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The Solution to Whatever Threat Awaits

It’s early in the morning here in the Ozarks and unusually warm for mid-January, but this has been an unusual winter so far. Still, I enjoy this kind of morning because along with the unseasonal temperature, there’s a fog hanging outside – it’s quite damp and raw – not unpleasantly so, and it’s inexplicably quiet. Maybe this is the calm before the proverbial storm, who knows? We’ve all been hearing the incessant beat of war drums for some time now, the president has even unleashed the war hounds, albeit half-heartedly (thank God), in Venezuela and keeps threatening to wreak havoc in Iran, but as of this writing no bombs nor missiles have been launched there. As for myself, I much prefer the eerie quiet of a foggy January morning in the Ozarks over what could otherwise be happening in some places.

Then there’s the ubiquitous threat of earthquakes and volcanoes – especially volcanoes – which have become a daily part of our lives. There’s a new one, Mount Mayon in the Philippines, that has awakened and it seems to be particularly ominous, at least according to the press it’s getting. There are others, and quite a few of them; Semeru in Indonesia, Mexico’s Popocatepetl, Taal in the Philippines, Aso (Japan), Hayli Gubbi (Ethiopia), Etna (Italy), and many, many more. There are a couple of big ones on the Kamchatka Peninsula of Russia that are firing off, and lest we forget, Vesuvius and the ominous Campi Flegrei, both within a few miles of each other in Italy are increasingly rumbling to life – either or both of these could adversely influence the whole world’s climate for an extended period if they were to have significant eruptions – especially Campi Flegrei the super volcano. In addition to the climate catastrophe threat, if Vesuvius and Flegrei both were to blow at the same time, there’s a chance that hundreds of thousands, maybe even several million people could be vaporized instantly!

As if the geological threat of volcanoes wasn’t enough, many places in the world are currently being deluged with severe flooding and others with unheard-of snowfalls. Some scientists are theorizing that the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Current (AMOC) which, among other things, is responsible for the Gulf Stream which helps to moderate the climate of Eastern North America and Western Europe, might be significantly weakening. This would be nothing short of catastrophic for a European continent – especially without Nordstream gas lines from Russia. If I were Merz, Starmer, or Macron, I’d be speaking to Vladimir Putin on a whole ‘nuther level as far as their bellicose attitudes have been. Those pipelines could be restored, and with less hostility and more amicable overtures, Russia might be willing to forgive some of their lunacy and help Europe stay unglaciated during the absence of a Gulf Stream. Do not look to western energy conglomerates for help – those guys could not care less if the European continent freezes if keeping them alive threatens profits. That’s why the pipelines were blown up in the first place, and everyone knows it.

As far as warnings go, we have had prophecies in the Bible from hundreds, maybe thousands of years ago which all point to some horrific times to come upon the earth, especially as the age of the human being winds down. There are lots of people who try their best to decipher and interpret Bible prophecy, but I really don’t believe any one of them possesses the gift to accurately nail them all down. Nor do I believe anyone will – most of the prophecies will be fulfilled and only discerned to be so as they happen – for many reasons, but mostly because of media narratives and or popularly accepted notions that have dubious origins.

One example of what I’m talking about is – and it’s really a big one – that the “return” of “Israel” to the holy land signifies the beginnings of fulfilled prophecy. I remember when I was a kid someone came up with an erroneous interpretation of the fig tree starting to leaf out as being the restoration of Israel by the “Jews”. If one were to say, actually believe what Jesus Christ, the greatest Prophet of all time, said, those people who have moved into the holy land are not Jews, i.e., descendants of Jacob. The people who occupy the geographical nation of Israel are descendants of Eastern European peoples who have nothing to do with Abraham, except that they have arrogated to themselves the identity of the Jew. I’ve heard that DNA tests are not allowed in Israel for fear of revealing this. Since the modern-day inception of “Israel”, all Israeli leaders have changed their names from whatever European monikers they were born with to names that sound Hebraic. For example, the Polish Benjamin Netanyahu’s name was Benzion Mileikowski. The people who occupy Israel today are not Jewish! Therefore, any interpretation of Biblical prophecy that is based on “the children of Abraham” “returning” to the holy land, cannot be viable and that disposes of most “preachers'” interpretations. As stated, the truth (of the occupants of Israel not being Jews) comes from none other than Jesus Christ Himself!

