EARTHQUAKES: MORE THAN ONE KIND.
More than one kind?
Well, I am in a generous mood. Why limit an earthquake to a terrestrial upheaval?
I believe that any event that is ‘earth-shaking’ resembles an earthquake, so I have chosen three fields that, in my opinion, qualify:
- EARTH
- ECONOMY
- AI
Reading the Bible, I have repeatedly seen a reference to ‘earth-quakes’. Take that terrible chapter Matthew 24, where Jesus outlines the very times we now, anno 2025, experience. There it says in verse 7: “Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places.”
Well, that sounds familiar, doesn’t it. The great divider, the ‘warmonger’ now dictating from the White House, has caused, by his distorted vision of the world, to speed up the implementation of this text. (Awkward wording, but so what!) Luke 21: 11 simply confirms this: “There will be great earthquakes, famines and pestilences in various places, and fearful events and great signs from heaven,” adding a COVID-like event to the mix as well as more and stronger hurricanes.
I know that Revelation, the last Bible book, is never shy in outlining the worst: “At that very hour there was a severe earthquake and a tenth of the city collapsed. Seven thousand people were killed in the earthquake, and the survivors were terrified and gave glory to the God of heaven.”
I have noticed that there are a lot of earth-rumblings out there in the tortured upper crust of our habitat. Does the above text from Revelation 11: 13 indicate the imminent implosion of a densely populated area of the Western World? The BIG one? L. A. California?
We all agree that today anything ‘bad’ is possible.
Donald Trump acts anti-Christian.
What really irks me no end, is Trump’s total disregard for any ‘scientific’ findings concerning Climate Change: he purposely enhances the conditions that cause it. I wonder whether this amounts to ‘the sin against the Holy Spirit’. In Genesis 1 it says that the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters. It seems to me that this implies that God’s Spirit was instrumental in creating, while Trump and his plutocrats are doing the opposite. You may recall that there is no forgiveness for ‘sins against the Holy Spirit’: Good thing I am not God.
Then there is the economy.
Another lesson of history is that it is often circular. The Dirty Thirties brought Hitler and the Nazi Regime, now almost 100 years ago, and with it the deaths of scores of millions, including 6 million Jews.
The return of Mr. Trump and the rise of the European far right seem to suggest that the lessons of history are not being learned. Where is another Churchill when we need one?
Yesterday’s Jews under Hitler – 1932 till 1945 – are now the poor Gaza occupants: how callous, how cruel, how criminal, how capitalistic is Trump’s intention to displace these people to make it another Riviera, with Trump Hotels and Trump-run Towers. How cruel, how criminal, how capitalistic is Trump and Netanyahu’s treatment of these Arabs. It purely smacks of Old Testament justice – 1 Samuel 15 – when King Saul was required by God: ‘Go and completely destroy those wicked people, the Amalekites; wage war against them until you have wiped them out.’
But we no longer live in the pre-Jesus times. Now LOVE is the driving factor. Jesus has come, and will come again.
Yes, the economy.
Today the dangers to the economy are acute and imminent: Climate Change is God’s answer to our continuously expanding greed, our insatiable need for more and more minerals, to the point where shortages of all sorts, threaten to stop our free ride exploiting God’s treasures and put the world economy in reverse. That means INFLATION, big time. Add a growing world population, more people gaining a better standard of living, while supplies of cereals are constantly threatened by unfavorable weather conditions – too hot, too cold, too much water, not enough moisture – and it does not take much to make food more costly.
Add Trump’s adventurous tariff impositions, and the precious economic equilibrium, now so carefully crafted, will throw a wrench in the world’s financial system, depending on stability.
AI = Artificial Intelligence
Let me be short. I compare AI to THE TOWER OF BABEL, an attempt to ‘be like God’. It is the pinnacle of human endeavor, always present in the entire human history, a constant effort to replace God’s perfect wisdom with human know-how – fallible and ultimate imperfect – aiming to equal God.
“He who sits in heaven, laughs.” (Psalm 2: 4)
Summary
The Greek word Hubris comes to mind, which means: conceit, conceitedness, haughtiness, pride, vanity, self-importance, self-conceit, pomposity, feeling of superiority.