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- You would have to be deaf, dumb and blind or living
in a cave not to be aware of the overhanging threat of nuclear war that
has been present like the sword of Damocles. The standard strategic warhead
yields twenty megatons or sixteen hundred and sixty seven times the power
of Hiroshima's twelve kilotons. Russia tested a sixty-megaton bomb. Four
of these detonated at one time would alter the axis of the earth.
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- Despite all the rhetoric about the "cold war"
being over, Russian nuclear powered 941 Typhoon class ballistic missile
submarines slip silently through our offshore waters like monstrous grey
sharks, unseen, unheard and undetected.
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- Out of sight, out of mind as they say, at least for
most Americans. Each ship carries two hundred nuclear warheads and the
ballistic missiles to deliver them to our cities with pinpoint accuracy,
as if that would be necessary. China can vaporize our west coast too,
thanks to America selling them the latest supercomputers which have been
modified for targeting their ICBM's. That's called giving our opponents
enough rope to hang us. Each Russian Typhoon carries enough destructive
power to incinerate the North American continent.
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- And thanks to American funding, an even deadlier submarine
threat has been developed by Russia, the Severodvinsk, which out performs
America's best. Russia spent an estimated $12.8 billion in 1997 for R&D
in this area, including the fourth generation nuclear powered ballistic
missile submarine which Anatoly Chubais hailed as "a submarine for
the next century," the Yuri Dolgoruki. Once in service, the main
targets of this submarine's nuclear missile compliment will be American
cities. Yury Maslyukov recently revealed plans to modernize their program,
bringing into service "several" new Yury Dolgoruky class nuclear
submarines.
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- "We shouldn't be seduced by talk of strategic partnerships
with one or other great power. Today's world is complex and military force
still plays a not insignificant role in it" said Maslyukov, former
head of Soviet central planning. I won't bore you with a litany of all
the Middle East, African and Asian countries that hate the "Great
Satan" and are obsessed with developing massive stores of deadly
nerve gas or new genetically altered "designer" bacteria or viral
weapons that could spread out of control and wipe out mankind. Many of
these third world powers thirst for nuclear weapons and have the oil resources
to buy them from Mother Russia or China, for example.
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- You know about all these things. But are we really going
to have thermonuclear destruction of our planet? Is it inevitable? Are
these silent grey nuclear sharks just off our shores going to launch their
ballistic missiles? We would have only ten minutes to prepare for the
holocaust. Prepare what? Run where? Do you think our massive military-governmental
behemoth could decide anything in ten minutes? And how would our launching
massive ICBM's toward our enemies protect us from being vaporized or worse,
not being vaporized and suffering a slow death from radiation exposure?
I don't know about you, but I don't look forward to the prospect of vomiting
myself into oblivion. I would prefer the former. Hiding in a home bomb
shelter would be like a pig roasted in the oven, so to speak; not much
to look forward to, but will it happen?
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- Georgie Anne Geyer, in her excellent column for Universal
Press Syndicate, wrote on 26 Sept, 1998 "Unless all of this evidence
plus human nature is mistaken, and unless we do something fast, we Americans
are in a serious danger that we have never before experienced: The target
is us."
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- The Bible does not use the words "thermonuclear
holocaust" or "hydrogen bomb" because these words are of
recent origin. It all began July 16,1945 at the Trinity Test Site at Alamogordo,
New Mexico. The first bomb was used three weeks later, dropped from the
Enola Gay. The Biblical Prophets, on the other hand, wrote twenty-seven
hundred years ago and expressed their visions in language of that time.
But it's there, if you read it with an open mind. And once you see it,
it is obvious. The prophets are full of description of what is shortly
coming upon the world of modern man.
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- Don McAlvany describes what he calls a "rogue wave"
which is like a massive tidal wave made up of several disasters coming
upon us at the same time, a symbiotic synergistic relationship (my words)
where the sum is much greater than all of the parts individually. A Sunnami,
composed of Y2K software and embedded chip malfunction, global depression
and meltdown, introduction of the complex Euro currency, Middle East and
Asian wars which may become nuclear, hair trigger issues such as Taiwan,
North Korea, Japan, Cyprus, Iran, Syria and Turkey.
