Earthquakes

Two days after a magnitude 7.0-earthquake struck China’s  Sichuan province, residents are still awaiting rescue as well as essentials like  drinking water, food, medicine and tents. The epicenter of the earthquake was in  Lushan, a rural county 160 km southwest of the provincial capital, Chengdu.  China’s state-run Xinhua News Agency quotes  local officials as saying that there have been at least 192 deaths,  more than 11,000 injured and that 23 people remain missing. However, confirming  death tolls and damage to buildings has proved difficult, because police have  been stopping both foreign and Chinese media from entering Lushan county from  the nearby city of Ya’an.

Source: Time World

Tokyo,

A major 7.2-magnitude earthquake struck off northern Japan today, seismologists said, but no tsunami warning was issued.

The quake hit at 0305 GMT near the Russian-administered Kuril island chain, 1,490 kilometres north of Tokyo, the US Geological Survey said. It was located 122 km deep.

The quake rocked the towns in the northernmost Japanese prefecture of Hokkaido.

“We have received no reports of damage so far,” a spokesman at the Hokkaido police said, adding that there were no reports of injuries.

Source: Business Line

Suspected Meteor Lights Up Sky Above Argentina

Thousands of residents of the Argentine city of Santiago del Estero in the early hours of Sunday morning caught a glimpse of a suspected meteor that lit up the sky above the city. The event took place at about 3:20 AM (local time). Argentine authorities believe the spectacular fireball was caused by a meteor entering the earth’s atmosphere and disintegrating. Some witnesses reported to local newspapers that they felt a slight tremor soon after seeing the meteorite.

Source: NTD TV

Pestilence

Bird flu turned fatal for a 52- year-old Shanghai woman whose lungs became so damaged that she began to suffocate, causing her vital organs to rapidly shut down, doctors in China said.

The retiree became ill March 27, with a fever that soared as high as 40.6 degrees Celsius (105.1 Fahrenheit), doctors at Huashan Hospital in Shanghai wrote in a report on the case in the journal Emerging Microbes & Infections. Treatment with intravenous antibiotics, steroids, antibody therapy, and mechanical ventilation failed to help, and she died April 3.

Source: Bloomberg

BEIJING, April 21 (Xinhua) — During the 24-hour period ending at 4 p.m. on Sunday, China confirmed six new cases of human H7N9 avian influenza, including five in Zhejiang and one in Jiangsu. The National Health and Family Planning Commission said in its daily update on H7N9 cases that a total of 102 H7N9 cases have been reported in China, including 20 that have ended in death.

Of the total, 12 H7N9 patients have been discharged from hospitals after receiving treatment, and the other 70 patients are being treated in designated hospitals, according to the commission. A total of 33 cases, including 11 that have ended in death, have been reported in Shanghai. Twenty-four cases, including three deaths, have been reported in Jiangsu Province, and 38 cases, including five deaths, in Zhejiang Province. Anhui Province has reported three cases, with one ending in death. Beijing has reported one case and three have been reported in Henan Province.

Source: China News

My Comment:

With the increase in earthquakes, diseases, lawlessness/murders, sunspots, and christian persecution, one would have to be pretty blind to not see that even now Jesus tells us he’s near.

Luke 21:11

There will be great earthquakes, and in various places famines and pestilences. And there will be terrors and great signs from heaven.

Times are even worse than they were a few months ago, where these “signs of the end” God gave us, are increasing in strength, and becoming more frequent.

2 Timothy 3:1-4

But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,

What I’ve posted in this article is only a small fraction of what’s occurring now, and what is yet to come.

Matthew 24:21-22

For then there will be great tribulation, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, and never will be. And if those days had not been cut short, no human being would be saved. But for the sake of the elect those days will be cut short.

Stay awake! We must remain strong in Jesus, putting on the armor of God, praying, preaching His Word and awaiting Our King!

Matthew 24:42-44

Therefore, stay awake, for you do not know on what day your Lord is coming. But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what part of the night the thief was coming, he would have stayed awake and would not have let his house be broken into. Therefore you also must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.

Written by: Gloria