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Friday round-up: FL schools use biometric fingertip ID for attendance, millions bees drop dead, 7200 quakes/day at Krakatau, Yom Kippur begins

Posted on by elizabethprata

News round-up:

Anytime I see biometrics being used in a widespread way I take notice. Biometric identification “consists of methods for uniquely recognizing humans based upon one or more intrinsic physical or behavioral traits.” The antichrist uses biometrics in the Tribulation to keep track of who may buy or sell. (Rev 13:16-17).

A Florida School District is Taking Attendance by Scanning Students’ Fingers
“Chipley- Roll call is a thing of the past in Washington County Schools. Students now check in with finger scanning devices. School Superintendent Sandra Cook said the old method just wasn’t cutting it. “We got to talking about attendance in our district and how it was inconsistent,” said Cook. The systems have been up and running for two months inside the schools, but since the majority of students ride the bus every day, district officials decided to move the devices there. But the transition hasn’t been easy. One of the biggest challenges they’ve faced is where to put the devices on the buses. State safety codes require the isles to be kept completely clear, so one of the ideas they’ve discussed is to put a laptop on one side of the steering wheel and the finger scan system on the other. The school district plans to test the equipment in a handful of buses in the next week and hopes to have each one operational by November or December at the latest. “When it’s all said and done, we’re going to find that this is going to be one of the most monumental things that Washington County has ever done,” said Cook. The finger scan device costs the school district about $30 per student each year. Parents can still opt for their children to sign in the traditional way.”

No, the following does not have a typo in it. There has been an increase to 7,200 quakes a DAY at Anak Krakatau volcano. I always take note of earthquake activity and seismic increases. Quakes are one of the Lord’s judgments. (Psalms 18:15;60:2; Isaiah 13:13,14;24:19,20;29:6; Nahum 1).

The Lord said that prior tothe Great Tribulation, the beginning of birth pangs, there would be “earthquakes in diverse places…” (Matthew 24:7). For example, a “rare subsea quake rattled Bermuda this week. IWO has the report.

“The western Atlantic Ocean island of Bermuda, which was hit by its first earthquake in over a decade in April, has been rattled by two moderate quakes. The earthquakes, both measuring 4.5 magnitude on the Richter Scale, struck at 10:18 PM and 10:36 PM local time on Monday. The subsea quakes, the strongest to be recorded in the region in more than 20 years, were centred about 80 miles south of Hamilton, the capital of the British overseas territory.”

Not to be outdone, the world’s famous and not so famous volcanoes are waking up, also, with quakes of their own. I’ve written recently about the increase in earthquakes at El Hierro. 9,500 quakes under that active volcano since July and still going strong. There have also been huge numbers of quakes under Iceland’s Katla and under Krakatau. Irish Weather Online reports of Anak Krakatau, “Anak Krakatau’s alert level has been raised to the second-highest level after the number of volcanic tremors soared from 200 a day to 7,200. A 2-kilometre exclusion zone has also been established around the Indonesian volcano prohibiting tourists and fishermen from getting close to the volcanic island, located in the Sunda Strait between the islands of Java and Sumatra in Indonesia.”

One of the Lord’s four sore judgments is beasts. (Ezekiel 14:21). One of the Seal Judgments is death by beasts. (Rev 6:8). This judgment is generally accepted to mean multiplication of beasts to plague the population, but I believe it also could mean the reverse, death of massive numbers of beasts so that the natural order of the cycles of growing and reaping and the balance of predator and prey is upset. My own speculations aside, millions of bees dropped dead in Florida at nearly the same time on the same day. No one knows why. They attribute pesticides as the cause of the deaths. Um, okay… By the way, the headline below from the Daily Mail is theirs in its original form-

The mysterious honeybee apocalypse: Up to 12 million bees found dead and dying in Florida and no one knows why
“Honeybee carcasses coated the ground around hundreds of Florida beehives after a mysterious massacre claimed millions of bees and mutilated a way of life for local bee keepers. Experts have ruled out ‘colony collapse disorder’ and the bee keepers suspect that their bees were poisoned with pesticide. Florida agriculture officials and the local sheriff’s office are both investigating. No one can tell yet what killed as many as 12 million bees from 800 hives this week in Brevard County, on central Florida’s Atlantic coast.”

