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Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread":
The question has come in: “Could this truly terrible disaster be the specially designated ‘a great earthquake’ of Revelation 6:12 (KJV):
‘And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake . . .’”?
That particular “great earthquake” is precisely located in the chain of prophetic events that are clearly demarcated in history--it comes at the beginning of “the sixth seal” which in turn is fixed by following the fifth seal which included the persecution of God’s people at the hands of the papacy during the 1260 years of the Dark Ages (vss. 9-11).
The timing of that particular “great earthquake” is specified in the prophetic word as the first of a group of natural and supernatural events which includes the darkening of the sun (May 19, 1780), and the unique event of the “falling of the stars” (November 13, 1833). Jesus pinpointed these events even more closely: “But IN those days, AFTER that tribulation, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light” (Mark 13:24). “In those days” is the 1260
days/years of Daniel’s prophecy (7:25). The actual bloody persecutions tapered off before the precise end of the 1260 years (1798) as Jesus had predicted (“except those days be shortened, there should no flesh be saved,” Matt. 24:33; martyrdoms ended around 1750).
We must remember the trail of the Holy Spirit’s leading through the centuries: thoughtful, consecrated Bible students recognized these “signs” contemporaneously, and knew where they “were” in time.
But for sure this truly horrendous disaster of 125,000 dead shapes up to be the most terrible in known numbers since the Flood of Noah, or at least the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. (The “great earthquake” of Lisbon in 1755 killed about 30,000 people. The known world was stunned then; the whole world is stunned now.) It’s time for the last-days events. God’s people will listen to His Voice.
Be sure to check your e-mail for "Dial Daily Bread" again tomorrow.
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