From scripture, it is obvious the people who occupy the land that was once promised to “God’s people”, as Jesus made perfectly clear, are not Jews. [Revelation 3:9]: “9 Indeed I will make those of the synagogue of Satan, who say they are Jews and are not, but lie —indeed I will make them come and worship before your feet, and to know that I have loved you”. This mistaken belief also negates current interpretations of other prophecies such as the one that refers to the Gentiles trampling the outer court [Revelations 11:12]:”But leave out the court which is outside the temple, and do not measure it, for it has been given to the Gentiles. And they will tread the holy city underfoot for forty-two months.” If one were to assume the folks over there who call themselves Jews are thus, this would seem to omit them from the Gentiles, but the fact is the people who call themselves Jews are not Jews at all, so this part about the Gentiles is referring to them treading the Holy City underfoot.

The above examples were used only to demonstrate how people, especially those who presume to be preachers, get interpretation of prophecy wrong from the “git go”, so just imagine how many others are wrong too. Then it becomes pretty easy to see just how difficult it really is to figure it all out. The truth is not too many of us have any idea of how things are going to play out, but there is one thing that will never be wrong, and it cannot be. If we place our trust in the Son of God, Jesus Christ, then no matter what happens – no matter how things develop from here on out – we have nothing to worry about for we have His mighty hand of protection over us.

This post is not saying things won’t get really bad and that we won’t come to a bad “end” in this life, but it is saying that once this stage of our existence is finished and we get through that narrow gate, our problems are over and at last we will be free to enjoy true happiness for all of eternity. Even if we have to go through some tough times before this life is over, He has promised that He will be with us and never forsake us through it all. I don’t know about anyone else, but I can’t think of a better companion to be with me, even if my end happens to be in a major volcanic eruption or if I have to get washed away in a flood, I know He’ll be there with me, and that’s all I need to understand.

The worries of this world grow more and more ominous as we near the end. There are certainly wars and rumors of wars, earthquakes, famines, and other dark threats to humankind. That is precisely the way the enemy wants us to feel. He wants us to lose hope, give in to fear of horrible things happening, and even though this post mentions a lot of them, the bottom line here is that, yes there may well be some tough times ahead, but with our hearts and minds set on Jesus Christ, we need not fear what might happen. He knew these things would come about – He warned us of them – but His message is that we have hope as long as we hold onto Him. We might see the dark things coming, but we as Christian believers have no reason to fear them – in fact if we do, we’re playing into the enemy’s plan. Conversely, if we refuse to fear the things that are coming, we can have victory over him.

It is my sincerest hope that the reader will take away a message of hope from this post. Jesus is not delaying His return for no good reason. He awaits the completion of His harvest and none of us knows when that will be. We have no idea of who that last person will be to accept the eternal life that Jesus so graciously offers, but when it happens, things will be finished here. Stop worrying so much about what else you might be able to accomplish here as far as worldly achievements go, for everything here will be burned up (in volcanic eruptions?) and the only thing that will remain will be our record of service to Him. Get on the right side of Jesus Christ while there is time, it’s growing short.

May the blessings of the Almighty Father find us and be upon us as our time here is ended.

MK

The Fiery Voice of the Mountains Calls to Us

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Folks there’s something afoot. Or if you’re willing to suffer a bad pun – underfoot. I’ve been watching some geology news sites, but you don’t have to get every expert’s opinion to get a rudimentary understanding of the incredible contortions the earth is undergoing right now. Since January there have been something like 65 volcanic eruptions from 58 different volcanoes – imagine that! Just in one year, and some of them have been extraordinarily violent. A couple of weeks ago that one in Ethiopia, Hayli Gubbi, erupted; a volcano that had been previously classified as extinct! In scientific geological classifications that means for all intents and purposes – dead. That thing cut loose with a tremendous eruption for the first time in recorded human history after sleeping some 12,000 years – totally unexpectedly.

I’ve mentioned in other posts about the super volcano Campi Flegri showing signs of stirring to life. That one is supposedly capable of serious earth-threatening eruptions and there are about three million people in and around the danger zone. That’s only the people in the immediate area of threat, but if it launches a super eruption, who knows what kind of threat it poses to all of the planet? Campi Flegri sits within a few kilometers of Mount Vesuvius, the big one that wiped out Pompeii and Herculaneum back in 79 A.D. Scientists are now speculating – with good evidence – that both Vesuvius and Campi Flegri are connected in their underground magma plumbing, and there’s evidence that Flegri and Vesuvius have erupted simultaneously in the past, and they think both share a capacious magma chamber so if either of them goes off, there might be a twofer. That would undoubtedly take out the whole area, including the approximately three million people living in and around Naples!