Israel, more isolated than ever, “took an unusual and rare step, the IDF’s General Staff alerted two reserve divisions as part of an emergency drill in army bases in central and northern Israel. The purpose of the exercise was “to test the soldiers’ level of response and readiness for war. The IDF is taking no chances on the eve of Yom Kippur.”

Yom Kippur, “also known as Day of Atonement, is the holiest and most solemn day of the year for the Jews. Its central themes are atonement and repentance. Jews traditionally observe this holy day with a 25-hour period of fasting and intensive prayer, often spending most of the day in synagogue services. Yom Kippur completes the annual period known in Judaism as the High Holy Days or Yamim Nora’im (“Days of Awe”).” Israel is buttoned down, air space closed, and border crossings blocked. This is both so that the Jews can complete their religious duties and also to (hopefully) prevent attacks on their holiest day of the year.

This year Yom Kippur is from sundown Oct 7 to sundown Oct 8. “Yom Kippur commemorates the day that G‑d forgave the Jewish people for the sin of the Golden Calf. Forty days after hearing G‑d say at Mount Sinai: “You shall not have the gods of others in My presence; you shall not make for yourself a graven image,” the Jews committed the cardinal sin of idolatry. Moses spent nearly three months on top of the mountain pleading with G‑d for forgiveness, and on the tenth of Tishrei it was finally granted: “I have pardoned, as you have requested.”

Yom Kippur essentially begins ten days earlier, at Rosh Hashanah. “In Jewish thought, Rosh Hashanah is the most important judgment day, on which all the inhabitants of the world pass for judgment before the Creator. The Talmud states, on Rosh Hashanah that three books of account are opened on Rosh Hashanah, wherein the fate of the wicked, the righteous, and those of an intermediate class are recorded. The names of the righteous are immediately inscribed in the book of life, and they are sealed “to live.” The middle class are allowed a respite of ten days till Yom Kippur, to repent and become righteous; the wicked are “blotted out of the book of the living.” (Psalms 69:29). Eternal fate then hangs in the balance for ten days waiting for all to repent, then they will be “sealed” on Yom Kippur. The assumption is that at the conclusion of Yom Kippur, everyone was sealed for the next year.

Christians know that their fate is not sealed until the moment of death, or upon having rejected Jesus so many times that their heart has been hardened. (Hebrews 3:13; Acts 19:9; Mt 13:4-5). Jesus seeks all who would repent with a sincere heart, calling on Him who is Lord to forgive their sins. (Luke 13:3; Mt 12:30; Romans 10:9).

“The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. He is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.” (2 Peter 3:9). We have a wonderful God, a loving and merciful God, who is worthy to be served.

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Volcanoes going off everywhere: Katla, Etna, and… Oz?

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Just a short entry today. I spent all day putting together the prophecy newsletter and between the heat and the humidity I’m tapped out. Two volcano stories for you–

Warnings of volcanic eruption in Australia
“Scientists are now warning that volcanoes in Western Victoria and South Australia are due to erupt. The prediction comes just hours after two earthquakes hit the state this morning. Using new dating techniques, University of Melbourne scientists have found that the volcanoes usually erupt every 2000 years, with the last eruption at Mt Gambier, South Australia, 5000 years ago. Earth sciences Professor Bernie Joyce says Australia needs a plan in case of an eruption. It comes as Victorians are warned to brace themselves for more tremors after a shallow magnitude quake hit at 11.32am, sending shockwaves through towns and suburbs more than 100 kilometres away. A series of tremors lasting up to 15 seconds have been felt across Melbourne’s CBD and southeastern suburbs. A second, smaller quake shook Korumburra, with reports it was again felt in Melbourne, at 12.37pm. Senior seismologist Clive Collins said people should prepare for aftershocks in the coming hours. “There will be aftershocks, that’s a certainty,” he told the Herald Sun. “We still expect lots of smaller ones. “After the last significant quake in Victoria there were more than 200 aftershocks.” The tremors shook Melbourne office buildings and many homes across the state, including Warragul, Ferntree Gully, Sunbury and as far north as Melbourne Airport.”

