Michael G. Mickey: "Ahh! Run!" or possibly "Yay!"

I have a hard time knowing how people who are awaiting the end times actually feel about it. Some are ready to go up heaven's chimney, no doubt. But I am having a hard time reading Michael Mickey's "The World is Going to End," which is at Bible Prophecy Today.

It isn't the first of its kind to be seen by me in the aftermath of destructive earthquakes that have struck Haiti, Chile and Turkey to name a few recently, but an Associated Press article on the topic of global earthquake activity indicates that what's going on of late is "probably just coincidence".

Coincidence? I highly doubt it.

OK. We have an extraordinary claim, folks. The earthquakes that we have seen in the last few weeks are causally linked. Let's see the correspondingly extraordinary evidence.

Jesus Christ said of the last days, as recorded in Matthew 24:7, Mark 13:8, and Luke 21:11, great earthquakes in diverse places would play a recurring role in demonstrating to believers the time of His return was drawing near, along with famines, pestilences, nation rising against nation and more. I'd be remiss not to point out that the news of our world today is rife with evidence of Christ's return drawing near, to the extent I want to caution everyone who reads these words against believing any of these indicators to be the product of mere coincidence.

Boy, they sure don't make prophecies like they used to. Oh, wait actually they do. Badly.

There have been earthquakes, famines, pestilences, and war throughout human history. Every moment of every day since always has been packed like crazy with all sorts of unpleasantness. A good prophecy would tell us exactly where, when and what magnitude the damned earthquake was going to be. But every end-of-the-worlder since Jesus last set foot on this planet has looked around and said, "See? See?" What makes this time so different?

Logically, even if those who claim earthquake activity isn't rising around the world are correct (and I don't believe they are based on information I've read), the impact earthquakes are going to have on mankind is going to increase all the time from this point forward, highlighting the accuracy of Christ's end times prophecy on this topic.

Listen, we expect clusters of random events. It's the nature of random. And yes, growing populations in disaster-prone areas (a point he makes that I really just didn't have the heart to copy and paste), will cause future earthquakes and disasters to be more deadly. But this doesn't mean that someone predicted it. Again, you could have looked out the window at any point in history and seen the disasters befalling humanity constantly. This is just how these things go. With few exceptions, the global population has been rising since the arrival of agriculture. I don't see how even more deadly earthquakes is anything but more of the same.

Sorry. I just needed to say that.

I am still working on my review of Brannon Howse's hate-a-palooza. It will come out in a while, I think. Maybe in podcast form. We'll see. I'm just generally swamped right now.

HJ