Earthquakes and Volcanoes in Bible Prophecy :: By Bill Perkins

“…He is the living God and the everlasting King. At His wrath the earth quakes” (Jeremiah 10:10b).

The wrath of God is a scary thing. In 1 Chronicles 21, God’s wrath was abundantly seen when King David disobeyed God and took a census of Israel. As punishment, God sent a pestilence that killed 70,000 Israeli men in one day.

In the future Tribulation, we know that God will pour out His wrath on all those who take the mark of the beast, as well as on those present on the entire earth.

Rev. 14:9, 10 “… “If anyone worships the beast and his image, and receives a mark on his forehead or on his hand, he also will drink of the wine of the wrath of God…”

Rev.16:1 – “And I heard a loud voice from the temple, saying to the angels, ‘Go and pour out the seven bowls of the wrath of God into the earth.’”

Believers living today in the Church Age, thankfully, have already been judged.

1 Thess. 5:9 – “For God has not destined us for wrath, but for obtaining salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ.”

But until we exit this earth and receive our new glorified bodies, we must live on a fallen planet, (Satan’s temporary sinful domain). He is called, “the god of this world” (2 Cor. 2:4); “the ruler of this world” (John 14:30).

And the problems coming from tornadoes, hurricanes, tsunamis and volcanoes fall on both believers and non-believers alike.

But where did all these weather problems come from that we have today? If the earth was good when it was created, these disasters would have had to come about after Adam sinned. It did, and our bad weather is rooted in sin.

Prior to Noah, the earth was so wicked that God decided to, in essence, start over. With the exception of Noah’s family of eight, God destroyed the earth with a GLOBAL flood.

“The water prevailed more and more upon the earth, so that all the high mountains everywhere under the heavens were covered” (Genesis 7:19).

The word translated ‘high” is a little awkward from the Hebrew to English. At first glance in English, it makes us think that the flood waters had to be as high as Mount Everest.

But the word in the Hebrew means “high place.” And in reality, there were no high mountains yet. Prior to the flood, the weather was perfect on a perfectly created planet.

“God saw all that He had made and behold, it was very good” (Genesis 1:31).

“Now no shrub of the field was yet in the earth, and no plant of the field had yet sprouted, for the LORD God had not sent rain upon the earth;… But a mist used to rise from the earth and water the whole surface of the ground” (Genesis 2:5, 6).

Later, when God flooded the earth to deal with sin, the physical ramifications changed the weather. Here’s how:

When God flooded the earth, the Bible says water came from both above AND below the surface of the earth.

Genesis 7:11 “… all the fountains of the great deep burst open, and the floodgates of the sky were opened.”

It took a lot of water to flood this planet. Logically, “fountains” being plural; there were many places around the earth where water burst through the earth’s surface in enormous amounts.

We see these water portals today as volcanoes. Often there is even a lake at the top of the volcano, formed from water below.

Flood water also came from the sky, and some Christian scientists have theorized that, prior to the flood, a huge vapor canopy engulfed the earth. The theory continues that this canopy filtered the sun’s rays and that’s why many people lived so long prior to the flood.

However, other scientists contend that a vapor canopy would have turned the planet into a greenhouse and therefore the water vapor theory, to them, has no credibility.

But regardless of how much came from above the earth, most of the water that flooded the planet came from below.

Genesis 7:19 – “The water prevailed more and more upon the earth, so that all the high mountains everywhere under the heavens were covered.”

So the question is this: How did the water cover the “high” mountains?

The answer is that there were no extremely high mountains at the time of the flood. The high mountains we have today came after the initial flooding of the earth, as we will see later in this article

The first thing to realize is that over 70 percent of the earth is covered with water.

If the earth’s surface was spread out perfectly flat, there’s enough water in the oceans to cover the globe to a depth of about two miles!

When the earth was flooded from below, the tremendous amount of sediment released began to settle on the bottom. The heaviest particles settled first, then the next heaviest, continuing until the lightest dirt particles/sediment settled on top.

The result is that today, all over the earth where there is a visible cutaway of a mountain, you can easily see these layers. This is clearly seen in the picture below where the light chalky sediment is the top layer and the heaviest particles are at the bottom.

Evolutionists say these layers were laid down over millions of years. Of course they can’t explain why the heaviest layers are at the bottom and the lightest layers are at the top.

But there are two “layerings” found all over the planet. This is because after the earth was flooded and the first horizontal layers were formed, God then moved the ground vertically to make the mountains and valleys.

“You covered [the earth] with the deep as with a garment; The waters were standing above the mountains. At Your rebuke they fled. At the sound of Your thunder they hurried away. The mountains rose; the valleys sank down to the place which You established for them. You set a boundary that they may not pass over, so that they will not return to cover the earth” (Psalm 104:6-9).