I had written three days ago that scientists were warning that Hekla in Iceland may erupt. I put up a map showing Eyja, Hekla and Katla were in close proximity and noted that when one of the three erupts then one of the others  usually does as well. Today this is being reported:

Possibly Small Eruption in South Iceland Volcano Katla

There was sudden flooding and melting of a glacier and the thought is that a small eruption caused it.

“A glacial flood, probably, from the volcano Katla in Mýrdalsjökull has disrupted the Ring Road (highway no.1), by the river Múlakvísl on Mýrdalssandur in south Iceland, tearing the bridge across Múlakvísl. The road is closed between Höfdabrekka, east of Vík, and the river Skálm, near Álftaver. The flood is thought be the result of a small eruption underneath the icecap of Mýrdalsjökull, probably in the Katla crater, ruv.is reports. “At least this is not a large eruption, the Katla eruption people have been waiting for,“ geophysicist Freysteinn Sigmundsson told ruv.is “If it is a volcanic eruption, it is a small event and possibly only geothermal water.“ The Civil Protection Department has issued a warning to people in the area, to beware of sulphurate smell near the river, as it might be poisonous sulphurate gas.”

In this news article, they write, “Small eruption at Katla“
“For the people of Iceland, the past few years must feel like the old saying “when it rains, it pours’: we’ve seen two significant eruptions, one at Eyjafjallajökull and one at Grimsvötn, in less than a year. Earlier this week, there was news that another Icelandic volcano, Hekla, was showing signs of unrest, although it was unclear whether they pointed towards an eruption. Then, the switcheroo, where instead of anything at Hekla, we get a surprise jokulhlaup (glacial outburst flood) at Katla on the southern end of the island.”

His description reminds me of the people at a tennis match when their heads swing this way then that way then this way…just as we look to one p art of the world for an expected event, another one pops up over there where we least expected it. In 2008 the Chilean volcano Chaiten erupted suddenly and is still erupting. Volcanologists say that Chaiten volcano had not erupted in 9500 years. Last month, the Eritrean volcano Nabro suddenly erupted for the first time ever. In Java, a new volcano was formed within two days. Fisherman were stunned. Three weeks ago I reported that there were 35 earthquakes at the Cuidad Juarez/El Paso border of the US that have geologists and seismologists thinking a new volcano may be born there soon, and a joint team of scientists from US/Mexico went to investigate. Volcanic eruptions from existing volcanoes have increased. Two days ago, “Palermo – An uncountable series of quakes have been recorded in Sicily. The strongest one had a magnitude of 3.1 and was recorded in the province of Messina, along the northern coast of Sicily that has been subjected to a persisting series of seismic events in the last few weeks. The quake was detected 3:01 am at a depth of a little more than 8 km. In the same area, a lighter 2.3 magnitude quake was recorded at 1:58 at approximately the same depth. . .” Today, ash from Mt. Etna closed an Italian airport. What next?!

