake, ... 11:14: The second woe is past: and behold the third woe will come quickly. Apocalypse 16:18: And there were lightnings and voices and thunders, and there was a great earthquake, such an one as never had been since men were upon the earth, such an earthquake so great.
Major Earthquake Fault Slips Backward
vast chunk of Earth sliding under Mexico has surprisingly reversed direction, puzzling geologists and leaving them wondering whether the ground might be poised to pummel Mexico City with a devastating earthquake-Suddenly, in the latter half of 2006, the plate began moving the other way and quadrupled its speed, scientists announced today.

Geologists are predicting a Massive Earthquake to break the Pacific Rim in half in the next 5 years..
Thoughts?

Answer 1

All of the bible is true and will happen.
Matt 24
(I'm not sure when)

Answer 2

No reputable scientist is predicting any such thing. Reputable scientists know that earthquakes are not predictable, that no earthquake will ever "break the Pacific Rim in half" (though that plate split could take place after thousands of earthquakes over thousands to millions of years), etc.

We live on a dynamic planet, with crustal plates that slip, slide, bump, and grind daily. The existence of these plates is the reason the world looks the way it does today, and is also the reason the world looks different today than it did billions of years ago. a "prophecy" of a "great earthquake" isn't much of a prophecy, since there are major (6.5 and above) earthquakes every single year somewhere on the earth. And as long as we have crustal plates sliding around, that will continue to be the case. At least now, through science, we know *why* earthquakes happen...whereas in John of Patmos' day he ignorantly thought that god made them :)

Peace.

Answer 3

Sadly the human race, has "conned" it's fellow members of this species for so long, there is little trust left in most people. What you are reading here in these replies is a good cross section of humanities uncertainess.

The truth, fact or fiction will some day come out to be found laying some where between the extremes of these oppions including my own. Whether there is truth of fact to be found concerning a "great earth quake" in the Bible will continue to perplex the human mind. Each and every person will have to trust in what they feel to be the truth and disreagrd others that are for or against the proposition. The truth here in is much like Religious Beliefs. Even when you gather a small group of persons whom profess to believe in the same religious format, underneath the outter shell, each person has a different "take" on what a particular scripture is relating.

As for the Biblical text of there being a great earth quake as never been before, remember these were people which had very limited education. Much of what we understand today as technology, to most of them would be some form of "witch craft", or super natural. When you read such scriptures, put your self in the place and time it was written down. You are to record some facts given to you as a prophesy, you will write them to the best of your ability to comprend and express on papurus or goat skin, what you were told.

It is far too easy for this finest example of "geneic engineering" the human mind to scoff at that which we fail to understand or study.

There are examples of our rising generation which are unable to even identify many prominent people, places and recent history concerning our own time period. It is not to be unexpected due to the lack of intellectual pursute of knowledge.

Answer 4

Yes, it could happen. Look around you and see the destruction from all the floods, tornado's, fires,and earth quakes happening right now in the news. Anything is possible. In the United States alone we've had the worst season of tornado's in the Midwest those poor people. But the worst is the earth quake in Asia. So anything is possible. Lots of prayer is needed. Do you think someone is angry with us! God maybe.

Answer 5

Even if a big earthquake comes, that doesn't confirm the bible prediction. Big earthquakes happen from time to time.

I could write a "divinely inspired" book predicting a flood. A flood will happen somewhere, sometime, so my prediction can be "proved" to come true.

Answer 6

Why are you always riffling through that book trying to pick out bad things that you think are going to happen? If its not earthquakes its the end of the world. Its as if you want these things to happen. Whats wrong, are you so unhappy in your life or something?

Answer 7

Every couple of years people predict that the end of times as predicted by John is about to happen. John himself advised people to refrain from all sex, including with their spouses, because their children would never grow up. It hasn't happened yet and some Christians will continue to bring this up every few years.

Answer 8

this earthquake you are referring to is at the battle of armageddon when the LORD returns & raptures HIS Saints. (the 7th trumpet)

this is the day of God's wrath ...
this earthquake will split the mount of olives in half & travel toward rome & destroy the vatican (the home of the False Prohet & the Mother harlot of rev. 17)

the 6 seal = 7th trumpet = 7th vial
(all describes the same events that happen at the sounding of the 7th trumpet ... that being the 2nd coming, the battle of armageddon, & the wrath of God)

Answer 9

If people started helping the poor and the needy, housing the homeless and giving one coat to the man who has none, maybe we will have a beautiful world to live in.

Answer 10

Mini Earthquakes happens all the time...
No way to predict when the big one will be coming.....

Answer 11

Here are my thoughts: my day is not complete without these insane rants of yours. I imagine you on a street corner with an illegible sign yelling at the sky while I'm reading it.