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- Even one of these is bad enough, but with all of them
hitting at about the same time, the entire world becomes very unstable,
even violent. There are many more issues involved, such as the breakdown
of society and infrastructure, rioting, looting, burning, and killing
by desperate, hungry people roaming the darkened streets of the major
cities, totally out of control.
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- The Bible tells us what conditions will be like in the
End Times:
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- 2 Tim. 3:1 "But realize this that in the last days
difficult times will come." "Difficult" (Gk.: chalepos)
means dangerous, violent, hard to bear, grievous, painful, perilous,
troublesome. In other words, conditions in society will be like Noah's
day. How does scripture describe the time of Noah?
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- Gen. 6:11 "Now the earth was corrupt in the sight
of God, and the earth was filled with violence."
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- Gen. 6:13 "Then God said to Noah, 'The end of all
flesh has come before Me; for the earth is filled with violence because
of them; and behold, I am about to destroy them with the earth.'"
Remember what Lord Jesus said about the timing of His return:
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- Luke 17:26 "And just as it happened in the days
of Noah, so it will be also in the days of the Son of Man..." And
in regard to the violence and sexual depravity of the people who lived
in Sodom and Gomorrah and their sudden fiery total destruction:
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- Luke 17:30 "It will be just the same on the day
that the Son of Man is revealed." (all scripture quotes are from
the NASB Update, The Lockman Foundation ) Does the Bible speak about sudden
fiery destruction in the End Times? Can we recognize the use of the hydrogen
and neutron bomb in ancient scripture passages? To be able to recognize
the effects, we must first be familiar with what happens when nuclear
weapons detonate.
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- There are eleven specific effects of a hydrogen bomb
explosion: (This information was abstracted from the classic work by
Jonathan Schell, "The Fate of the Earth, "New York, Knopf, 1988)
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- 1. An immediate intense gamma irradiation by neutrons
and gamma rays.
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- 2. A coherent electromagnetic pulse lasting seven
seconds which produces a huge surge of energy that knocks out all communication
equipment.
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- 3. An expanding central fireball of extremely intense
heat which vaporizes and rises.
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- 4. A thermal pulse which produces flash burn and blinding
light for 20 seconds. One third of the total energy is released in the
thermal pulse, vaporizing instantly and starting multiple fires. A 20-megaton
bomb will burn victims to death 23 miles away and produce retinal burns
350 miles away!
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- 5. One half the total energy is present in the blast
wave which produces extreme pressure, flattening objects 22 miles away.
A ground burst would produce tons of dust fused with radioactive fission
products sucked up into the mushroom cloud and returned to the earth as
local radioactive fallout distributed downwind, emitting deadly gamma rays
for 24 hours.
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- 6. Firestorms and superfires: Columns of hot gases
rising create an updraft with hurricane force like a blast furnace, producing
an all consuming conflagration.
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- 7. Intermediate fallout primarily in the troposphere
with rapid global circulation probably in the entire one-third of the
Northern Hemisphere. Deadly gamma radiation would last for weeks.
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- 8. Late global fallout located in the stratosphere,
lasts for years. It produces nuclear winter with no sunlight, no rainfall,
and a drop in temperature. Millions of tons of soot are present.
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- 9. Large quantities of oxides of nitrogen deplete the
ozone. Beta emitting radioactive fallout ulcerates the skin. Radioactive
Iodine 131,Strontium 90 and Cesium 137 have a long half-life and are taken
internally when they enter into our water-plant-food chain. Food and water
would be contaminated and deadly.
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- 9. Nuclear winter would blacken the atmosphere and
obscure the sun, moon and stars.
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- 10. Ozone depletion will allow full hard ultraviolet
radiation producing retinal and corneal damage and blindness, skin cancer,
and immunosuppression.
