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Posted on 06/07/2016 5:28:52 AM PDT by stars & stripes forever
It’s interesting to me that in this case, the debauchery really was a cause of the deaths. Port Royal was a terrible place to build, nothing but hot, water-logged sand. But the British were so focused on using it to launch pirate raids against Spanish and other Catholic settlements, they settled their anyway. The piracy actually died down before 1692, but was replaced by slave trading. Even with a lesser need for such immediate proximity to the sea, the populace continued to focus on the narrow, water-logged spit of land for the easy access to the rum brought there in vast quantities.
Anyone less interested in rum and nefarious trade would have settled in Kingston or Spanish Town (named because that’s where the Spanish had settled, of course), where the land was far better.
MANKIND IS INDEED PRONE TO BE DELINKQUENT BY OUR CASUAL VIEW OF THIS REVELENT DAILY VIEW. WE PRESUE TOO MUCH, PERHAPS.
GOD IS GOOD AND WE TAKE MUCH TOO CASUALLY OUR DAILY THOUHGTS, ACTIONS, CHOICES. FORGIVE US LORD, FORGIVE OUR OBTUSENESS, OUR DAILY SINS, AND LEAD US ON THE PATH ETERNAL WITH THEE, LORD
WE ARE RICHLY BLESSED TO LIVE IN America, TEXAS, MIDLAND, AMERICA WHERE WE ARE FREE TO CHOOSE OUR WAY. IN JESUS NAME WE PRAY. THANK THEE LORD! AMEN!
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150 years later. I don’t think the people were thinking of the old earthquake. Even the youngest survivor was dead 50 years at that point. That’s all I’m saying.
There was a general revival at least continent-wide around that time.
Just incidentally saw this in Wiki...
“the whole island was severely affected by an epidemic of cholera in 1850.”
That may be more likely your spur for revival.
Why is Hillary living and Tony Snow deceased at an early age?
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It doesn’t happen till it happens.
If God doesn’t destroy DC, it’s own people will sooner or later
The son of my old business partner graduated from Texas A&M’s school of Marine Archeology. He was one of the leaders of the diving archeological expedition on Port Royal years ago.
After that, he headed the discovery and recovery of a French ship that had been lost in Matagorda Bay in 1681, Texas as part of the La Salle expedition to colonize Texas.
The Belle
http://www.texasbeyondhistory.net/belle/index.html
An Unprecedented Excavation
The Belle remained mired in mud for 310 years, untouched but not forgotten. After years of unsuccessful searching, archeologists from the Texas Historical Commission (THC) finally found the prize in 1995. The crew discovered one of the Belle’s cannons, an elaborately inscribed gun that confirmed the age and identity of the wreck.
Properly excavating the shipwreck would require one of the most extraordinary engineering feats ever associated with an archeological excavation in Texas or anywhere else in the world. In 1996, at a cost of over $2 million, a double-walled cofferdam was built around the sunken ship. This allowed THC archeologists to pump out the wreck site and excavate the Belle almost as if they were on dry land.
The nine-month excavation yielded equally astonishing results: gooey gray mud had encased the Belle and sealed its contents from the air. Most of the ship’s stores—wooden boxes jammed with trade goods, tools to support a variety of trades, muskets and munitions, yards of rope, cannons, dishes, and more—were found in remarkably good condition. Here, for the first time, was an intact 17th-century French colonizing kit containing everything needed to establish a colony in the New World.
Because, as Billy Joel pointed out, "only the good die young."
>>This moment in history is a somber reminder to the wicked that GOD will not be mocked.
So he’s going to open the earth and swallow the present Bilderberger meeting then?
Best answer on the thread so far.
Bad location and bad logistics.
There are two interesting comparisons to be made, Charlevoix (1663) and Lisbon (1755).
In the case of Lisbon, a terrible tidal wave wiped out the entire capital city of the Portuguese Empire. People were horrified to find out that prominent, religious and charitable people were wiped out, yet whore houses (which tended to be in the cheaper, uphill regions) were spared. It seemed like God’s justice had been inverted.
In the case of Charlevoix, the resident population of Quebec was socially dominated by fur trappers, etc., who were men without wives. The City of Quebec became known fro drunkenness, prostitution, etc. One February, a nun claimed to have a terrifying vision of destruction of the city with mountains tossed into the sea. She called the city to repentance, and, amazingly, it worked! The city prohibited drunkenness, cracked down on prostitution. Johns and Pimps wore sack-cloths in the streets. Daily prayer vigils lined the streets.
A terrifying earthquake did erupt, the worst ever recorded in North America, east of the Rockies. Steeples in Mass Bay colony collapsed; church bells were rung by the sway in South Carolina. Entire mountainsides did in fact slip into the St. Lawrence. But no-one in Quebec City, right near the epicenter was harmed.
(After learning about the Charlovoix Earthquake of 1662 from the convent where the nun had lived, I found out that despite the massive destruction, scientists had doubted it was a major earthquake. I poked around wondering how this was possible. Eventually, geologists re-examined the evidence and upgraded the earthquake from a VII to a X on the Mercalli Intensity Scale. That’s like a factor of 1,000!)
Thanks for the follow-up info. I read a rather long article about Port Royal a year or so ago. Maybe History.com, maybe Smithsonian, maybe some other site. It dealt it a great many issues. The gist seemed to point to a multitude of reasons for three demise of the city.
An ACT OF GOD would also fit the bill. Thanks.
You’re welcome, but the point I was trying to make was that tragedies aren’t manifestations of God’s wrath; they may occur as a consequence in God’s creation to ignoring God’s instructions, but good people also face tragedies.
(Please forgive me, if I come across like I’m teaching something I know more about; I’m only seeking to call such things to mind for our mutual benefit and discussion.)
When God does intervene in his Creation, it isn’t to display his wrath, but to show the power of his mercy. Why did good people in Lisbon die, yet vile people of Quebec were given the miraculous chance of repentance? Not because of God’s judgment — this life is but a blink of an eye and matters which seem of such great importance, even life and death, are immaterial to our eternal life. But because God willed to save the certain souls, not just of Quebec, but of those who would learn of Quebec, so that his mercy might be demonstrated.
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