Volcanoes are classified according to their potential for explosive eruptions, presumably based on prior eruptive activity. The scale used is expressed in the volume of material they eject, and they use many inputs to arrive at this. It’s called the Volcanic Explosivity Index (VEI)and there are charts to show just how potent their past eruptions have been. The eruption power is calculated using the presumed volume of ejecta and that comes from studying the land strata around the volcano, sometimes the material, or tephra, is even found in other countries even around the world if the eruption was powerful enough. The tuft from given volcanoes has some kind of signature elemental composition so it can be identified as to where it came from.

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Using the above chart, you can see that Mt. Saint Helen’s 1980 eruption was classified as a VEI 5, so even though it was colossal to see on video, it’s sort of minor compared to a super volcano like Yellowstone – or Campi Flegri. Campi Flegri is really the one that scientists are concerned about as of now due to the activity – earthquakes, steam vents, and gas content being released from the (growing) number of fumaroles indicate that an eruption may be in the offing sometime soon. The lives of potentially millions of people could be at risk if it goes off in a super eruption. There is the possibility that it might erupt in some less explosive event, say a minor eruption, or even a VEI 1 (notice on the chart VEI 1 is described as “gentle”???), but any eruption at all would threaten hundreds of thousands of people, especially if there was no “warning”.

As far as a warning goes, I can’t think of anything else the Flegrean Fields could possible do, short of announcing it’s intention over a loudspeaker of the precise moment of eruption. Everything a restless volcano can do to indicate an impending eruptive event has been done. Precursory activity including melting roads, buildings so hot they burn your hand, constant earthquake tremors cracking walls and ceilings – all have been going on for a while now. Authorities have understandably been reluctant to sound the evacuation alarm – especially when they have done so in past years when the ground uplift became extreme but nothing happened. Residents left and went to other places only to see that after a while the subsidence reversed and nothing happened. This is the danger of the “boy who cried wolf” attitude of the folks who live there and most of them are willing to gamble that it will once again be a false alarm. But what if it ain’t?

If there is a super eruption at Campi Flegri that kills hundreds of thousands of people, the history books (assuming that the cataclysm doesn’t wipe out humanity – ash clouds creating volcanic winter, etc.) will no doubt be replete with accusations that no one gave the people any warning, or that folks just didn’t understand the magnitude of the threat. Considering the status of events in and around Pozzuoli and the Bay of Naples with the extreme and rapid rate of land rise – there’s actually some areas of boiling water in the bay – and repeated earthquakes, folks, especially folks with kids, need to consider the possibility of existence in some other place. Vesuvius has already taught lessons in Pompeii and Herculaneum of what it can do, but if Flegrei bangs out a super eruption, it’s going to make Vesuvius’ 79 AD event look “gentle”.

There are other considerations regarding all of the volcanoes erupting in the world recently. Maybe the Almighty God has finally decided to deal with a human race that has completely turned away from Him. We are told in the Bible that this age of mankind will end in fire. [2Peter 3:7]:“But the heavens and the earth which are now preserved by the same word, are reserved for fire until the day of judgment and [b]perdition of ungodly men.” and again in verse 10: But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will melt with fervent heat; both the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up. and verse 12: looking for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be dissolved, being on fire, and the elements will melt with fervent heat?

Peter obviously had been foretold of the coming end of humanity and the very world we live on for he quite plainly said that the world would end in fire. With the simultaneous eruptive activity of all the volcanoes, that might just be the plan. It’s still hard to imagine the heavens being dissolved, but he’s talking about the physical heaven, the sky, rather than the Spiritual Heaven which will never be ended.

When you get time, research the Siberian Traps, a time in geologic history during the Permian/Triassic boundary when the whole world was almost emptied of all life due to monstrous volcano activity in Siberia. The event lasted for two million years! Volcanoes can end the world in a cataclysmic holocaust, and it may just be getting started. This might indeed be the way God chooses to disrupt evil and put an end to a world which has chosen to try to exist without Him.

This old hillbilly has made his choice. [Joshua 24:15]: “And if it seems evil to you to serve the Lord, choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the river, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”

No matter how ominous the threat(s) we face in this life – wars, earthquakes, floods, or even these horrible volcanoes – such dire events need be of little consequence to those of us who follow Jesus Christ, for He alone is able to preserve us. We might come to a nasty end on this side, but when we walk through that glorious door, He will be standing there smiling to welcome us to our real home, the one He prepared for us before human time began. He will tell His own [Matthew 25:34: “Then the King will say to those on His right hand, ‘Come, you blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: ” And for those of us who believe, we have nothing at all to fear, He already conquered death, so even though in this upside down life we’re conditioned to believe we should fear it, it is not a threat to us.

