the Woolsey Fire has now burned 14,000 acres, it is 0% contained.
Posted on 11/09/2018 3:57:16 PM PST by The Ignorant Fisherman
Deadly wildfires continue to ravish California and have made the Drudge Report's top headline! The wind-whipped Woolsey fire burning in Ventura and Los Angeles counties burned more than 14,000 acres Friday as authorities scrambled to save a growing number of people from the encroaching threat. The blaze, which broke out near the former Rocketdyne complex in Simi Valley on Thursday, was still at zero percent containment as of Friday afternoon, and has led to waves of evacuations, including the entire city of Malibu. There were some 200,000 people estimated to be under evacuation orders as of Friday morning in both counties as a result of the Woolsey fire, according to L.A. County Firefighter Specialist David Dantic. About 78,000 people were evacuated from Ventura County alone from more than 21,000 homes and businesses, according to Ventura County sheriff’s officials (excerpt from the L.A. Times). The smoke from these ravishing fires is making the quality of air toxic and lethal for some parts of the state. In ALL sincerity, our thoughts and prayers go out to those in California whose lives have been greatly affected by these horrific fires. Our TRUE desire is that they will see Almighty God's true hand of rescue as He reaches out to rescue fallen humanity from this fallen world and our fallen selves (John 3:16-17, 1 John 4:10). The images of these wildfires when observed on video look apocalyptic and grip our imagination in great awe. It is in such times like these - while these images are fresh in our minds as Americans - that we want to EXPONENTIALLY magnify this event and focus our attention to the very soon coming Day of the Lord (Rev. 6-19)!
The first of the seven Trumpet judgments (which follow the Seal Judgments - Rev. 6) in the Day of the Lord is described in horrific EXPONENTIAL detail
"And the seven angels which had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound. The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up (Rev. 8:6-7)."
My dear friends, from this Divine first Trumpet Judgment one-third of ALL trees upon the face of the earth will be burnt up!! Dear friend, can you even begin to imagine such a catastrophic event!! Can you even begin to imagine the smoke rising into the earth's atmosphere and its effect on millions upon millions of people from billions of burning trees?!! Oh, my dear friend... it can only be EXPONENTIAL in every facet and yet this is just one of Almighty God's Divine plagues on godless humanity.
We have done the math and it is absolutely mind-blowing! There is an estimated 400 billion trees on planet earth and one-third of all those billions of trees which will burn comes to roughly 133 billion trees! 133 billion trees will be burnt up not to mention the smoke that will come from these burning trees!!! Also... 7% of all land mass is covered with grass. This area covers 9.93 million sq/km or 3.8 million sq/miles. This total area containing grass - which is given over to fire - is roughly a little bit bigger than the total land mass of the United States which would include Alaska. Indeed my dear friends... the earth will be on fire!!
Dear friends this is just one of the many EXPONENTIAL Divine plagues that Almighty God will send on the earth during this time of GREAT wrath upon the wickedness of ungodly men (Rom. 1:18-32, 2 Thess. 2:8-12, Rev. 6-16)!
What is even more mind blowing then these global raging fires is that the majority of the world's godless unregenerate masses from all nations will STILL continue in their godless and lawless rebellion against Almighty God, His ETERNAL spiritual absolutes and moral absolutes for time (2 Thess. 2:8-12, Rev. 9:20-21). They will not desire to look to Almighty God in a saving way but curse the very One who LOVED the world and gave Himself for its transgressions (Isa. 53, John 3:16-17, 1 John 4:10). Oh how hard the heart of fallen man can get!!
Dear friend, what about you? Upon hearing this message, will your heart get softer to Almighty God's Divine REALITY and to His saving grace for YOU or will it get hard as Pharaoh's heart did? Will you harden your heart against the ETERNAL LOVE, GRACE and MERCY of Almighty God? If you cannot look to Him now in the day of peace (as it were) do you think billions will in that Day with EXPONENTIAL plagues abounding (Rev. 6-16)!
Today my dear friend is the day of salvation! Now is the time! For we know not what tomorrow will bring! Dear friends if you know not the Lord Jesus Christ as your personal Savior be sure that you do business with Him today! We have countless resources to help you come to a saving knowledge of the Savior of the world and to grow in the grace and knowledge of Him. Dear friend, may it be so, for you will NEVER EVER be the same!
Indeed! The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!
California is a desert for the most part. The climate is and has always been conducive to wild fires. People have been building higher and higher into the hills for 50 years. Add to that scenario restrictions on tree removals and days like today are to be completely expected.
Calm down.
It happens every year.
True, but one day bro its really gonna happen! 1/3 of the earth!
Jesus loves you HG! : )
True my friend, not saying this fire is the end of the world, but in the future, the Bible states that 1/3 of ALL the trees of the earth will burn! That was the point, my brother.
shalom!
It's an arid burn and regeneration environment. This natural cycle has been going on for eons.
If there were no people living there nature would simply carry on.
Giving a rational reason for terrible things occurring to a vacinity doesn’t mean that the justice, the wrath of God against gross sin must be excludes an explanation. The LORD is in charge of even seemingly natural, explainable events. They too serve His purposes.
“True, but one day bro its really gonna happen! 1/3 of the earth!”
Actually, that is just the warm up.
2 Peter 3:10-12
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. Therefore, since all these things will be dissolved, what manner of persons ought you to be in holy conduct and godliness, 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?
By the end, it will all burn. Fortunately, God is preparing a new place for us to live:
2 Peter 3:13
Nevertheless we, according to His promise, look for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells.
the Woolsey Fire has now burned 14,000 acres, it is 0% contained.
Wow! Great ETERNAL TRUTHS! That’s at the end, end!
Aw sh*t!
2 Thess 1:5-7
5All this is clear evidence of God’s righteous judgment. And so you will be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you are suffering. 6After all, it is only right for God to repay with affliction those who afflict you, 7and to grant relief to you who are oppressed and to us as well, when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with His mighty angels…
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