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- What would you actually experience if you were so unfortunate
as to be near a nuclear explosion? First, there would be a dazzling white
light for 30 seconds and a searing heat. Five seconds later, a blast wave
full of about 400-mile-per-hour winds. During an actual nuclear attack,
three-fourths of the United States would be burned up in 10 seconds. Sixty
percent of the population would be dead with only 300,1-megaton bombs.
It is assumed that with an all-out first strike on America, 10,000 megatons
would be used initially and several 25 megaton bombs.
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- After the hurricane-force winds, there would be vertical
updraft. A large mushroom cloud would rise, containing dust and smoke,
and firestorms would begin. The day would darken to night as the atmosphere
was obscured. A lethal fallout would occur 150 miles downwind, producing
nausea and vomiting. Two weeks later there would be hair loss. Your bone
marrow would be depressed and the platelets depressed, producing secondary
hemorrhage from your mouth, nose, lungs and bladder, and bloody diarrhea.
Of course, if you were within a 23-mile radius of the explosion you would
be burned to death and incinerated instantly. If you were closer than
that, your body would be vaporized by the initial thermal pulse. (taken
from "The Fate of the Earth", Jonathan Schell)
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- Richard Rhodes in his book "The Making of the Atomic
Bomb"(New York: Simon and Schuster, 1986) in chapter 19 entitled
"Tongues of Fire" vividly describes the effects of flash-burn:
"Extremely intense thermal energy leads not only to carbonization
but also to evaporation of the viscera" "...were seared to bundles
of smoking black char in a fraction of a second as their internal organs
boiled away." "Accompanying the flash of light was an instantaneous
flash of heat-its duration was probably less than 1/10th of a second but
its intensity was sufficient to cause nearby flammable objects . . . to
burst into flame and to char poles . . . " (End of quotes)
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- A grapefruit sized fission-free neutron bomb, in contrast,
would kill everything within a 600-yard radius without damaging buildings
and with no lingering residual radiation. The initial release of high-energy
neutron radiation would cause flesh to instantly melt away with shocking
suddenness, an instantaneous living death. There has never been a weapon
that could produce these effects until now, but the prophet Zechariah
wrote about it 2515 years ago.
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- Zech. 14:12 "Now this will be the plague with which
the Lord will strike all the peoples who have gone to war against Jerusalem;
their flesh will rot while they stand on their feet, and their eyes will
rot in their sockets, and their tongue will rot in their mouth."
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- Heb.: Maqaq -to rot, melt, decay, flow away This is a
description by a young doctor in Nagasaki as quoted by a WHO report: "The
sky was dark as pitch, covered with dense clouds and smoke; under that
blackness over the earth hung a yellow brown fog. Gradually the veiled
ground became visible, and the view beyond rooted me to the spot with
horror. All the buildings I could see were on fire. Electricity poles
were wrapped in flame like so many pieces of kindling. Trees on the nearby
hills were smoking, as were the leaves of sweet potatoes in the fields.
The sky was dark. The ground was scarlet, and in between hung clouds of
yellowish smoke. Three kinds of color-black, yellow and scarlet loomed
ominously over the people, who ran about like so many ants seeking to
escape. What had happened? With that ocean of fire, the sky of smoke,
it seemed like the end of the world." (Akizuki, 1981)
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- The prophet Zephaniah, who devotes his entire book to
'The Day of the Lord" sees many years into the future:
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- Zeph. 1:14 "Near is the great day of the Lord,
Near and coming very quickly; Listen, the day of the Lord! In it the warrior
cries out bitterly.
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- Zeph. 1:15 A day of wrath is that day, A day of trouble
and distress, A day of destruction and desolation, A day of darkness and
gloom, A day of clouds and thick darkness,
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- Zeph. 1:16 A day of trumpet and battle cry Against the
fortified cities And the high corner towers.
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- Zeph. 1:17 I will bring distress on men So that they
will walk like the blind, Because they have sinned against the Lord; And
their blood will be poured out like dust And their flesh like dung.
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- Zeph. 1:18 Neither their silver nor their gold Will
be able to deliver them On the day of the Lord's wrath; And all the earth
will be devoured In the fire of His jealousy, For He will make a complete
end, Indeed a terrifying one, Of all the inhabitants of the earth."