There are a lot of terrible things happening in the world around us – the prophets told us it would be this way; Jesus and the apostles said these days would come upon us. Do not be alarmed nor afraid. When Jesus Christ has your back, you’re going to be ok, just keep the faith; spread the Word – He is coming back (I believe very soon), so be ready. Bring as many with you as will come, right now that’s our main focus: [Matthew 9:37,38]: “Then He said to His disciples, “The harvest truly is plentiful, but the laborers are few. Therefore, pray the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into His harvest.” He’s sending us right now. We gotta be those laborers! Forget worldly pursuits and everything else – time is short! The mountains are starting to bubble up. Let’s find as many of His sheep as we can round up. Share this post anywhere you think it might do some good.

May the blessings of the Almighty Father find and keep us.

MK

Climate Changes Drastically With Evil in the Air

Today is May 29 and it’s really cool outside, at least here in the Ozarks. I haven’t heard from any official sources, but from the news about all the volcanoes going off around the world, I wouldn’t be surprised if the cool weather is tied to them. There was a year back in 1816 when it stayed cold all summer because of a huge eruption of the volcano Mount Tambora in Indonesia. In fact, they call it the year without a summer, and there have been books written about it. If one big eruption can cause an extremely cold summer, then it seems like a bunch of smaller eruptions could cause some cooler conditions too. What’s worrisome to me is that at least one super volcano is acting up – Campi Flegrei in Italy – and if it does a catastrophic eruption like it has in the past, not only will several million people be in danger around the area, but with the climate already on the cool side, we might be in for another ice age!

Another event that scientists say could cause global cooling is a nuclear war. For all of my years on this earth, we’ve lived in the shadow of the threat of nuclear war, and the threat is growing more and more ominous as western leaders are coming to understand that this world they’ve imagined themselves to control is slipping away from them. Are they crazy enough to pull that trigger? Who knows?

New institutions of control are being developed – like some huge project down in Abilene, Texas where TPTB are building a technical intelligence center where all the data on everything and everyone will be housed. With this new headquarters, it’s my opinion the institution of global slavery is planned to be total. As of right now they are claiming it to be some sort of great scientific advancement so that AI can be used to control everything, but call me skeptical – the only part science is playing in this is to help make human enslavement possible.

What’s going on in the world today is nothing new, evil people doing the bidding of Satan have tried to enslave mankind since our age began. Every major “scientific” advancement, when not developed to kill people, has invariably turned out to be another step in the direction of totally eliminating human freedom which the devil hates. For whatever reason, he chose a place and a people from which to radiate hatred, racism, cruelty, and every other characteristic that defines his agenda and it seems to be a small country in the Middle East. The people in control of that little nation – who, incidentally, are not the people they claim to be – are right now in the process of committing one of the most repugnant atrocities the world has ever witnessed. Thanks to subservience to Satan, their allies control almost all of the banks and financial systems of the world, so world governments are reluctant – or outright refuse – to oppose them. Right now, their servants are murdering and starving a whole population of innocent people who pose no threat to them. The craziest thing about it is that they fully expect the world to be on board with what they’re doing. They become enraged with any who dare to point out the inhumanity they are practicing. The events taking place in this nation are explicitly providing the people and nations of the world to publicly show the US leadership’s choice of open fealty to Satan – a public demonstration which will convict them in the end.

There are some nations in the area who fully recognize the evil this little country is perpetrating on the whole area. The Houthis of Yemen are one of the heroic groups of people who are sacrificing greatly to help the Palestinians of Gaza. They repeatedly pay, and pay dearly for their efforts as the rest of the world watches and does nothing. Iran is another nation who has paid with lives and treasure in their attempts to stop the genocide, and for doing so, the US government has levied economic sanctions on them to the extent that the whole country suffers. And for what? For trying to end a murderous episode by servants of Satan being perpetrated on innocent women and children, our leaders have determined they must be severely punished. Way to go US government. The whole world sees what the US president and congress are doing, the evil they are stooping to, and the world won’t forget. But more importantly, God sees what they are doing and He certainly won’t forget.

