Earthquakes, tsunamis, and tides of prayers

By Jen Shroder

With Monday's 8.7 earthquake, a foretold pattern is emerging.

Remember last Christmas, a swelling of songs, worship and prayers, a sweet incense unto God, when the whole earth was enveloped in the love and focus of Christ.

Monday morning, the day after Christmas, the world was back in business. The spiritual lift that had been growing for weeks was suddenly over. The huge symphony of the prayers of the saints ceases, returning to the small but steady stream of prayers continually flowing. The light of the world's response to God dims, and the anger of the prince of this world waxed.

Abortion, pornography, the ACLU, People for the American Way, federal courts ruling children should bow down and pray to Allah or cast spells as witches in public school because "their minds are still free" (so are the minds of slaves). Gays and lesbians paid to induce our children in public school, the darkness comes back with a vengeance. The earth rocks with revulsion at the churning of it all.

Earthquake.

Tsunami.

Death.

Destruction.

Coincidence?

Easter. Another call to saints and the faithful to gather together and pray, the sweet incense is felt all over the world, spreading a warmth, a glow, a song and praise to God. Alter calls, salvation, the strength and the power of God pours out in response to the gathering of saints and a peace is felt throughout the world.

Monday morning, the wave of darkness comes crashing back as the prayers of the saints diminishes and Hollywood begins churning out films of gyrating idols once again. The baby butchery mill grinds back into action...how many babies have been shredded apart since 9:00 EST? Meanwhile, Terri Schiavo is slowly starving to death as the courts have begun their slaughter of the disabled, the weak, and the helpless.

Earthquake.

Tsunami? Not this time, though reports of devastation are still coming in from the 8.7 quake. Again, the day after worldwide prayer.

Should we stop praying? Hardly. With our sincere prayer and worship, God has granted us time from what is coming.

If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

He warned us but most of us won't listen.

But if ye turn away, and forsake my statutes and my commandments, which I have set before you, and shall go and serve other gods, and worship them.

Then will I pluck them up by the roots out of my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have sanctified for my name, will I cast out of my sight, and will make it [to be] a proverb and a byword among all nations. (2 Ch 7)

In Revelation, God said there would be dark things coming out of the sea. Everyone believes that to mean rising out of the multitudes, from a sea of people if you will. Was that all God meant?

Strange things have been happening with the sea as principalities swirl beneath it. No one has ever offered a definitive answer to the black water mystery off the coast of Florida in 2002, though many scientists were brought in to examine it.

Howie Grimm, 42, a fisherman since he was 15, insisted the black water isn't red tide.

"It's something totally different from anything I've seen," Grimm said. "We have to figure out what it is. There's no fish in it. It's like dead water."

Today scientists are baffled as to why there is not a tsunami. Reports are coming in that there was a separation under the sea. But we now have huge earthquakes the day after Christmas and Easter. For all of Christian arguments about these two holidays, one thing is clear, there are a lot of prayers offered up during those days, prayer, songs and worship to God. The intervention of the saints is answered by God, but Christ warned us these things must come to pass and to be ready:

"And you shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that you be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. And these are the beginning of sorrows." (Matthew 24:6-8)

These sorrows will be felt all over the world. America will not be spared. If you don't know your Savior, you might want to look Him up. He has such a passion for you, but if you reject Him... well...

As Christ wept for the Pharisees who rejected Him, He asked,

"How will you escape the fires of hell?"

© Jen Shroder