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- (Heb.:'iwwer -a skin or film over the sight.) Radiation
and thermal pulses will produce cataracts and retinal burns. Excess UV
B radiation produces snow blindness and corneal scars. In Jeremiah chapter
4,the prophet has a vision of the End Times. One can almost visualize
the incoming Topol-M2 (SS-27) ICBMs, the RSM-52 SS-N-20 Sturgeons from
the Typhoons, and the SS-NX-28s from the Yury Dolgoruky.
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- David Wilkerson comments on this passage, "We are
on the brink; the party is over."
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- Jer. 4:19 "My soul, my soul! I am in anguish! Oh,
my heart! My heart is pounding in me; I cannot be silent, Because you
have heard, O my soul, The sound of the trumpet, The alarm of war.
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- Jer. 4:20 Disaster on disaster is proclaimed, For the
whole land is devastated; Suddenly my tents are devastated, My curtains
in an instant.
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- Jer. 4:23 I looked on the earth, and behold, it was
formless and void; And to the heavens, and they had no light.
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- Jer. 4:24 I looked on the mountains, and behold, they
were quaking, And all the hills moved to and fro.
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- Jer. 4:25 I looked, and behold, there was no man, And
all the birds of the heavens had fled.
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- Jer. 4:26 I looked, and behold, the fruitful land was
a wilderness, And all its cities were pulled down Before the Lord, before
His fierce anger.
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- Jer. 4:27 For thus says the Lord, "The whole land
shall be a desolation, Yet I will not execute a complete destruction.
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- Jer. 4:28 For this the earth shall mourn And the heavens
above be dark, Because I have spoken, I have purposed, And I will not
change My mind, nor will I turn from it.
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- Jer. 4:29 At the sound of the horseman and bowman every
city flees; They go into the thickets and climb among the rocks; Every
city is forsaken, And no man dwells in them."
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- John, the prophet on the island of Patmos, sees a vision
far into the future. Could this be a description of a thermonuclear holocaust?
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- Rev. 8:6 "And the seven angels who had the seven
trumpets prepared themselves to sound them.
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- Rev. 8:7 The first sounded, and there came hail and
fire, mixed with blood, and they were thrown to the earth; and a third
of the earth was burned up, and a third of the trees were burned up, and
all the green grass was burned up.
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- Rev. 8:8 The second angel sounded, and something like
a great mountain burning with fire was thrown into the sea; and a third
of the sea became blood,
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- Rev. 8:9 and a third of the creatures which were in
the sea and had life, died; and a third of the ships were destroyed.
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- Rev. 8:10 The third angel sounded, and a great star
fell from heaven, burning like a torch, and it fell on a third of the
rivers and on the springs of waters.
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- Rev. 8:11 The name of the star is called Wormwood; and
a third of the waters became wormwood, and many men died from the waters,
because they were made bitter.
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- Rev. 8:12 The fourth angel sounded, and a third of the
sun and a third of the moon and a third of the stars were struck, so that
a third of them would be darkened and the day would not shine for a third
of it, and the night in the same way."
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- Since one third of the earth was repeatedly mentioned
with the destruction of the earth, trees, grass and contamination of the
waters making all of them poisonous, and darkening of one third of the
atmosphere, a nuclear holocaust seems most reasonable.
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- Listen to Jeremiah again:
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- Jer. 25:31 "A clamor has come to the end of the
earth, Because the Lord has a controversy with the nations. He is entering
into judgment with all flesh; As for the wicked, He has given them to
the sword,' declares the Lord.
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- Jer. 25:32 Thus says the Lord of hosts, "Behold,
evil is going forth From nation to nation, And a great storm is being
stirred up From the remotest parts of the earth.
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- Jer. 25:33 Those slain by the Lord on that day will
be from one end of the earth to the other. They will not be lamented,
gathered or buried; they will be like dung on the face of the ground."