One day, all of the guilty parties, Netanyahu the blasphemous one, Katz, Trump, Biden, Cruz, Graham, Cotton, and every other execrable member of the brood of vipers performing or supporting this evil will stand before the judgement throne of God trying to lie their way out of eternal damnation, but to no avail – for them it will be the pits of the darkest hell. Do not allow yourself to be counted among them! Right now they all look to be invincible, but on that day everything will be different. Mike Pence and Nikky Haley will ever so painfully remember signing their names on bombs meant for killing Palestinian children. All the sycophantic media figures who graced millions of TV screens, making their fortunes selling lies about Israel “defending” itself will face similar horror before the Lamb of God.

Those who bombed the World Trade Center and killed thousands and smugly thought they got away with it will find that their orchestrated villainy was not so clever after all. Same for the murderers of JFK and Bobby, they will all finally face justice, long overdue. But I think there’s a special place in hell for all who commit or support the starvation deaths and outright murder of innocent little children. This includes many, many, people, including Starmer, Macron, and Scholz and now Merz. They’ve all slavishly demonstrated their fealty to Zionism, or more succinctly Zionist money, even to the point of supporting the murder of children. Jesus has a special place in His heart for children [Luke 18:6]: “But Jesus called them to Him and said, “Let the little children come to Me, and do not forbid them; for of such is the kingdom of God.” I’m thoroughly convinced that support for, or committing unrepentant genocide of innocents will result in removal of one’s name from the Lamb’s Book of Life. If you don’t know what that is, break out your Bible…

In my mind’s eye, I envision some cataclysmic event like, say Campi Flegri eruption creating huge impervious clouds of volcanic ash that would among other things, prevent the flight of Zionist warplanes. The people of Gaza would suffer from this as well, but right now they are all dying from Zionist terrorism and it doesn’t look to stop. Maybe the predicted tsunami would emerge from an undersea volcano like Flegrei or Santorini and wash the occupied territories on the eastern Mediterranean clean from the noisome filth of racism, murder, and hatred. In the absence of meaningful support from nations of the world, maybe God will finally get fed up and send a catastrophe to end it. But I believe for now He is allowing all the players, even common people like you and me, to demonstrate to the world and to themselves which side of this appalling nightmare they choose to be on. The ones who choose to support Satan are being allowed to aggregate all the evidence which will convict them on the Day that matters. When Pence signed his name on that bomb, it was indelibly etched into the evidence dossier that the Higher Power keeps for judgement. Imagine the shock when that one is presented before the Father and the angels! Exhibit A of fealty to blasphemous murderers for an undisclosed sum of money and/or power.

We believers should all be proud of the college kids and other protesters for their efforts. They are likewise putting themselves on a list – but this one is a list of those who oppose the travesty of genocide. They all risk much in various ways to do so, but they also make people like Trump openly declare their support for murder by taking steps against their universities and the foreign students who stick their necks out. By taking his repugnant actions, Trump removes any possible defense he might have when judgement day gets here. He has openly chosen a side for the whole world to see, and he won’t be able to intimidate the Judge before Whom he will stand. Neither will God be intimidated by the stars and stripes flying above the mighty US military.

In the midst of this chaos of murder and mayhem being committed and supported by Satan and his servants, do not allow yourself to lose focus. Don’t turn away and ignore what’s going on. Never, ever, allow yourself to become accustomed to this level of evil and somehow allow them to convince you it’s normal. It is not! The Lord Jesus Christ will judge us by our actions on this evil (as well as all other aspects of our lives). He is intently watching to see how each of us react to the abominations Satan has put before us. In fact, I believe the cumulative sins and evil of the whole human experiment might just be rolled up into how we decide to approach what’s happening before us today. Especially here in the land of the free. After all, the book of Revelation tells us that the generation upon which God levies judgment in the last days will also be answering for sins of those who killed the prophets long ago. [Revelation 18:24]: “And in her (the modern Babylon) was found the blood of prophets and saints, and of all who were slain on the earth.” How can this be unless people’s attitudes are the same as they were back then and thus the mindset towards the atrocities of today convicts (or if we oppose, exonerates) us for the evil our forebears committed?

It’s a lot to take in, but believe that when you see evil, recognize it for what it is and avoid it. Avoid supporting it. But we all must remember the people committing the evil acts are human beings – humans who are being controlled by evil entities. Salvation is possible, even for them, so pray for them. It’s okay to hate the acts they do, but it’s not ok to hate them. [Revelation 2:6] “But this you have, that you hate the deeds of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate.”