Stay tuned, and be glad you chose to repent of your sins and accept the free pardon Jesus offers. If you have not repented, heed these wonderful words:

“Seek the LORD while he may be found;
call on him while he is near.
Let the wicked forsake his way
and the evil man his thoughts.
Let him turn to the LORD, and he will have mercy on him,
and to our God, for he will freely pardon.” (Isaiah 55:6-7)

“For thy name’s sake, O LORD, pardon mine iniquity; for it is great.” (Psalm 25:11)
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Sudden rise in harmonic tremors around Katla and Eyjafjallajökull

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Where Eyjafjallajokull goes, so goeth Katla. This means that when Eyja gets active, Katla always erupts soon after. If you remember, Eyja was the Icelandic volcano that erupted last spring and caused worldwide airline traffic disruptions because of the amount of ash spewed at all altitudes. People have been watching Katla ever since. I don’t want to be an alarmist, but there is a very serious scientific discussion going on over at Jon Frimann, Icelandic blogger’s blog on volcanism. Jon Frimann wrote yesterday:

“There is a sudden and sharp rise in harmonic tremors around Katla and Eyjafjallajökull volcano. I currently do not know what volcano is responsible for the spike in harmonic tremor. But this does not look like is a noise from the weather. SIL stations where the harmonic tremor rise can be seen. Mið-Mörk, , Eystri-Skógar, Lágur Hvolar (Currently most rise here for some reason), Snæbýli, Saurbær, Ásmúli.” In his comments section, Frimann replied to a query: “Most stations at south of Iceland are showing this spike. But that is the interesting part. Currently I have not recorded a single earthquake, and there is not a bad weather in sight far as I can tell. So I don’t think this is the weather. But I wonder if this is something that is happening at great depth under Katla or Eyjafjallajökull. Because the source seems to be there, but it is quite hard to confirm at the moment as there are no earthquakes at all that can tell me what is going on.”

Ever since Eyja erupted in April and May of 2010,  a close watch has been kept on the larger sister volcano Katla, which has always erupted after Eyja.

Last May, Victoria Gill wrote for the BBC, “Could another Icelandic volcano erupt soon?“
As scientists and air travellers alike keep a close eye on Iceland’s ongoing volcanic eruption, some reports suggest that another, much bigger, volcano could stir in the near future. Katla is Eyjafjallajokull’s more active neighbour, and scientists believe that there may be a link between the two volcanoes. This link has not been physically proven, explains Magnus Tumi Gudmundsson a geophysicist from the University of Iceland. A circumstantial, historical connection “is putting people’s eyes on Katla,” he says. “We know of four Eyjafjallajokull eruptions in the past [dating back to AD 500] and in three out of these four cases, there has been a Katla eruption either at the same time or shortly after. “By shortly, I mean timescales of months to a year. “We consider that the probability of Katla erupting in the near future has increased since Eyjafjallajokull went.” Kathryn Goodenough from the British Geological Survey points out that, as yet, there is no physical explanation for this apparent link.” It seems that when Eyjafjallajokull goes off, Katla tends to follow. “Scientists don’t yet know what the connection is,” she says.

William Cormier wrote for OpEd News two days ago,

International Concern Over Iceland’s Katla Volcano Erupting Soon Is Justified
“It is obvious that many people, especially Europeans, are extremely interested in the status of Iceland’s Katla Volcano and are attempting to find whatever information they can in regard this extremely dangerous volcano. (I’ve noted that Britain is responsible for approximately 50% of these searches using internal site statistics.) Unfortunately, as dangerous as this volcano is and its history of erupting within months of the Eyjafjallajökull Volcano is disturbing. I find it deplorable that the EU’s respective governments are not attempting to prepare their citizens for what I believe is an eventuality, not a probability. Speaking in terms of probability, history would seem to indicate that the Katla Volcano could erupt relatively soon, perhaps before the end of 2010. Again, attempting to find reputable information in regard the Katla Volcano isn’t easy, however some of it is out there, and to be frank, the future in regard Katla doesn’t look promising at all…” Geophysicists at Iceland’s Institute of Earth Sciences say Katla would be locally and globally damaging. Icelandic President Lafur Grímsson has warned Governments around Europe that a significant eruption at the volcano is “coming close”. He said: “We [Iceland] have prepared ” it is high time for European governments and airline authorities all over Europe and the world to start planning for the eventual Katla eruption.”

