As you all probably know, yesterday we had a 7.6 magnitude earth quake in Costa Rica. Yes that is big! I was just getting out of the shower and dressing for work, when suddenly everything was shaking horribly. I could see the electric lines outside swinging and actually smacking against the roof of my house. It lasted about a minute and after it was over, I imagined it was a 5 or a 6. I drove to work and learned by suprise from my parking attendant that it was 7.6. Wow! Now, I wondered about work, and if there was any damage to the office. I walked about 10 meters and was greeted by colleagues who said "Turn around. The office is closed." I turned the corner to see all of the employees outside looking up at the building, which had several blown-out windows. Glass was every where. Some women were crying. But, EVERYONE WAS OKAY!

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I know that there will be some ignorant people who feel the need to criticize but one thing I know as of recently is the onslaught of earthquakes happening throughout the world. Lets not forget the start of volcanic eruptions either. From a Biblical standpoint which is where many people are starting to turn to, the only thing that the Bible has to say concerning these events is where Christ was asked about how people would know when his return was close. IN His answer, Jesus tells us that besides pestilence, famine, sociological structures falling apart due to greed, jealousy and hatred, ware and rumors of wars springing up all over the place as we see right now and of course, earthquakes that happen in diverse places. IF anyone were to say "scary" concerning this, I would point out not to all these horrible things but to the fact that Christ compared these things to that of birthing pangs. Like a woman who is going into labor, the contractions start, at first, they are hours apart but as the baby is getting ready to bring his/her smile to the world, those contractions start to happen more and more frequently as well as more and more severe. Most woman go from slight moans to outright screams and Jesus took this very thing and told us when we start to see the world have events that react like this, we will know that the end is very, very near. Folks, over the past 5 years we have had more earthquakes that in any time in history and if you would simply take some time and visit the geological survey center for seismic activity, you would see for yourself that the past 5 years earthquakes have started off as very small 2.2,3.7,4.4 etc,etc....... You will see the record of them being very sporadic but you will also see them become more and more intense as well as more common. You will then notice that the focus not only talks about earthquakes but it also goes into concern about volcanic activity. Just this past month we have had several articles that hit MSN, Yahoo etc... on their headline news talking about concern about these. I once had a friend of mine ask me how do I follow all this "Biblical Prophecy" stuff or how do I know where to look. The answer I gave him was the one that I learned from someone else. It was simply to watch what happens to Israel as this is the Lords time piece. As many of you who are student of the Bible know, the United Sates is not the center of Biblical Prophecy. One thing those of us in the US can testify to however is that every single time the US has ever raised it's hand against Israel be it it policy or negotiations, some very serious things happened to our country that IMO, go beyond coincidence. When President Obama told Israel that they needed to go back to pre war boarders, essentially splitting Israel in half, within 24 hours the United states encountered one of the worst string of storms in our history. The strange thing about this storm was that climatologists and meteorologist together could not understand how the storm system had formed. As on climatologist on the Weather Channel explained, " As your meteorologist can tell you on the local news channel about the chances of rain or snow, and can give you a 5 day extended forecast concerning weather, we use advanced radar systems as well as measuring tools that tell us how these weather patters will form and how they bring about the changes that dictate how weather will be. But these recent storms and tornado's have the science world as a loss. Non of what has happened makes and logical sense. There was no warning, no shift in weather pattern's no clod/warm air that was tracked to give us adequate warning, it's as if it just formed out of nowhere"....... This storm I am talking about was the storm that when you seen it on the news, it split the Unites States right down the center. The US looked like someone took a big red marker and split it in half. As I said, I honestly feel this was more than just coincidence. On May 22, 2011 within 1 hour after Obama tells Israel to give away the land that God gave them, America is hit with 158 people killed by a storm system that to this day still baffles scientists. So, what about everything that I just wrote? My hope is that some of you who take the time to read this will open your heart, your eyes and look for yourself into what is being said. Stop the worry about what others might think or say about you, eternity is much to important to worry about what a few people think about what you believe. For those who think that there is no God out there, How do you know? Have you ever given the Lord a chance to show you? Have you ever been serious with God just once in your life to ask him to forgive you for your sins and please make himself real to you? Or are you to scared to step out in fear of what will happen. You know, I myself was one of those at one time who thought that those religious nutcases had lost their minds talking about a relationship with someone they could not see. The second I met the Lord however, let me tell you, it is unlike anything you will ever deal with again in life. Not only knowing, but feeling the direct love of your creator, knowing that he has met you face to face, out of the more than 7 billion people on earth.