Is There Really a BIG ONE?

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Experts maintain that we have to brace ourselves for the BIG ONE--a major earthquake with intensity 7.2. If my memory serves me right, I think I remember reading somewhere that it could go up as high as intensity 9. Well, what's sure is, there will be a BIG ONE any day now, they say.

According to J. Green (2019), when the West Valley Fault finally starts moving, the feared tremor will happen (PhilNews.Ph). The valley fault system moved 4 times in the past 1,400 years. If this is a trend, then it is expected to move again after 400 years--and the latest it moved was about 361 years ago, in the year 1658.

And it's 2019, meaning, we have 39 years left. Or do we? Some experts say (experts are known to scare the hell out of people), there's no way of pinpointing the exact year. It may happen earlier or later. But to be sure, Jerry Velasquez of the United Nations Strategy for Disaster Reduction insists it will happen.

Again, if my memory serves me right, I remember reading somewhere that we've actually been behind schedule. The big one should've happened years before but it hasn't, so it can happen any day or time now, the report said. Some people think the recent tremors that rocked Zambales, Samar and Bataan (happening successively in 3 days) were indications of the big one.

But it's not just the Philippines that has a Big One. Other countries also have dangerous fault lines waiting to go off anytime and cause major quakes. Some experts say there's a big fault line somewhere in California waiting to make a major tectonic plate displacement. So with others in the so-called Pacific Ring of Fire which, besides the US and the Philippines, includes Chile, Japan, Solomon Islands, Antarctica, Mexico, Russia, Canada, Peru and many more.

Why is this?

All these "Big Ones" are reserved in these last days, if we're going to believe what the bible says. The Book of Revelation says there will be major worldwide earthquakes happening in the end times--really Big Ones--timed accurately by God in response to man's extreme rebelliousness. Here's the account:

Then there came flashes of lightning, rumblings, peals of thunder and a severe earthquake. No earthquake like it has ever occurred since mankind has been on earth, so tremendous was the quake. 19 The great city split into three parts, and the cities of the nations collapsed. God remembered Babylon the Great and gave her the cup filled with the wine of the fury of his wrath. 20 Every island fled away and the mountains could not be found. 21 From the sky huge hailstones, each weighing about a hundred pounds,[a] fell on people. And they cursed God on account of the plague of hail, because the plague was so terrible. [Revelation 16]

My theory is that the earthquakes we now experience are really "minor" ones compared to the worldwide BIG ONE scheduled by God in these last days. These minor ones are but warnings to give us a chance to repent and prepare for the big ones which I think will happen simultaneously worldwide. Each earthquake is really a "voice" from God reminding us to take Him seriously this time. Here's how to claim God's promises in the bible. Click here.

Well, nonbelievers will probably just laugh this off and insist that earthquakes are purely accidents of nature that happen several miles deep beneath the earth. No one's controlling them. They're movements of plates and rocks below the earth that just happen. God cannot have anything to do with them, they add. Well, let's see.

However, some major key points in the book of Revelation are happening now while you read this blog, like serious talks about having a one-world government, a one-world religion to end all religious conflicts and wars, the use of microchips embedded in the hand or forehead in lieu of ATMs or credit cards or money paving the way to a cashless world economy, plus electronic personal identification systems.

All these developments (plus the technology of GPS and robotics) fulfill the prophecies in Revelation pointing to these Last Days (being fulfilled right before our very eyes) during which the Anti-Christ will appear and rule--and it's just fascinating how all this coincides with experts' estimates of when the Big Ones are supposed to happen---"any day now."

They're all timed.

So, is there really a Big One? Yup. It's just a matter of time. When exactly, no one knows--just like no one knows when exactly Jesus Christ is returning. You see the pattern? The timing is perfect. They will all happen according to God's time table--nothing will happen ahead of time. God has synchronized everything.

What should we do? Start seriously studying the bible--I suggest you begin with the Gospel according to John, and then study the Gospel according to Luke, Matthew, and Mark--and then the rest of the New Testament. After you're done with the New testament, proceed with the Old Testament. Ask God for wisdom to understand. Then anything God shows you in the bible, do it and live it out everyday.