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How I first learned of Port Royal:
Posted on 01/12/2010 2:22:15 PM PST by Pyro7480
A major magnitude 7.3 quake hit the impoverished country of Haiti Tuesday, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.
The epicentre of the quake, which was initially reported a magnitude 7.0 off the coast, was located inland, six miles (10 km) west of Carrefour, close to the capital Port-au-Prince and was only 20.5 miles (30 km) deep. Haiti is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere....
(Excerpt) Read more at uk.reuters.com ...
That would work if it wasn't for the fact that so many of the other signs are here. Earthquakes in diverse places, not isolated but in conjunction with all of the other signs, is fulfillment of Scriptural prophecy.
The prophecies in Revelation, which include "stars falling from the sky", are for the Tribulation, which is not yet here. But the fact that all of the signs Jesus gave us that would occur right before His return are happening are indicative of the nearness of the Tribulation.
It's that simple.
One person on the ground estimated, and I quote: “hundreds of thousands of casualties/dead.”
Prayers.
I think someone said Port au Prince had a population of 2 million. %60 of it in substandard living. And six miles from a 7.0 EQ that was only 6 miles deep. And even if one can survive, the entire country as only 1000 hospital beds as per a poster. (Including the one in PauP that collapsed).
And as daylight breaks in Haiti shortly we will know more.
but good news and What a relief, OUR president is praying for the people of Haiti
His religious walk is only surpassed by his excellence in governing.
From a twitter up the thread the person talked about the “Castel Haiti” was lieing in a heap. Looks like it was a fairly modern (and tall) convention center:
http://www.tettenborn.net/a_rightframe/r_5undp.htm
From the same source in PauP says the Hotel Montana is also gone. I can only imagine if newer/modern structures like this are gone, the mass of people living in the slums will fare worse. So sad. Interesting how on his twitter, one minute he is talking about getting a music video shoot together, until the earthquake hits. A reminder to all of us I suppose on how fast things can change.
As used in Scripture, the purpose of all earthquakes, regardless of the cause, is to warn or administer judgment to individuals in history for apostasy, reversionism, and evil.
One aspect of of the Haitian nation which seems to be avoided, is their past history and trends as an enemy of the US. Our expenditure of Billions of dollars there protecting ourselves defensively from many threats being fostered there is being ignored. There have been many a nation with far less, who turned to God with far more growth, than exhibited by Haiti.
Considering the number of antiterrorist special forces sent there over the last decade might indicate things were going on there which haven’t been so publicly revealed.
IMHO, I don’t rule out that God Himself might have been administering either judgment on evil in that nation, and/or warning others that such enterprises do not escape His view or judgment.
All history is His Story, and there are reasons for all things, for believers and unbelievers alike, although rewards are predestined for those who persevere through faith in Him.
Hat tip to VirginiaMom for finding this great twitter account from a local hotel in PauP.
The next we’ll hear is that global warming has turned itself to ethnic cleansing and it’s all our doing.
thanks for the twitter link
It has been a while since I saw the History Channel special on pirates.
Name a single earthquake or natural disaster of any consequence in Germany from 1933 to 1945.
Sometime in the next 30 years; could be five minutes from now, could be two decades from now. a 6.7-7.2 magnitude quake is going to occur on the Hayward Fault along the Eastern San Franscisco Bay. It's going to do several hundred billion dollars of damage, and, depending on the time of day it occurs, kill hundreds to thousands of people.
It will instantly be proclaimed by many (with great relish) to be a judgement against all the homosexuals in the Bay area, or the radical leftists of Berkeley, or the fact abortion is legal in the US, etc. etc.
The reality, of course, is that it was a result of the slow movement of the Pacific Plate northwest along the margin of the North American Plate; there was the historical Hayward quake of 1868, and paleoseismic trenching studies have found a repeated pattern of such quakes every 100-200 years or so going back thousands of years, to when there was only a smattering of Indians in the area for the quake to administer a "judgment" to.
The last report is that they are fine i.e. they survived. I imagine today will be a real test.
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How I first learned of Port Royal:
I wish there was an effort to recover all the money wasted on that Coppenhagen conference and use that to help those poor suffering people of Haiti...
I’ve gone with short term mission teams, so we raise funds for the project and the trip. But that’s with Food for the Hungry - their trips are a little less expensive than Compassion’s. Probably because we stay in the community instead of at a resort or hotel during the week. The kids love getting to see their sponsors, or getting first-hand news of them. We are constantly asked, and I hope I’m getting this right: “Sabe patricinador?” (Do you know my sponsor?)
5.7 HAITI REGION Jan 13 2010 05:02:58 UTC 18.417 -72.945 Global 2010rka8
5.5 HAITI REGION Jan 13 2010 01:36:31 UTC 18.363 -72.832 Global 2010rkan
5.5 HAITI REGION Jan 12 2010 22:12:05 UTC 18.485 -72.556 Global 2010rja8
5.9 HAITI REGION Jan 12 2010 22:00:42 UTC 18.321 -72.848 Global 2010rja7
7.0 HAITI REGION Jan 12 2010 21:53:09 UTC 18.451 -72.445 Global 2010rja6
Haiti's story was a bit different. Sort of like if Al Sharpton suddenly found himself in charge... The Haitians went on a rampage and murdered nearly all of the whites in 1805 and have reaped what they have sown. A turd-world African failed state in an otherwise largely prosperous hemisphere - every single nation in our hemisphere - except Communist Cuba - is far more prosperous than anything Africa can claim - except Haiti. 200 years after the butchering of the white French, Port Au Prince is still a sewer.
The news out of Haiti is so very sad.
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