“Whatever the LORD pleases, He does, in heaven and in earth, in the seas and in all deeps” (Psalm. 135:6).

So the newly laid down horizontal layers were pushed up, churning up the dirt in the water a second time. As would be expected, this second layering has the heaviest particles forming the bottom layers and the lightest layers forming the top layers—perfectly matching the Genesis flood story. Gray stone was at the bottom is the original creation bedrock. On top of the original creation rock, the angled layers are the layers formed from the “flooding from below.”

Originally these layers were laid down horizontally, but were pushed up at an angle when God “raised the mountains and lowered the valleys.”As the mountains were raised, it caused more turbulence in the water, which in turn, caused additional settling of layers. In the beginning, God created the earth, the original earth. Then God flooded the earth from below. Lots of dirt, rocks and sediment came up with the water from below.

Layers on top of the original earth were laid down horizontally from all that turbulence and debris as the water poured through the volcano portals to flood the earth. This is confirmed by the fact that the layers at the bottom have the heaviest particles and the layers at the top the lightest.

But then God “raised mountains and lowered the valleys.” This again caused a tremendous amount of “dirty water and sediment” to be stirred up.  And this sediment again settled to the bottom forming new  layers.

Isn’t it amazing that the secular geological display at the Grand Canyon confirms the biblical account of the worldwide flood about 5000 years ago?

Fast-forwarding to today, the Bible says the earth will never again be flooded, sealed with the rainbow in the sky. This is referred to as the “Noahic Covenant.”

“… never again shall the water become a flood to destroy all flesh. When the bow is in the cloud, then I will look upon it, to remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth” (Genesis 9:15b, 16).

But earthquakes are a different story. The biggest earthquake is still in the future.

Rev.16:18 – “And there were flashes of lightning and sounds and peals of thunder; and there was a great earthquake, such as there had not been since man came to be upon the earth, so great an earthquake was it, and so mighty.”

Rev.16:20 – “And every island fled away, and the mountains were not found.”

Wow! In the future there is ONE earthquake bigger than any earthquake that has ever happened on earth. God will flatten the steep mountains. No wonder men will be weak-kneed as they see the wrath of God on full display.

But all things work together ultimately for believers. The high and steep mountains from Noah’s flood cause irregular wind patterns on the earth. As the earth turns, the irregular and high mountains cause abnormal wind currents, which account for our weather problems today.

But when all the steep mountains are reduced to rolling hills from that HUGE earthquake, the world’s weather will change also—back to what it was like before the flood.

Therefore, when Jesus returns to reign on the earth as King of kings, there will be no worries of tornadoes, tsunamis and hurricanes.

The Big Volcano 

There have been several earthquakes in the Yellowstone Park area  through the years, and they’re increasing in frequency in the last few decades.

It turns out that there is, today, one GIGANTIC volcano under Yellowstone National Park. It’s not noticeable too much from the ground because of its size. The walls are miles apart and appear only as distant mountains. This volcano has had three massive explosions in the past…and geologists have found the remains of the debris fields of each eruption.

The largest Yellowstone explosion carried ash and debris 1500 miles, to Canada, Mexico and all the way to Mississippi. I’m not trying to be “Doom-and-gloom, the end is near.” But it is interesting that we’re probably in that window of the expected 4 fourth Yellowstone volcanic explosion, and maybe even past due!

And since we know that huge earthquakes ARE part of the Tribulation judgments, it is logical this COULD be part of the coming judgments.

Luke 21:11 – “And there will be great earthquakes, and in various places plagues and famines; and there will be terrors and great signs from heaven.”

And if the Tribulation is near, so is the Rapture. Just saying…

The Designed Decline of Public Education :: By Bill Perkins

There comes a time when you have to call a spade a spade. Now is one of those times.

Our public schools are dead in the water. ‘going on? Are they so bad they aren’t even salvageable?

We’ll start by taking a quick look back a few years at some of the PUBLISHED goals of the Communists to see how they’re doing today.

The following are excerpts taken from the Congressional Record, Appendix, pp. A34-35, of the House of Representatives, January 10, 1963.

In an effort to warn Americans of the Communist agenda in America, Congressman Herlong, from Florida, read 45 Current Communist Goals taken from the book The Naked Communist by Cleon Skousen. Published Communist Goals: (1963):

Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind.

Do away with all loyalty oaths.

Capture one or both political parties in the U.S.

Get control of the schools. Get control of teachers’ associations. Put the party line in textbooks.

Infiltrate the press.

Gain control of key positions in radio, TV and motion pictures.

Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio and TV.

Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as “normal, natural and healthy.”

Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with social religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity that does not need a “religious crutch.”

Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in schools on the grounds that it violates the principle of “separation of church and state.”

Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American History
Infiltrate and gain control of more unions.

Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.
Internationalize the Panama Canal.

Give the World Court jurisdiction over the nations and individuals alike.
Reading that list made the hairs on my neck stand up.

It seems that while America was building the world’s most capable military machine to defeat vocal communist threats of world domination, we allowed our government, schools, corporations and even churches to be taken over by liberal activists pushing communist goals.

They raised people up from the inside. Once there, they would work to destroy the American constitution by gradually installing the Communist agenda within our legal system and separate branches of government.
Sounds hard to believe. But consider what’s in the Ten Planks of the Communist Manifesto, written by Karl Marx in 1848:

1) Abolition of private property.

2) A heavily progressive and graduated income tax.

3) Abolition of all rights of inheritance.

4) Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels (i.e. recent proposals to heavily tax wealthy citizens who want to leave the U.S. because of high taxation).

5) A central national bank with state capital and exclusive monopoly.

6) Centralization of communication and transportation overseen by the government.

7) Factories and major production owned by government. Land cultivation controlled by government.

8) Equal rights and pay in labor for male and female.

9) Government control of population distribution around the country.

10) Free education for all children in government schools. Combine education with industrial production.
It seems by using ole Karl’s definition, we ARE a communist nation! Someone once said, “None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.”

How did they get so far, so fast, so easily? Our public schools are the biggest contribution to our nation’s problems.

Public education in America began by seeking God as the purveyor of knowledge. Our first universities, Harvard, Princeton, Yale, etc., were all seminaries. They knew the Bible was the key to knowledge.

“The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge” (Proverbs 1:7).

If the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, how much can a child learn if God is not an integral part of the education?

“Unless the LORD builds the house, they labor in vain who build it” (Psalm 127:1).
The Bible says God’s Word is the key to prosperity.

“But his delight is in the law of the LORD, and in His law he meditates day and night. And he will be like a tree firmly planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither; and in whatever he does, he prospers.” (Psalm 1:2-3)

With all the recent school shootings we’re all understandably concerned about school safety. But, more importantly, the spiritual foundations of kids that are at risk. Are we trading this life for the next?

With those kind of priorities we shouldn’t be shocked to see how many people will take the mark of the beast to live a little longer on this earth only to spend eternity in the black fires of hell.

Eternity is a long time. There is a God. There is a heaven and a hell. But kids are not taught that anymore and we’re now paying the price.

We’ve lost our God-centered schools to the godless principles of the liberal and communist agenda. They got control of our schools and have been cranking out children without virtue by the millions every year.

As the greatest generation and the baby boomers die out, they are replaced primarily by youth with no understanding of capitalism, no understanding of the constitution, no understanding of the Bible and therefore no understanding of their future.

Consider These Facts:

Thirty million adult Americans who attended public school cannot read this sentence or fill out a job application.
Fifty percent of school kids smoke, do drugs or drink alcohol.

Birth control pills are offered to any student at any time without parental notification.

Seventy percent of all college freshmen have to take remedial classes.

School kids are forbidden by law to name the name of Jesus in school. “Mohammad” is okay, as is “Buddha.”

Public schools are run by teachers of whom 90% vote as Democrats.

Eighty percent of schools admit to cheating to achieve more federal funding.

Values Clarification is taught in public schools teaching that every child must make up his or her own values. (By taking the Bible out as a measuring stick they can insert homosexuality, free sex, abortion, etc.)

Most videos shown in sex education classes are so graphic and gross that if they were found in the possession of a convicted sex offender, they would be sent back to prison for possession of pornography.

Planned Parenthood has access to enter every public school in America, but the Bible is banned.

“How blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand in the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers!” (Psalm 1:1)

If God is not in our schools then our kids are walking in the counsel of the wicked, standing in the path of sinners, and sitting in the seat of scoffers.

Charles Stanley said, “When you send a child into a public school today, you’re sending them into a pagan society.”
The hard truth is that if our schools are NOT for God, then they ARE for Satan. And the Bible warns us that Satan brings us the opposite of a blessing.

“ The wicked are not so, but they are like chaff which the wind drives away. Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous. For the LORD knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish” (Psalm 1:4-6).

Is this what we want for our children? No, but it’s what we’re getting.

If your children or grandchildren are in a public school, Satan has them right where he wants them.

It’s interesting that most people rate schools as a whole with a “D” while they rate their own local school as an “A” or “B.” But the Bible says a school is an “F” if God isn’t there.