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- The meaning of the vision will be obvious in the "latter
days", Jeremiah says:
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- Jer. 30:23 "Behold, the tempest of the Lord! Wrath
has gone forth, A sweeping tempest; It will burst on the head of the wicked.
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- Jer. 30:24 The fierce anger of the Lord will not turn
back Until He has performed and until He has accomplished The intent of
His heart; In the latter days you will understand this."
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- The prophet Isaiah also is given a vision by the Lord
of the End Times and the Day of the Lord:
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- Is. 13:5 "They are coming from a far country, From
the farthest horizons, The Lord, and His instruments of indignation, To
destroy the whole land.
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- Is. 13:6 Wail, for the day of the Lord is near! It will
come as destruction from the Almighty.
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- Is. 13:7 Therefore all hands will fall limp, And every
man's heart will melt.
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- Is. 13:8 They will be terrified, Pains and anguish will
take hold of them; They will writhe like a woman in labor, They will look
at one another in astonishment, Their faces aflame. Lit.Heb.trans. "faces
of flames ( flashing; brightness)[will be] their faces.
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- Is. 13:9 Behold, the day of the Lord is coming, Cruel,
with fury and burning anger, To make the land a desolation; And He will
exterminate its sinners from it.
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- Is. 13:10 For the stars of heaven and their constellations
Will not flash forth their light; The sun will be dark when it rises And
the moon will not shed its light.
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- Is. 13:11 Thus I will punish the world for its evil
And the wicked for their iniquity; I will also put an end to the arrogance
of the proud And abase the haughtiness of the ruthless.
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- Is. 13:12 I will make mortal man scarcer than pure gold
And mankind than the gold of Ophir.
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- Is. 13:13 Therefore I will make the heavens tremble,
And the earth will be shaken from its place At the fury of the Lord of
hosts In the day of His burning anger."
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- Did you hear that? "...the earth will be shaken
from its place . . . " Four 60 Megaton bombs could do that-change
the axis of the earth, and only heaven knows what else!
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- "So I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall
move out of its place." Jay P.Green, Sr. "A Literal Translation
of the Bible" Hendrickson Publ., 1985
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- Isaiah continues with another vision:
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- Is. 24:5 "The earth is also polluted by its inhabitants,
for they transgressed laws, violated statutes, broke the everlasting covenant.
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- Is. 24:6 Therefore, a curse devours the earth, and those
who live in it are held guilty. Therefore, the inhabitants of the earth
are burned, and few men are left."
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- The Noahic covenant, which is an everlasting covenant
concerning 'the sanctity of human life' (Gen. 9: 1-17) was broken. The
curse of Deut. 28: 15 is then activated.
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- Deut. 28:15 "But it shall come about, if you do
not obey the Lord your God, to observe to do all His commandments and
His statutes with which I charge you today, that all these curses will
come upon you and overtake you:"
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- The inhabitants of the earth will be burned and only
a few men left. All the oceans are polluted and life is gone from them.
The water is radioactive and undrinkable. The grass and trees are dead.
The atmosphere is so dusty from fallout debris and soot that the sun,
moon and starts are obscured. It is dark, cold, empty, and desolate.
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- Listen and feel the terror of John's vision recorded
in chapter 6:
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- Rev. 6:12 "I looked when He broke the sixth seal,
and there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth
made of hair, and the whole moon became like blood; Rev. 6:13 and the
stars of the sky fell to the earth, as a fig tree casts its unripe figs
when shaken by a great wind.
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- Rev. 6:14 The sky was split apart like a scroll when
it is rolled up, and every mountain and island were moved out of their
places.
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- Rev. 6:15 Then the kings of the earth and the great
men and the commanders and the rich and the strong and every slave and
free man hid themselves in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains;
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- Rev. 6:16 and they said to the mountains and to the
rocks, "Fall on us and hide us from the presence of Him who sits
on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb;
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- Rev. 6:17 for the great day of their wrath has come,
and who is able to stand?" Verse 12 might be describing the blast
wave and nuclear debris and soot that obscure the atmosphere. In verse
13, this could represent ICBM's with multiple warheads. If a real star
hit the earth, we would be completely destroyed. Verse 14 is the mushroom
cloud caused by the tremendous updraft.