Time will tell. In the period after the rapture when the Tribulation begins, there will be terrible signs and fearful instances of powerful things happening in the world. A climate-disrupting volcanic eruption is not out of  the realm of possibility. It’s not even out of the realm of possibility of happening before the rapture. It is definitely a time of abnormal events. We are to the point now where any moment we can see something tremendous occur. A volcano, an earthquake, who could forget 2 pound hail falling through roofs in the American Midwest last winter, the earth cracking in Michigan, the sinkhole in Guatemala, the list goes on. Pray for the lost and stay strong, Christian!

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Is the earth cracking up? Follow-up, because the cracking continues and Isaiah predicts it

Posted on by elizabethprata

I’d mentioned in a post I made on June 10 that the spate of mine collapses, oil and gas explosions, and sinkholes, never mind the documented increase in earthquake and volcano activity may be related. It seems to me that the earth feels like it is cracking up. At least, shifting in some dramatic way. I’d said, ” The earth is changing…or moving…or cracking…or something. We have a God who promised to use events in the end time to speak of His Holy power and the need for sinners to repent. We have an earth that has been prophesied to be renewed, from the ground up. In understanding where we are in the end time, I personally believe that the news related to explosions from the earth’s crust and ruptures are crustal shifts presaging the more massive shifts to come.” Those massive shifts culminate in an event that is described in Revelation 16:18-20. Isaiah 24 also speaks to the earth’s cracking open, read to the bottom for those proof-verses.

Today another sinkhole has opened in China. In the original article linked above, I noted that the Chinese have been fearing the sudden outbreak of sinkhole activity lately but today’s article states that there have been 35 since April. That is a high amount of activity if you ask me.

“THIS motorist had a lucky escape when his car almost completely disappeared into a massive pothole. The vehicle came to a screeching halt on a busy road when the sinkhole suddenly appeared in China’s Nanchang City in Jiangxi Province. The force of the accident was enough to cause the car’s airbags to deploy and its bonnet was left wedged into the tarmac. Dozens of sinkholes have been discovered across the country – 35 have appeared since April. It comes after a three-storey building was swallowed by an even bigger sinkhole in Guatemala last month. Sinkholes are formed when surface water dissolves bedrock and the flow continues to erode material underground to form caverns. The crust of earth left on the surface eventually collapses “swallowing” everything on top of it.”

In other interesting underground news, a pipeline unexpectedly broke in Salt Lake City, Utah, spilling 500 barrels into a protected creek and water system. Officials are perplexed as to the reason the pipe broke. The oil is still leaking and the main concern at this point is to prevent the oil from reaching Great Salt Lake.

Oil sits on the shore of a pond in Liberty Park. (G. Frey/Getty Images)

And just today, another mine collapse kills one, this time in Ukraine. In America, the disasters have a human toll behind them. As Tom O’Connor writes for the Kansas City.Com, “Amid the horrific scenes of the BP oil spill, we should not neglect the fact that 11 workers died on the rig when it exploded April 20. Nor should we neglect the daily carnage that workers suffer on the job in America. It’s been a very bad couple of months for worker safety: Seven dead in Washington following the explosion of the Tesoro refinery. Six dead in Connecticut in the Kleen Energy power plant explosion. Twenty-nine dead in West Virginia’s Upper Big Branch Mine disaster. And 11 dead in the Gulf of Mexico oil rig collapse.”