Doesn’t look to warm up much today and I think it would be nice to start a fire. Maybe in more ways than one….

May the blessings of the Almighty Father find and keep us.

MK

Volcanoes, Weather Aberrations and Gardens

In the last few days I’ve been trying to get my garden growing, but this year there is something different going on. It seems as though every morning when I begin stirring, it’s a lot colder out than normal for this time of year. All of my eggplant seedlings have died, and none of the young plants are growing like they should. I think it’s the cool nights – down in the forties every night – that are causing the problem.

While pondering the reason for the cooler than normal weather, I recalled seeing several news sources reporting on an exceptional number of volcanoes currently erupting. This along with scientific evidence that the aerosols injected into the atmosphere interfere with the natural warming of the sun by reflecting heat – well that just might be an explanation. If so – and several geologists are predicting more and possibly larger eruptions currently being brought to boil – we might be seeing the beginnings of climate cooling, at least to some degree.

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There is geologic evidence of some pretty catastrophic weather fluctuations caused by major eruptions in the past, in fact, probably the most devastating volcanic activity took place in Russia in what they call the Siberian Traps, which fortunately for humanity happened millions of years ago. There were volcanoes that covered a massive area that apparently erupted continually for around two million years and sulfur dioxide polluted the world’s atmosphere to the extent that it caused a great extinction they call the Permian-Triassic extinction that almost wiped out life on the whole planet. There are areas over there where entire cliffs of large basaltic columns that formed as the volcanic material cooled and have stood for millions of years in silent testimony to that near life-ending event.

Much later in the earth’s geologic history, in fact, within recorded history, there have been humongous volcano eruptions that affected the climate for varying periods of time, depending on the size and severity of the event. Tambora, Krakatoa, and Pinatubo come to mind. The “year without a summer” in 1816 was precipitated by the major 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora. This event caused crop failures and food shortages across the whole Northern Hemisphere. The world suffered the coldest summer in human history in 1816.

Today Mount Etna in Sicily continues to burp out Lava and ash, The big Hawaiian shield volcano of Kilauea continues to pump out rivers of lava, Iceland’s volcano near Grindavik is alive and pouring. There are others, such as Karymsky on Kamchatka, Semeru in Indonesia, and Santiaguito in Guatemala to name a few, which are currently active and erupting. Campi Flegrei, a super volcano, Santorini, and Mount Vesuvius have recently undergone earthquake swarms, which some scientists believe to be precursors of volcanic activity. If Campi Flegri has a major eruption, there will be hundreds of thousands if not millions of people in imminent and immediate danger, with unforeseeable – but ever problematic – consequences to the world’s climate.

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I’ve mentioned in other posts some of the volcanic calderas such as Campi Flegrei, Lake Toba, Mono Lake, and of course everyone knows about Yellowstone, but any of these dormant monsters could wreak havoc on the whole planet if they were to undergo a major eruption. There are a lot of pieces to what looks like a great geologic puzzle, and even though there are a lot of smart folks studying it, not all of the disciplines of geology, astronomy, and physics are able to connect the dots. For instance, do the guys who study the earth’s geology take into account the effects of solar radiation, especially in light of the undisputed weakening of our magnetic field? It seems like there’s just too much going on for any one discipline to understand how everything connects.

Campi Flegrei caldera at Pozzuoli, Italy

One scientist whom I watch with some degree of regularity says he has evidence, that if properly interpreted suggests that as part of the earth’s magnetic polarity reversal (which we are currently undergoing) there might be an “unlocking” of the crust from the mantle. This means that the entire crust will shift around on the semi-liquid inner parts of the world and all the surface features of the planet will relocate to other places. He says it could even result in entire oceans and continents moving somewhat rapidly and that the axis of rotation – what we now know as the north and south poles – would end up like in the Sahara and the western Pacific or some such. Of course, he thinks great tsunamis would accompany such crustal displacements such as would wash over low areas of entire continents. I’m not a geologist by a long stretch, but increases in volcanic activity around the world such as we are seeing these days would seem to be a reasonable indication of something big going on beneath our feet, whatever it might be.

I guess we can but wait and see what God has in store and how He chooses to end it, but the Bible says the world will end in fire, so volcanoes just might bring about the end, and maybe not in the form of a volcanic winter, but in a hellish nightmare of fire and lava. Volcanoes could indeed account for the darkening of the sun in prophecy, and the burned-down modern-day Babylon. But the details and timing of it all remain a mystery.

Meanwhile I’m going to keep trying to grow eggplants…

MK