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- Dennis Pollock in his paper "Does the Bible Predict
a Nuclear Holocaust" (The Lamplighter Vol.XIX N.9 Oct.1998, page
5) states: "It should be evident that what we are talking about is
a weapon unparalleled in human history; a weapon with the capacity to
obliterate huge cities in seconds. This is a scenario that perfectly fits
with the kind of swift, mass destruction spoken of in the book of Revelation.
Indeed, considering the widespread death predicted by John, it would be
hard for us to imagine anything other than a nuclear holocaust which could
come close to producing such carnage." (End of quote)
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- "The basic power of the universe has been harnessed.
The force from which the sun draws its power has been loosed." (President
Truman, July 1945).
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- "I am death, the shatterer of worlds." J.Robert
Oppenheimer quoting from the ancient Indian poem, Bhagavad-Gita.
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- Matt. 24:21 "For then there will be a great tribulation,
such as has not occurred since the beginning of the world until now, nor
ever will.
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- Matt. 24:22 "Unless those days had been cut short,
no life would have been saved; but for the sake of the elect those days
will be cut short."
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- Does the Bible describe a thermonuclear holocaust? I
think it really does. Only a selection of scripture passages have been
given here to make the point. There are dozens and dozens more that were
not quoted. In fact, I believe now you will recognize these passages yourself,
especially when you read the prophets of both the Old Testament and the
New Testament. You will see them everywhere in the Bible, but don't despair.
Read also the many scriptures that tell of the Lord's love for you. He
wants you to fully trust Him. He will hold your hand and be your protector.
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- The prophet Habakkuk gives us the answer to all our
problems and worries: The Lord God has everything under control, trust
Him.
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- HAB 3:17 "Though the fig tree should not blossom
And there be no fruit on the vines, Though the yield of the olive should
fail And the fields produce no food, Though the flock should be cut off
from the fold And there be no cattle in the stalls.
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- HAB 3:18 Yet I will exult in the Lord, I will rejoice
in the God of my salvation.
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- HAB 3:19 The Lord God is my strength, And He has made
my feet like hinds' feet, And makes me walk on my high places.."
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- When we fear the threat of attack by terrorists or ABC
warfare,this psalm gives us reassurance:
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- PSA 91:1 "He who dwells in the shelter of the Most
High Will abide in the shadow of the Almighty.
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- PSA 91:2 I will say to the Lord, "My refuge and
my fortress, My God, in whom I trust!"
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- PSA 91:3 For it is He who delivers you from the snare
of the trapper And from the deadly pestilence.
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- PSA 91:4 He will cover you with His pinions, And under
His wings you may seek refuge; His faithfulness is a shield and bulwark.
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- PSA 91:5 You will not be afraid of the terror by night,
Or of the arrow that flies by day;
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- PSA 91:6 Of the pestilence that stalks in darkness,
Or of the destruction that lays waste at noon.
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- PSA 91:7 A thousand may fall at your side And ten thousand
at your right hand, But it shall not approach you.
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- PSA 91:8 You will only look on with your eyes And see
the recompense of the wicked.
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- PSA 91:9 For you have made the Lord, my refuge, Even
the Most High, your dwelling place.
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- PSA 91:10 No evil will befall you, Nor will any plague
come near your tent. PSA 91:11 For He will give His angels charge concerning
you, To guard you in all your ways.
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- PSA 91:12 They will bear you up in their hands, That
you do not strike your foot against a stone.
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- PSA 91:13 You will tread upon the lion and cobra, The
young lion and the serpent you will trample down. PSA 91:14 Because he
has loved Me, therefore I will deliver him; I will set him securely on
high, because he has known My name.
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- PSA 91:15 He will call upon Me, and I will answer him;
I will be with him in trouble; I will rescue him and honor him.
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- PSA 91:16 With a long life I will satisfy him And let
him see My salvation."
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- PSA 34:7 "The angel of the Lord encamps around
those who fear Him, And rescues them."
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