People are becoming increasingly aware of the malfeasance of corporations doing business in the earth at the expense of the toll on human life. Neglected inspections, payoffs, wink wink attitudes toward safety and/or stewardship of the earth’s assets. This greed at the expense of human lives and our quality of life is another condition we are told will exist in spades in the Tribulation:
Look! The wages you failed to pay the workmen who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord Almighty. You have lived on earth in luxury and self-indulgence. You have fattened yourselves in the day of slaughter. You have condemned and murdered innocent men, who were not opposing you. (James 5:4-6)

Isaiah said that the “earth is also defiled under its inhabitants” and we see from recent events how deeply we have defiled it, with our sin and with our waste. And even as I write this, a 7.5 earthquake happened yesterday in Indonesia, and was followed up by another one off Japan, a 6.1 magnitude. Volcano Katla in Iceland, a potentially disruptive volcano, which has historically erupted following the eruption of Eyjafjallajokull (which first erupted April 14). Katla awoke suddenly yesterday and has evidenced 11 earthquakes in 24 hours. Katla is ten times more powerful than Eyja and has the potential to cause tremendous climate change, as in, winter all year long for years at a time.

What exactly is going on, only God knows. We do know what he has shared with us from His word, in His grace and in His mercy, to warn us in advance: things will get a lot worse. Things won’t work any more, and I’m not talking about man-made things like pipes and sewers and electricity etc; I am saying that the sun won’t work. The Earth won’t work. The moon won’t work. The oceans will fail. These things will happen, and can only be caused by the supernatural power of God Himself. It happened before, Joshua saw that the earth stood still and the moon stood still. And God will do it again, cause changes in the earth and the other planetary bodies that only He can do. Has that change begun? Is the earth cracking? Isaiah prophesies that IT WILL crack entirely open.

Isaiah 24 speaks to the earth’s reeling and cracking in several places. The 24th chapter speaks to “The Last Times of the World in General, and of Judah and the Church in Particular:”

Behold, the LORD makes the earth empty and makes it waste, Distorts its surface, And scatters abroad its inhabitants. (Is 24:1)

The earth is also defiled under its inhabitants, Because they have transgressed the laws, Changed the ordinance, Broken the everlasting covenant. Therefore the curse has devoured the earth, (Is 24:5-6)

And the foundations of the earth are shaken. The earth is violently broken, The earth is split open, The earth is shaken exceedingly. The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, And shall totter like a hut; (Isaiah 18b-20)

The earth will crack up. Has that cracking begun? In my opinion, yes. However, as a saved Christian, that question for me is academic one. I am secure in the knowledge of His mercy and saving grace, extended to me through His Son. No man comes to the Father except by Jesus, and I have entered that door. He received me and I am still on my knees in gratitude. At the appropriate moment, He is coming to gather His own to His bosom so that we may be where he is, always and forevermore. That is known in the bible as the rapture and it is found in the books of 1 Cor. 15:35-53 and in 1 Thes. 4:16-18. I do not have to worry about being on a planet that is cracking up, reeling to and fro like a drunkard. You don’t have to worry, either, if you acknowledge that you are a sinner, and turn away from your sins to Jesus as your Savior and Lord! Go through that door, prayer is the beginning. He is waiting with open arms!

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Signs in the sun

Posted on by elizabethprata

The scriptures say that in advance of the rapture and the ensuing Tribulation, “There will be signs in sun and moon and stars, and on the earth dismay among nations, in perplexity at the roaring of the sea and the waves,”

The sun has been interestingly busy lately. Though the sunspot activity has been strangely down, prominences are up. Big ones. The Solar & Heliospheric Observatory, a division of NASA pick of the week states “No less than three prominences erupted over a nine-hour period (Mar. 13-14, 2010) as the STEREO (Behind) spacecraft captured the action in an extreme UV wavelength of light. Prominences, which are cooler clouds of gas tethered to the Sun by magnetic forces, often become unstable and break away out into space. But, it is rare to see three of them erupt in such a short span of time.” [italics mine]

Wow. Three prominences breaking away. Rare. However, just a few weeks later we have this:

The SOHO pick of the week site reported “The largest eruptive prominence observed in years blasted into space (April 13, 2010) and SOHO was lucky enough to have caught a key moment of it. As observed in extreme UV light, the plasma cloud was caught about mid-step in its liftoff above the Sun’s surface. (Ground-based observers says the eruption took about two hours.) It was not obvious what triggered the breakaway, but it may have been associated with a coronal mass ejection (CME). Prominences are cooler clouds of gases that hover above the Sun, tethered there by magnetic forces. Occasionally, as seen here, they break free and blast into space.”

Here is a few-second video of the prominence blasting away from the sun’s limb. It gives a great idea as to the sun’s power. The video is compressed into a few seconds but is actually 19 hours of activity. Start by looking at the sun’s 11 o’clock position.

It’s when the CME enters earth’s atmosphere is when things get hairy. The magnetism from the ejection plays havoc with our electronics. Usually the CMS’s are light enough by the time they hit earth only to give us some vivid Auroras. But if a CME is powerful enough when it hits earth, it would have the same effect as an Electro-magnetic pulse, the effects from a nuclear bomb. All electronics would be zapped.

But back to the actual solar activity lately. The ‘largest one in years’ blasted off from the sun on April, but a week later another huge one blasted away again. Shucks, and they said such things were occasional!

Spaceweather.com reports:
“Another huge prominence blasted away from the sun yesterday, April 19th. The massive tendril of plasma was nearly a quarter the diameter of the sun itself when the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) snapped this picture:”

The eruption catapulted a billion-ton Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) out of the sun’s atmosphere. Good thing it wasn’t aiming for earth. We should feel no effects.

Spaceweather.com source: “The sun is powerful active, and much about how and why it does things stumps astronomers. Back here on earth, Iceland’s active Eyjafjallajokull volcano is famous for its paralyzing ash, which has grounded thousands of planes in Europe and disrupted travel worldwide. Even more amazing, however, is its white-hot lightning:”

” “Seeing this lightning crackle among the exploding lava and ash was the experience of a lifetime,” says Olivier Vandeginste, who took the picture on April 18th from Hvolsvollur, Iceland. It is well known that volcanoes produce lightning, but scientists aren’t sure why.”

Eyjafjallajokull  is a gentle giant compared to her neighbor, Katla. When Katla erupted in 1821 it lasted over a year and caused worldwide famine because the spring and summer simply never came. History has shown that when Eyjafjallajokull erupts, Katla always follows. “Locals Believe Katla Volcano in Iceland Near Eyjafjallajokull Will Erupt in Seven Days” “The earthquake build up since the beginning of the year and subsequent eruptions at Eyjafjallajokull seem to be triggering the larger neighboring volcano, Katla. For the last two days, Katla has shown a dramatic 200% rise in activity. Geophysicists at Iceland’s Institute of Earth Sciences call Katla a vicious volcano that will be locally and globally damaging.”

Another Iceland Volcano To Erupt? Katla Could Be The Worst “The Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajokull has grounded much of international travel to a halt, but if a nearby volcano named Mount Katla should erupt, it has the potential to be many times more devastating, says a Texas A&M University volcanologist who has done research in the area for decades. Jay Miller who has made numerous trips to Iceland over the past 25 years to study the volcanoes there and currently is a research scientist in the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program, says that an eruption from Katla could dwarf anything seen so far from Eyjafjallajokull (pronounced Eye-jaff-jalla-jok-kul). “It’s a much larger volcano, and in the past, we know its eruptions have been much larger, too,” Miller explains.”

The following juxtaposition interested me. The Drudge Report had this Iceland ash cloud photo on the top of the page for over a day recently:

It reminded me of the recent fictional movie 2012, which alleges that the Mayan prophecy of the world ending will come to pass in dramatic and CGI-laden fashion:

I think it is one thing to read in the news about volcanic eruptions, solar disturbances and such, but actually seeing the force, majesty, and fear-inducing, raw power of these things is another. And when you see them, remember that “He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together.” (Col 1:17) Jesus is the One who holds it together, takes it apart, and renews it. (Acts 3:21). Therefore,

“Repent, then, and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped out, that times of refreshing may come from the Lord, and that he may send the Christ, who has been appointed for you—even Jesus.” Acts 3:19-20